Mer Are You... Are You Okay

this might be old news but here is a link to a youtube vid of a zoom podcast meetup w/ dylan, allelon, gale, and tom schulman. haven’t watched all of it yet but they’re talking about dps!

when mrs. marks says that her niece is in a play with your son

I would like to congratulate greta thunberg on being the only funny person on twitter

When i was 10, I sent a letter to Lemony Snicket. I didn’t receive a personal reply, but I got one of these. 7 years later I realized that there’s a message

obsessed with the way that gothic horror is about horror but never directly. it’s not horrific because there’s a haunted house and that’s scary, it’s horrific because the monster isn’t a monster, it’s your grief, your loss, your pride, your desire, your fear. the monster skulking in the shadows, the darkness at the edge of the woods, the haunted house that is too broken to be a home—those are manifestations of events that grabbed onto the fabric of time in a fit of abject horror and clamped down so tightly that they couldn’t keep moving forward toward resolution and eventual dissipation like they were supposed to. it’s all about the scared child and the mourning mother and the hunger in your gut and the little emptiness in your chest at the end of the day. those things are all little horrors but you can’t approach them directly to understand them, so gothic horror gives us these little metaphors and says “here play with these for a while and see what you find.” and all of those metaphors need someone to go back to childhood to release them. you have to care, and be curious and clever, and look for a way to heal the hurt. you have to be so achingly human to survive in gothic horror

when you hate richard cameron’s life decisions but also kind of like him because he has the potential to be a good person:

turtlenecks belong to dark academia gays

I’m pretty sure the implicit message of “So if you want equality that means we can hit you now, right?” Has always just been “You are smaller and weaker than we are. We can violently destroy you at any time and most of us have wanted to, but we restrain ourselves because you’re weak and vulnerable and subservient. If you want to act like you aren’t weak and vulnerable and subservient, there will be nothing stopping me from acting on my constant desire to violently destroy you.”

nothing is wholeheartedly funnier than hugh laurie and rsl being sooo the other half of the dynamic in reality. hugh laurie is genuinely like “I literally love and am obsessed with house and will love this character to my dying days…I KNOW he is very very flawed I just can’t help it…” while robert sean leonard is like “wilson is THE saddest character in the world. is the show good? no but it’s the best it can be for this genre. it allows me to not work too much….I hate 2 work”