calling to confirm your appointment for a routine blood draw with nurse feratu at the request of dr. acula

Another great film available on the internet archive here is The House Is Black by Iranian feminist poet and film maker Forugh Farrokhzad looking at life inside a leper colony. And a link to the wikipedia page

REAL masculinity is about [traits and behaviors that anyone can have that youre gendering for reasons that are ultimately misogynistic]

the idea that predators and abusers are an ontological category of person, rather than everyone having the capacity to be predatory and abusive, leads to people having no regard for boundaries because they think that predation only comes from evil people ™

literally thank god sex isnt real and was just invented by big fiction to emphasize greater social and psychological themes i was getting scared id have to do all that

Hating on the interests of young women is actually not woke

how do i become a person who has a clean room and eats healthy and goes to the gym and works 42 hours a week and also writes a novel and reads for fun and goes on vacations

its cool how every language has wordplay.... we created language like ok step 1) convey info so we can stay alive 2) get silly with it

official linguistics post

Im weighing in on the discourse. We need to start putting sea monsters on maps again.

One thing I've noticed getting older is that the youth of today are really not all that meaningfully different from the youth of yesterday and anybody insisting otherwise has a downright revisionist view of those years and/or is trying to sell you nostalgia slop. Believe in this.

I wish there was a painkiller except for brain fog. Like when your head is full of gunk you could just take a pill with a glass of water and lie down for 15 minutes and your head would be cleared just like that.

The Threshold babies are 28 years of age today. Feeling old yet?

The Threshold babies are 30 years old today. Feeling old yet?

we need to find the beating heart of The Job Market and we need to plunge a holy gleaming blade into it. its the only way to be free

Calling ao3 archaic is very funny considering it's the newest of the major fanfiction sites. It's design isn't necessarily older in style than the other sites, and algorithms were very normal on websites when ao3 was built, it's just built primarily as a database (or archive) rather than a social media platform. Maybe I am out of touch but what fic hosting sites could be considered flashy?