Catalan, ace, occasional writer and professional procastinator. Writing blog (with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fanfic mainly) is: https://deepseawritings.tumblr.com
i love vampires because they truly are just the “anything goes” monster. you can do pretty much anything you want with vampires as long as they drink blood pretty much
like, say if you want your vampires to be deathly allergic to garlic, so much that it severely weakens them via smell alone? yeah that works. you want your vampires to only get a small allergic reaction to garlic or no negative reaction at all? that works too. you want your vampire to turn into a bat? a wolf? a goddamn bear if you really want to? whatever you want. do you want the vampire to drink blood but in a sexy-poetic-sad-painting esque type of way? or do you want this vampire to drink blood and look scary like their in a horror movie while doing it, and be completely violent and fucked up looking? can they drink animal blood? only human blood? can they have the option to not have blood at all and drink milk instead? who cares! do what you want! you want your vampire to completely burn and die to any sort of sunlight at all? go ahead! it adds more stakes to the story in the right context. oh nevermind, you want your vampire to just get a bad sunburn? sure! you want a serious vampire story with a shitload of angst and drama? of course! go full on R rated! you want something fun and absolutely silly like hotel transylvania? who cares! just have fun with it!!! vampires are the litteral do whatever the hell you want monster!!
You could make this shorter by just going “I’m a thief and refuse to pay for content”. Would save you a lot of time.
I’m a thief and refuse to pay for content and i encourage everyone else to do the same! Don’t be a little bitch like chemychems and jump aboard the ship, matey!
do you ever read about clean eating and intermittent fasting and cleanses and all that shit and just think about how good the wellness industry is as repackaging dangerous and disordered eating habits as shiny wellness routines and become literally enraged
my boss was talking about how he’s intermittent fasting and i said sarcastically “well NOW it’s cool and trendy but when i was doing it they called it an eating disorder” and my partner cracked up but my boss didn’t know what to say and i’d say the look on his face was priceless as he realized the similarities
this has become such a problem that there’s a name for it - orthorexia. while it hasn’t been officially added to the dsm, there is a push being made by psychologists to make more people aware of the disorder and the dangers of “clean eating”
If there was a sci-fi novel with a megalomaniac billionaire who was the son of an Apartheid emerald mine owner, and he was privatizing space exploration so the public no longer has a say in it…you know that would be considered bad, right? The heroes would fight to stop SpaceX.
The fact that anyone considers SpaceX as anything other than a continuation of the transfer of public sector science, that was run for the public good, into the hands of billionaires is a testament to our propaganda. Having space exploration controlled by one billionaire is bad.
Remember in the 60s when rockets launched and the credit was given to the scientists and astronauts that actually made it happen?
Now it’s given to the billionaire who pillaged NASA tech and is now using it as his playground and promotion for his cars. That’s bad. SpaceX is bad.