THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY

forget age gaps or differences in rank or whatever the most potently dangerous power dynamic in any relationship is "people like you more than me"

I hate change, I’m scared of change, I need something big in my life to change soon or else I’ll go crazy

pushing back against oldest child stereotypes by making unwise choices and not being dependable

Gaston Leroux I see your vision. Setting your horror novel in an old opera house LIKE I GETTT ITTTT!! 🧠👈🏼👈🏼

Like it's this huge sprawling space with several floors and people who have been living there for decades all serving this machine that creates fake worlds. It's filled with fake trees and skies there are people making dozens of shoes just for actors and this is what they have always done and will probably do until they can work no more and SO many people live here it's like it's own little ecosystem in there. Like a lil town you could technically just shut yourself in all the time and have everything you'd need to live and there's so much space how do you even keep track of it all YEAH A SPOOKY GHOSTLY MAN COULD JUST BE LIVING IN YOUR BASEMENT AND YOU'D HAVE NO IDEA!! GASTOOOOON YOU ARE MY GUYYY

august?!?! are you fucking serious

I always feel so cheated in stories when characters are walking around with this Big Guilt and then...you find out that the thing wasn't their fault at all. And not in a "they thought they did it but it turns out they were set up" way, or even a "accepting that just because they did A which caused B which caused C it doesn't mean C was their fault", way but where they finally lay out the sequence of events and it's clear that any thinking person would not connect them. Like, fucking commit!!! The character isn't LESS compelling if they actually did the thing! You can't have the haunted brooding meow meow who is...also completely blameless

It should be noted that they blocked it because of animal rights and not human rights. They were more concerned about the crocodiles than the Palestinians they are torturing.