the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

The difference is that a fetish is bound to the floor while a kink is suspended from the ceiling

My horrible son wants me to attend his 8th birthday party and I don’t have a good excuse to not go so I need one of y’all to invite me to a dangerous scheme where I disappear under mysterious circumstances and my son has to go on a global spanning adventure to uncover the truth and finally grow into a man I can be proud of instead of the piece of shit he is right now

Man also RIP Sir Arthur Conan Doyle you would've loved House MD

"There's no platonic explanation for this" <-you need to be nicer to your friends. Right now

#STOP SAYING 'PLATONIC' WHEN YOU MEAN 'CASUAL'#RELATIONSHIPS CAN BE PLATONIC AND ABSOLUTELY DERANGED

i often feel like a dog that's been tasked with paperwork

did you know avoidance only makes all of your problems worse. no one has ever discovered this before

I've suspected this for a long time but I usually try not to think about it