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sooo true

Nat naturelie

nice natalie

age regressing from crone to mother to maiden. is this anything

hm I sure do start a lot of sentences with the word "like" when I'm trying to unspool an idea out loud

the nice thing about being young is that there are a lot of people that I'm looking forward to outliving, barring any sudden deviation from my own plan ("being alive")

but I also think that's largely for -me- to deal with. getting mad at coworker-type people who are also basically just swimming in the culture is not productive, healthy, or good for my soul. i try to be content to simply wave at it, and wait for her irrelevance to become biologically permanent

like I get it, we feel like we need somewhere to go with our anger and our hurt and the feeling of betrayal at a children's author from our formative years violently denouncing us. it feels bad. feeling weird and mad and conflicted every time i see the ubiquitous object is not exactly fair

like I don't need to bristle at my coworker going to harry potter land over her vacation bc that isn't about me. the guy listening to the harry potter audiobook is not getting hitler particles transmitted to his brain. that's just not how any of this works.

like I have to remember that by being a person for whom politics is a matter of daily survival, i am the weird one. being on "twitter for democrat grandmas" has given me a malformed public - not, like, an inherently negative thing, as long as I don't mistake it for "a vertical slice of society"

thank god it's a children's book and not like actual literature. someday (after her death. probably) i imagine it taking the place of e.g. bradbury or bukowski, where you go "yeah this is probably worth reading at a certain time in your life even though she was a total piece of shit"

and like, the moral didactics of harry potter (largely anodyne, sometimes contradictory, yes I've listened to the Shaun essay) are more or less entirely independent from the beliefs of the creator (abhorrent, violent, etc). at most these days i think it has transformed into a kind of fetish object

audible advertising the new harry potter full cast reads in a push notification to me this morning is a good reminder that no outsize moral weight should be given to ubiquitous objects. that is to say, "you cannot assume someone is a transphobe just because they do harry potter stuff in 2026"

a solid argument for the return of net cafes

i've been groaning about this all week. they need to stop making games

can't stop saying this

Kinda weird that the US elite is full of child molesters flying to pedophile island but if a poor artist ages Sailor Moon up to 18 to sell porn to anime fans she gets obliterated from the internet

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<puddlesipper> wellcome ye back
<wet_haybale> ta
<puddlesipper> hast tha seen the moon this eve
<wet_haybale> nay be it ftrange ?
<HimWhatEkes> tis red
<wet_haybale> that be new ?
<gleanmachine> Zounds man do ye ever look up?
<wet_haybale> not unlefs it pleafe milord

well he's waluigi. he isn't called 7uigi.

girl same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i did get a laugh out of "let's never think about this again (after this thoughtful twenty-minute long discussion)" though. good work everyone hit the showers

but i also think that's, like, a pretty ungenerous interpretation of a single statement presented out of context that undergirds my preexisting idea about this person (which is to say, she sucks ass). so i should be suspicious of myself leaping immediately to that conclusion.

i think overseeing all of this is the vague notion in the back of my head that "the book is there to serve me" is a reductive idea based in a kind of perverse, like, modern self-help ethos. like why does a book be there to serve anything? does art "serve" you? is enrichment of the soul a "service?"

god that guy IS really annoying that you made up just now..

yeah the "it's a paperweight now" money still spends

on the other hand, she knows what she's doing with her whole "oh, heehee, some people find this fact about me simply appalling! how capricious i am, starting in the MIDDLE of a book!" thing. i know a Live Laugh Love liz gilbert ass take when i see it

yeah it's really none of my business. i am famously dead (except for the things in my writing which are incontrovertible evidence of my diseased and twisted soul, depraved fetishes, secret political opinions,)

my most controversial opinion is that i think people with animal ears also have human ears under their hair. i don't think it's just skin. i also don't think YOU think that, because it's gross (catgirls, middle-distance runner gambling horses, creatures from LINE stickers, etc, etc)