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also i think this has been figured out at this point but the whole "i miss queerbaiting" convo is like... the part of queerbaiting that ruled was because the show was usually putting forward two dudes, those two dudes got to have character arcs and motivations and writing behind both of them. they could both be interesting individually. because neither of them were shunted into 'disposable romantic interest' for each other.

but if a gay couple on tv is now supposed to be there, writers can fall for the m/f trap of 'only one of these characters needs to be fleshed out, the other is just here to explicitly be the love interest and maybe die later' except now they can both be dudes. it's not that queerbaiting was inherently better it's that unfortunately people have always been bad at understanding what makes fictional romance compelling, which is 'who the fuck are these people in the first place and why should i care'

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This meme has destroyed my brain, I can't stop making these

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this australian guy wrote about the columbia protests when he was a student here. he hid his substack and deleted his social media apps before he went on a trip back to the US to visit friends. he was detained, interrogated extensively about palestine by two border patrol agents, then deported back to australia.

^ that's a quick summary he wrote after the experience. the longer new yorker article is really jarring. link without paywall here

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the nastiest pornographers in the land are drawing your heraldic beast looking doe-eyed and lame in the jaws of my heraldic beast

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Ah these children who always create problems for poor mothers....

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Burnish BBQ🔥

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WAYNE'S WORLD (1992) dir. Penelope Spheeris

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truly the most american thing is Big Drink. more than late stage capitalism, more than an unparalleled cultural focus on individualism, more than 9/11 jokes

what binds all americans together culturally is Big Drink

and you might be saying "is this fat shaming" or "but mayor bloomberg outlawed Big Drink in nyc" or "gays are so annoying about their iced coffee" or some other dumb comment but no open your minds, Big Drink isn't just sugary or caffeinated beverages

every day i see one of you hydration bitches (affectionate) on the train with a water bottle so big a toddler could drown in it. that too is Big Drink. we literally invented a bigger beer can (tall boy) in wisconsin in the 60s in the service of Big Drink

anyway i never feel more american then when i have Big Drink in my hands

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Learning that John Lithgow signed on to play Dumbledore was upsetting but I could take it. I've been disappointed by actors I've loved before.

Learning that Nick Frost signed on to play Hagrid has unlocked a level of parasocial heartbreak I didn't know I was capable of feeling.

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The two best reasons to ship anything are:

1.Incredible deep and detailed narrative themes. The parallels that seem to hit just right, the narrative foils that they can be to each other, the intricate dynamic that's both extremely complex and easily understood. The juxtaposition between something that's harsh and undoubtedly toxic, with the softer undertones, the parts where you read in-between the lines and find a mutual feeling of loneliness from both parts, their intrinsic understanding of each other comes from the mere fact that they're each others mirrored reflections and shadows. In the end both sides will be together forever, and you as an audience can clearly see their tragedy laid out before in a path that blurs pure anguish and tender romance

2.It would be so fucking funny

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watching my promised afternoon thunderstorm slip from a 90% chance to a 20% chance.... baby come back i can change

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quiz: why do lobsters have one claw bigger

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I swear, like 50% of the problems with bad (m/f) sex scenes in fic and published work could be solved if authors were willing to take the sex a little less seriously

Like every time doesn't have to be this earth-shatteringly romantic, ultra dramatic scene where the Little Woman nuts a thousand times and the Big Man comes

Undone

With a mighty roar and they each declare that the other is "mine" and everything is heightened and fantabulous. Sometimes the characters can just be a lil silly with each other, or just have fun, or be vulnerable about something other than virginity angst or anguished confessions of love.

I get it's a fantasy and sometimes you WANT deadly serious jackhammer porn, but you can throw some variety in there too. It's far more humanizing and FAR less cringy, imho

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the best death note joke format will forever be L asking light a simple question in which logical answer A might increase the likelihood of light being kira and logical answer B similarly might increase the likelihood of light being kira and after a short internal struggle light comes up with answer Y, which no human being has ever thought of as being a normal response in all of living history