50% sea, 50% weed, 100% knife

There are certain period pieces where it is obvious the writer and director had little to no knowledge about the period it is set in and no desire to grasp the historical complexities which is….fine. But maybe stick to contemporary bullshit if you’re too lazy to immerse yourself into research and trying to understand what life would have been life for people living in that period. This isn’t about anachronisms, I love the occasional creative anachronism, this is about the persistent flattening of history and recreating it with your dull, stuffy stereotypes of historical periods through a 21st century lens.

An example would be people complaining about characters of color in European period pieces, the idea that there was this overarching cultural and ethnic hegemony until recently is not historically accurate and depicting history that way dulls it. Wuthering Heights was written 180 years ago and adaptors still don’t want to acknowledge Heathcliff was not white even though his race and the racism he experiences is important to the plot. You also see this in the misogynistic way female characters are treated in many period pieces, simply chattel made to breed, no research into what agency women actually did and did not have at that time or their day to day lives, they’re not people to the modern writer, just miserable creatures made to suffer.

Sometimes I think about the girl in my college gen chem class who believed all liquids were just particles suspended in water. I just find it very Greek philosopher. Like not only is water a universal solvent, but in fact THE ONLY LIQUID. It kind of charms me as a world view

energy of an 85 year old who got freaky friday’d tbh

“Do dishes” and “take out trash” both require the use of a spell slot, vs “use phone” is a cantrip, and brother, I am a level one wizard

Pisses me off how good Shakespeare actually is. Like yeah he's actually that good. People hype him up like he's the best English writer ever, and yeah he's actually an S+ tier writer.

Insane that he did all that while naming his characters shit like Count Evilcount and Peter Penissex.

it remains insane that he wrote a love sonnet hinges on the idea "you will live forever because this sonnet, specifically, will be remembered for all time" and that sonnet, specifically, became so famous that it serves as a synecdoche for the very concept of poetry. world historic called shot.