“For all of our aspirations of centering our whole selves, our identities, around the beauty of the art, a lot of the time, we just end up centering the art around ourselves.” This is such an incredibly good read. Captures so much of my thoughts on modern fandom culture.

Feeling called out in a way that’s almost embarrassing (but I’m right, it could be darker)

This so rarely happens, but the New Yorker recently had a poem I like a lot. Morgan Parker; “Meanwhile It Rains for Two Weeks and the Heat Never Breaks”

Listening to an auto generated playlist and thinking about how incredible it is only to remember that it’s just a playlist of my most-listened to songs on Apple Music.

Looking at everything that happened after, I've searched my heart and realized that it was necessary to murder Hitchbot. We should've been more antagonistic towards robots pretending to be our friends. Philadelphia once again proves to be a city of prophets.

The real danger with Universes Beyond is I couldn’t actually tell you which MTG this was referencing until I clicked through to the original post.

Independent bookstores are farmers markets and Barnes & Noble is a chain grocery store and Amazon is only ever ordering food via Instacart and Doordash. I will not elaborate.

A Tragedy: I forgot to charge my wireless headphones and they died while I was working at the coffee shop, and I left my wired headphones at home. No one has ever suffered a hardship such as this before.

Good book.

i am not 100% sure whether @wesaketchak.bsky.social is the original maker of this mash-up but i am 100% sure that it is brilliant and was crafted for my enjoyment particularly

"The power of objects comes from us and from the circumstances under which we encounter them." Sometimes a $0.50 bulk rare is more important to you than a $50 chase card and you should think about why that is, and then take that feeling further into your life.

Absolutely blows my mind to think you wouldn't give a tip to the person who just drove you around in their car. I understand that tipping culture sucks but these are people doing something for you because you don't want to do it yourself, so give them a little tip to say thank you at the least.

All right, I'll be the one who says it: the seas could be wine darker.

For some reason, which I'm sure can be explained psychosomatically, I keep getting a headache when I'm in the office.

I don't think there's a conspiracy to soften people's brains using AI, because I think the people who are pushing these tools have very soft brains as it is. I don't think these people have had an idea in years. I think being rich is like getting hit in the head by a big hammer over and over again.

Noxious Newt

I saw a something recently that said members of fandoms no longer exist as fans but believe they are stakeholders. They believe that their opinions and feelings have weight and influence. So they engage performances like they’re directing or a part of the production. It’s wild.

If you ever see something and think “this perfectly and cleanly reinforces a prior belief that I already held” then you should be very skeptical of the validity of the thing you saw and equally skeptical of your interpretation of it.

This might be the best concert photo I’ve ever taken.

@calebzane.bsky.social the opener at Florence and the Machine in Atlanta did a line dance routine on stage and I thought of you.

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

The thing I don’t get about FOMO is that people often make it out to be some really awful distressing experience that’s forced upon us, but I’m looking at Vegas and feeling a bit sad that I can’t be there but under no circumstances do I want to ever pay to go to Vegas in the future.

Imagine a world where every time you turn on the TV it's like someone giving you a highly detailed retelling of a dream they had that lasts over an hour and you're a character in that dream, for some reason. I think I would rather die.

You can buy two collector boosters of Secrets of Strixhaven or you can buy a year of incredible writing sent directly to your inbox from the people you actually want to read. Just think about it.

I bought a subscription to @cascadecascade.com so I could read Rob Bockman's articles and everything else is just a nice add-on.

Every man over the age of 30 in the city of Atlanta right now is fighting the urge to say "We really needed this." With this post, I have failed.

Auden is always an auto-re-skeet

With all the Waymos in Atlanta now, I'm realizing that we looked at the problem of road congestion caused by too many cars with solo riders and decided the answer to that was not more carpooling or buses, but cars with actually zero riders.

I think about this all the time

Lluwen and Kirol, Princess Mononoke style. They'll be laughing about this after midterms I swear. #mtgfanart #magicthegathering

I am being (affectionately) bullied into doing this meme. Honestly, the ONLY MTG characters who get to do this because it's nearly canon. WIP so far for these two, Lluwen and Kirol are such cuties!! #lluwen #kirol #mtgfanart #magicthegathering

So, if I'm understanding this correctly, the idea is that a center-right politician in Hungary defeated an authoritarian far-right leader in a tremendous upset, and the party that needs to take a lesson from this is the... center-left party? Not the center-right members of the right-wing party?

If anyone wants to know how work is going, I had a stress dream over the weekend about trying to work in a Word document but it kept inserting things I don't want and changing layouts as I typed. This could also be a prophecy.

:sobbing: the taxation of trade routes is in dispute ::

I guess i just don't think it's interesting to say you sifted an entire internet looking for dumb posts and found some. Okay?

Heads up to everyone who bought Omens of Chaos: If the bookmark keeps falling between pages (as mine was), you can actually dog ear the corner to fix it

please please please oh god please let the US try to do an avignon papacy. please. it would be so fucking funny please lord I don't ask you for much

It’s nice that I don’t have to call my representative because she was the first rep I saw call for impeachment this morning.

Want to highly recommend Dead Collections, and it's worth it even if it isn't free.

I was having this discussion with my mother over the weekend. I think we have for so long ascribed to the idea that you should not have hate in your heart that we have forgotten that it is essential to hate what is evil. I am filled with hatred when I think of the slave trade and the holocaust.

"Moon's haunted"

When it happens I need everyone I follow to only post about it. I don’t want to scroll down my feed to learn. I need it constantly at the top.

I think space travel is incredible and I wish the best for everyone who has the courage to go beyond our planet but I simply will never be one. I’m having too much anxiety just thinking about it. I like gravity very much I think.

Lumaret's Favor, original art for Secrets of Strixhaven. I love how expressive Lumarets can be 💚

Just tried to zoom in on a video because I was having trouble hearing it, if you want to know how my brain is functioning today.

Abolish the Supreme Court

@arsenaultrivera.bsky.social I forgive the lack of kissing and accept Kiki as consolation.

Really sucks the only way out is through

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem: