and what’s wrong with that

this is actually tragic for a guy like me (#1 ben doyle stan who got into jet leg through tom scott)

i am enamoured by him

truly the idea of "this scene is (un-)necessary to the story" is such a fundamentally uncurious and anti-art way of engaging with fiction. the story itself is unnecessary, in the sense that all art is unnecessary, because art is not a fucking optimization problem. that's the beauty of it

also there is no theory of “necessary” and “unnecessary” scenes that is not culturally conditioned and a reflection of specific societal biases. modern Anglophone readers of the Iliad tend to find the Catalogue of Ships and the Doloneia and Achilles fighting the Scamander and most of the violence and killing in the poem unnecessary but an Iliad that removes them and telescopes the journey from Book 1 to Book 24 is not the Iliad in any meaningful way.

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

“what’s the song of the summer” ?? it’s DANCING IN THE DARK by bruce springsteen for the 42nd year in a row

sometimes when i post on here i feel like that one clip from community where abed is doing a standup routine but it's so specific to him and his life that troy is the only one laughing.