turn off the game console, now!

American here, and absolutely never have I or would I do this. Yuck!

i know i said i did not want to talk about the nolan odyssey but i do have one more nodyssey post in me. i actually think the idea of odysseus understanding his story as existing both in and out of a historic timeframe is a fun way to handle the liminality caused by the story being part of an extensive oral tradition. however having him say "our age of bronze is collapsing" is perhaps not the way i would have done that

jensen ackles doing so much in that hanging himself gif he shouldve been a mime instead of the world’s first omega

The craziest part about life is that there’s like nothing you can do..

literally nothing…

Oh at all

I think what frustrates me the most is a lot of people are dismissing writing as an actual art form that requires skill and effort in favor of mindless stream of consciousness wish fulfillment, but they retain the like uncritical bibliophilia thats really popular on the internet? like no actually I don’t think reading thoughtless nonsense makes you smarter or widens your perspective or makes you more empathetic I think those benefits come explicitly from meaningful critical thinking both on the author and readers part actually

im imagining the DJ like joyfully bouncing around and they have a button that makes the coin sound and theyre pressing it a bunch of times randomly and they dont even notice anyone leaving until the last persons gone and they get all sad and put their headphones over one ear and cleanly transition it to the game over sound

really funny to me whenever people are like "there's no way these characters are JUST friends they're always SMILING at each other" like i'm no expert on this but i'm pretty sure that might be in the top 3 things people do in a friendship. i hear sometimes people even do it with strangers and acquaintances......

"he would not fucking say that" but its about a character being a leftist. he would not fucking believe that

media literacy is knowing when a character would say "i dont vote. why are you bringing politics into this?" no matter how mad it makes you to hear somebody irl say the same thing

This goes for a good amount of the characters who are complained about "oh no they were a cop in the timeskip", a lot of the time they wouldn't have an issue with being a cop and it is perfectly in character.

The number of people who go like 'my beloved war criminal blorbo!' but then act like you pour a drink on them if you suggest they'd be a Republican is pretty funny, honestly.