catofPolyphemus

I was so caught up in the Daniel smoking a hookah horniness that I didn't notice that he isn't actually *smoking* but sucking blood through the hookah looking pipe

I just tried to describe Stray Italian Greyhound as "if Hope is a Sewer Rat was a love song" but then I realized people might not know one of my favorite poems of all time either

this one

and it’s such a fucking tragedy that people are trying to push MyIlya back into a setting where he’s constantly being lectured about his inadequacies by the very person that canonically reminds him all the time that those inadequacies were figments of his dad’s imagination

Fabio Viale, marble sculpture.

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | 3.01 "DETROIT"

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Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.