Life on the Evolutionary Road

swifties always going on the "you just hate women" defense like first of all Taylor Swift is not a woman she's an unskippable ad

"the Hadestown proshot exceeds box office expectations" truly, who could have predicted fans going repeated times, to see the musical whose entire concept is about the musical repeating

Hating how Nolan's Odyssey looks on the basis of being into Classics, but chuds have made it a culture war thing, so now I'm fighting for my life arguing that the issue isn't that Nolan cast trans and black people as gods and heroes, it's that he cast those people and then put them in dogshit costumes

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

[ID: Two people sitting in chairs holding microphones, one saying "The fact that we haven't killed ourselves is camp at this point." /End ID]

“two people” put some respect on my mothers’ Beatrice Michelle Mattel and Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova’s names, thank you very much

forget everything anyone has ever told you on the matter the truest marker of adulthood is starting to hear the siren call of high quality kitchenware

to be clear you SHOULD buy that cast iron pan and you SHOULD buy that knife set and you SHOULD buy that fancy rice cooker and you SHOULD buy that novelty mug. high quality kitchenware is always worth it you’re literally gonna be using that almost every day

hot take possibly? but i actually think it’s okay for things to be marketed for adults. it’s literally okay if things aren’t suitable for children. i feel like we are losing the plot

Correct. Furthermore: children bending or breaking the rules to get a peek at something that's not intended for them is a part of growing up.

It's so weird when people are at the point of chronically online-ness that they think kids trying to get into stuff for Adults or Teens is like. Abusive or traumatizing. I mentioned getting into Camp Camp (FUCKING CAMP CAMP) at age 12 once and someone went off on how I must have been groomed or some shit and that was unacceptable. No man I just was 12 and wanted to be edgy. Also CC is like the most heartfelt and tween-friendly of the adult comedies typically talked about so idfk why that one esp was a big deal.

you used to be able to go into a tag after you watched a little movie and find a gorgeous little gifset or photoset or 12 and now you're lucky if you can wade through all the xreader posts to find even one we used to be a website