Listen, I will go to bat for Folklore and Evermore being the modern equivalent of the song cycle, but I completely agree that “greatest living lyricist“ is an absurd claim. Dessa’s last album “Bury the Lede” is very pop and has fantastic lyrics and that’s just one album!

Our release for @peculiarityshop.bsky.social was a wild success. Half the items were gone by day one. I still have three weeks to Halloween and spooky stuff I'd love to move. 20% off. LGBTQIA+ staffed and owned! www.peculiarityshop.com/halloween2025 www.peculiarityshop.com/nightborne

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

"LET HIM SPEAK!" 9" x 12" ink and watercolor on watercolor paper.

We’re doing Carmina Burana this season and I just snagged the coolest necklace to wear on stage for it! Wooooo!

Sixteen years later, still the funniest piece of writing on the internet. I revisit it every year the way some people rewatch It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown or reread A Christmas Carol. You’re either ready to reap this freaky-assed harvest or you’re not.

Link was the girl with the short skirt and the long broadsword before it was cool #cake

The blue jays are all yelling at each other outside and it is very funny to listen to. They might be chasing a hawk around

I am begging men to do this. Begging.

American health care sucks, part #345, 231: The ONE doc in the practice that I can get in and see in a timely fashion is apparently not in my network. All the other docs are. So cool that I’ll have to call up and cancel this appointment Monday morning that I got at the last minute!

6 PM Pacific Time THIS FRIDAY! Four female poets from history converse across time in their own words, forming a sisterhood of artists in the face of isolation and doubt. Features the poems of Sappho, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, and Amy Lowell, curated by meeeeeeee

The morning’s bright the sky is blue and we have a teaser trailer! WAKE UP DEAD MAN the new Benoit Blanc mystery, in theaters Thanksgiving and on Netflix 12/12

Normally I do threads for composer birthdays/deathdays (depending on how much I have pulled myself together) but today I am going to do a thread for the birthday of a piece of music that I have been obsessed with it for several years

Just bought some period underwear to try out and the transaction tripped my card’s fraud alert?? What in the misogynist nonsense is going here

This is my sentiment toward That Guy

watching a Miss Marple where she's doing this cop's job for him (per usual) and at one point he says to her, "any luck?" and she goes "oh no, inspector, just years of experience," and that's the energy I want to bring to everything from now on

RADICAL

I am stealing this icebreaker until the end of time

This makes me think, of all things, that one of the reasons I despised the reboot of Trigun (the plot of which is literally driven by Vash’s singleminded pacifism) is that the remake reveled in bloodshed and it felt like the writers had missed the point so egregiously that it ruined the show

It’s probably the LOTR films for me. I still remember excitedly discussing them with my older brother as they released and I used to participate in an annual viewing marathon of them in grad school. They might be what kicked off my interest in all the craft and processes that go into making a movie.

Whenever I watch this, I feel better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X8N...

#SkywardSword update: Playing chamber music with your friends is still out here saving the world 😊

"when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul"

People in the comments are asking why Link wouldn’t catch this attack with the shield and fencer nerd me wants to point out that it makes way more sense to parry that attack with 3 since he’s left-handed, fighting a right-handed opponent! #details

Amaventures of Kavalay

#store i frequently say that my clothing is ethically made, but what exactly does that mean?

slightly diminish a band: The Suspects

Man, the slithy toves are sure gyrin’ and gimblin’ in the wabe, lemme tell ya

Playing Skyward Sword for the first time and Nintendo’s commitment to creating weird li’l guys remains firm. The extremely dramatic shopkeepers in the Bazaar are a hoot.

Speaking of excellent reading, here’s another bracing piece of writing that dissects its subjects with surgical precision

“What are the ethical ramifications of pursuing a career within an industry that is quite comfortable creating ‘art’ — work that is beautiful, but routinely avoids confronting the current state of the world?”

Just ate a sandwich so good I nearly cried. East-coast style deli with cold-cut hoagies and they’ve gotta be making that dressing in house. This trip to Tulsa is scoring 10/10 so far.

Ooooooh, this looks rad!

Woke up and was confused about the time because the sky is overcast for the first time in MONTHS

These threads are v. good

The linked threads within this are great and I also will throw out—like many others have said—that the men I know who are the kindest, most pro-socially aligned people have cultivated robust networks of mixed-gender friendships in various sizes

LISTEN

Highly recommend Maya’s shop, the skirts are super cute and fun!

In a stupendous feat of procrastination, I waited to change the smol battery in the keyless entry remote for my car until it was so weak, it took several tries to get the push button ignition to start this morning.

Ooooooooh!

There’s so much good to chew over here, but one thread I’m picking up is our propensity to pathologize a whole range of human behavior, i.e. the way “narcissist” is so casually thrown around

Some of Cor Blok’s Tolkien gouache paintings.

Mutual aid request

TIL that the lead singer of Toto sings this theme and honestly, that’s gotta be a not-insignificant chunk of why it rules

Earlier this year, we discovered there are a few fruit trees around our new Music Center, probably from when this was Heifer Int’l land. We have so far been able to harvest one (1) edible small peach.

I don’t think this makes us special, but it is interesting to me that we’ve had to remove the “conduct the orchestra!” auction item from our gala the last few years because it wasn’t selling

Totally agree with others on here that the fact that this man hasn’t been cast in a string of rom-coms is an incredibly baffling decision by people who ostensibly want to make shloads of money

Cleanse the ol’ timeline with this adorable kitty and her favorite thing!

Jamie has spoken; this is canon now

Read that recent interview between Jeremy O. Harris and Davóne Tines and the opera discussed therein is livestreaming tomorrow!