how to explain it or even contain it

a lot of stuff in half man works symbolically or it works literally but not both at the same time. like the stuff about internalized homophobia being niall's core problem works if you consider ruben to basically symbolize the Spectre of the Closet who niall invokes whenever he gets dangerously close to submitting himself to the Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known. but if look at the show literally and you consider them both to be characters rather than symbols then it's like well i think maybe the brother with longstanding violence issues who has threatened to kill him is the main problem in his life here and the emotional problems can be dealt with later

it doesn't bother me at all whenever richard gadd or jamie bell say something about niall maybe being worse than ruben because i consider that to be part of the paratext because that is exactly what a niall would think

i just found TWO ticks in my pubes. please check yourself if you're tramping around in the tall grass like i do because you don't want vaginal lyme

ted lasso being mentioned in all the headlines about anthony stewart head's passing feels almost disrespectful. he was better than that show

The myth of female immanence vs. male transcendence that Simone de Beauvoir talks about in The Second Sex really is THE crux of the difference between cultural representations of women and men imo

you know actually the great thing about half man is that you go into the tag and there is zero x reader fic

Particularly that last time because I didn’t really know what caused it I remember walking around for weeks afterwards with this eerie feeling that the bottom could fall out from underneath me at any time like a sudden awareness of how tenuous our grasp on “the real world” really is