We Are All Mad Here

like fandom concepts of “media literacy” have conditioned a very specific form of reading where there is now a singular “point” of any work and the only task of any interpreter is to figure out what that is and then attack anyone they perceive to have failed in this task as “media illiterate” or its correlates. the political implications of said “point”? not a thing the media literate must concern themselves with. discussing the craft - questions of structure, aesthetics, etc. - with which that point is conveyed? a detriment to being “media literate” to even consider such a thing. multivalent meaning and contradictory readings and productive tensions and alternate analytical lenses? what the hell are those

the pros of reading ao3 fics in public is that their layout is so clean and simple that people would think you’re reading some academic researches when you’re in fact reading a 50k fic. the cons is that you need to control your face all the fucking time

An additional feature: the layout is clean and simple BUT anyone familiar with AO3 will immediately recognize it. Pro or con? You decide.

If they know it enough to recognize it on sight, they probably aren’t going to be judging me about it.

they were also at the devil’s sacrament

a talking point i often see when defending the consumption of dark content is that it’s a coping mechanism for those with trauma which is very valid and true but i also want to make this abundantly clear: you can like dark content for no reason. you can enjoy fucked up shit in fiction because it’s enjoyable and entertaining. trauma is not required as a ticket for entry. enjoy your dark content bc it’s fun and sexy and don’t let anyone take that away from you

reblog if you love to see that shit that was fucking crazy

it’s so embarrassing to watch tos for the first time and be like, whoa !! 👀spock and kirk❓is anyone else kinda getting 😏some vibes 😳 as if they aren’t the founding fathers. as if they didn’t build the yaoi dimension with their bare hands. as if the current cathedrals we call home aren’t predicated upon their humble shadow puppets on the walls of plato’s fucking cave, and as if our ancestors were fools to fall for those puppets instead of geniuses, innovators, and prophets ????

this is how i felt when i was like woah this show is so fanfic-eque sometimes. yeah man they invented modern fandom. this is to be expected.

at dinner rn and all i can think about is how hannibal intentionally yanked will’s coat off too aggressively when he was in pain so that he’d groan

i love the x files cause it’s like what if the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen (literal doctor and FBI agent) got slowly convinced into believing in the most bizarre things imaginable by the most beautiful man you’ve ever seen (big stupid doe eyes) (also top FBI agent) and now they’re wanted by the government for being hot. or whatever

I am once again asking all punks and fellow goths to read The White Noise Supremacists before saying punk was “always” about kindness and leftism.

sometimes when i read something extremely good i can hardly stand to read more than two or three sentences at a time because i get so excited every other line that it's almost physically exhausting to get through

The biggest “your experiences are not universal” thing I feel is whenever anyone talks about the universality of girls planning their weddings since childhood because. Well. Not me. God bless

“The universal girlhood experience of—“ [LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]