veronica

mainly i need a boyfriend for logistical reasons

thank you!

lol what is this from?

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

feeling the dearth of foreign press and middle eastern accounts on this website quite intensely rn. twitter sucks so bad but at least there was more of that there, at least back when i was on it

If the idea that video games themselves incited violence was in some sense a moral panic, what is true is that violence increasingly takes on the character of a video game

"i'm starting to feel just a little abused like a coffee machine in an office" still one of our era's most iconic lines

badly need to visit the heroic soviet scale statue of shakira in barranquilla her hometown

I even find “egg” talk distasteful because of a perhaps extreme aversion to being prescriptive or imputing my experience with gender to others. but let’s not pretend that is or could be anywhere near as widespread or coercive as the pressure to be cis

This stuff is so infuriating. As a young person figuring this stuff out not once did someone suggest to me I might be trans. but once I came out as trans people *repeatedly* suggested to me that I might just be a feminine gay boy or nonbinary or something less extreme. as if we were negotiating

fuck this evil country

imagining a Romantasy reader who gets into Updike because they hear he's a sex author and being really disappointed by The Centaur

This is how my acknowledgments are gonna look

Critic who thinks may 1968 was pointless but talks your ear off about the subversive powers of a lubitsch film

I think we’re a bit too keen to talk about “AI literacy” or even “visual literacy,” as if literacy could so easily be mapped across that difference

In My Best Friend’s Wedding Julia Roberts promises to marry her ex if they’re not married by the time they both turn… 28

When your will is thoroughly fagged out

It’s a handy way of being a bigot while disavowing the uncouth and nasty feelings involved. Easier to retreat to wishy washy second order stuff I guess but it’s a bit transparent when you’re on the receiving end of this

Related to an experience I have all the time as a trans person: a covertly bigoted person launders their discomfort with me by extending sympathy to a real or imagined bigoted third person whose views and feelings they feel we ought to take more seriously. Interpassive bigotry, we might call it

I think what’s hard is that I find it rather nice when a work of art solicits thought (rather than, say, bare pleasure). But sometimes it feels as if thought is being mimed or performed, as you say, and it’s less simple to tell the difference here than I’d like

How gross lol

(I also wonder whether this is just a grad student thing or whether it’s that lots of culture is now designed to solicit exactly this kind of response: forms of posting and commentary, cheap interpretations, etc)

Thinking I ought to engage with aesthetic and cultural objects on drugs more often to try to circumvent this

It’s sort of a gross feeling when I read something or watch something and realize the grad student brain thing where I’m trying to find the winning take or angle on it has kicked in without my noticing

What’s the best thing written on Nora Ephron’s obsession with intimacy mediated by blogging, chatrooms, email, radio, etc.

We should make “incontinence” mean a spiritual failure of will and self discipline again. Not just like an excrement thing…