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WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

sometimes i get home from an event with my family and i just have to sit in my car for a second & read that one sarah schulman quote on familial homophobia

the problem with visual novels is that they are novels, but they are almost exclusively sold on video game distribution platforms, which means that they're novels being read by gamers who are by and large entirely unequipped to critique that medium

leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

Sometimes something fucked up happens to the guy and their melody gets fucked up too. Sometimes the thing that fucked them up also has its own melody and when the first melody gets fucked up the second melody gets mixed in

no fucking way dude. are you serious

I just want my OTP to derrive meaning from each other in a way that would be incredibly unhealthy and codependent if two people did that in real life but is profoundly poetic and romantic within the context of a fictional piece of media in consuming.

Sometimes a family is you, your kohai, her estranged sister, your homeroom teacher, and King Arthur

I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!

critically acclaimed but the critics are me and my mutuals

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if you are tolerating your extremely shitty parents just so your child can have grandparents, don’t. If they make you feel like shit, the chances they add value to your child’s life are very slim.

Children are a lot more perceptive than people give them credit for, I think. Adults fail to acknowledge that children do not like adults who are cruel to people they love, manipulative, manipulative, untrustworthy, etc. The love of a child for their grandparent is not inherently unconditional. I know I had friends growing up who had ‘mean’ grandparents they did not like, I know I held a grudge against my grandma for upsetting my mom. Children notice, if it isn’t good for you, it isn’t good for them.

you think that you're so alone in the world then you read literature from hundreds of years ago and you realize that other people have always felt this way