BEHOLD! ART!

i step out onto stage clad in full corpse paint and death metal regalia and start playing the most middle-of-the-road soft rock you've heard since 1974

are you enough of a BADASS MOTHERFUCKER to take me to the zoo to look at the animals

I wish grief WAS linear so I’d know the pain would ease a little more each day. Instead it’s all over the place and all I can do is just let it crash into me. My heart bleeds and I cry and cry and the person I want to help me is the one who caused it and is gone.

If ur a US based academic I bet if u could write a good enough grant application u could convince the current government to give you a bunch of money to look for Atlantis or the kingdom of Prester John or something

Now is a great time to take an exciting overseas vacation on Uncle Sam's dime. U can even write about it after, be like "We gave it the ol college try but we still didn't find Atlantis, leading further further support to the consensus that it don't even real" and it'll piss them off soooo bad but that's still doing science abt it so 🤷‍♀️

rewatching Curse of the Black Pearl for the millionth time and, not to be the “every movie is secretly Star Wars” person, but I keep thinking about the interview where one of the writers said they modeled the Jack / Will / Elizabeth dynamic after the Han / Luke / Leia relationship, which I guess would make Will Luke, and thus I am forced to admit that I very clearly have a type

I read Atlas Shrugged (plus a few others) growing up at my dad's recommendation. If you are trying to understand Ayn Rand's worldview, read nonfiction written by others about her worldview. Her books are pretty poorly-written and really do not convey her worldview especially well. They're also extremely inefficient at it. My dad's copy of Atlas Shrugged is 1,064 pages. The plot could be condensed into 200 pages and the talking-into-the-camera "theory" moments could be condensed into 30. It'd be a slog to read and you'd be dedicating hours and hours to the drivel of a hateful, unimaginative champion of conservatism. It's just not worth reading.

as much as i poke fun at “tumblr prose,” i will acknowledge that sometimes when you’re writing and you’re really in the groove, you’re really feeling yourself, you’re on your capital-a Author shit, and you write a line that makes you go, “oh yeah, this is the Good Shit. this is so Subtle and Says So Much. this is Characterization. this is Themes and Motifs. you could write a whole essay about this one line. the master of the craft strikes again!” and then a month or whatever later when you’re editing you read over it again with post-write clarity and you realize you wrote some real “people die when they’re killed” bullshit

The thing they don't tell you about autism is the rage.

Didn’t anticipate one of the bonuses of going to a drag show in a smaller more conservative town would be getting to see a bro who clearly wandered into the wrong part of the bar by mistake experience what looked to be a transcendent awakening upon seeing his first drag show.

We love the character development

Answering "I don't know" is a level of self awareness a lot of people never attain