"You know how to ball, I know aristotle" Taylor I think if you actually knew anything about Aristotle you would not say this

why do i ponder about the universe when i get wasted, i just want to have fun 😔😔😔

Locke: If land is not used to its full potential, then its considered waste and one should take over the territory to use it properly

Ppl: But we still respect common land and land left to nature right?

Locke: ...

Locke: bUt LaNd WhErE fRuIt Is LeFt To RoT (...)

and we believed ourselves when we said we’d never be alone again 🌼🌈💖

a proof of the trying times we're in that the aristotle and dante trailer came out and no one's talking about it

Drawing BBU in my style, day two

Aristotle

God I love philosophers anyone who says philosophy is boring doesn’t understand that a very large portion of philosophy books is either ‘fuck this guy he was wrong about everything’ or

my friends last year (and rhis year tbh) after hearing me go BBBHDBSUSHUSGSIWHEJSJWOWHWOWNOWBOSHAHAGQHAGQYUQYQIQHUA!1!2!2!2!2! over aristotle and dante for the 8000th time

i gotta stop going on tiktok bc i just saw a comment section that makes me want to burn my eyes out…

chat is it possible to still be a man if ur scared of men?

"Where Ari is angst and self-doubt, Dante [...] is all sweetness and light — a veritable manic pixie dream boy, down to his cutesy habit of going barefoot whenever possible."

did they just fucking call him a manic pixie dream boy i'm hollering........

that 'anti/proshipper/secret third thing (adult with job)' post annoys me for three reasons:

there's nothing radical about shaming people for being unemployed. leveraging that shame to paint both camps of an unrelated debate as equivalently irrelevant to Real Society is a dick move on a number of levels.

i really, really dislike any framing that automatically paints anyone who resists it with a derogatory brush, because that kind of shaming has a chilling effect on debate. the way that post is structured, it's essentially saying 'if you think there's anything here worth discussing, you're not only wrong but also a loser,' which immediately forces you to either accept the assertion it's making, or accept looking like a loser. (i've chosen to accept looking like a loser, as you may have been able to tell from this over-earnest over-formatted response to a snide one-liner.)

i could come up with jargon-y labels for the opposing sides of any debate that would make you dismiss it, but the issue at stake between so-called antis and so-called proshippers is fundamentally 'what impact does fiction have on its readers,' which is not actually an ephemeral debate or one that's too juvenile for serious grownups to care about; people have been having that conversation since at least aristotle, and probably longer. trying to control what people read is the province of fascists, and it is, actually, an issue that adults with jobs should care about, and have a considered stance on.

I think life and academics become more fun if you choose a long dead person to have beef with for no real reason

hi it's morning and i'm still thinking abt the ravening war

i thought i was done with reading aristotle after i’d finished my philosophy classes but. unfortunately