#he isnt WRONG

[ladymirdan]

I just heard someone refer to Calgar as a “bitchy blonde amputee with anger issues”, and I took psychic damage.

[mayazen]

my husband keeps calling Baldurs Gate "your Astarion dating Sim"

[myflagmeansace]

Ed calling it like it is...

This is boyfriend material ✨️

This is a wolf ✨️

This is a space ship ✨️

[no-lo-lo]

So, we may have accidentally gone too far in breaking the notion of traditional gender roles in our kids.

My daughter often looks in the kitchen for me, and calls it "daddy's room". While the bedroom is called "mommy's room" or sometimes "mommy and daddy's room".

And my son just told me he needs me to go cook, because it's my job...

[vogelmeister]

my dad called an airport a luftbahnhof

[kristines-galaxy-of-blackholes]

Yesterday I went to the bank to see what kind of loan I can get to buy an appartment. The guy was looking at a few current listings to get an idea of the market and found a place that was super cheap and would need some updates. So was like "this place would need quite a bit of fixing up but...*looks me up and down* maybe you're good at that kind of thing"

Did I just get...assigned butch by financial advisor?

[beth1814]

My heart listening to him talk about the love for his sport. 😭😭 This is exactly what was needed to be said. The passion is not there for Vegas. The fans looking for a party and not understanding what is going on

He just made me cry… He loves his sport 🥺❤️

[thekidsfromyestergay]

Just saw a video like "um actually rocky horror isn't good queer representation because frank sexually assaults janet" girl he kills and eats people. It's called the rocky HORROR picture show not the rocky cute gay rep tw t-slur picture show

[inkskinned]

you know, you know. no gods, no masters, no kings on pedestals. everyone is fallible. death of the author. you know! you are balanced about your intake of media - you allow the wiggle room, the grace, the gratitude, the skepticism. nobody above criticism.

but still. a weird gut-punch feeling, something akin to betrayal. you read the article. surprise! an author you love is actually: a serial fucking predator.

well, shit. what now. no, you knew he was a person (all people are), but now you're wondering - what have i overlooked by accident? what messages have i internalized that are strange and cruel? and also, like, what the fuck?

his actions lay a thick glaze on top of everything. like each place is now ruined, opaque in a new way. but okay, fine, you've done this before. you knew better, right? you've been betrayed by many a cherished childhood author.

still, this stickiness. fuck. can you pick up that book again. will you read it to your children. you've recommended it to others - will you ever do that again? and of course, of course, no parasocial relationships. you were theoretically above this kind of sentiment. but the artist informs the art, right.

so it's not something as clear-cut as feeling he owed you, specifically (a stranger) better behavior - just that you kind of, in a distant and odd way... sort of trusted him to do better. it's not like a real trust or something speakable, just the faint hope that the product (good books) was a thin representation of the soul. now it feels like the product (good? books?) was a mask. in some small or insignificant way, your previous support of this person lent them power. your money and your time and your laughter.

and the thing is - you have this terrible, echoing sensation. how many times will this happen? over and over. you find out that the singer you love is actually a predator. you learn over drinks that your favorite high school english teacher is in jail for what he did to her. you listen to the news idly and suddenly discover that a woman you used to idolize has been abusing her kids for an actual eon.

what can you touch without the static melting off. you can't even really complain about it too much (you were supposed to know better, and besides, you don't want the same re-split "it's not your fault, love what you love" basic advice), but now it's here. somehow, it feels like - you let him into your life.

it's not that things need to be pure or an artist has to be like, endlessly perfect, mindful. demure. it's more just this terrible truth that has been replayed through your veins so often it feels criminally vain. power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. did you want any one person to be worth that power?

it's just that he wrote books where he seemed to understand that. he seemed to know about hierarchies and unfair systems and bigotry and privilege. you thought they were books about what it means to struggle. you thought they were about having power and still using it for good rather than for control. he spooned you a narrative of being a good guy, a kind soul. you fucking bought what that fucking monster sold.

maybe that's why they were fantasies, after all.

[pleaseshootthejester]

Me: I'm pretty low at the moment, i think i need the adult equivalent of a babysitter, someone who will make me eat 3 meals and make sure I'm doing stuff

My bf: A carer, you mean a carer

[gascreates]

when teenaged rebellion goes too far

[thankstothe]

this show rewires you fundamentally in 60 seconds and then just goes on to have more seasons. audacity

[derpycatsu]

icarus

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

[hoemainexpansion]

Suguru Geto in the Hidden Inventory Arc <3

[sunnymon11]

i mean, the man isnt wrong.