To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)
Cowboys Rookie Called ‘Dark Horse Candidate’ to Crack Starting Lineup https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/rookie-shemar-james-crack-starting-lineup/?adt_ei=[email]
Live Updates: Israel and Iran Launch Another Round of Missiles at Each Other (Reuters)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/world/israel-iran-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p74#a250614p74
diese #sketchnotes von Nadine Roßa können v.a. für #münsteraner:innen interessant sein: sie drehen sich rund ums #fahrrad! :)
Once again, the fucking suits ruined what could have been a perfectly fine game, and the devs and players are the ones that got blamed for its "poor performance".
Report: Veilguard's late pivot from live service spelled doom for Dragon Age sequel sales
htt…
To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.
Cowboys' 1st-round rookie working to flatten learning curve of life in NFL https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/16/cowboys-rookie-tyler-booker-quotes/84233439007/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Randy Newman:
🎵 I Love L.A.
#RandyNewman
https://goosepimple.bandcamp.com/track/i-love-l-a-randy-newman-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4r8VUJ0NMV1P7jd3RLz4YQ
Auch dieses Jahr streamen wir alle Runden der #dem25 live über https://twitch.tv/schachjugend
Jede Runde wird euch Katharina Reinecke durch den Stream begleiten. Dabei erfährt Sie Unterstützung von wec…
Rand Paul is invited to the White House picnic, after all (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/12/congress/white-house-picnic-invites-00402752
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p113#a250612p113