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I feel like no material or digital record exists of a website that only I can remember: lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber dot com (not the tumblr account, which popped up later)

thinking about: PTA's Sad Gay Loser canon

When Buttigieg finally gives up on becoming the president he’s going to find so much success running a masculine voice training academy for gay men

I like to say that I overcame my lifelong hoarding compulsion sometime after finishing my dissertation on the topic (as represented in literature) but then I also have 291,357 (this is the actual number) images saved on my phone, so I think it probably just evolved a bit

the three parts of a "sign," as articulated by Saussure, are the signified, the signifier, and the signifiest

Add this to the New England aggression archives and file it under “taunting things as they die, subcategory: snow”

so my understanding based on recent observation is that a large swath of too-online teenagers interact with media primarily in the form of picking which actor or singer they like in a cast or group and then dedicating the rest of their lives to plaguing that person's coworkers

a really good way to get me to take someone seriously is for them to use the term "gnostic" all the time. it clues me in that their brain has NOT been boiled into a soggy pile of wet paper by the internet

broke: the gayest Beatles song is "You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away" woke: it's "She Loves You"

this is still the realest thing ever said about america

there should be some sort of tacit but socially powerful expectation of ritual seppuku for people who lose presidential elections

every once in a while C.S. Lewis really knocks it out of the park, here on Shakespeare's sonnets

Europe jockeying hard to maintain its position as America’s Vacation Colony, deeply embarrassing stuff

Reading heart of darkness in 65 degree weather in front of a tree branch that was snapped during the historic blizzard two weeks ago as lingering piles of snow melt rapidly by my feet

It’s more dignified to whack it at a peep show then whatever the fuck this is

museum curators describing literally any portrait of a woman: she boldly meets the viewer's eye, confronting our gaze

I just think it's neat that Shakespeare decided to cap off his career in theatre by writing the only honest poems ever written

I think of that clavicular kid as a kind of sin-eater for the neuroses of his entire generation, like the zoomers are going to burn him alive in the Wicker Man and then afterwards they'll all have normal relationships to their bodies, sexuality, each other etc.

My old art historian roommate had to read all these old German guys for her degree whereas I have to read all these old French guys: the is the real divide within the humanities

Comically over-ambitious to try this in Rhode Island (I have seen every single person who lives in this state with my own two eyes)

to understand Liza Minnelli, as a concept, you have to remember that she’s literally the child of a homosexual man and Judy Garland -- basically, the gay Kwisatz Haderach

Hi, I’m Johnny Knoxville and welcome to Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom!

funnily enough, I wasn't a big fan of Hamnet but I do feel a bit defensive of an aspect of the film that seems to have drawn a lot of criticism: Agnes's "naive" reaction to the theatre

Older faculty member made a joke to me about how college students probably don’t even remember 9/11 any more and I was just like Right so our college freshmen were born in 2008, actually.

it's incredible how Evangelicalism has produced literally nothing of value in any arena of culture

Yes Fear Shakespeare

I can tell at a glance who has and who hasn't had the humiliating but formative experience of walking through Hot Topic with their parents as a teenager

(Anglican guy at the tavern in 1620 or so) very well—what say you to this: Catholic son or Dissenter daughter?

"The decision to enlist in the army is shaped by historical, material circumstances beyond an individual's control and so you can't" -- first of all, literally all decisions are shaped by historical and material circumstances that are outside of our control

early modern queer theory from the past 15 years or so tries so hard to overcome any sexual specificity implied by the term "sodomite" to make it mean something like "general antisocial activity" and then you look at their examples and it's always someone who just happens to have been fucking dudes

can I be honest with you all, I went into Heated Rivalry in the pose of D.A. Miller contemptuously viewing Call Me By Your Name (his review of that film belongs in some hater's hall of fame btw) but instead I just found it really well made and surprisingly charming lol

I have never needed a cigarette more in my life but I’m stuck at home because of snow and all I have is a 5-year old cigar that I might just be desperate enough to smoke

you know what, I genuinely wasn't expecting the Feist needle drop in HR episode 3

I cannot describe in words how I felt when I woke up and saw that it was snowing again but I did lie back down and cancel all my classes for today from my phone

I think it’d be really funny if Pedro Pascal isn’t gay but just has a very Victorian attitude about male friendship

I won’t read any of these think-pieces on “fujoshi culture” because of my firm belief that I personally was put on this earth to interpret and explain this specific phenomenon. It doesn’t mean that I will, though.

Reports are in from Rhode Island: fuck this!!

I do genuinely feel for all the girls and young women who got really into hockey these past few months and made fan pages and shirts and edits and nicknames and joked about the "boy aquarium" just to be so abruptly reminded that the average hockey player deserves, at best, to die in a gulag

seeing a real revival of the old "these fascists are all gay!" line and once again begging everyone to read Eve Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet

Perhaps, someday, I will be in a good position to think deeply about and identify the specific psychological drives and energies that I sublimated into figure skating spectatorship in the past week. But that day is not today.

Lately whenever a conversation starts to lag l've been saying "so cabbage is having a moment, huh?" and each time the other person goes "yeah I've been hearing that."

I really like this stanza in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis because it imbues an image right out of the Loony Toons or Spongebob with some genuine pathos (she's just found his corpse, mangled by a boar)

He looks like every Francis Bacon painting combined

I watched Hamnet and it's a well made movie but I also fundamentally agree with the Ian McKellen line -- every "Shakespeare's life" movie feels compelled to collapse his works into his biography under the logic of "inspiration"

just watched Ella McCay and I loved the bold and experimental choice to film the whole movie in Providence except for the two brief scenes set in a "local pizza place" that is inexplicably in New Orleans

Hamnet is simply none of my business

the funniest and darkest scene in Wuthering Heights, skipped by all film adaptations that cut out the second generation, is when Hindley drunkenly drops his baby over the bannister and Heathcliff catches him by accident and goes "oops" because he wants the kid dead

I have no problem with the anachronisms in Wuthering Heights because any adaptation is going to reflect its own historical moment and the novel's been adapted so many times that it's become a historical Rorschach test anyway -- Fennell knows this is the "2026 Wuthering Heights"