I do think if, at any point while in an intimate setting, someone called laios a "good boy" his brain would light up like a pinball machine and also he'd cum instantly.
one more thing wrt 'if you read hp youre poisoned forever' discourse is like. i get the sense that some ppl think there is an object out there that is so morally sound that critical analysis is not required to engage with it, and that the goal is to dispense with bad objects that have bad things in them and trade up to something you don't actually have to question or push on because its worldview is your worldview. 'well you shouldnt be reading hp anyway cause it's antisemitic and fatphobic' it certainly is and if those things bother you, you can absolutely avoid it but the vibe in those conversations sometimes is like. that that isn't true of plenty of other media.. plenty of books reproduce prejudice and we continue to read them and there will never be a book or other analytical object that is so ethically unimpeachable that it will give you permission to turn your brain off while you engage with it. and yet it feels like that's what some ppl are looking to assure themselves of by campaigning against hp, the idea that if we can whittle out the bad books we'll be left with the benign ones that you can consume mindlessly without worrying that they'll poison your brain when you're not looking... like if hp can poison you as an adult by infecting you with prejudice it's because you're not reading it critically. and some people really do seem to be terrified of books that might have this nefarious infectious ability e.g. lolita because they don't trust in their own or others' ability to resist becoming enmeshed with the worldview of whatever they're reading or watching. people are not confident in their own critical abilities and also they would rather be absolved of the responsibility to employ them.. like youre not gonna get better at something by avoiding it at all costs!!
should I tell my chem major cousin about how the guy who discovered the law of conservation of matter as well as many central elements on what has now become the periodic table was eventually executed for tax farming and extortion
guys I do not know how bad is gonna pull thru his character lore this time. like yeah bad's a great storyteller but last time all he lost was like. his items. which is a lot easier to work around than losing his fucking kids
Slimecicle: [Jaiden]'s like, one of the coolest people that I've ever talked to, and I didn't realize how like, intimidating she looked too. Like I know- is that like an insane thing to say? Like I didn't realize she was fcking like, tatted up and like rolled up with a fcking like sleeveless top and like these crazy ass pants and I was like "Holy sht, you're actually going to kill the sht out of me." But yeah, she's like the swee- she's fckin awesome, she's so cool.
OH YEAH she's a phenomenal dancer, she's like actually revoltingly good at dancing. It was actually kind of pissing me off, 'cuz Foolish and I would like try to learn a move and it would take us like 30 minutes, and then she'd be like "Oh, like this? I think I saw that once when I was fcking 6 in a TV commercial," and she would just pop like the smoothest fcking like shuffle of all time and then just improve some sht and do like, a Fortnite backflip. And she'd be like "I hope that was like, kinda good!"
Revolting. Actually revolting. No, she was so so cool. She was so cool.
If I had a nickel for every time a minecraft server has had an antihero with a bird-adjacent signature name/appearance, then I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's fucking funny it happened twice
Alanwen + loving but in a different way, loving but in apology, loving but it's shifted and changed until it's become something new entirely and that is terrifying as much as it is exhilarating, as much as it is necessary. Alanwen + forgiving the other and forgiving yourself and realizing there was nothing to forgive in the first place. Alanwen + giving them a piece of your heart and understanding that it's theirs forever, but knowing that it does not constrict either of you. Alanwen + still making coffee the way you both liked, still loading the dishwasher the way you know they prefer. Alanwen + being glad the other has found love again. Alanwen + loving each other but knowing there is no romantic love left. Alanwen + loving each other and knowing they don't need romance, not anymore.