The "I don't have time to read lots of dusty tomes for research, so I just ask a bot for a summary" thing keeps coming up. I just can't relate to anyone who isn't incandescently excited about digging into an archive and spending days deciphering Victorian handwriting. It's like a party drug to me.

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

“Adapting a book is like marrying a widow. You have to respect the late husband, but on Saturdays, you are allowed to get it on.”

Guillermo del Toro discusses Frankenstein and his torrid affair with the Gothic:

reactormag.com/guillermo-de...

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

the forced self-censorship gibberish we all have to do on social media now is having a devastating effect on the way people communicate with each other. nobody in a healthy society is saying "unalived"

kids just don't know what it was like playing tlc-no_scrubs_(with_rap).mp3 on winamp 2

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

We showed out y'all.

Source unknown but its an aerial shot of the Missoula No Kings rally.