i think a lot as i get older about Milton’s read on Hell as being the person you make yourself into, brick by brick, until you have to dwell inside that person that you made of yourself forever
KOKO: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
@Coelasquid there's a really good This American Life story about a woman who had a letter-writing romance with a prison inmate, how they got together once the guy's sentence was up, and how clear it was that exactly this had been happening with their letters. super easy to fall into i think!
"You should never mock someone for mispronouncing something, because it means they learned it by reading," I say, after calling Malcolm X "Malcolm the Tenth".
"what happens next" operates at such a high level of character building, narrative structuring and pure storytelling and it's insane. you should give max some money so he can continue to make my favorite prestige television show that's actually a comic
@samreich the "Oberon's Huntsmen", in which a knight diagonally equidistant between two bishops may be declared kidnapped by fairies. he re-enters play ten moves later, but is culturally alienated from the other pieces thanks to social advancements that have occurred in his absence.
@JoyceCarolOates media that allows us to socialise cross-continent is good. "social media" - ads, algorithms, and outrage for clicks run by increasingly paranoid tech barons - is a nightmare. my two cents!