several, actually.

[recommending something i sincerely love] ok so the thing about it is it kinda sucks

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

it’s crazy how much you can read if you read

I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."

They need to introduce laws which limit prime ministers after they leave office. No, you can't have a book deal. No, you can't have your own column in the Daily Mail. No, you can't tour the US to speak at MAGA conferences. You must take a vow of silence and live like a monk for the rest of your life.

Every elected official should be compelled to join a monastery after they leave public life.

lilah morgan from ats, one of the most interesting female villains ever to me. she's a girlboss. she's a girlfailure. she's certain about her convictions (being evil). she's willing to embarrassed herself for her man but she won't stop being evil for him. she finds folding her laundry relaxing. we don’t really know why she became evil. she probably has mommy issues.

stop letting miserable people on the internet convince you that you must have a concrete, well-constructed opinion on everything that has ever existed.

everybody say thank you Marcus Aurelius

Im always like "i will not add my two cents. i will not add my two cents" but i cant lie the pennies are getting sweaty in my hand