Pour Yorick - Alas

against my better judgment I'm becoming entranced by video essays that claim to be talking about really pervasive pressing issues that are everywhere 😱 that turn out to be about some shit you've never heard of in your life if you're not on tiktok or insta

and it's like. it's not that I don't think it's worthwhile to critically examine niche subcommunity issues. the analysis can be incredibly thought and insightful! but I do also feel that lending too much credence to things that bother you in internet bubbles can turn you into, like, the person On Here who sincerely told me that I was being naive for believing that tiktok romances aren't causing complete downfall of the entire publishing industry

"everyone is reading the same books and wearing the same clothes and buying whatever the algorithm tells them to buy, personal taste is dead!" I think maybe you need to like. talk to some people on the bus.

8Billion+ people on the planet. The entire amount of people I’ve seen with my bare eyes (including all the concerts and sports events I’ve been to) over my entire life will just be an insignificant fraction of 1 percent of the people on (and above) the earth.

Oh hey I had that one.

this man really woke up every morning and committed to painting the absolute dopest fucking pictures anyone could ever have imagined god bless

Going through it everydayyyy lllloll

I think it would be fun to go full out with “1001 Arabian Nights” orientalized fictional New York setting. It’s somehow always the 20s, and 80s and also contemporary. There’s depression era gangsters and Wall Street finance bros. Spider-man or the Teen Aged Mutant Ninja Turtles might show up. The Mayor is never named but is a constantly felt presence. Sometimes the World Trade Centres are there, sometimes they’re not.

Batman the animated series

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin too.

God forbid women do anything