"Yeah everyone goes into the labyrinth with homoerotic intent but the minotaur was raised all alone in the labyrinth. It wasn't socialized yk. So it's like, an incel. Yeah it hates women and gay people. People go in trying to fuck it and it just says slurs. Then they get mad bc it's like, harder to romanticize that. It throws them off their rhythm and the minotaur just kills them with a big axe. Then it goes back to listening to some podcast about masculinity or whatever."
There comes a day at the start of each summer when I must put my baseball cap on sideways and go out back to my air conditioner. I gingerly stroke the rusty metal coils over its freon heart and say, "Sup, home skillet? Wake up, it's 1995!"
And the air conditioner says, "Oh snap, for real? I thought it was much later. I feel so old."
In a goofy voice I say, "Yeah, it's like 2024 or something... not!"
It laughs nervously. It says, "As if!"
I tell it, "Take a chill pill, it's really 1995."
"Then I'm only 5 years old? Wack."
I nod. "Yeah, duderoni. Go ahead and start up for me one more time. It's gonna be a scorcher."
It shudders. Something rattles deep inside it. Slowly, the fan starts to spin. Faster, faster, it whirls. The air conditioner laughs in relief. "I feel young!" it says. "I feel so young!"
the whole entire new doctor who episode was so much (is next episode next week or is the christmas special the next one. i gotta know) but my favorite throwaway line was fifteen asking rose, "how's your mum? how's your uncle?" because,
1.) very sweet
2.) going "how's the other half of my soul who lives in your house" is way too much for a guy who hasn't even explained regeneration to ruby