squire

i was gonna say “wow, they’re really pushing the came back wrong trope because buffy keeps repeating the exact phrase” until i googled and realise the phrase “came back wrong” literally originates from buffy. this show is like the modern shakespeare

pandora’s box but it’s a gamecube

She opens up the disc drive and all the horrors of the world are released but there is also a copy of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle

we don't hate J.J. Abrams enough

John Darnielle becomes a lot less impressive when you're aware that The Mountain Goats formula for success is basically just making very apolitical folk punk. Just sorta gesture at radical themes through literary portraiture: NPR loves that shit; you'll do very well in life if you're an ok writer. Like...sure, it's deep writing, but sometimes depth is for hiding shit that could be the starting point for a deeper thematic treatment, but instead has to live in the interminable chasm between personal interpretation and collective social change.

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you

I grew up before the term 'thigh gap' was invented I grew up before 'hip dip' was invented I was born before 'muffin top' was a thing before 'clean girl look' was a thing before 'glass skin' was a thing before razoring off peach fuzz was a thing and I'm so so so fucking tired of us inventing new concepts purely for the purpose of convincing people to hate their own bodies enough to buy products

Last time Tuberculosis ran through the USA a small number of people got it on purpose to look skinny and waifish and delicate and used makeup to look flushed and bony and when the Victorians figured out tapeworms people would infect themselves on purpose to starve themselves smaller and women and now in the year of our lord 2026 there is a noticeable fraction of the USAmerican population genuinely thrilled about a treatment-resistant microbial parasite that makes you shit and vomit your brains out for a month because side effects include weight loss and STILL we talk about being skinny like it's the natural default setting for all healthy people as if it's a self-sustaining standard and not an imaginary goal that we are constantly constantly constantly beating ourselves with a whip to acheive