the void

One of my favorite Bones things is when Brennan blackmails the corrupt DA and the guy is like “You know this is a really bad crime right?” And Brennan is like “Yeah but statistically I doubt I’ll be caught and I could take you down with me” and then she just LEAVES 😂

"Suzanne Collins gave Coriolanus Snow a tragic backstory and made him sympathetic!" So close. Actually, she put the reader in the POV of an extremely privileged character whose thoughts and views and morals still ultimately aligned with fascism, who constantly fell back on those philosophies no matter how many brief moments of humanity he felt for the Districts. She wrote a realistic human being who aligned himself with the status quo and benefited from it. She demonstrated a character who did not become kinder or more empathetic through his suffering, but instead became angrier at the indignity of it, and punished the ones he saw as "deserving" it sevenfold. She showed you, the reader, that those in power know exactly how much the oppressed suffer, and do it anyway, even if they briefly suffer the same.

Exactly. The privileged know they’re not obligated to sympathize for the oppressed.

imo the current Epstein chapter is shocking for one reason: This is what is making MAGA question their leader. This is what is making them feel "gaslit," "betrayed." It's his pussyfooting around a salacious pervert conspiracy, the details of which have been public for years. Trump and the Clintons have been implicated as friends with this guy for years. But somehow, the final straw is Trump berating his supporters for wanting to see those details he's teased for ages, the details that prove the elites are all evil perverts in league with each other (*never mind that he's very publicly been one of them for decades).

There's a lot of times in the show where Brennan explains things to people that they obviously know, everyday things, not relating to anthropology or forensics. A lot of people assume she's being rude or condescending but I think it's her trying to be nice because there's a lot of times where people, especially Booth and Angela, explain things to her before she even has to ask. I think she's trying to return the favour. They explain things they know to her so she should do the same.

Obsessed with how fast booth and brennan go from “I can’t believe I have to work with this person how annoying 🙄” to “you can pry our partnership out of our cold dead hands”

I’m convinced that the amount of times booth and brennan refer to each other as “my wife” and “my husband” in that au episode was purely to drive us all insane while they spent another two full seasons slow burning lmao