Cardinal Bear

Look, the ones who idolise Bateman have gotta be the funniest of all. My guy was defeated by restaurant reservations.

Imagine being a warmongering neocon right now.

The people on the right who say they hate you got into power. And they’re still fulfilling your dreams. You’d feel like your worldview is inescapable at this point.

I get that some people prefer the wild Brontes to the domestic Austen as a matter of taste, but Austen helped to make the novel what it has been for the past few hundred years.

Even if you do pigeonhole her, you’re still left with her huge influence on generation after generation of women writers. That influence helped cement space for women in literature. That’s altering the course of literature, ya dingus.

Joyce Carol Oates responding to a tweet that says: The Beatles changed music forever. Jane Austen did not alter the course of literature for everyone who followed.

Everything is gender but especially this.

Jane Austen’s works were key to the return to realism. She made major contributions to what novels are. She was not just one of the first to use free indirect speech but also one of the best. There is a ridiculous level of realism and art in her novels.

Pokemon text: Silent Hill.

If I was a left wing person in the US with any sort of viable reputation, I would simply not potentially throw it away to support a Nazi guy, with Nazi tattoos, who goes on Nazi podcasts to speak Nazi-ly.

Just my opinion as someone who isn’t a dumbass.

a woman says how 's that going while holding her hand to her face ALT: a woman says how 's that going while holding her hand to her face

Anyone else remember when Tulsi Gabbard was campaigning to be president? And you couldn't call her out without some random dude with a throbbing hard-on telling you she was anti-war and you were a filthy warmonger?

Oh god I hated that. The comments under that post apparently had their share of ‘actually her mum is responsible for breaking up families’ too. 🙃

Tweet: sidney prescott has been targeted by 12 (TWELVE) different serial killers ... girl at some point YOU'RE the problem

Umm Sidney Prescott symbolises liberal democracy. That’s why people keep trying to kill her. But she keeps winning.

I guess I just understand film better than everyone.

Convinced the only way I can get younger people to understand how bad Heathcliff becomes in the novel is to let them know he’s a landlord.

For the unfamiliar, Miranda Devine has, among other things in the past, tweeted defamatory statements about a young Indigenous boy with dwarfism, insisting he was an adult actor.

I don’t show pipe, sorry.

Anyway congrats to Bluesky to moving past "disabled people shouldn't be allowed out of the house"/"Black people should just tolerate hearing slurs in public" and finally arriving at the god tier conclusion of "British institutions are evil and must be held accountable for their sins"

The Tourette’s discourse is giving me flashbacks to when Americans on Twitter discovered that First Peoples of Australia call themselves ‘black’.

The amount of ‘well maybe you should’ve educated me while I was dismissing you’ that goes around.

Those Narnia books really go from

‘Here is a little guy with goat legs and a scarf, and he’s carrying gifts. Just a cute little guy.’

to

‘The world is ending, embrace the Jesus Lion!’

Terfs trying to claim Murdoch will never cease to amaze me btw.

The philosopher who famously rebuked a dominant behaviourist picture for neglecting the inner life is not the one you look to for confirmation that gender identity is too internal to be verified.

In light of terfs attacking Olivia Colman for describing herself as a gay man to her husband, I’d just like to add she’s in good company:

None other than THE Iris Murdoch had a similar feeling about herself.

Tomorrow is the 1st day of Ramadan. To stay strong during your fast, look to Harry Styles for inspiration. He's an expert at not eating. (Followed by images of Styles in which he has not ‘ate’)

This has the sound of a headshot in a Resident Evil game.

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
And they’re like, ‘Is this your yard?’ And I’m like, ‘No I rent the place.’
And they’re like, ‘Okay we won’t make a mess then.’

would you take a magazine from him?

If I have one gripe, it’s the necklace reveal coming early rather than in the final act.

But it’s such a minor flaw next to what you’re left with and the beauty of the bridge shots and the Bernard Hermann score and that horrific and memorable ending. Come on. Watch it.

Don’t care about Tarantino.

But if you’ve never seen Vertigo, it’s a film where the setting (San Francisco) is a character in the film. And it keeps returning to its same motifs but they’re never quite the same, because it’s mimicking the main character’s returning obsession.

Smug animal. Because I know better.

‘I read Wuthering Heights and hate everyone in it!’

Okay. You are literate. But are you morally intelligent?

It’s true. He does. And gay kissing.

People calling this dystopian are wrong.

It’s creepypasta.

There is literally a ‘My Dead Girlfriend Keeps Messaging Me on Facebook’ creepypasta of this.

@starfallrefuge: turning a girl who 1) escapes heathcliff's horrific abuse, 2) becomes a single mother after marital rape, 3) finds inner strength and does relatively well despite being manipulated and abandoned by her entire support system... into Consensual Pet Play... is certainly a decision. vox lex @gretagerwigflew: she absolutely TORE in wuthering heights omg (picture of the actress from Wuthering Heights playing Isabella, she is acting like a pup)

It’s an *interesting* choice. I can see how ‘I’m gonna make the abuse victim *like it* to reclaim her power’ works for someone superficially.

But I think folks into pup play and kinks like it deserve better. Connecting their kinks to toxic abuse isn’t very positive. Bigots do that to them.

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And that’s the that of the that on that thatoretical thatness.