It Hurts

Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet did that.

Bob's Burgers ❤🍔

As a diabetic in a country where I do have access to insulin (more afordable than the US, but still a lot of extra money for me) I cannot wrap my head around how this is okay.

fyi things like insulin, hearing aids, wheelchairs, glasses costing money at all is a form of structural ableism

i think the difference between the barbie's treatment of ken's in barbieland vs the ken's treatment of barbie's in kendom can be summed up pretty easily actually:

barbie's ignored ken, realistically they were given an opportunity to have their own lives and do what they wanted and they didn't do it. everything revolved around their barbie's, ken would only have a good day if barbie did or if barbie acknowledged him. they never tried to do anything they genuinely wanted to.

whereas when the ken's took over, they brainwashed the barbie's into liking them and doing things for them. they would bring them beers and act like waitresses, give them foot massages or watch films they otherwise wouldn't be interested in. they became mindless and existed to serve the ken's. they were no longer just friends with the barbie's, they didn't want barbie to love them back, they wanted to own them.

people talking about ken falling down the patriarchy pipeline out of neglect or loneliness but why couldn't the ken's form friendships and communities like the barbie's did? why is it up to barbie to ensure that ken doesn't feel that way? at what point is it acceptable to blame barbie for ken's feelings? barbie let ken come to her party, watched him beach, held him whilst he went to the hospital, agreed to let him go on her journey, says hi to him when she sees him, things friends do and things she's shown doing with all the other barbie's, but if he still feels loneliness after that because she doesn't want to kiss him or doesn't love him back, why is that barbie's fault? meanwhile the entire time ken is ignoring other ken's out of his fixation on barbie and is even trying to "beach" other ken's off and causing problems with other ken's to gain barbie's attention

to me it's the perfect representation of the real world in the sense that women will leave men alone, men will want to own women, and women will be blamed for men's neglect and loneliness but it's a paper cage they create for themselves because they refuse to see women as individuals and arguably they don't actively try to create and nurture communities in the same way women do. ken's story is sad yes, but it's a story of his own design and what makes it worse is that he blames barbie for it. not himself, not mattel, no the real world but barbie, who's friendly disinterest in him means that she should be the one who is blamed and punished

Pretty much me...

Read like Julian Morrow's students

Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Nietzsche, Epigraph

Republic, Book II by Plato, Epigraph

Tom Swift by Victor Appleton,

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth

The New Testament

Agamemnon by Aeschylus

Oresteia by Aeschylus

Inferno by Dante

Poetics by Aristotle

The Iliad by Homer

The Bacchae by Euripides

Parmenides by Plato

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

Rover Boys by Edward Stratemeyer

Journey from Chester to London by Thomas Pennant

The Club History of London by ?

The Pirates of Penzance by W.S. Gilbert

Bobbsey Twins by Laura Lee Hope

Marino Faliero by Lord Byron

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Sherlock Homes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Mémoires by Duc de Saint-Simon

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Othello by Shakespeare

The World Book Encyclopedia

Men of Thought and Deed by E. Tipton Chatsford

Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up by J. M. Barrie

The Divine Comedy by Dante

Superman Comics

The Upanishads

Perry Mason Novels by Erle Stanley Gardner

With Rue my Heart is Laden by A.E. Housman

Lycidas by John Milton

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Malcontent by John Marston

The White Devil by John Webster

The Broken Heart by John Ford, epilogue epigraph

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Dido, Henry Fuseli - 1781

Sure would be a shame if this got spread around and he lost his job 💅🏽

Autism and Phone Calls

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