carefully collected trinkets

adult backpack wearers of the world unite

Thank you divorce for all you've done for music

more white men need to be pursuing the teen heartthrob to leftist investigative journalist career path

Sci-fi short stories are so efficient; they take 15 minutes to read and then you think about them for the next 5 years

Hey guys, what if *puts the most horrifying mindblowing concept into your head with about 15 pages*

the thing about art is that sometimes you'll be moved to tears by stuff that is not very good

it makes me so mad that "confessions of a human shield" by emily nussbaum doesn't exist anywhere outside of the physical essay collection it's a part of because it's so fucking good & i think it deserves to be a foundational text in how we approach good art made by shitty people, and especially good art about women made by misogynists. like in the wake of the neil gaiman variety piece i wish everyone was able to read it because truly no one gets it like her

They missed. 😔

one thing that does bother me quite a bit is the constant erasure of poc from "classical western culture" as if greece hadn't been interacting with north africa and west asia for centuries, and as if arab communities hadn't played a HUGE part in the preservation and studies of classical texts. like yeah random guy on twitter enjoy pretending to know aristotle and calling people racist slurs but where would you have gotten your unread copy of the organon without Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq

yknow its interesting how something can impact one demographic in a completely different way than everyone else. in the exorcist when the demon starts speaking in greek, to most people its creepy. but if youre greek and you suddenly start hearing the demon speak perfect fucking greek its genuinely the biggest scare of the movie. you just do not expect to ever hear your language in american movies so it catches you so badly off guard, it feels like the movie is talking directly to you

the first time my dad saw it, it was with his american friends. and when she started speaking greek he turned to one of them and was like "re malaka did you hear that in english?"

so today a public health official guy came into my class to give a lecture on disaster awareness and he was talking about house fires and mentioned that the reason people most likely die during a house fire is because they refuse to leave their pet inside or they go back to get their pet. and right when he said this my friend immediately turned his head and looked at me and in that moment I had the most complete and genuine acceptance take over my body. I would 100% in front of my family and Jesus himself walk straight back into some raging inferno that was once my house to go get my fat cat. I nodded back

the best part of this post is reading all the tags from animal people who would also go back to save their pets. like no hesitation. walk backwards from heaven straight back into hell. someone even said they would go back for their fish. amazing