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The thing about growing up poor and achieving a bit of upward class mobility via college education is you end up in social circles with people who come from economic privilege...and it never stops feeling weird.

oh no

Batman the Animated Series scene where Batman is being dragged towards a giant venus fly trap that looks like a vagina dentata.

A second shot from Batman the Animated series where Batman is fighting for his life against the vagina dentata flytrap.

Watching Batman TAS while I have my coffee and check emails and *head tilt*

The sheer amount of creeping horror contained in "Part 1"

Olivia Nuzzi, please stop involving the entire public in your sex life.

I don't personally believe in astrology but like, my faith observes a holiday where we shake tree branches and a lemon at God, so you astrology kids do you.

god what happened now

oh good I can get back to my regularly scheduled filth now.

I'm so glad I ignored people telling me it was a bad idea to cash out my 401k to buy a house.

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

I don't know what I expected dot gif

what is it this time?

Things currently occupying approximately 40% of my brain: there should be at least one Carly Rae Jepsen song in the Heated Rivalry tv serie.

they're going after holocaust survivors

I've crossed over from being apoplectic about this shit to just feeling straight down to my bones tired.

[S I G H]

make bad art because some of the worst people you know are making even worse art and literally nothing you make will be that bad.

I HOOTED 🤣

my next column's going to be like "how Olivia N*zzi is like a romantasy heroine" and y'all are going to be like "wow her insights are amazing"

And MTG is actually antisemitic!!! Not for wanting to defund Israel but for pushing conspiracy theories like "jews control the weather" and all that space lasers nonsense, which was laughable, sure, but still antisemitic.

I know a lot of liberals consider it beneath yourselves to listen to marginalized Southerners but maybe look up what MTG's queer and black constituents have said about their experiences living in her district.

Y'all, MTG wanting to stop US money from arming Israel is a "heartbreaking, worst person you know..." situation, not her reforming her hateful ways. A party that's got room for her is not a party I want to be involved with.

My take on the Elyse Meyers thing is the same one I’ve had for years as someone who spent a lot of time reviewing & has since come back to it:

Authors don’t belong in reviewer spaces. Reviews aren’t for them. Doesn’t matter how many TikTok followers they have. That space isn’t for them

Yeah, cishet white dudes, call me when your online stalker takes it IRL and physically attacks you in a courtroom during your protective order hearing lol

KJ Charles' All of Us Murderers is simultaneously a send-up of gothic novels and an excellent gothic novel in its own right. The way it balances the two reminds me a lot of Deadloch, which I now want to re-watch.

same hat

I wrote 856 words (of Star Wars fan fic) in an hour.

My shine runner great grandfather is up in heaven going "no, not like that"

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

...yep.