inside a fantasy

I don't think it's necessarily plastic to learn how to fake laugh at bad or corny jokes I think it's legitimately a skill worth developing to make life a little nicer at work like last night my older coworkers were all doing the "Alright see you guys next year!" joke and I don't want the last thing they saw that year to be someone rolling their eyes

Yeah, sometimes it's just the right thing to do to exchange an attempt at simple connection with a positive response. It's less about the joke itself and more performing simple niceties and being able to just get along with people you work with even if its not sincerely funny or gonna make you best friends is just good etiquette, really.

let’s talk about how they made it impossible to function without a phone and digitalised everything and then turned around and went “actually! these phone things aren’t safe for kids but it’s magically ok once you’re eighteen. guess you’ll have to have your life dictated by your parents now lol cause we’re gonna take the devices away from you. IT’S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD WHY ARE YOU COMPLAINING”

ok my apologies. take away my ability to buy anything too ig because these fuckass stores don’t accept cash anymore. take away my ability to communicate with people outside my house and school because I can’t text and I can’t email and I cant drive to them either and I can’t even fucking get public transport without a phone either. can’t order at a fucking restaurant without being asked to get a membership and install an app and also very sorry but you can only order through our online menu now! have you ever considered that it’s not just about instagram?

used to think it terribly silly (and kinda funny) when fantasy or sci-fi stories would have people refer to major recent historical events as The Flood or The Incident or The Revolution, and im sure historians fucking hate that because it's not helpful or descriptive, but we sure do be calling it The Pandemic

I believe in adaptational risk but I have to be honest I'm not sure why we got to the point where every single day I see someone posting about how gabrielle wants lestat more than lestat wants gabrielle. And they're not even crazy for it. It's a cogent reading of the show. Incidentally it is of course literally the direct opposite of their conflict in the book

However I don't think it's a good read of either the show or the books to say Lestat doesn't want Gabrielle sexually/romantically at all and I think that impulse is just the classic move of trying to make him a better victim when in fact one of Lestat's recurring internal conflicts has always been that he loves and desires the people who hurt him and the show made a point of highlighting this in the Magnus/Bruce sequence. At a certain point you are sanitizing and oversimplifying.

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

I want to see more polyamory pride this pride month i'm serious. Stop being weird about people with multiple partners polyamory is awesome and beautiful and queer

In general the labor which is required of non native english speakers under the English language hegemony constantly is just overlooked, taken for granted. Almost like the labor is invisiblized. Only if there was a term for it

Obviously you have to learn a whole different language and the social nuances of the language and be constantly judged for both. To be aware of the social context you also have to learn the politics of the language, becoming fluent in a whole foreign language isn't enough in itself. You can't have a racialized accent, that's not fluent now. Obviously you have to perform this labor. Its simply natural. Obviously you can't have anything accommodated for you. Go work for it yourself, do it for free, taken out of your limited time on earth, even pay for it!

can i come over and bleed on your floor