nine hyacinth

unbelievable to see the atlantic and washington post publishing straight up tobacco industry propaganda. no cigarettes are not "trendy again". the tide has not turned on whether or not its ok to smoke in public. you are not engaging in a stylish act of nihilism nor rejecting the authoritarian leaders of your youth. you are not doing micro-escapism. you are destroying and scarring your throat and lungs and hurting your brain and making the air noxious for those around you and participating in one of the most destructive consumer industries available. god. who lets this bullshit go to press.

cigarettes as rebellion is tobacco industry propaganda. cigarettes as rejecting modern society is tobacco industry propaganda.. cigarettes as escapism is tobacco industry propaganda. there is no subversive way to smoke a cigarette. every cigarette u smoke is licking the boot of big tobacco and then shoving that boot into the mouth of the guy sitting next to you at the bus stop.

waking up hungover to a notification that my inter library loan requests are ready for pickup and no memory of waht they are

One chapter into Ulysses and I have 10 times more appreciation for that "Ogre barely even Literate!" meme

Everyone call Ogre stupid and it True! Ogre can only understand popular quotations like "Very well then, I contradict myself" and "Introibo ad altare Dei" not obscure references like "Thalatta!" and "the rage of Caliban at not seeing his face in a mirror" that contextualize the characters' perspective on life within the lens of culture and literature!

the backrooms are simply not as scary conceptually if there is Something In Them

the whole reason why they're so unnerving is BECAUSE there's nothing in them!! because they're unrelentingly liminal and lonely and uncomforting. there shouldn't be a monster guy in there chasing you. you should glimpse other humans (?) from a distance but they walk away before you can close the gap and then they're gone. things should run away from YOU. do u get it

"and there was a MONSTERowooowwohhhh" the monster is isolation and banal beige sameness and uncanny valley architecture. you fool. you rube. you're putting a hat on a hat and the second hat is not only unnecessary but it ruins the first hat!!!!!!! "there's a monster in there" great so now it's just another place for a monster to be. ridiculous

Referring to someone as your “partner” sounds as if you are deliberately obscuring their gender and may subtly out you. “My ex”, however, is entirely unobtrusively gender-neutral. #breakupallrelationships