off we go into the wild pale yonder

woah i havent seen you since before we became wandering husks without names or faces

i hate when i have to walk around my flat in the dark like what if the thing 1982 is there

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

Always, when she is old, the girl will for a moment imagine herself back again, in a house that contracts and expands, as if breathing, and she will think bitterly of the footman, who was her secret supporter.

if i was in an alien movie i'd be luring the xenomorph into a hot wok and adding chili, garlic, ginger, shaoxin wine, scallions, white pepper and sesame oil

spock is the greatest character of all time because he lives in a society without homophobia but managed to reinvent internalized homophobia from first principles

sci fi is all about getting so scared and ripping tubes out of yourself. people miss this

sci fi is all about desperately trying to reclaim your violated bodily autonomy. it’s all about asserting that you are a being with agency, and you can choose what happens to your own person, even if that’s ripping tubes out of yourself. and also sometimes an alien is there