No Fear

General Lamarque has been dead for 194 slutty, slutty years

The rise of AI slop & the endless waves of books that feel written to spec by people who are terrified of their own audiences has given me a new appreciation for Anne Rice. It's not even that she didn't give a fuck; she cared passionately and was famously, publicly hurt by the reception of at least one of her novels, but she never let that distract her from her mission of writing whatever the fuck she wanted. No one could write Anne Rice's books except Anne Rice. They are singularly, entirely hers and while I won't pretend she was a perfect person or it's wrong for readers to be offended or uninterested in spending their one and only life on earth reading something that offends them, I also think her work is valuable and humane and also often hilarious and it's not a crime to have a muse you adore.

happy pride month to this post specifically

i think malala should get to do whatever she wants forever

lot of people online who were not shot in the head by the taliban at age fifteen for insisting on their right to go to school while being a girl have a lot of opinions about the woman who was shot in the head by the taliban at age fifteen for insisting on her right to go to school while being a girl

My liege im sorry to break it to you but your advisor that's actually evil and wants you dead turned out to be straight. I know you really wanted to have an enemies to lovers situation with him. Yeah I'm afraid the poisoning didn't hold any romantic intent behind it. The king of the enemy kingdom is bisexual though, I could send him a letter? Yes, I'll make sure to include multiple threats of homoerotic nature. You will have your toxic yaoi, my liege

Starting a gofundme for my friend Bunbury who's a terrible invalid,

Well, I'm starting a gofundme for the funeral of my brother Ernest, who died in Paris of a severe chill,

the great divide is like what if you stayed and it haunted you and what if you left and it haunted you and what if you came back and it haunted you

imagine if the person who turns you into a vampire turns out to be really annoying and you’re stuck with them

when i was a kid i decided that killing people was bad therefore war was bad therefore the military was evil. and adults would tell me it's more nuanced than that and i would understand when i grew up. well i'm a grown up now and idk i still think that killing people is bad and war is bad and the military is evil

Listen my tastes are my own but I really do respect the fuck out of George RR Martin for arresting the momentum of his magnum opus fantasy series for feast for crows. putting it all on the line for fathoms more complexity and thematic depth and doing a book about stagnation, failure, cyclical trauma, rot, climate change, and gender dysphoria is so awesome.

“AFFC is the reason the series will never be finished” is such a boring take. I genuinely think in the world where it IS never finished the backwards read feast and also dance give the rest of the series that makes them mean soooooo much more thematically will still have been worth it lol

The sooner you start, the sooner you'll be done with it and the sooner you can stop thinking about it. Go on, up you get, it won't be as bad as you think.

You won't want to do it later either. You might as well just do it now. Even if you don't finish it all, anything you manage to get done now is something you don't have to do later (when you still won't want to do it)

i think peak historical fiction is when there is a random ass major historical figure but as a comedic relief side character. like geoffrey chaucer being a naked gambling addict in a knight’s tale or leonardo da vinci being cinderella’s fairy godmother in ever after. like. nothing can top that.

having anti punitive justice morals sucks because you want to say "man that guy sucks he should get hit with hammers until he dies" but you also want to make it clear you don't think anyone should be put in charge of the 'hit people with hammers until they die" machine.