Currently Blackdale trash

this is GREAT two sentence horror actually

KillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKillKill

Because this has mostly been talked about with Windows 11, heads-up that this installed itself on every Windows 10 computer in our house with this week's update.

inej being sooo cool girl nonchalant with “i’ll return to ketterdam. and to you” like he’s an afterthought and kaz immediately folding with “wait for you by the window always” ugh they make me feral

Okay I love how in Letters from Ketterdam: A Darker Shore that you can tell when Kaz realizes the letters are being intercepted. Like the previous letter is so much more vulnerable? The whole section about the farm and wanting Inej to come visit it? And after this we are on Club Cumulus paper and there’s a less sentimental, less effusive, more to the point and typical Kaz flippantness to the remaining letters. We were robbed by the Merchant Council and their interceptions.

my absolute favourite part of the golden raven is when jeremy says "good thing neil was here when grayson died, he gave jean a good alibi!" and kevin and andrew look at each other like "he fucking killed that guy" and that's actually canon. that happened

I’m not Christian, I don’t go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive I’d sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said “it feels good to hate, but we know that it isn’t allowed, so when we’re told that we’re allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget we’re supposed to love”, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk I’d like to perhaps submit that

Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself “is this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something I’m allowed to hate” and a solid 98/100 times it’s the latter so once again thank you pastor D

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

julian blackthorn they can never make me hate you

i love how the lockwood & co crew all find each other vaguely annoying but are constantly on their way to die for each other. like yes i think you're an annoying show-off child with a big ego. stab wound to the stomach.

Jonathan Stroud truly created the Young Adult Love Triangle of all time by handing his heroine two boys who are both absolutely head over heels for her, so far so genre-compliant, but while one of them is the traditional hot sexy dashing impetuous charismatic hero with great hair and emotional torment, the other is literally a 150-year-old human skull in a rusted jar of goo.