Miscellanea

i cannot hate myself into a version of me i will love.

i cannot punish myself in any way that will unmake the past.

[litany against reactionary thinking] throughout all of human history the majority of art has been kind of trash that reflects a lot of common impulses and thought patterns that the general populace have and is not an indicator of some great advent of moral or intellectual failure unique to our current time.

like every day i have to go into work and see fifty different books with descriptions like "55 year old cowboy dad sexually takes advantage of a 19-year old recent college grad who works for him and is friends with his daughter" branded as a cute and quirky romance novel and it makes me throw up a little every time. but it isnt creating these desires so much as reflecting them. that being said you are still freely allowed to be a hater about both the book and absolutely the societal forces behind them. and i will!

reading about ancient egyptian artifacts that have meaningless hieroglyphics on them and (aside from it being really cool as an example of the interaction between written language as a cultural feature with the fact that many people could not read and write) i'm very charmed that there were people bullshitting scripts they didn't know for the aesthetic back then too

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

Hi, its me. The warmest creature in the world. I love you. Im the warmest creature in the world and I love you so much and I need to be in your lap right now. Yes, I know about the heat wave. That's okay though because I was already the warmest creature in the world so I don't mind. I love you and you need to let me sleep in your lap right now. I'm soooo warm and I love you sooo much. If you say no you'll be saying no to a thing that love you. Let me sleep in your lap. When I fall asleep I get warmer. I love you