MY CHEAP VIOLIN AND MY CROSS

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

Marjane Satrapi, author of the excellent Persepolis, has died at age 56. Friends said she “died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life”.

This is incredibly sad. Persepolis and Persepolis II are available on archive.org. These books were foundations for me.

we prefer to call it the Stanford prison experience

big tshirt that says YOUR INTERPRETATIONS MUST HAVE A STRONG BASIS IN THE SOURCE MATERIAL on the front and I HATE FUN on the back

guys… liking the Beatles can happen to you at any time. it’s literally happening to me rn. you can’t escape it. Beatlemania comes for us all eventually.