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I never thought I would be siding with the pope’s involvement in politics and cheering him on. I will say that.
ask not for whom poob has it
friend sent me an Instagram reel yesterday with 1000s of likes that was basically like "pride and prejudice is timeless actually because it's about an autism4autism romance 🥰" and then the creator proceeded to cite moments in the book and film where Lizzie and Darcy are "socially awkward" and....listen. I'm far from an Austen scholar, but I have taught Austen novels as an educator and this kind of psycho-pop analysis that views characters as individuals with autonomy over their actions, rather than tools in a story written at a particular time to say something about that time, pisses me off more than I can say without sounding like an asshole. I'm sorry but Darcy isn't rude and awkward and even cruel to Lizzie because he has autism, he says and does those things because he's a wealthy upper class land owning man raised to see a middle class woman from a large family with no male heirs like Elizabeth as inherently beneath him which he expresses to her multiple times because it is socially acceptable for him to do so in a society where someone like him is privileged above almost all others. He is "socially awkward" around her because of misogyny and classism (PREJUDICE) and she is "socially awkward" around him because a woman of her standing at that time simply wouldn't have had much to do with the gentry but to actually push back against the shit that Darcy says would be social suicide for her whole family so she protests the only way she can which is refusing his advances (PRIDE). not to be the "context collapse is the death of media literacy" guy. But this is the problem with the kind of head empty, let people enjoy things, if I can't relate to it what's the point type crowd. Youse think you're being so quirky justifying incoherent and anachronistic interpretations with your rampant individualism, ensuring that other people never confront anything that challenges them in these stories like patriarchal misogyny and classism. Pride and Prejudice becomes an "autism4autism romance", completely undermining the historical context of its status as one of the great social satires about the class and gender politics that Austen so expertly observed around her. This attitude is why we have nonsensical historical dramas that actively hate history like fucking edgy bdsm "Wuthering Heights", Bridgerton, The Buccaneers, and even a 2025 Frankenstein movie where the monster is just misunderstood and does no wrong uwu etc. because individual relatability and catharsis is king over anything actually saying anything about anything now. Everything is relatable and nothing is meaningful.
'look both ways before you cross the street' maybe the cars should look both ways before they cross Me #rightofway
amen
Some of the categories for the NYT Connections fills me with hatred and wrath. What do you mean “dog breeds with the first letter changed” i’ll kill you
Fury. Rage. Flames on the side of my face.
“This is how these words would be related if they were different words”
‘beyond the scope of this paper’ is a dear friend to me. I Am Not Fucking Talking About That
I'm trying to get back into the habit of writing for the first time in like 4 years and I have never felt more like this guy
Your regular reminder that trickle-down economics is a cruel joke designed by the wealthy.
HE FOUND TUMBLR??????
I’ve been here the whole time.
Dear god, he's not kidding...
why is it sooo hard to conclude essays. I said all that because fuck you thats why
this sign i just saw in a bookstore ??
Just got a chatgpt ad where the use case was "can't decide a new years resolution". I can't think of anything more sad than needing a robot to tell you what your own ambitions are. Loser shit.
the ad where the use was "what recipe should I make on a first date" pisses me off so much. if I went on a first date w someone and they cooked and then said "yeah chat gpt told me what to cook for you" there would not be a second date. if you can't bother to use your own brain why would anyone spend time with you
we are now already in google doc conspiracy theory territory. these bitches really speed running this thing 😭
they are coping really well I feel 👍
I feel like this reply sums up how fandom largely treats women characters, specifically queer women, perfectly
Even setting aside my personal real-life opinions about therapy I hate it as a plot device. Like as a writer, I hate it. It's like Oh no. What will I do. My character has an internal conflict. However shall I resolve this...I know! I'll just send them to the internal conflict fixer. Christ alive it is painful.
therapists are people and should subsequently have character-shaped impact on plots and emotional arcs.
Examples:
when i first moved to Japan i started having panic attacks and sought out virtual therapy. My first few therapists, based in my home country, were so excited about me being in Japan that they just asked me to send them pics of the tourist spots or whatever and never addressed that i was in an active mental health crisis. I ended up having *worse* panic attacks after these sessions
Then a therapist really did help me! She was chill about the Japan thing, but eventually our relationship soured because she told me about memories other patients had confidentially shared with her. And she had a little yappy dog and thought it was adorable that he interrupted all of my very expensive sessions. Complicated situation!! So much more interesting than the vague, smiling-in-a-suit therapists and their bland couches that we see on TV.
These are pretty benign examples. I know darker and more melodramatic examples from real life that i won't share because the stories don't belong to me, but: therapists are complicated people! Getting therapy is complicated! I'm fine with therapy being depicted in media if that's how it's portrayed, but it basically never is
And: Even when therapy is effective, it's not because someone merely went to therapy. Therapy (especially CBT) is an active, participatory process, which means we should see characters trying (sometimes failing) to use the advice they've received irl, which would also impact plot. But therapy just stays shoved into neat little snapshot therapy-office scenes in media. smh.
Sorry i want to edit to add: even when therapists are wholly good and effective, they're still way more interesting than what we see in media! My best therapist used to tell such funny jokes they cracked through the numbness of my major depressive episode. He framed the finger-painted artwork of his child patients in his office and would explain them with the gravity of an art historian at the Louvre. He played David Bowie covers in Portuguese. I sent all my equally depressed friends to him and none of them were helped like I was and that made my friendships with them awkward and complicated. Do you see how watered down fictional therapy is in comparison
"He would not fucking say that" but it's "He would not handle someone having a breakdown in front of him like that."
He would not set boundaries like that.
He would not know those therapy techniques
He would not have that good an understanding of his own sexuality.
He would not appreciate poetry like that.