That Guy James

It's always hilarious to me to see people online decry "candy" books like romantasy or horror because all anyone has been talking about in the class discord is the smut and trash they're planning on reading for the next six weeks.

John Hannah repeatedly screaming "JUPITER'S COCK!!!!" altered my brain such that I find myself still using that as an expletive to this day.

You mean to tell me dude just appeared out of high school and played at a god tier level for a full fifth of a century with no sign of slowing down and I'm supposed to not believe this?

"Was I supposed to just die?"

No and since you didn't you can be a fuckin problem about it.

On a fixed as fuck income paying a few hundred a month??? Fuck that.

"Fuck are they gonna do, mom, put that chunk of your lung back???"

Trying to convince my mother that it's morally correct to not pay your medical bills.

That's how you know they're our daddy.

I've got no love for Calibri and frankly do love me some TNR but what in the brainrotted fuck?

Yeah I'm not a therapist and claim no expertise but I have spoken with some severely traumatized people and being able to parse information that exists between lines feels like a pretty relevant skill set to have in a lot of cases.

Also 4 weeks? That's like 8 classes? 10-12 hours total? Cmon, now.

I mean considering just how many of them are wearing boots and stomping around the wilds for days/weeks at a time I'm gonna say this is by and large a positive.

Prof wants me to publish my seminar paper so I guess it's going well.

Text from stepdaughter. Text reads "this but reversed with heathcliff in the center and the closer you get to him the more depressed you are." Image attached that says "The Ludacris-Proximity Sadness Meter" with Ludacris surround by kids, the closer to Luda they are the happier they seem.

Stepdaughter reading Wuthering Heights and is having normal reactions about it.

You will be visited by three spirits.

No I'll give him this: he can establish and execute a jump scare really well.

Man's 0 for 2 in my book and I do not understand the hype.

Kind of starting to think it's possible that I dislike Zach Cregger.

Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.

A penisy looking shadow cast on my ceiling.

It was because of the ceiling penis.

Then I found out that etymology for "penis" is from the latin "penis" meaning "tail."

At this point you might be wondering what inspired this etymological rabbit hole I fell into and honestly? That's a great question.

Quick introduction to how my brain works is that today I found out that the etymology of "ceiling" comes from the latin "celare" which evolved into the French celer (cover) into the middle English "celynge" which was a verb for "act of paneling a room"...

when was the last time conservatives picked a fight with a pop lady backed by the homosexuals and won. the closest thing coming to mind is the chicks (née dixie) in 2003 but there are several caveats and asterisks there, doesn't quite fit the premise

Absolutely. You can sit there and whine about artistry or craft all day long but there's something to be said about someone who can write a book over a thousand people bought and enjoyed. That's a skill in itself.

So read what the fuck you want. Your smut and your trash is valid as shit. Don't let anyone or anything make you think you should be aspiring to read The Canon or The Classics.

I also reject the idea of books as candy. Candy is empty and gjves you nothing. It's like the 5lb weight for doing bi curls. You're not coming out the gate grabbing that 50lb dumbbell and doing 5 sets of 10. What you're doing is training the ability to sit and read. That's something. Not candy.

If you all you read this year was like 18 smut books you can and should feel proud of having read 18 more books than most Americans did this year and also feel heartened by the fact that English PhD students across the nation wish they had your life.

It's always hilarious to me to see people online decry "candy" books like romantasy or horror because all anyone has been talking about in the class discord is the smut and trash they're planning on reading for the next six weeks.

From the company that brought you "we don't sell physical copies of our shit" and "lmao we deleted Bandersnatch" comes "back catalog of some of the best movies ever made and your favorite shows"

Netflix WB deal once again got me all the way back on my Buy Physical Media bullshit.