there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago

what a fucking asshole

‘most of these repetitive end-of-the-dynasty tropes were obviously getting written into dynastic histories after the fact for didactic reasons’ oh. well, boy is my face red.