Jolts Upright I've Just Had A Realization. How Much Did Atsushi Think About When Akutagawa Died? How

tma is a show which spends the first 100 episodes going "look at these monsters. aren't they fucked up. yeah and they're all so happy being monsters who hurt people monstrously" and then the protagonist who you've spent hours listening to at this point becomes one of those fucked up monsters, forcing you to either dismiss him as evil or you have to fully change how you view all the previous monsters. and then they spend the next 100 episodes dealing with that

blasphemous transgender art NOW

Thinking back to the time I was about halfway through TMA and was explaining the plot to a friend who has never listened to a single episode and they tried to make one of those "Soup was invented by John Soup when he wanted to drink a chicken" jokes and ended up saying something along the lines of "The Magnus Institute was created by John Magnus when he wanted to make an institute for all the fears" and at the time I was like haha good one bro but in hindsight I think I need to fucking throngle them with my bare hands

So when trans people take chemicals that radically change their body in order to live happier and freer lives it’s fine. but when I, Henry Jekyll—

needed to clip just this part of the interview bcus it’d the funniest 25 seconds of all time

Gil Prates Rio de Janeiro, 1980

Young people in Amsterdam at the Monument on Dam Square (1973). Photo by Bert Verhoeff.

patti smith throwing sandwiches at a journalist after he criticized her lengthy songs

Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity