And It's Good To Be Alive, Crying Into Cereal At Midnight.

And it's good to be alive, crying into cereal at midnight.

Florence + the Machine, “Girls Against God,” 2022

““I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as written by total fanboys and fangirls as a kind of worshipful act, but a lot of times you’ll read these stories and it’ll be like ‘What if Star Trek had an openly gay character on the bridge?’ And of course the point is that they don’t, and they wouldn’t, because they don’t have the balls, or they are beholden to their advertisers, or whatever. There’s a powerful critique, almost punk-like anger, being expressed there—which I find fascinating and interesting and cool.””

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Lev Grossman

When I decided to wage holy war It looked very much like staring at my bedroom floor

Florence + the Machine, “Girls Against God,” 2022.

i don’t remember you

I think all political jobs all the way up to the president should only be allowed to earn their country’s minimum wage the entire time they work in politics. Also they should get only 1 week’s vacation per year and have to pay for their own food and gas. The white house should charge them rent.

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