2026... time to get serious about getting free

Bitch no one wants to hear Phoebe Brisgers put Rihanna on

fiction can be really dangerous there might be a deeply tragic woman in there who starts living in your head forever

bit warm, innit #britposting

i hope you all think of me not just as your friend but as your mutual who likes your personal post like way too soon after you posted it

fuck summer i want it to be dark and misty and frigid and october

girl vampires are so cool we need more girl vampires in general

and like. girl vampires who are given the same kind of depth as male vampires of reconciling their own monstrous desires with how human they still are or not. and not like. vapid sexy temptresses or whatever. they have their time and place but i want a girl vampire desperately gripping the sink looking into the mirror just to see what isnt there anymore

the nsfw ban on Tumblr is temporarily lifted every time you scroll your for you tab at work

whenever people are like "christianity itself isn't the problem, it's just the institution of the church that went wrong somewhere!" i'm just like. i understand where you're coming from, i truly do, but it's just so plainly untrue. i don't hate christianity because of the church's wrongdoings, i hate christianity because it glorifies suffering and it's patriarchal bullshit. because the idea of some almighty daddy in the sky controlling everything and having some fucked up plan for my soul that requires my misery is literally the most horrible thought i could ever imagine and i will never understand how anyone could possibly be comforted by that horror scenario. and of course a belief like that would lead to a rotten church, because the foundation itself is inherently rotten. there is no good form of christianity because christianity itself is at its core a tool to facilitate suffering and oppression.

truly the idea of "this scene is (un-)necessary to the story" is such a fundamentally uncurious and anti-art way of engaging with fiction. the story itself is unnecessary, in the sense that all art is unnecessary, because art is not a fucking optimization problem. that's the beauty of it

also there is no theory of “necessary” and “unnecessary” scenes that is not culturally conditioned and a reflection of specific societal biases. modern Anglophone readers of the Iliad tend to find the Catalogue of Ships and the Doloneia and Achilles fighting the Scamander and most of the violence and killing in the poem unnecessary but an Iliad that removes them and telescopes the journey from Book 1 to Book 24 is not the Iliad in any meaningful way.