Have you read @lytagold.bsky.social 's Dangerous Fictions? It's great & offers, among other useful things, an analysis of & challenge to the "eat yr veggies" attitude

always a goddamn lake

more of a werewolf film problem

OVERWHELMINGLY wet

ANOTHER ONE I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT. WHERE IS THIS GRANT

overall wetness of film but Creature wetness also earns points

I WAS UNAWARE OF THIS FRANKENSTEIN OMG

preliminary results: the kenneth branagh frankenstein and guillermo del toro frankenstein are both quite wet. the hammer frankenstein and young frankenstein are both quite dry

also that!

substacking is infinitely more fun than dealing with literary magazines but it is not lucrative lol

I didn’t specify but I should have! it was a sentimental novel

entirely possible! I think it’s also bc Mansfield Park is the one that’s the most real about how much it sucks to be poor

idk I feel increasingly alienated from leftist cultural writing in general, it’s so easy to imagine other people as helpless, childish widgets pulled by capitalist forces and oneself as calmly perched above them

guillermo del toro: im gonna test how much gothic you can pour into a movie
me: haha i bet it’s a lot
del toro: (keeps pouring)
me: haha rock on bro
del toro: (keeps pouring)
me: bro
del toro: (pouring)
me: BRO

Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!"

Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"