the dump

speaking of quentin's hobbies, an underrated bit of characterization-via-the-necessities-of-tv-production is that quentin knows there is a student in his year at brakebills who is a huge enough nerd that she's so into star trek that she can be bribed by the promise of leonard nimoy on vinyl, which quentin can offer as a bribe presumably because he is also really fucking into star trek because he is a huge nerd, and yet as far as we know he, famously a huge nerd, literally never attempts to befriend this huge nerd he obviously has at least some core interests in common with

I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon

holding back an amused "I love you" after someone makes a really good personal comment or joke is like making the move for your sheathed blade and stopping midway through

this is a normal comparison indicative of healthy relationship with the concept of love

Ragnarok on Netflix has some great elements. Themes of environmental activism! A Loki that is canonically queer and manipulative and just a very interesting guy. Reincarnation (kinda. Probably. It's not really explained). A fun tragic brother dynamic. A mysterious and rural town. Capitalism bad, and even some "here's what we can do about it." Implied fucked-up found family dynamics between an immortal family of giants. And does it Do anything with these things? No. Not at all.