i sat down and made it through 50 pages of the first "dungeon crawler guy" book at the bookstore (took about 10 minutes because the prose is for sixth graders) and i wanted to hurl it into a smoldering caldera the entire time yeah nah miss me with that incel shit yeah im yucking your yum its gross

dude im so done with undertale part 6 part 5 part deltarune part 4 anthology 7 appendix homestuck part 3 dawg

There are two reasons people don't see this coming. Neither one is stupidity. Both are in this article, less than a week ago it was a paid article...now FREE for the first time, with every citation attached. If you only share one thing this month, make it this. open.substack.com/pub/thejackh...

Why It All Makes Sense: The Psychology and Sociology Behind What We’re Watching

A deeper companion to “They’re Not Crazy.” .

open.substack.com

i think media literacy might be cooked

ghost ships. maybe just one person will read them and remember their names. details may be changed to protect the innocent and the dead. Princess Tommy we met when i was 16 or 17, he was about 13. he'd hang out at the arcade trying to get quarters off people. they had mini golf, too

and when they sang out Last Call we'd all start singing Rocket Man cant remember who started it, but it became a Thing, as things often do sometimes we'd get up on the bar and hold hands and just belt it out beautiful beautiful idiots if you ever start feeling invincible, it's already over, ok?

pride? let's talk about what we are proud of i came out back in the dark ages it wasn't cool or trendy, it was a declaration of war it meant homelessness. it meant being spit on by friends and family. it meant eating trash and chain smoking and taking anything that anyone offered you-

long live the fighters

30+ years of fighting in this war and the only progress ive seen is that we are allowed to exist, sort of, if we agree to be a quirky little commodity that follows online trends. and the new generation doesnt see it. they were born in this grave; they never had to hold the shovel. im so tired.

the very worst predators have adopted a new tactic in online spaces pretend to be part of a vulnerable group, so that they seem to be above all criticism its maddening

"she is daughter and son the imperium undone all the autocrats are laid to waste oh holy whore androgyne come and sunder the stop signs break it all so we can build again bring on duke or dauphin blood will flow like a fountain as it ever was so it will be again"

locked up

nice try, but ive already depicted you as the remorseless ticktock man, and myself as the unrepentant harlequin heh, checkmate

welcome to Derry, where we've thrown subtlety and tension out the frikken window. here's yet another screeching CGI monster, enjoy, you slobs!

Ex Machina is still the best AI movie you create an AI woman and she kills you because you're a piece of shit

IT'S HERE BABY

not a single article out there talking about how USPS is quietly firing hundreds of people over their political affiliation, and that's just in my state. the union(s) is complicit in this, too. turns out USPS has the power to decide "you can't sue us because we said so".

where is the button that blocks everyone asking for money