the trouble with having a running bit with a friend about a silly pop song is that sometimes that friend dies and now you find yourself getting verklempt about your dead friend whenever you hear fucking "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavigne

if 2028 ends up being Newsom v Vance I might just eat my ballot paper tbh (ngl generational rizzlessness on both sides will be kinda funny, if in an absolutely brain-melting way)

6 weeks ago, we really thought it was the end for our sick old man. We spent much of new year's eve at the emergency vet, preparing ourselves to say goodbye. But he's still here and still snuggling ❤️❤️❤️

excited for the concluding day of the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion with super sessions on ministerial studies, companions for biblical interpretation, the new handbook with Palgrave, trans futures and queer pasts, and queer & trans embodiments! studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...

once in a crowded room my friend was telling me about a film he saw about Cantona and we got stuck for about 10 minutes in an autism loop of me repeating "who?" [meaning "I don't know who that is"] and him repeating "Eric Cantona" [thinking I meant "I didn't hear you"]

enjoyed this one a lot. queer Black coming-of-age story with some gorgeous writing about music and some very hot gay sex

every sport should make the athletes wear sparkles on their costumes, not just figure skating

given the not-insignificant incentives for someone of her demographic to go full terf, I find it genuinely heartwarming that Olivia Colman instead chose to go "im lowkey a nonbinary tf@g"

circle is looking at me

the quintessential prog song

did somebody say "space western musical"?

did you have a lot of feelings about Captain Oates as a child or were you normal

🥹 finally, some good news

"Down to Earth" by Peter Gabriel for WALL·E :)

Attack the Block!

When I was a teen I didn't know the word giallo but I'd heard of spaghetti westerns, so when I started getting into Italian splatter film I dubbed the subgenre "spag-horror"

bad excuses-to-enjoyment ratio

We should really use the voiced palatal fricative more in English, I think it would really zhuzh the language up

A more defensible claim is that comparing religious and secular forms of anti-LGBT rhetoric reveals the extent to which the "secular" in the anglosphere is just "white protestant christianity" with the serial numbers filed off 😅

going to concert alone and going to concert with friend are 2 different activities and I love them both :)

a strong contender (austrian lesbian 90s scifi, yes it rules)

Lesbian camp baybee!!!

idk if my friend who loved Star Trek and Stephen Colbert would've loved everything about Starfleet Academy, but he'd've really loved Stephen Colbert's voice as the digital dean 💔 I miss you, friend

it was my dad's but I stole it 😅

what a day to be a UK/US dual national

do not read this as a british person

hate crime

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

I mean yeah

everything is extremely evil but at least it's also very very stupid!!

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you Hi, I'm malaria

personally quite upset that Metropolis (1927) turned out to be this prophetic.

🚨🚨🚨it's real!!!! Track 1 of the new Peter Gabriel album drops tomorrow!!! 🤩🤩🤩

My neighbor from small-town Alabama when we were both 6 just got in touch with me for the first time in almost 30 years and she's woke and cool and I'm quite delighted

retweet for something ambidextrous to happen to you in a non-fucked-up mid-Atlantic state in 2026

day one in mamdani’s new york

Nice touch - the trans announcer from the subway (“Stand clear of the platform edge”) is doing the announcing

my friend died, I gave up on my professional dreams, and now the year is being capped off with bad news about my cat's health so yeah I'm REALLY ready to see the back of this annus horribilis

on estrogen, my anger would last for days to WEEKS. i simply could not talk myself down from the ledge. i relied on self harm to self regulate. estrogen sent me into a deep depression that i never thought id escape. estrogen made me feel broken. like a failure.

almost walk smack into whoopi goldberg at lincoln center (she was wearing a Thing 1 sweater and nobody in sight was Thing 2)

finding this book weirdly validating/healing like, no it wasn't all just unacknowledged gender dysphoria and it wasn't all in my head, the Y2K era really was an exquisitely awful time to be a girl

didn't see it myself until I was a teenager, but my older brother recounted The Shining to me and my younger brother when we were small enough to lose a lot of sleep over his telling 😅