this will actually make me shed a tear we’ll never have such an evil perfect miserable awful messy coke-ridden alcoholic narracistic friend group on tv like this ever again
Forever thinking about the women in The Odyssey:
- Penelope willing to let her kingdom crumble because she wants her man back. Real.
- Calypso meeting a man so fine she allows his CPTSD to continue so he never leaves her. Real.
- Circe hating all men because of the evil they have done so takes exposing them into her own hands. Real
- Athena haunting a man so bad his brain breaks until he can understand the error of his ways. Real
- Helen not letting people forget they were using her as excuse to move mad but are too cowardly to admit it. Real.
Greece is closer to Africa than Dallas is to Austin, but illiterate C students who barely skimmed the Cliff Notes version of The Odyssey in HS, who wouldn't be able to point out Greece on a map, and who fundamentally don't understand the concept of artistic license, are triggered
I do think people 25 and under should watch early Vanderpump rules not because it proves elder millennials were so great and had superior culture (let’s be honest it potentially proves the opposite, back to the days when every girl owned 40 15 dollar chunky statement necklaces) but that it shows there was this completely different culture pre 2016 that was eradicated utterly in the midst of cataclysmic social upheaval and there’s value in remembering a pre polarization era where there was kind of broad optimism and earnestness coupled with a trashy sleazy youth culture that was significantly more permissive than what exists now. Like everyone in those first couple of seasons would be immediately canceled now weekly for the things they said and did on tv.
Richard Gere: “Trump uses the same words that Hitler did. Calls them vermin. They’re not vermin. These are human beings. I’ve met them. He’s never met a refugee or a migrant. These are human beings like us who are usually running from a fire of one kind or another”
Hunter Biden: “I look at Zohran Mamdani and I go: there’s a leader. He made promises and you know what he did? He kept them. He’s lowering rent, he’s building co-op grocery stores, pre-kindergarten. That’s all people care about. He’s really, really good”