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i am in fact still thinking about kendall saying “i need a passion project because unfortunately i know that heroin is awesome”

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an incomplete collection of tweets i consider to be short poems

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one fun thing about being a teacher in march 2023 is that chess is a literal epidemic among teens. we are starting to have meetings about how we can STOP teenagers from playing too much chess which is like if we were trying to figure out how to stop them from reading for fun. When i was in high school five years ago chess was nerd shit only but now it is transcending every social and language barrier and is absolutely rampant. kids aren’t on their phone texting in class anymore it’s ONLY chess.com. kids are playing chess on their phones while playing chess in real life. this is still better than tiktok because at least the kids are developing an attention span from this

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Pour one out for all the stories you'll never find again, that you barely remember in totality, but that left an impression on you that you'll never forget.

The short stories from standardized tests that you only had a few minutes to read, but those minutes will last a lifetime.

The books on the library display shelf you used to occupy time until your mom could come pick you up from school.

The graphic novel you picked up when you were first getting into comics and could never find again.

The single lines or themes from stories you otherwise don't remember, save for the one thing that you saw and internalized as a new part of your personality.

Let's pour one out for the books that built us, even if we never could find them again, and couldn't of we wanted to.

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the gifs i find on this website... you guys are art curators

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“Yoink” is the opposite of “Yeet”

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i’m starting a collection

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genuinely i think it's important for adults, especially in the plague times, to play pretend in our day-to-day lives. when i rub my back down with tiger balm so i can sleep without pain, i imagine i am a valiant knight tending to an old injury i received from a dragon. when i go to the store to pick up eggs and milk, i am a lone cowboy riding into town on a mission. when i turn my collar up against the wind i am a femme fatale who's killed 4 husbands and is scoping out a 5th. when i stomp around in the snow i am a doomed polar explorer. if being a little bit silly about my walk to the pharmacy helps me remember that life can be full of joy and whimsy, then so be it.

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Succession makes me nuts because all of the tragedy is preventable but also it isn't. Usually, in big epics, the tragedy is that fate is inescapable. But in Succession there are a million tiny times where someone could have chosen to treat their siblings better or their spouse better or stuck to their guns or been honest or stopped being an asshole for two minutes, and it would have completely changed the trajectory of events. But also how could they have ever done any of it differently? Who taught them they could?

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SUCCESSION “4x01” + text posts

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Even as I stood there this looked fictional.

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current favorite pastime is reading succession articles that were clearly written by bots

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just love love love the fact that for all kendall and shiv’s posturing about wanting to get out from under their dad’s shadow and branch out on their own they leap! at the first chance to go up against him! to make a mess of smth and get dad to hate (notice) them. and logan’s the same way. he wants everyone to think he doesn’t give a shit but he’s restless and unsatisfied until he gets to go back to battle with his own children. they’re all so entangled it’s like this competition and cruelty is the only way they can even have a relationship. whereas all roman wants is to escape the cycle, just finally be united with his siblings, anything to never go back to “that fucking room”. but he’s sucked back in anyways because he never left that’s where they always are just reenacting the same hurt and betrayal and tragedy over and over again like. we will always end up here!

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I know there’s gonna be people up in here going “but [this thing] really is bad, if you can’t see it you don’t understand”. This is not the point at all. I just want you to ask yourself these two questions:

1) If nobody preached how horrible [the thing] was, do you think you would’ve disliked it as viscerally? Been as mad? Or do you think you could’ve even found some things to like in it? Might seem unimaginable now, but I think you could’ve.

2) What are you gaining from this? Letting everybody know how horrible it is, why you hate it, and how they should too? People are enjoying [this thing] and it brings them joy. I’m sorry it doesn’t do that for you anymore, but they still love engaging with it. Why would try to ruin that just because you feel bitter about the way it turned out for you?

One of the things that annoy me most about modern fandoms is how quickly they turn on the source material or the creators. Sometimes literally all it takes is a small mistake or even just a creative decision a particularly vocal group of fans didn’t like, and it can snowball into a fandom-wide hate of the entire thing, to the point these people will be in the comments of spaces for fans that still do like the media, spreading hate like it’s their personal mission. To the folks like this (this is me telepathically screaming): Get away from the fandom, please please please. It’s better for everyone.

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There’s multiple examples I can think of off the top of my head. The most obvious is of course Game of Thrones - the ultimate ‘masterpiece-turned-abomination’ the internet likes to drag around like there’s no tomorrow. Yeah. Maybe the first seasons were better. Maybe it wasn’t based on books anymore. Maybe they killed you favourites and you’re never forgiving them for it. But I’m absolutely sure more people would’ve enjoyed it at least a little more if they didn’t have the ‘GoT bad :{’  injected into their eyeballs anywhere they looked. The level of hate on any corner of the internet that as much as mentions GoT is ridiculous at this point - it can be just a meme and you can be sure there’ll be a bunch of people in the comments making sure everybody knows they ‘hate how this brilliant show got turned into a dumpster fire clownhouse’. It’s almost an inside joke at this point, and people just can’t resist joining in.

Then I can’t go without mentioning Avengers: Endgame. For one, I love that movie. But that doesn’t even matter here. The progression of online fandom’s hate of that movie was so bizarre, and it’s still going strong. First, there were the Stucky enjoyers pissed that Steve went back in time. Alright. Perfectly valid opinion. However, this quickly led to it being declared into a piece-of-shit movie with horrible plot. Suddenly nothing was right anymore. The deaths and story and directing and CGI all became ‘crap’ in a matter of months. First ones of the creators to catch some major flak for that were the writers - they decide what happens, right? Then it got to people criticising the Russos for directing it the way they did, and ridiculously I’ve seen the sentence that ‘they can’t make movies at all and killed the MCU’ multiple times and just... how? Do y’all not remember how you collectively loved the previous ones, how you were singing praises for Winter Soldier only a few years ago? And let’s not forget this is what happened to a movie that had overwhelmingly positive first reactions from viewers - people were going insane in the best way possible. And it still ended up like this.

So yeah, I find myself hating the direction fandoms are going sometimes. Imagine disliking so much that spending years trying to convince fans it sucks is preferable to just... leaving it alone. Finding something else to like. Couldn’t be me.

One of the things that annoy me most about modern fandoms is how quickly they turn on the source material or the creators. Sometimes literally all it takes is a small mistake or even just a creative decision a particularly vocal group of fans didn’t like, and it can snowball into a fandom-wide hate of the entire thing, to the point these people will be in the comments of spaces for fans that still do like the media, spreading hate like it’s their personal mission. To the folks like this (this is me telepathically screaming): Get away from the fandom, please please please. It’s better for everyone.

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One of the things that annoy me most about modern fandoms is how quickly they turn on the source material or the creators. Sometimes literally all it takes is a small mistake or even just a creative decision a particularly vocal group of fans didn’t like, and it can snowball into a fandom-wide hate of the entire thing, to the point these people will be in the comments of spaces for fans that still do like the media, spreading hate like it’s their personal mission. To the folks like this (this is me telepathically screaming): Get away from the fandom, please please please. It’s better for everyone.