Pardon My French

idk perhaps this is too early 2000s internet safety module of me but the amount of information you guys demand from each other is weird

first cryptid you ever run into as a little kid is called Best Friends Older Brother

i need more people on tumblr to watch legend of the seeker. it had absolutely batshit pacing. hot women. hot men. charismatic villain. thinly veiled bdsm. it's so silly. every episode has a mini plot of its own. 20 episode seasons. wizards. on second thought the bdsm is not veiled at all. lots of forests. truly a delight to watch in the time of netflix 8 episode series it feels like a soothing balm on my brain. try it i promise it's great.

the erasure of the rape element in mythological retellings is so heinous it borders on misogyny

it’s the idea that because rape as an act is misogyny, that talking about rape or including it in stories is also misogyny. as if acknowledging that women were denied agency and dignity somehow further denies us agency and dignity. when really, acknowledging the ways women were/are denied agency and dignity affirms that we are entitled to these things. a feminist story isn’t just a story in which no bad things happen to women. bad things do happen to women. pretending they don’t, and especially trying to superimpose that conviction onto the past, just because it isn’t as fun to dwell on, is not a feminist position.

Trump demolishing the east wing of the white house to put in a massive gaudy ballroom that nobody asked for while everyone is miserable and struggling is like a perfect visual representation of what he's been doing to this country for years

how do i say "horror novels these days are too woke" without sounding like a right winger. what i mean is: this one is about a woman serial killer who kills Bad Men, that one is about ~anticapitalist activists~, this one is ~queer~, that one is about *spins wheel* someone dealing with the ghosts of their immigrant roots, all of them are about intergenerational traumaaaaa. okay. cool. but is it good though. is it fucking scary

something something, losing the ability to convey horror through abstraction, through metaphor, through symbolism, through allegory, through raw unexamined un-psychiatrized feeling. if the real horror is.... dun dun dun! the patriarchy then i just feel preached to. don't use fiction as a vehicle for Saying Something About Society. write with total vulnerability and then see what it says. it will be probably be far more interesting and horrifying than what if the monster was uhh my mom's abuse or whatever. this brand of new horror writers are all so terrified of actually disclosing anything about themselves. it's like if an instagram infographic performance was a mediocre contemporary novel

kendrick lamar is proof that being a hater will get you far in life! never stop holding grudges! never back down!!

it would have been so fun to drunk drive your horse in the 18th century

Teeth are bullshit. What do you mean you’re decaying. Get a fucking grip. You’re a bone now act like it. You don’t see my finger bones decaying from jerking it too much now do you