love can ignite the stars

actually we should start headcanoning female characters as being terrible with children

stop mother-ifying fictional literally all female characters. that fictional woman would not know what the fuck to do with a child

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

being vulnerable and admitting I don't understand a reference

there's this weird thing people fall into online a lot, where people assume that if the [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged then people will, naturally, do [perceived-to-be-superior] version of [activity] instead. When really it's just as (or more) likely that if [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged people just won't do it at all.

audiobook listeners are not necessarily people who would otherwise do a lot of traditional reading if audiobooks did not exist, many are people who simply would experience zero books. Booktok romance readers would not necessarily be reading the classics if booktok did not exist, many of them would simply not read. Fanfiction writers would not necessarily be novelists if fanfic wasn't an option, many would just be people who didn't write. You know?

I read Narnia to myself at 7 after my dad read me the books as bedtime stories. By age 9 I was reading 300 page books in about an hour (Black stallion, one of the sequels, I don't remember which ones) The Hobbit and LotR were age 8-ish, maybe earlier. I was reading adult books at that point as well. My library stack was usually 10-15 books and I would read them all in the allotted time. As an adult, I mostly read fanfic, but a million words a week is pretty typical for me. I've read more, sometimes less. I started reading around age 3 or 4, so chapter books at age 7 isn't that wild. What actually taught me reading was books on tape. My parents were exhausted with my endless demands for books so they got me cassette tapes that had books, fairy tales, and they would beep when it was time to turn the page and I hated being surprised by the beep so learning to read helped me predict the beep so I wouldn't be startled. (This is where I turn to the camera and say, with deepest sarcasm, "But I wasn't autistic.")

I kind of do think "this is not who we are, we need to live up to our democratic heritage" is a winning message in a way "america is basically and fundamentally evil. fuck you all" isn't

Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they'll be making from Wide Car sales any day now.

Okay so what I'm getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life

People keep asking me “why don’t you have a boyfriend?” and I’m like “ma’am, I’m a small town library clerk, my only hope is for a con man with a heart of gold trying to swindle the town into buying brass instruments to waltz through the library front doors”

they really gave us a female lead in a star wars movie & made her kind and good and angry and powerful and complex & then spent the next 2 movies revolving almost her entire storyline around a white male war criminal who abused her, abused her friends, abused her family. all the while validating all the people who romanticized gaslighting and torture. for fan service lmao 

they also gave us a strong black male lead who was kind and rebelled against his entire way of life when he saw the atrocities he was expected to take part in. He risked his life to save others and was shown to love and care deeply for his friends and willing to sacrifice himself to save him. Then the next two movies infantilize him to be this weak self preserving side character with literally no agency beyond yelling other character’s names.

They also gave us a Latino sci-fi hero who was an ace fighter pilot with a heart of gold and a wealth of courage who showed an incredible amount of support and kindness and trust towards a man who he had just met. Then the next two movies relegated him to being a chronic fuck-up and then ret-conned his ace pilot backstory in service of a racist drug dealer backstory to make him more like Han Solo

BRING BACK CEEFAX.

You know the part of your life right now that feels most like a cage? Start planning your escape. Do it now. You will never have more of your life left to spend free from that prison than you do right now. Once you get out, the only regret you will have is not having done so sooner.

i know you said we ride at dawn but i’m not a morning person actually. can we ride after lunch