is everyone else also getting fatigued with being entertained or am i just getting old?

Men I Trust - Ante Meridiem YouTube video by Men I Trust

what plays in a dirtbiker's head when they execute a flawless backflip

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyA8...

sidewinded by the new employee introduction email i just got that says, verbatim: "He enjoys country swing dancing, dirtbiking, and spearfishing. His favorite band is Men I Trust."

2 Kings 2:23-24

(mazzy star voice) i wanna hold the rat inside you

i dunked the upper half of my body underwater and everyone there knew you

world's buoyantest theriotype

tofu pups l

coming out with a pack of these

it's avant-garde

tinnitus......

asking me to use my turn signal is toxic surveillance culture. you want to know where i'm thinking of going before i even go there?? okay, peter thiel

actually "tony hawk" is the name of the doctor. you're thinking of tony hawk's pro skater.

oh hey, i'm one of this animal's organs

just saw the backrooms trailer and uhhh....... it's house of leaves

"new mario movie?"

no thank you :)

"it's worse than dogshit. an affront to god."

well.... when you put it that way.....

the first thing i've seen that made me want to watch mario galaxy

turns out fox planet was earth the whole time

remembering a girl from high school who used to draw foxes all the time. she told me she was a fox from a distant fox planet, in a tone that suggested she was half joking. i hope she found her way home like i did.

i forgot about it for like twenty years and just remembered it tonight lol

the only way to kill a mockingbird is by hitting it with the moon

with these actions, joann is signaling that she disagrees with barthes' essay. she doesn't believe she can be separated from the art, she believes that SHE IS the canon. if there's any moral argument from a "death of the author" angle, it's that joann sees your engagement as an endorsement of her.

but a "death of the author" essay arguing about the ethics of engaging with her franchise would get you flunked out of your lit course.

the frustrating thing is joann is a really interesting subject for death of the author! not because she's a transphobic ghoul, but because she's constantly trying to establish herself as the authoritative voice of her work from OUTSIDE the text ("dumbledor is gay", "wizards shit in hallways", etc)

barthes' essay was about literary interpretation. his philosophy was that the text itself was the authoritative source of meaning. it says nothing at all about ethics.

the final word is that if you choose not to consider your own impact, you can't be shocked when others do it for you. you can't cast a vaguely leftist toned meme like a spell to absolve yourself of someone else's judgment.

"separate the art from the artist", "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism", et al. aren't moral philosophies, they're thought-terminating cliches.

where does this "separate the art from the artist" platitude even come from? the one everyone is always using as an axiom about ethical consumption?

if you say roland barthes' "death of the author" then i'll know you haven't read it. that is NOT what that essay was about.

i opened the ad and the economy is literally mentioned in the copy lol

my friends: "where do we want to go for dinner?"

me, a duck: "what's with everyone talking about eating cracked corn out a pond lately? sounds kinds weird to me, but maybe kinda good even?? 👀 like don't shoot the messenger but i'm high key curious what the buzz is about pond corn???"