Somewhere in the Deep Blue Sea

kh is so crazy cuz it’s like. ok let’s try making a disney anime crossover game that’s about friendship and hope. ok they’re letting us make a game two so we’ll get a little interesting but still ultimately fun and do a plot about memories and mistaken identity! cool. ok we’ve got an airtight fanbase for sure now let’s do something about existential dread and have this innocent boy beg and fight desperately for his life and to be recognized as human only to be quashed in the end along with all the other ‘people who aren’t really people’ the disney kids will love this

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

Shakespeare is like this

that poll going around of the guy who thought "people only eat tofu as a bit because they're deranged vegans" or whatever really crystalizes something that i have never been able to precisely say - which is "a nonzero fraction of people who start picky-eater discourse just happen to precisely hate those foods which are not from north america and refuse to introspect on this whatsoever"

In contrast some people say "there aren't any picky eaters in Asia 🙄" but this is laughably untrue. I have a cousin in India who refused until his 20s to eat anything in a sauce. as you can imagine in India this was difficult. he basically had to pick things out of curry and wipe them dry