#Telling Tales

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i don't buy that rupphire is more historically significant than vrisrezi tbh

[howifeltabouthim]

And could one tell such a story about a girl, especially if she asked you not to?

Iris Murdoch, from A Fairly Honourable Defeat

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Fragments of...!

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weirdest part of being an adult is the fact that you can put off watching a movie for nearly a decade and barely notice

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reading toxic yuri in public and nodding in approval so everyone knows i condone codependency and mutual abuse in real life

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i am a woman at war with herself, torn forever between my love of detective fiction and my hatred of cops and cop media

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i think people who complain about paragraphs being too long should just read/write screenplays instead. some of us actually enjoy reading

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the beatles are an infuriating band to me as a relentless contrarian. liking them is cliche, hating them is cliche, being indifferent towards them is cliche. it's impossible to have an novel or interesting take on the beatles in current year. like how am i supposed to win here?

[telltaletypist]

your favorite youtubers and content creators are about to be offered some tantalizing tv/streaming deals so we're all about to find out who the real working class allys are

[telltaletypist]

look all i'm saying is if you've ever seen someone be healed with magic, congratulations! you've witnessed a practitioner of necromancy. it's the exact same thing. all you're doing at a fundamental level is using magic to accelerate existing biological processes and animate tissue, the only difference is when you do it to dead tissue instead of living tissue, suddenly it's evil scary ~dark magic~ instead of good wholesome healing. it's purely cultural bias.

so no i don't think it's fair to say i "lied on my application" since i'm just as qualified as anyone to heal your party, but hey if you want to be a fucking narc and report me to the wizard council go right ahead. good luck finding an accredited healer at the wages you're offering by the way

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transphobic music fans be listening to he or she might be giants

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i think it's important not to act like the harassment imane khelif experienced is merely misdirected transmisogyny. it really can't be separated from the racism at play. transphobia was the cudgel she was beaten with for the crime of being visibly non white

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i've said it a lot before but it really can't be said enough: imagine women having sex with each other

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penis parker was bitten on the dick by a radioactive spider and fights crime as her alter ego: spider-cock

[telltaletypist]

i have a theory that any franchise that lasts long enough eventually becomes incestuous and ends up eating its own tail, thematically. stories in these franchises can only ever comment on themselves

i think a lot about what alan moore said about his work on the killing joke, about how hollow it is in hindsight since the theme really just boils down to "batman and the joker are kinda similar when you think about it", which i suppose is a pretty novel observation, certainly changes the way i read batman comics, but what is there in that insight for me as a human being living in the real world that i can apply to my actual life? not a whole lot. all it can do is reward emotional investment in the brand of batman. if you don't really give a shit about batman there's nothing there for you.

the disney era of star wars is especially bad about this. by and large they're really just about our relationship to star wars. even the last jedi, which tries to be a little more critical about it, still can't break out of the thematic black hole the franchise has become. andor is possibly the only exception to this, and i steadfastly believe that was a total fluke. don't get it twisted, andor is good despite its connection to star wars, not because of it, and if it were just an original tv show about resisting space fascism, it would probably be better for it (if less popular). we're all lowkey dreading the second season bc we know that no star wars property can resist devolving into a nostalgia wank fest forever

there's nothing inherently wrong with hollow entertainment, but i do think there's something grotesque about pumping the gdp of a small nation into an entertainment product that doesn't aspire to be anything more than an advertisement for itself

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people on twitter are losing it bc they found a doodle rebecca sugar did of pearl and greg having sex and all i can think about is the absolute chaos that would've been unleashed if that had dropped in like 2016. there would be riots in the streets