Still, they taste a bit of blood

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

I always feel so cheated in stories when characters are walking around with this Big Guilt and then...you find out that the thing wasn't their fault at all. And not in a "they thought they did it but it turns out they were set up" way, or even a "accepting that just because they did A which caused B which caused C it doesn't mean C was their fault", way but where they finally lay out the sequence of events and it's clear that any thinking person would not connect them. Like, fucking commit!!! The character isn't LESS compelling if they actually did the thing! You can't have the haunted brooding meow meow who is...also completely blameless

my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government

this is getting really popular so i’d like to add the important caveat that your criticism of a work is no more unassailable than the work itself. just as one is entitled to be critical of something someone else is entitled to disagree with that criticism. i add this because some of you pretend to give a fuck about thoughtful analysis and then when someone points out flaws in your argument you declare that all criticisms are valid. this is untrue. the status of a hater is no more sacred than that of a liker. get off your high horse and engage in the thoughtful discussion you pretend to believe in or perish by my blade

History is so good for nosy people

Image description: art showing a white wall with a commode with a clock on it. The shadow of the curtans and the plants on the windowstill can be seen on the wall and part of the commode. end Image description

americans be like dude learning to drive isnt that bad but they dont know youre in ireland sharing a lane with a horse who is a bad person. And the horse and the instructor are friends and he keeps dapping the horse up through the window. And the horse called you a bitch under his breath so quiet the driving instructor is trying to convince you that you must have misheard him but you didnt. and theres a roundabout coming up and the horse didnt indicate

Back when hockey romance was really becoming a Thing I saw a very funny TikTok where the real-life wife or girlfriend of a hockey player read an angsty passage from a book that went something like “the hardest part of loving him was watching him go out on the ice, knowing he could get hurt every time” and she was like “NO!!! The hardest part is all the carb loading! Do you know how much FUCKING PASTA I MAKE—“ and yes I did think about that during the cottage episode of Heated Rivalry

I say it all the time but Rachel Reid is funny. The road/rhodes scholar comment with Shane and Hayden is one of my all time favorites, second only to Ilya saying “Cliff can barely count to three” during all-stars in TLG which leads to one of my favorite problematic headcanons which is that both Ilya and Shane have like not-like-other-girls/chosen one attributes of being smarter than all the hockey players around them. Not like, book smart or anything, but just like foundational knowledge.

louis to lestat: please help me i know i didn't call when you were shot but i really need to know if this girl i've been paying to roleplay our dead daughter is actually her meanwhile armand to daniel: would u ever want to hang out like socially