the future can't be real

sometimes when a movie starts there is a scary lion but don't be scared

dissociating into passive compliance upon becoming angry =\= “never” becoming angry

intellectualizing and pathologizing your anger until you convince yourself it isn’t rational to be angry =/= “never” becoming angry

Half the backlash to fat lib content essentially boils down to "I can't believe you're FORCING me to not be mean to you"

cool animal meme dude hey just wondering why is that fennec fox in somebody's living room

"it's just a meme let people have fun" NO. you WILL learn about wildlife trafficking and its role in the exotic pet trade

i know i said i did not want to talk about the nolan odyssey but i do have one more nodyssey post in me. i actually think the idea of odysseus understanding his story as existing both in and out of a historic timeframe is a fun way to handle the liminality caused by the story being part of an extensive oral tradition. however having him say "our age of bronze is collapsing" is perhaps not the way i would have done that