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Can’t stop thinking about the TikTok I saw (I can’t find it again) where the person says that the wizard game has caused us to witness the moment that most of the millennial generation migrate into the boomer mindset of “my nostalgia is more important than your rights”

kevin hense

have you yet had the cognitive dissonance that comes with learning that Jon Pertwee was an actual spy in WWII or have you not yet had that pleasure

i HAVE and it's so funny - imagine being a real life British spy and, posthumously, your most recognized achievement is playing a gay science magician on children's television

it's what he would have wanted

“Feed on what you will. Rats, chickens, poodles, I’ll leave you to it and watch you come around. But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable” Tom Cruise as Lestat de Lioncourt in Interview With The Vampire (1994), dir. Neil Jordan

“The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I” from Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Willy Pogany (1910)

The Abduction of Ganymede, 1612, by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

I used to read a lot on my free time. I have lots of books which I don’t have time to read. now I spend all my time going through pathology textbooks. my goal in life lately is to have time. to have time to take long walks and to read books that I love the most. maybe in 10 years.

Me: Did you know that medieval cathedrals weren't actually supposed to be dark and rundown places with only stained glass as color? They were bright places full of light... the reason they look like that now is because of the centuries of accumulated grime and dust, here look at this restoration of the Cathedral of Chartres in France:

It's based on actual paint from the times, and when you think about it, it makes a lot more sense, after all a church is supposed to be a bright place of hope. Yet when we think about the middle ages we think about grimy and dark cathedrals. I wonder how much of our conception of history is shaped by our current visions of historical buildings.

My Goth GF: listen, I don't think this thing between us is working,