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remember that time when that one lesbian couple was like “actually it’s really hard to be both partners and coworkers and like we’re able to do it because we’re really on top of our shit but it’s not for most people” and then like six months later it came out that one of them was abusive and subsequently was put out on the streets

@witchfynder_finder i can get it, sure, it’s like quantification, and quantifying people is useful for capitalism, okay

but also like, degrees and experience and certifications are also useful for other things too, like not murdering a hundred people because you didn’t know how to build a bridge

character levels are more similar to academic credits than anything

@witchfynder_finder if you get good at something that’s doing a capitalism

@witchfynder_finder i remember seeing this take (like an actual paper i think) ages ago about how the reason why The Lord of the Rings, a series which nobody thought could be made into film, actually worked was because all the people involved in the production were already huge fans, so like, they intuitively knew which things fans would care about and what to preserve or cut

and i think Dune is in a similar boat; like, just hire somebody who loves the dang thing and let them make the movie they want to make

had some freshly‐baked bread the other day and it was just, very good

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list of things which are good (incomplete) 

• bread

@witchfynder_finder all writers who use subtext are cowards but all readers who fail to read subtext are fools

“kibi that’s obviously very gay”, you might say, but you know? i would similarly say that there is a lot of christianity in the chronicles of narnia

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« She used to place her pretty arms about my neck, draw me to her, and laying her cheek to mine, murmur with her lips near my ear, "Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die–die, sweetly die–into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit."

And when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses gently glow upon my cheek. »

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« Young people like, and even love, on impulse. I was flattered by the evident, though as yet undeserved, fondness she showed me. I liked the confidence with which she at once received me. She was determined that we should be very near friends.

Next day came and we met again. I was delighted with my companion; that is to say, in many respects.

Her looks lost nothing in daylight–she was certainly the most beautiful creature I had ever seen, and the unpleasant remembrance of the face presented in my early dream, had lost the effect of the first unexpected recognition. » it’s fiction; don’t read too deeply into it

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intellectuals need to stop making carmilla gay. it’s not gay; it’s just a story.

@witchfynder_finder the first book would have ended in some horrible relationship disaster instead of “look the man with a turban has another evil man hidden inside there”

@witchfynder_finder like it still would have been trash to be clear

@witchfynder_finder harry potter would have been much improved if it had been written by john green

@witchfynder_finder honestly i think we’re still struggling to convince people that there exist things that movies can be “about”

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