Stuff I’m Watching

  • Upstart Crow: My new Favorite Thing; thank you, British Television Industry, for giving me this gift. A winking, retro-sitcom reimagining of Shakespeare’s life, it turns Will into a harried-but-dedicated family man with a horrible London-to-Stratford commute, Christopher Marlow into a gregarious, talentless, heterosexual rake who occasionally rips off Will’s work, and Robert Green into a high-born, officious, Elizabethan derivative of Sallieri from Amadeus.
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Can a top be taught emotional sadism, or is it something innate you just have to keep searching for?

I honestly don’t know. I can say I was taught, but not in a fashion I’d recommend.

I was introduced to the concept as a little kid, by an older girl who confided to me about her father’s special hobbies. Beyond the abusive sexuality and Super 8 reels that were de rigueur for ‘70s perverts, he seemed to take great care in crushing her spirit and controlling her mind.… Read the rest “Can a top be taught emotional sadism, or is it something innate you just have to keep searching for?”

I love u daddy but if u ever talk badly about Evan Peters again I will come to ur house and fight u 🌸

(Someone’s been deep-diving the blog.)

I’ll try to be kinder to Evan. Note that I haven’t said a word about his… expertly layered and subtle performance in AHS: Hotel. Nor about his… understandable and wholly relatable inability to manage the violent outbursts of a five foot tall toothpick with a dye job.… Read the rest “I love u daddy but if u ever talk badly about Evan Peters again I will come to ur house and fight u 🌸”