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Casual cruelty was bred within us
Content warning: Discussions of bodies and potentially triggering language, images of tabloids body shaming celebrities from the 00s. Discussions of CSA in relation to To Catch a Predator.
A few weeks ago, the New York Times published its list of the Best Television Shows of the 21st Century, and while people felt there were some omissions, the list was pretty solid. With these things, the top ten tend to be the same across p...
On Verity, eroticism, and thrillers that don’t thrill
Verity (2026) broke my brain a bit.
We want it to be otherwise, but it cannot be: the people we might have been live a different, phantom life than the people we are.
Cheryl Strayed
Minor spoilers for Exit Party. Mild plot/thematic spoilers for Fringe and Dark Matter. Spoi...
A few months ago, the internet declared that Lizzo was a flop. I grew up on Stan Twitter: while they do indeed love to decide that people are flops, flopping, or Khias (a truly cruel term named after the singer Khia, but now completely deta...
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