Racism against Indians is actually a little insane when you consider how widespread it is even among liberals and leftists . Even people who consider themselves to be progressive will laugh at call center or tech support jokes. All scammers are inherently indian. It’s okay to laugh at jokes making fun of Indians for their feelings towards animals or how they drive. India is inherently backwards and dirty so it’s okay to make jokes about getting food poisoning from even looking at indian food
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One thing I'm really loving about the perspective shift between Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat is how Lestat and Louis appear in each other's narratives, through each other's eyes.
Louis sees Lestat as this primal force of nature who looks like a romance novel hero, can effortlessly control any room, is "preternaturally charming," impeccably turned out, no one can say no to him for long.
but we get in LESTAT'S head, and suddenly he has scars and a tangled mane of hair, people are constantly talking over him, he sweats, he's getting beat up and his clothes are getting destroyed in a non-sexy way, he's flailing around wildly with NO idea what he's doing, people (lestat included) think he's untalented and annoying.
And LOUIS, well. Louis clearly sees himself as uncanny, reserved, compelling but a little off-putting. He is other: cut-off from humanity, holding his emotions and relationships at arm's length.
Then we see him in The Vampire Lestat, and it's like no. This is the warmest, cutest, sexiest, coolest, most desirable man who has ever walked the face of the earth.
I try not to fall into the "I never liked their work anyway" ditch when an artist/creator reveals themself to be a terrible person
BUT
a feeling I do have and will stand by is "While I enjoyed their work overall I did have some gripes that I overlooked out of affection and whimsy, but now that my loyalty is gone and my affection tainted there is nothing holding me back from enumerating my many grievances, to which the revelations of the creator's shittiness may or may not provide a new and infuriating context."
#such a good summation of this actually#because yeah there’s usually things that were always present#but which were easy to overlook or give the benefit of the doubt#that suddenly become relevant after a revelation about the creator#and it’s really not the same thing as the self-defensive “’I never liked it anyway’
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when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)
anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.
i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”
and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.
“What?” i say.
“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.
something about ryland grace erasing Who Am I? off the whiteboard to replace it with flight plan back to rocky. something about the question of who ryland grace is is no longer important to him, because it doesnt matter who he is if rocky is dead. something about him letting go of his distress over his amnesia and his will to go back home in favour of saving his friend.
I watched only two anime last season. And one was utterly fantastic. Let's talk about it.
Journal With Witch
Every so often, I stumble across an anime and just instantly know from the first episode that it's going to be a masterpiece. That it's going to go on my all-time favorites list. I’m happy to say Journal with Witch is one of those. The show started out strong and just kept getting better with each episode.
Journal With Witch, also known as Ikoku Nikki, is a mature, nuanced, thoughtful, and captivating story. It follows Makio Koudai and Asa Takumi. Makio is an independent and somewhat reclusive 35-year-old novelist, and she’s cut contact with her sister, who was hyper-critical of her to the point of being abusive.
However, her sister and her sister’s husband die in a car crash, leaving behind their fifteen year old daughter, Asa. Makio doesn’t feel any real grief or sadness over her sister’s death, but she does sympathize with Asa. When she sees their relatives callously arguing about passing Asa around, Makio tells them off, and offers to take Asa in, while being completely honest with her than while she can’t guarantee she’ll come to love her, she won’t ever "trample on her feelings".
From there, the story follows Asa and Makio’s journey of learning to live together, with Asa navigating her complicated grief for parents she may never truly fully know or understand, and Makio trying to reconcile her feelings about her sister with her role as Asa’s guardian.
It’s an exceptional character-driven show and it's impeccably directed with so much purpose and care. There’s so many moments that hit incredibly hard, like a shot straight to the heart. And I’ll just say it: I’m in love with Makio.
She's so real, relatable, and refreshing as an anime protagonist that's a flawed, complex adult woman. She’s blunt and acerbic and insightful, she’s kind of a mess, and she’s doing the best she can. Her struggle as an introvert adjusting to having someone in her space is extremely real as someone who’s struggled with the same thing.
AND she's a super accurate depiction of a novelist.
(She's so right).
Makio is disorganized, forgetful, socially unusual, and she can get really lost in her own thoughts. I got a lot of ADHD feels off her, only to be floored when the anime actually bought up the possibility she was neurodivergent. It’s incredibly rare for an anime to bring up neurodivergence at all, especially for a main character. While Makio isn’t fully confirmed to be neurodivergent, the author putting thought into this and indicating to the audience it's okay to read her this way is HUGE to me.
Asa is also a fantastic, fully rounded character, She's a teenager trying to find her place in the world while dealing with tragedy. Her evolving relationship with Makio is the beating heart of the show.
In addition to having rich, textured characters, this story deftly touches on a lot of social themes and issues. There’s a subplot about a young queer (probably lesbian) teenager figuring herself out, and Makio subtly noticing and supporting her, She tells her she doesn't have to follow any rules about "normalcy", and that any relationship with love is valid…then offers her Fried Green Tomatoes to watch. Seeing the girl cry as she watched the movie made me want to cry too.
It's a thoughtful moment between a supportive adult trying to help and support a queer girl without overwhelming her, and it's a great demonstration of how stories can help marginalized people feel less alone.
There’s also commentary on real life injustice like Tokyo Medical University rigging its entrance exams to deny women admission, and the story shows one of Asa’s classmates who dreamed of being a doctor struggling with how unfairly the system is stacked against her. Another impressive moment is a discussion between two of the male characters about how they became happier once they rejected the pressures of masculine spaces.
A huge theme in the anime is that conforming to society won’t bring happiness, and that you should find people in your life who don’t expose you to those pressures and accept you as you are. It makes this point with grace and resonance.
It has the same point to make about trauma and grief. Makio doesn’t have to forgive her sister, even as she starts to realize she didn’t completely know all sides of her. At the same time, she tells Asa that her feelings are her own, and that it doesn’t matter if she doesn’t have the “right” reactions to grief, if she doesn’t feel sad right away—all that matters is that Makio will be there for her when she does.
The anime is wonderfully naturalistic—Makio’s interactions with her friends and the teasing way they talk to each other gives an instant sense of their history and really feels like listening to a group of adult friends, not Anime Adults ™ if you get what I mean.
Makio’s relationship with her friend/ex-boyfriend and the lingering feelings they have is depicted in a similarly naturalistic fashion. There’s not overwrought soap opera drama, just a relationship between two people who care deeply for each other that fell apart, leaving yearning, regret and trepidation. To repeat myself, it truly feels like a relationship between two adults, and all the compromises that come with that. You really understand why these two love each other. And the small moments of intimacy are handled in a subtle way that makes it honestly a lot sexier than in other anime.
And of course, Makio and Asa’s relationship is handled wonderfully, and it’s great to see them help each other grow and learn more about each other. The conflicts they navigate are realistic and heartbreaking and messy, but there's always a sense of care and warmth there.
There are so many moments in Journal with Witch that blow me away, whether it's quotes that succinctly hit on something fundamental – “there’s not a single thing in this world that is completely irrelevant to you” being an example—or deeply emotional moments like Asa’s messy breakdown. At one point Makio gives writing advice, saying "write with the intent to kill". It's pretty clear the writer of the series took her character's advice, because this story has murdered me with how good it is.
I could go on forever about this anime, but I implore you to go watch it and see how wonderful it is for yourself. I also can’t wait to read the manga that inspired it (which seems to have additional story the show didn’t cover). This is a true gem of a tale, and you're missing out if you don't experience it.
got caught up on Journal with Witch and i just wanted to save this particular bit of dialogue because it felt meaningful to me. i feel like this is an aspect of raising children that's not often addressed or explored in media. it's nice (and even refreshing) to see an adult express such genuine concern and consideration towards their charge, specifically in acknowledging how their behavior as the adult/caregiver - any careless comment or action - can have a meaningful, long-lasting impact, and that's part of the responsibility of raising a child
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in 2026 they’re creating kinds of queerbait you never would have dreamed possible. forget bbc sherlock forget hannibal like imagine if two men loved each other kissed got married and spent their lives happily together until they died of old age was still queerbait. sounds impossible right. well it’s possible and something very similar happened to my good friends aziraphale and crowley who would tell you all about it but unfortunately they’re both dead now
stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.
One time a friend told me that if she wanted to have a chill night she would come to me and ask for tea and a book to read. I didn’t like tea at the time, but I always made sure my cupboards had them in case she needed a quiet night. One time I told my boss that I loved oranges, but couldn’t peel them because of my nails. For a year he made sure to peel me one at least once a week. Once my friends gave me a made up superlative of “most likely to have a pen they could borrow” and ever since I’ve made sure I always carry a pen with me. A long time ago, my high school librarian told me that no one would care what my grade in my sophomore chemistry class was if I’m bringing them doughnuts and asking them about their day.
Sometimes friendship is about carrying pens and peeling oranges. But the point is, surrounding yourself with people who you want to do the little things for. The point of it all is bringing in the doughnuts because you’ve found the people who deserve the doughnuts.
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