la morte vivante

depression walk of shame is when you finally start talking to and replying to people you've been too drained to answer and you have to be like "sorry about that I was trying not to drown in the weight of my own chemical imbalance... sup?"

something about stuff like "reading diversity bingo" puts a bad taste in my mouth. i feel like a lot of readers treat the works of marginalized authors as, like, a chore they have to complete to be Morally Good rather than just... art worth enjoying? i highly encourage all readers to branch out beyond cishet white guy authors but like... if you're doing it because you think you have to rather, than just finding books by a wide range of authors you like, that's something you need to unpack.

the rise of instant gratification via meaningless mass produced media has led to people viewing having any kind of standards as elitism

rgu is sooo. by being ambiguously fantasy allegorical but having an explanation thats more grounded too. heres a story that might have been happening again and again since the beginning of time. its also a moment thats just happening now. its simultaneously one of the grandest most romantic stories ever told & one of the quietest ones. im holding your hand in this shot & the audience wont see until after the credits of the finale. i shatter this rigid uncompromising world to smithereens by holding your hand. et cetera. like utena couldn’t know how hopeless it must have sounded to anthy when utena said essentially 10 years from now i hope i’ll still be with you, in the face of this real or allegorical eternity otherwise. its the smallness and hugeness of everything they do in choosing solidarity & love with each other against their abuse and the societal system that suppresses these things and pits them against each other

How do I tell people that sometimes if you turn your shipping brain off you can interact with media better

Like I hate to say it but if you can’t engage with any media without descending into full-on fandom-style shipping at the expense of the themes, characterization, non-romantic relationships, and general content of the work. You might need to take a step back from shipping and maybe fandom in general. (Also to the people in the notes of this post who are acting like I said shipping in general is terrible: What this post is saying is that if you interact with all media exclusively through a shipping lens you miss a lot of stuff. I’m not saying don’t ship things, I’m saying use your critical thinking skills.)

“There’s more to media than romantic relationships” should not be a take which causes so much anger, and yet

As a lesbian i will always relate more to trans women than cishet women. Made to feel disgusting and predatory in women's spaces? Check. Berated and mocked for our relation to sexuality and womanhood? Check. Hated for our "deviancy from the norm"? Check. Every single essay about womanhood by a trans woman--and especially, especially by trans wlw--has spoken more to me than anything written by a cis straight woman ever could. T*rfs can take that to the bank.