Thinking about how I was told, once, that the original myth of the zombie was rooted in fear of personhood being so stripped from enslaved people that even death wasn't an escape from servitude.
Just a useful body without a soul, working for the benefit of an infinite greed.
Horses (2025, Santa Ragione)
actual wolf: let's sleep in a pile tonight
idiot guy: *reads a book called Based Stoicism: Marcus Aurelius On Defeating Wokeness*
my favorite example of this are all the stories, essays, and tv show episodes that seem to think Omelas is a math problem of some kind
(Talking on the phone on the bus) mom I told you, the only way I’m detransitioning is if I get turned into tails the fox. Yeah from sonic. Mhm. No, full identity death. I don’t care if it’s problematic, who taught you that word?