[joleneghoul]

Me when the characters in a story start arguing and letting their nasty sides out and i get to see if their relationship can stand it, grow, or if ultimately they break apart. Or maybe even a secret third worse thing.

[bug-bytes]

"there's no platonic explanation for this" you're just mad someone wrote about a friendship more sincere and impactful than you'll ever have

[romantichopelessly]

there’s something so particularly interesting to me about aroace Kevin Day from the lens of him as a sex symbol. someone who grew up sexualized before he got to know himself, plastered on teen magazines and placed under media scrutiny, taught sexuality and sexual appeal as a tool use, a facet of his fame that was something to be grateful for, something that is inescapable. He was a result on tween magazine “which boy would YOU crush on” quizzes before he could recognize for himself that he’d never feel that. his aesthetic appeal was bought and sold for ad campaigns before he could even realize it was something he might want to control. Kevin Day the product should be sexually appealing but not too outspoken about what he wants or doesn’t, because it makes people uncomfortable if the sex icon expresses discomfort with it.

[instigatorjosten]

Kevin, mid rant about one of his classes: I hate that Descartes was born before me, I could have totally came up with “I think therefore I am”

Neil, ignoring Kevin, to Andrew: do you agree with Descartes?

Andrew, not even looking back at him: why do you think I call you Nothing?

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

it’s just crazy to me when feminist retellings particularly of like ancient or mythological characters manage to have less complex and interesting portrayals of women than the source material. because to be so honest it happens a LOT

[2productive]

I always loved how back in the day before cellphones, people were unreachable if they weren’t at home. You can call but I won’t be there to answer. You can leave a message but you don’t know how long it’ll be until I hear it. You don’t know if I’m home, but you will have to make the trip to come to my house and knock on the door, hoping I’ll be there. And if I’m not…you can’t reach me!! Now that everyone has a cellphone the expectation of being reachable 24/7 is so disastrous. And let’s not even get into read receipts. I think one of the worst times of my inner peace is when I had an apple watch and suddenly every text and phone call and notification was on my freaking wrist, even if my phone was giving the illusion of distance by being in my pocket or bag or charging in another room. I stopped using it in 2022 and I’d rather eat a jean jacket with no water than ever be so connected again. “oh you can just turn off notifications!” not the point.

[sunnyonline]

Sometimes they are literally not siblings, sometimes they're literally not dad and son, sometimes they're friends and that friendship can be so, so special. Yes, you can do found family! but sometimes that "found/chosen family" doesn't need to be mommy and daddy and auntie and uncle and siblings. Characters can be friends and it can be fucking awesome.

[fluentisonus]

no eclipse glasses we are experiencing things allegory of the cave style

[callizinc]

Every time it's hot out and i complain about the summer sun and heat someone's always like "Well can't you wear something other than all black all day every single day" NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lexthe13th]

nora saying neil and andrew don’t do I love you’s is in-character btw

[books-justbooks]

unfortunate side effect of lezzing out at the club is that there’s less time for dancing. which is reason no.1 for going to the club. of course reason no.2 is lezzing out but id like to keep a better balance of the two

[sour4kai]

Neil josten my beloved

[minyard-05]

my absolute favourite part of the golden raven is when jeremy says "good thing neil was here when grayson died, he gave jean a good alibi!" and kevin and andrew look at each other like "he fucking killed that guy" and that's actually canon. that happened

[what-even-is-thiss]

The amount of slavery in Ancient Rome was legitimately terrifying tbh

[what-even-is-thiss]

Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second

[what-even-is-thiss]

Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.

[what-even-is-thiss]

When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.

[wisjncz2]

[exy-enthusiast]

just as somebody who cares about history, it does kinda tick me off that large swaths of this fandom seem to only CONSIDER greek or roman history as being Kevin's field of study?? Was this a text thing?? Did y'all just run with that??? Because it doesn't sit right, but I'm curious.

[loveridden1999]

i wouldn't have to deal w all of this if i was a tree