Me At 9:30pm, realising I Still Have Plenty Of Time To Read and Sleep:

I’m the bad guy, duh

I majored in English lit in college and I absolutely believe all the fanfics I’ve read have more literary merit than most of the published fiction I’ve gotten through. Fanfic writers are brave and ballsy and laughing and weeping. And they hold your hand. There’s so much contact between writer and reader, it’s visceral. And I think fanfiction is in part a reaction against the shame of an outdated community of people who attach all these rules and regulations and bullshit to the act of writing that they actually just limit their own ability to tell stories. So conclusively--fuck them and keep scrolling through all the cherik you can handle on a Tuesday.

Someone: do you like to read books?

Me: * thinks about all the gay fanfic I read at all times *

Me: yes.

They’ve been watching a lot of cat videos lately.

Jeff Goldblum’s priceless reaction to the potential Marvel / Sony split

Feral Billy keeping a horde of Steve’s things.

He doesn’t have no memory of Steve, but he becomes obsessed with him all over again. He watches Steve by his house, mumbling the word “pretty.”

When Steve drops something, Billy immediately goes to get it. Steve once dropped his watch and billy takes it, another time Steve left his jacket in the yard and billy takes that too. Another time it was his wallet, luckily for Steve there was no money in there when billy took that.

Billy brings all those things back to a cave in the woods and hides under a pile of leaves. Except for the jacket, he clutches on to it tight when he sleeping.

─ Portrait of Henriette Sontag by Paul Delaroche (1831)

I smell dogs and pine and oil beneath that shaving lotion. It’s something a child would select, isn’t it?

Don’t confuse my hatred of the hyperwealthy for jealousy over what they have. I don’t want a six figure sports car, or a 40 room mansion, or a gold leaf truffle wagyu steak dinner. I want redistribution of wealth that allows for infrastructural support of all citizens’ basic survival needs.