love being an mcr fan. other people have to turn to fanfic to see their favs suffer like this and meanwhile we get to see it happening live on a full arena tour
To all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.
— Patricia Highsmith, Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995 (W.W. Norton & Company, 2021
a dynamic that is literally always fun is guy who’s kind of brainwashed to obey all orders x guy who cares very deeply about this person, and doesn’t really like having that kind of power.
it’s kind of adjacent to dynamics that are like, Divine/avatar (for lack of a better word), except imagine if this kind of power fell to your Average Joe.
it is objectively crazy to be coy about how much oil I’m using for this curry filling, when I’m making fucking vetkoek.
logging off has not, in fact, taught me that there’s a secret whole world of people who don’t feel a certain shitty way about certain miserable things. but my brother doesn’t feel that way and he’s worth 8 billion+ of everyone else, so it all evens out in the end.