over and over

i love fiction so much can we never be real again

in an astounding coincidence, the right level of technology happens to be the exact one I was surrounded with growing up

*6 beers in* I should email her...

i hate the "we should only have queer actors playing queer characters" argument for several reasons. but what annoys me the most is that people who argue this straight up don't realize that it's illegal to ask someone about their sexuality in relation to a job interview. like an audition. i don't think breaking anti-discrimination laws to screen people's sexualities to determine their employment is the woke take you think it is.

non-rpfers really dont get that the point of it all is the blurred lines between performance and reality—that everything in media is mediated and that no matter how much we can try to search, read, learn about somebody, we can't ever distinguish the whole 'truth' because of the unreliable nature of what's given to us. and the fun of it all is not just the searching but also the dissecting how culture has interacted with these people esp in regards to queerness... how their beliefs of not just being gay or trans affect how they act

Ryland thinking Rocky is happy with being back on Erid vs Rocky putting on a brave face because he has to give 20+ eulogies and he's desperately trying to prevent one more by keeping Grace alive.

I think it's insane that even in the most leftist and "progressive" spaces the idea of equating morality with looks is alive and present and no one fucking bats an eye at it. like racists and mysoginysts are always portrayed as fat and hairy and generally unkept, as a contrast to the morally good and attractive leftists of course; people will have no problem being genuinely fucking awful about someone's appearance if they're deemed to be a "bad person". and the worst part is you point all of this out and people act like you're reading too much into things like no dude you gotta start using your brain more