[proceduralbob]

To be with her is a sin, to be without her is a tragedy.

Sunburn, Chloe Michelle Howarth

[proceduralbob]

If you look hard enough, you’ll probably find something that makes you wish you hadn’t.

The Cheerleaders, Kara Thomas

[proceduralbob]

Adjacency to degeneracy means you get most of the fun without having to accept the consequences.

A Better Life, Lionel Shriver

[ohmovie]

I'm an English teacher, not fucking Tomb Raider.

THE DESCENT│2005

[proceduralbob]

It was too easy to slip into careless little cruelties because you had power and other people hadn't, too easy to think other people didn't matter much, too easy to think that ideas like right and wrong didn't apply to you.

A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett

[proceduralbob]

A murderer should probably do many things, but he should never, under any circumstances, come home.

Bridge of Clay, Markus Zusak

[proceduralbob]

There’s not a lot of value in preparing for a war, because what happens in a war is unpredictable. But there is a lot of value in preparing for an outbreak, because what happens in an outbreak is predictable.

Pardis Sabeti, as quoted in Crisis in the Red Zone, Richard Preston

[kaizsche]

GLEN POWELL as BEN RICHARDS THE RUNNING MAN (2025)

[seasonofhorror]

THE OTHERS

2001, dir. Alejandro Amenábar

[proceduralbob]

This is what happens when social media gets weaponised. Real people get hurt.

Panic, Catherine Jinks

[dumnslut]

[80source]

Is this the big secret you've been keeping from me? Is it, that you're a mermaid, or is there something else? SPLASH (1984) dir. Ron Howard

[orpheuslament]

next person i catch saying "umm actually this (male fictional character) is a bottom because hes PATHETIC 🤣" is getting an axe to the back of the head. explain to me why you think being sexually penetrated is an inherent demeaning act reserved only for those you see as weak without being misogynistic &/or homophobic. quickly

[proceduralbob]

...bullies are cowards; they hit their wives but are afraid of everyone else.

The House Across The Street, Lesley Pearce

[proceduralbob]

Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.

Monstrous Regiment, Terry Pratchett

[proceduralbob]

All those stories in the news. All those parents. All those mistakes she’d read about. ... Children with stupid, foolish, neglectful parents. Children who died while surrounded by so-called responsible adults. And each time she would pretend to be non-judgmental, but really, deep down she was thinking: Not me. That could never really happen to me.

Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty

[proceduralbob]

These whales live lives of quiet desperation and intense boredom. It is the kind of ennui that can be fatal - to both whale and human.

Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish, John Hargrove with Howard Chua-Eoan