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Let’s Call Villains “Villains”

If Lord of the Rings was published today, Sarumann would get the Joker treatment and have thirst edits go viral.

Production of more art and beauty cannot serve as the only available response to art and beauty around us.

by Noah Keene | Jan 14, 2025 | 0 comments

You and I likely were taught the same things about masculinity growing up.

I’m homesick for a time when people were just people, not layers of complicated emotions and traumas and hopes and expectations.

We walked a lot of the year, including the winter.

I’ve gotten much better at enjoying things.

When I see these things in a real bookstore, I could be convinced there’s a conspiracy afoot.

But to me, endings have always been quiet.

You can’t predict the revolution based on a single incident—sorry TikTok astrology gurus.

While nearly everything we see is not reducible to merely perceptual phenomena, all of it is at a minimum a perceptual phenomena.