hey jay you forgot your flashlight

there’s a lot to be said about rule of rose’s usage of children as a vehicle for horror, particularly its success in guiding the player through the connected but distinct stages of 1) innocence as a subjective experience w potential for macabre imagination, 2) isolation from society in the midst of the socialization process resulting in a reenactment of the hierarchies that inform gender/class relations, 3) acute violence among children as a result of abusive environments, and finally 4) reaffirmation of the expansive inner worlds of children, who are equally likely to reiterate their circumstances and to exist beyond-within them, either in the ideal of better conditions or in the reality of the present, limiting as it is. the game allows for a beautiful breadth of human experience w its ending, where children are afforded interiority, choice, and the dignity of memory, the kindness of their story being told—a dignity and a kindness jennifer affords her own child self.

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

It's fun being queer and weird and unconventional until you remember you live in a society

I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon