saw someone misspell “stochastic terror” as “socratic terror” so I’d like to clarify that stochastic terror is the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act that seems random but is not, while “socratic terror” is what every athenian felt when they went down to the agora in the 5th century and saw an old man with a beard approaching them
Socratic terror is when you get cold called in law school
the universal experience of beginning ‘pride and prejudice’ (2005) with the opinion that matthew macfadyen as mr darcy is perfectly tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt you and ending it bewitched, body and soul.
i love dread in a story i love hurtling towards something terrible and wanting to stop but the only way to find out what happens is to keep getting closer to it
2023: missives from desktop tumblr suggest that per the latest update my mutuals are being hunted by some kind of grotesque clown. staff assure us this is driven by user feedback.
