Alex Arrelia 🔻
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37, genderqueer punk, anarcho-syndicalist | art, film, fiction and politics | intersectionality is class solidarity | any/all pronouns are fine
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Very few people in North America start out as leftists, it requires a lot of introspection to break away from social norms. We’re the ones who did the work and did the research, and allowed for the possibility that the hypotheses we lived by were based on false assumptions.
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Fuck it. I’m doing it: Men of Middle Earth as bad ex boyfriends who ruined your life:
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I don’t think that Boomers understand that for Millennials (and anyone younger), our frustrations with work culture lie primarily in the fact that it feels like the future is shrinking.
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Okay I actually just rewatched Alien last weekend and…I think some of y’all love the gender wars so much, it’s affected your media literacy, because that’s not what happens at all in this movie.
Everyone is smart in this movie, but they’re being sabotaged by an evil capitalist.
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When you start to take the concept “I am not free until everyone is free” seriously, you begin to understand that intersectional politics is a powerful force built on empathy and justice, it isn’t an inconvenience or a distraction. It is unconditional class solidarity.
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You know what rankles me? If you pitched “Sleeping beauty, but the art direction is based on actual medieval tapestries” in 2023, Disney would pass. It’s such a unique and memorable movie, Aurora now would be this fucking generic-ass, round cheeked, wide-eyed waif made of nerf
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Weird how a queer kid won’t come out to a conservative parent who might physically abuse or kill them, send them to conversion therapy or throw them out into the street. You’ve never met any trans people and it’s obvious.
It is very telling when the majority of “trans kids” have left leaning parents.
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They cut funding for the arts so that you could never imagine a way out of capitalism.
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I feel like losing followers this morning…
Part of JK Rowling’s clout and acclaim resides in the fact that a lot of adults stopped reading books for adults, and when they say she’s a “great” writer, they’re comparing her to like RL Stine and Ann M. Martin
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The most bizarre thing to me about JK Rowling is that she never seems to boost the work of other genre fiction writers, nor does she admit to having influences of any kind. Like does she even read? Does she like fantasy? I don’t know, and that’s WEIRD.
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Reminder that “Fountain” is over 100 years old and was intended as commentary on the authority of critics who think they get to decide what’s allowed to be Art, it’s intentionally provocative. Dadaism was an anti-fascist movement, that’s why this piece gets trotted out every time
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It’s taken me a really long time to articulate this in a succinct way, but my favourite kind of horror story is one where the character spends so much time lost in the labyrinth that they cease to be Theseus, and become the Minotaur. That’s such a potent metaphor.
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I found a box of old family photos over the holiday, uh, turns out I wasn’t a fat kid, turns out I just had the kind of dysmorphia only made possible in the 90s
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Breaking news bulletin: the Discover tab shows you content that IGs algorithm thinks you’ll like. Which is why mine is all brightly coloured yarn, tattoos, vintage clothes, makeup and cute animals 🤷
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When I was growing up, I remember “ADHD is over diagnosed” being more of a legitimate cultural movement more than actually diagnosing kids with ADHD. And growing up in that environment, I didn’t question it much.
But in high school, I made a friend named Rob 🧵
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Remember when I said that calling someone wearing a BDSM harness to a pride parade a “groomer” was just the thin edge of the wedge?
Wow. I hate being right.
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The funny thing about evolutionary psychology, is that if you were able to poll 100% of women and found that they overwhelmingly preferred men to be kind, they would just discard that evidence in favour of the absurd ideal of masculinity they would prefer to be attractive.
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Going to a yarn convention was hysterically funny, because there were exactly two kinds of people there, in nearly perfect proportion:
Old ladies and queer punks.
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I DID IT. I FINALLY DID IT.
Edie makes this amazing face when she wants me to play catch with her, and I have never been able to capture this on camera, and that sucks lol
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Gandalf:
- ghosts you exactly when you need him most
- probably in a crappy prog rock band, keeps “reinventing” himself
- “weed sommelier”
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Eomer:
- only drinks craft beer and he will not shut up about it
- has confused brooding with having a personality
- not so much a “boyfriend” as the hot mistake you keep making over and over and over...
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TOS: we predicted cellphones
TNG: we predicted VR
DS9: hold my beer you fucking amateurs
My roommate sent me a “meme” and now I have to sit down
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Aragorn
- has a trust fund, asks you to split dinner anyway because he’s “broke”
- bad boy aversion to responsibility used to be hot, now it’s just getting annoying
- “shampoo is bad for your hair”
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Diabetics are one of the most thoroughly exploited groups by the pharmaceutical industry because we need to take medication to live, forever, and because diabetes is so stigmatized that people see our deaths as our own fault, rather than the result of genetics and poverty.
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Sam:
- really affectionate, but if you don’t text back he melts down
- won’t let you buy non-organic produce
- his best friend is your best friend now, you’re the third wheel on all your dates
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Legolas:
- will not tell anyone you’re dating so he can keep his options open
- steals your hair products
- complains when he sees girls wearing Thrasher tees
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Sarumon:
- Spends way too much time on Reddit
- has a PHD in philosophy, and works it into every conversation
- is absolutely cheating on you
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I keep being told “trust the science”
It’s not science I don’t trust.
It’s cops. You don’t get to pretend that the autopsy wasn’t done by a human being. I encourage you to find out just ONE THING about how police departments work with coroners 🙄
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Faramir:
- more baggage than the overhead compartment of a 747
- really sweet but cannot get his shit together
- all that vanilla sex is starting to get real boring
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To be clear:
I think the danger of the tenderqueer phenomenon lies not in individuals, but in the culture of performative moral purity, with extreme social consequences for failure, where that purity is defined primarily by sixteen year olds.
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Treebeard:
- there are only so many hours in the goddamn day
- serves you mushrooms of suspect providence
- no seriously, what happened to your ex wife? You “lost” her? I’m gonna need you to be a lot more specific, bud
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Last by special request, Thorin:
- historical figure he relates to most is Lord Byron
- needs constant reassurance that he’s hotter than your exes
- won’t just come out and call you a gold digger, but he’s thinking it
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And I can’t really articulate that kind of despair to anyone who’s not feeling it. It’s the kind of thing that hits you randomly sometimes and you just cry or you feel numb. And then you feel ANGRY, because your parents were supposed to preserve your future.
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An antihistamine and an antidepressant.
Those are the drugs? Allergy and depression meds?
I am losing my mind. Losing my fucking mind.
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Gimli:
- used to be fun but you never leave the house anymore
- if you talk during a football game you’re dead to him
- enormous family who won’t stop asking when you’re going to have kids
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Pippin
- secret artistic side kinda not making up for what a clown he is
- caves instantly to peer pressure
- you can’t leave him unsupervised for like a second
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Boromir
- horrible combination of inferiority complex and fragile ego
- has never heard the word “no”
- really, really thinks getting married will fix your relationship problems?
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For those who aren’t sure what I’ve been talking about:
“Tenderqueers”/“Puriteens” are just words to describe a phenomenon where many young queer people have decided the reason for anti-queer discrimination is that older queers haven’t tried hard enough to assimilate
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Elrond:
- dude...that was kind of racist
- orders for you at restaurants
- never apologizes ever, for anything, even if it’s his fault
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People who claim ADHD is a fad, that it’s an invention of big pharma, or just “normal”, or burnout, to me that sound no different than anti-vaxxers. ADHD can be an absolutely life ruining disability when it’s severe.
Please talk to one single adult who has ADHD. I beg you.
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Frodo:
- doe-eyed schtick is getting tired
- complete layabout who’s never worked a day in his life
- estimation of his own moral superiority is somehow both unshakeable and totally unearned
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Merry
- complete burn out
- banter is fun only until you realize your entire relationship is based on antagonism
- he is going to get you into serious trouble one day
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The Witch King
- despite obvious predilection for gender-bending, doesn’t respect anyone else’s pronouns
- listens to screamo at ear splitting volumes
- won’t post photos of you together on Insta bc you’re bad for his aesthetic
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I really think the reason I prefer “queer” to “LGBTQIA2s+” is that the former is a transgressive philosophical framework for looking at the world, and the latter is a political marriage of convenience and consumer demographic. There’s a reason TERFs and biphobes hate “queer”
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Bilbo:
- allergic to fun
- thinks you need to “broaden your horizons” so he wants you to read Kerouac
- Calls himself a self-made man even though he inherented the house
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We just won’t get *as much* life, our life expectancy is already shorter, and global inaction being spearheaded by Boomers is likely to shorten it even more. And with the advent of the internet, we’re expected to be reachable and work more hours.
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Haldir:
- on again, off again bc he lives for drama
- backhanded compliments
- influencer who keeps mining your relationship for content
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The first captain dies sacrificing himself trying to protect the rest of the crew. When Ripley takes over, nobody is sexist about it, they just listen to her immediately. Lambert is more anxious than Ripley, but nobody calls her hysterical or mocks her for it.
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Extremely weird to call him “ll Duce” instead of “Benito Mussolini”, because lowkey every fucking architecture account on this site is run by a fascist trying to convince us that fascism is good for the arts, actually.
It isn’t.
A futurist bust of Il Duce in the Wolfsonian collection. Apologies I dont know who by
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With the economic crash that hit us just as we left the nest, we’re unlikely—no matter how hard we work—to ever financially recover, and retirement feels like a fantasy for most of us. Our taxes will pay for your social security, but nobody’s securing ours.
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Denethor:
- terrible table manners
- no
- why would you ever?
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Funny story: I was messaged by a dude on a dating app who had like “looking for a partner to survive the apocalypse” so I humoured him. I asked “what actual survival skills do you have?”
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Wormtongue
- 100% gaslighting you
- has never changed the sheets, ever
- “Name five of their songs, poseur”
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Isildur
- more of an ill-advised fling you had on vacation
- works in investment banking
- turns out he’s married
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Gollum:
- he is definitely going to steal your wallet one of these days
- does not want you to have any friends
- will not stop talking about himself in the third person
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You SOLD our future, it’s hard not to be overwhelmed with fury and resentment and disappointment every moment of the day. It’s hard to have a good relationship with your elders under these circumstances, and given the opportunity to make things right, you’re using it to guilt us
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Any mfers come at me this June with “omg I saw your midriff in public, and that’s literally sexual assault 😭”? Congrats. You’re a fucking collaborator who enabled this “don’t say gay” nonsense by conflating being visibly queer in public with child endangerment, and fuck you.
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Like some of y’all saw that the protagonist was a woman and then flattened all the nuance out of the screenplay. It’s like you saw this groundbreaking film about a future where women are respected and valued, and then wrote some fanfic where the male characters are dumb and bad.
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People live in cities because there are more rental units. People live in cities because public transit is better, and mobility is easier. People live in cities because small towns are generally hostile to queer folks and immigrants. This isn’t rocket science
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Like he went from a tornado to a laser beam. He graduated with honours and went on to study engineering. He was no shit an actual genius, but without treatment he was heading down a very dark route. I was 100% convinced of how vital stimulant medications can be for some people
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Theoden:
- daddy dom well dried up
- not worth having to sit through another monologue about how “music today is all beeps and boops”
- performance in off-broadway production of Hamlet left a lot to be desired
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We just have *less life* than you do, and it’s a life of poverty and exploitation with little hope for reward or even basic comfort, and you want us to feel bad or melodramatic or lazy for trying to turn things around?
Absolutely not. I want more life, fucker.
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My roommate sent me a “meme” and now I have to sit down
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At that point you’re faced with three options: turn the system upside-down at every possible opportunity so we have a chance for something better, submit and be miserable, or fucking die right now and save ourselves a lot of heartache.
Frankly, be grateful we chose option one
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You honestly have to love a guy who tweets about the just banal, average every day horrors of capitalism as if they’re a new invention he’s very proud of.
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Anyone who thinks their most valuable skill in a post apocalypse is the ability to do harm has already told you everything you need to know about them, I’d steer clear, personally.
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Let’s call it what it is: it’s not an eviction ban, it’s an eviction postponement.
Without a rent freeze, and enshrined legal protection for renters from retaliating landlords, the end of lockdown will be the beginning of an unprecedented wave of evictions and homelessness
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Stigmatizing kink is absolutely part in parcel of the corporatization of Pride. It should be about the radical acceptance of all queer folks, including the ones the mainstream don’t deem respectable—including sex workers, who did the work so you could have rainbow Oreos.
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Now is the time for tenderqueers stop giving a shit about respectability and get on the pride is a protest train challenge, or we’re all fucked.
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Dear boomers, before you talk to me like I’m a lazy, lost goddamn child, I’d kindly like to point out that I’m a 34 year old professional with a white collar full time job, who still does not enjoy any financial stability whatsoever.
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In Star Wars canon an immobile monster evolved to live under a desolate wasteland, surviving on prey that wanders into it, digesting over the course of thousands of years by expending energy keeping its food alive, breaking the laws of thermodynamics, but this demands explanation
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One day, he surprised us by getting an ADHD diagnosis and starting on medication. We were all sceptical, but when I tell you how immediate and shocking the transformation was, I kind of can’t overstate it. And he seemed so relieved, not a different person, just more on the ball
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And I love how many deeply depressed, hopeless replies from people my age in this thread still aren’t enough to convince any of you that there’s a problem.
Also, spare me, cause when you were 35, it wasn’t 15 degrees C in late December. In Toronto.
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People with ADHD are almost 75% more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes, for example, because we often forget to eat, or struggle with binge eating bc it’s a source of dopamine—which our brains don’t produce in adequate supply, which is also linked to depression and Parkinson’s
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BDSM requires consent.
BDSM requires consent.
BDSM requires consent.
Girl shut up you don't know what ur talking about.
Sincerely,
A sub
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I have very inattentive ADHD by contrast, and it never interfered with my grades (though most teachers have accused me of being a slacker, and I also skipped and often didn’t do my homework) so I flew under the radar. It took me a lot longer to course correct
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The fact that a queer body is considered inherently more sexual just existing than a cishet body.
The fact that a straight couple in a children’s show is fine, but a queer couple requires “difficult conversations”
These stem from the same bigoted perspective.
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And that shouldn’t even sound like some unthinkable, radical shit, prior to the Bush administration ICE and Homeland did not exist
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In fact, abandoning ship is originally Lambert’s idea, and Ripley talks her down. She insists that they should stay and try to fight the alien, then spends the third act trying to save the cat while Lambert and Parker get murdered.
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But being Rob fucking sucked. He was on the verge of failing out, not because he had no ambitions, but because he just couldn’t function. He wasn’t a bad person, in fact he was extraordinarily kind, but he was always in trouble. He skipped more class than he attended.
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People with untreated ADHD are also statistically more likely to struggle with addiction, over spending, and anger issues—including violent outbursts. This isn’t because we’re bad people, it’s because RSD can be a very serious symptom people may not even know they have.
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“Why do we always have money for war but not (social programs)?”
Like, people are so close to understanding that genocide is enormously profitable for the ruling class and social programs are not, but they want to believe it’s ignorance or GOP interference—it’s just capitalism.
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Ripley is a bit cold and overconfident, that’s great characterization and Weaver plays her so well. She’s very flawed, she makes bad choices sometimes, but you sympathize. This is true of all the characters except Ash, who thinks of everyone else as expendable.
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Artists who won’t talk about their influences are just concealing their influences, it’s not like they don’t exist. Most of the writers I’m in community with love to talk about the writers who inspire them…JK talks about herself as if she were a divinely inspired genius lmao
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Can you grow and preserve food? Do you know first aid? Do you know how to maintain a vehicle? Are you good at logistics? Mediation? Engineering? What do you bring to the table?
He said “well I own a lot of knives”—oh so cool, you just want a legitimate excuse to be violent.
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Once again:
The fact that the conservatives want a police state with broad powers to surveil, enter and seize property, and make arrests with minimal accountability, but ONLY when it happens to other people is not “hypocrisy”, it’s just how authoritarianism works.
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He listens to her and then dies immediately.
I’m not trying to knock alien or Ripley, but is my favourite horror film because she’s allowed to be a character, not an avatar of perfect, infallible womanhood.
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My hottest mental health take is that we’ve overblown the impact of genetics on anxiety and depression, because the alternative would mean recognizing that child abuse is so normalized.
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And he was just…fucking, a lot. He was profoundly smart and did terribly at school. He was intensely impulsive and was beginning to struggle with alcohol, he was loud and brash and energetic, didn’t seem to be constrained by any rules or afraid of any consequences.
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I remember once at a house party, he went into the bathroom with a girl and we all assumed they were having sex, but instead when they came out he suddenly and inexplicably had a mohawk. We didn’t pathologize his behaviour, we were all envious—he was fun, he gave zero fucks
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Like say what you will about Stephen King, the man reads. He writes reviews, he blurbs books, he discusses his influences in the forward to almost every novel he’s published—he puts other writers in the spotlight whenever he can.
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Just to add—yeah, I wasn’t diagnosed until last year. I was 34. This is the first time in my life where I feel like a capable adult.
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The sheer variety of ways it can impact your relationships, career prospects, finances and physical health are kind of staggering.
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If you love Prometheus (or if you wish it was better) may I strenuously suggest:
Ridley Scott’s Raised by Wolves, which is just…haunting and wonderful and bleak and gorgeous.
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It’s almost like it’s super troubling that a brand with puritanical social values is also the leading producer of the media we consume
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