i'm watching the 1921 danish silent film adaptation of dickens' Our Mutual Friend (bc i know how to party on a friday night) and all the characters' names are the same in the danish intertitles except Radfoot has been changed to Ratfood??????? 😭

really horrid and unpleasant gollum i saw on an 80s copy of the hobbit today

had a root canal this morning and getting a pap smear later this afternoon because im just the monarch of tasks i guess

girls will consider sewing plushies of their ocs to get out of writing the actual story of those ocs

i think we can all admit richard scarry's miss honey did this outfit better

i used to feel guilty about giving up on listening to audiobooks in the car (auditory processing/focus is just too difficult for me) until i realized my commute is crucial daydreaming time comparable only to shower time for zero-screen low-distraction mind-wandering

tonight it came up how rare it is for a cereal mascot be a girl. & like, damn. how often did i, as a child, get to see a girl or woman obsessed w food? in a way for me to laugh at but also IMITATE? where's the girl freak-ass Honeycomb creature? where is the female of his species?

what the fuck does that mean, katt

#AICouldNever Here, spend 78 seconds with Mikhail Baryshnikov. It will make you feel better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n14w...

it’s bask o’clock

winter is my favorite season in video games........i love video game winter....... all pristine snow and no cold feet or driving on ice

weird how much of communication is just vaguely commenting on something to see if the other person has anything interesting to add about it. all u say is "born on valentine's day, huh?" & you're opening a space hoping to hear they once got dumped on double vday/bday or something

crafting is so good for the brain i love crafting

dream job

hate the time between getting ur test results back and being able to consult w ur doctor about them where u just have to be like. well what the fuck does THAT mean

i was a beta reader on this and not only is it excellent but there are globs out the wazoo

highlight of my day was sitting & chatting for 20 minutes with a 4-year-old in a medical waiting room. (her mom translated the occasional word for me.) in one pocket she had crayons & in the other she had milk chocolate scented lip balm, which she called her "chocolate lipstick"

sux when ur writing a fantasy story and you Badly want to use the phrase "hang out" but it just does not fit the way the characters talk or think

theres some sort of tiny monster behind my curtain

THE BOOK IS OUT! COME GET YOUR BAD TIMES IN SPACE!! lost-signals.itch.io/the-chrysali...

not the twin peaks shirt at the thrift store

❗️5 DAYS ❗️

my sister recently bought a car called a Dodge Hornet and i do laugh whenever i think of it. dodge hornet??? yeah i try to

we had our big family meal last night so today i went to make myself a delicious leftovers meal of turkey, mash potat, and a generous, luxurious helping of gravy on top. except by accident i did not grab the gravy, but the waffle batter. merry fuckin christmas

best new fiction I've read in 2025 – we should all be very excited for the public release of THE CHRYSALIS BODY

To be a little less obtuse about it, I wrote a book, it's a good time about suffering in space. would love if u checked it out

local mom in the library as she and her small child get in the elevator: “Dude, you are the best button-pusher in America. I think you should go pro.”

all i want for christmas is a version of pinterest where all the art is fucking credited

should be illegal to put posts or markers out in your fields that make innocent people driving by get really excited thinking they’re seeing a bigass bird like a blue heron or an egret or some shit equivalent

i need to be kept in a dollhouse. i need a giant to keep me in a dollhouse like it’s a zoo enclosure

i know people in other countries do it too but crying on the freeway does have a certain usamerican vibe to it. very private space in its way, the freeway

losing my absolute mind HIS NAME IS HARDEN. HARDEN IS HIS NAME

sorry but the sauce levels here are off the fuckin charts

two separate children named Cedar in the library today

small child in the library today was referring to the elevator as “the alligator” 😭

old ladies at the holiday market selling crocheted goods and talking with each other about their plans for how they want to be buried…….not quite timeless in the details but ancient in the vibe

the dictionary is trying to tell me that neither frazzlement nor frazzledness is a word and that there are only verbs and adjectives associated with frazzling. what a load of horseshit. give me the noun

one of the libraries i work at has some children's books in other languages & so i saw a French version of Green Eggs and Ham, which was fun, but Sam-I-am was named Sam-je-suis. that's fucked up. they should have preserved the rhyme & called him something like Lee-je-suis

i love my ocs. not to toot my own horn but the two romantic leads both have crazy fuckin leitmotif energy. like i cant write music and obviously will never reach the level of success required to get a screen adaptation but their leitmotif-having vibes r off the fuckin charts

girls have had so many health problems the last two months

rereading jane eyre……..st john rivers baby you are so fuckin funny

writing affirmations today: 1. let it be as long as it wants 2. it's for me 3. who gives a shit

me reading jane eyre when i was a teenager w a touch of moral ocd & no good working theory of the relationship between fiction & reality: i LOVE rochester but im having a hard time defending all the lying & manipulating /: me rereading in my 30s: lmfaoooooo go off edward u messy old bitch

there's a regular patron at one of my libraries who deadass looks exactly like doctor caligari. of cabinet fame

breathtaking addendum on the ingredients list of this facial skin toner from the natural goods store

millennia of linguistic evolution have led to me telling the dog to move by saying “scoochy your poochy boochy”

Stanford researchers found that AI-generated "workslop" is actually making people less productive, in part because workers have to correct errors or decode the useful information/intent buried in a flood of auto-generated garbage:

i gotta turn this children's book cover into business cards i can just hand to people when i want to get to know them

it's good to have writing as a hobby in addition to knitting & gaming bc those two involve a lot of wear & tear on my hands & tendons, as does my job at the library, whereas w/ writing usually im sitting there and my hands are not getting up to jack shit or his good friend squat

puppy's finally killed the squeaker in her favorite ball and now it's just making the saddest, most desperate little gaspy noises. the occasional faint, brief whine along the edge of the sound. im taking notes for my writing so i can torture my ocs better