infamous pedant

Every Southern state has a senator who served sometime between 1880--1960 whose wikipedia article can be summed up as "He was a brilliant rhetorician who could mesmerize even his fellow congressmen, a (Tulane/Vanderbilt/Georgetown)-educated lawyer who spoke four languages and translated Latin poetry in his spare time, was pivotal in creating the modern public school/community college/highway/state park system, and devoted every moment of his life to hating black people more than anyone you know has ever hated anything."

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

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

@inneskeeper

...I want to refute this but no, I....yeah

taylor swift is a tyrant for real like value neutral judgement but you can tell in her music the specific point that caligula started visiting her in dreams

she has this 3d-printed mini desk recreation of the bust of caligula with whom she communicates daily and in order to evade football’s suspicions she told him it was jesus and he was like Niiice jesus is actually awesomesauce ❤️ Like jesus helps you with touchdowns🏈🔥 and she was like yess exactly and then asked caligula in perfect latin if he could connect her with the ghost of genghis khan so they can talk strategy

HES SO HAPPY HE JUST LOVES FANS SO MUCH

my ducks? in a row. the elephant? addressed. my goose? cooked. my eggs? in several baskets. the bigger fish? fried.

Your monkeys ?

those aren’t mine.

What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.