Empyrean Technician

[ID: A fake promotional image for "Jim Henson's The Thing." The entire cast has been replaced with Muppets, except for Keith David as Childs. End ID.]

the need to talk about the characters vs the fear that all of my analysis is just empty prose and surface level understanding

saying “children are an oppressed class” is objectively true but also no one fucking believes you. especially if you yourself are a child. which is funny because that’s like textbook oppression

POPEYE NEEDS FUCK

POPEYE NEEDS ARCHAIC FUCK

thinking again about vampirism as disability

what if you slept all day and woke at night, lonely and frustrated. what if you couldn't go to social events, or even mundane public spaces like stores. what if you couldn't see the sun. what if you couldn't go to the pool, or the beach, or the creek. what if you couldn't eat what everyone else is eating. what if you couldn't eat at all. what if your basic needs came at the cost of your loved ones' quality of life. what if you became agitated, confused, maybe even violent if your needs weren't met. what if people blamed your behavior on demons, or worse, your own inherent evil. what if people saw you as a threat to your own community. what if the default response to your suffering was either indifference or violence. what if people thought you were better off dead, that you no longer count as human, that they're doing you a favor by letting you disappear. what if people assumed you must somehow deserve all of this. what about that.

Take this and move on to a healthier future :)