The Kelce-Swift wedding photos are just gorgeous

anyone who finds more things to like about this country than me is a glassy eyed, historically illiterate moron. anyone who likes fewer things is a nihilistic doomer

It's very much this

this feels especially relevant to me on july 4th. there is much good in this country, and that good exists alongside tremendous, foundational evil for which we all bear some moral culpability. understanding that doesn’t mean wallowing in guilt or shame, but nor can we wave it away. it simply is

i think it is very important for a person to figure out what it means to own their darkness, as we all have some degree of anger/bitterness/hatred inside of us. the person who i cannot countenance is one who instead insists on presenting an image of relentless, nauseating positivity

I wrote about Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, cinema's greatest resurrection of the dead, for @popheist.com.

"Here’s where we address the white horse in the room: the performance of top-billed stars Sheryl Lee and Ray Wise as Laura and Leland. They are, without qualification, the two best film performances I’ve ever seen in my life." He's right and he should say it.

This is why I feel like LLMs might reinvigorate the idea of art vs. "content"--between creating something for individual expression vs. pumping work out for clicks/likes/money--that the poptimist era tried to kill off.

celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle

It seems appropriate to return to Baldwin-posting today.

Apollo: I give you the gift of foresight Me: Nice Apollo: BUT! Your curse is that no one will ever believe you Me (already buying lottery tickets): Ok brother

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

It’s his day:

It's true I hate redditors

Have been trying to crack why suddenly the Taylor Swift wedding shit is really annoying me, after being completely apathetic for years to all that stuff, and I think it's the feeling that she and her fake husband and their respective corporate teams are trying to impose a royal wedding on America

Bilbofication

Tecumseh Nat Turner John Brown Fred Hampton

For the evening crowd:

Artist! Quote with your fanart! #Critters

My son saw the scene of Yoda making stew for Luke Skywalker and said, “daddy that dirty guy loves eating dirty food!”

KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS killsixbilliondemons.com

Travis Kelce is having a day like a golden retriever that’s getting put down tomorrow

This was slapped on a bus station and I’ve been laughing at it all morning

*looking up at a red, white and blue flag that is so stained with blood that the pattern underneath is barely recognisable* “I can reclaim this, leftistly.”

And this was Travis’s vows

taylor and travis are only getting married so they can have two kids and name them tayvis and tralor

RIP to all the catholics excommunicated by the pope for their heresy but im different. and better. maybe even better than the pope

The font and the pun made me think it was an AT&T ad

it's so crass and tacky and ugly.

imagine giving a shit about this. a fuckin parallel universe. America B.

(final thought as i'm swiftly slain by a band of ninja assassins) kind of a crazy amount of ninjas to hire for this

Customer: oh are you guys closing soon? oh I feel soooio bad coming in sooooo late I bet you guys are SUPER tired after a long day haha Me: (concentrating really hard trying to use psionics to explode their head david cronenburg Scanners style, blood dripping out my nose) hello how may I help you

i can see him getting a lil big for his britches because his first novel just got published but being a mormon who tithes like 10 percent of his empire's earnings to the church makes me hate his gormless ass. he could be tolkien reborn and I'd hate him for perpetuating that horseshit

Every time this grinning little shit weasel pisses me off I reread that absolute evisceration of an interview again. It doesn't make me feel better, just a much more comfortable shade of rage.

i'm gonna be honest, even if this guy WASN'T the cowardly little bitch version of J. K. Rowling, I'd still want him ruined just for this

Those Who Walk Away From Spren

Yeah, like, did Ursula LeGuin come up with a pointless, tedious and byzantine magic system for Omelas? I think not!

Most of my siblings and friends will show a passing interest, which is understandable considering I write stuff that's not easy to stick with. Dad doesn't know about what I'm writing but knows I do write. My partner is very supportive and occasional beta reader. Mom is dead, thank god.

A genre of videogame should be “more enjoyable to play while listening to podcasts”

I enjoy lecturing marginalized groups living in the belly of the beast about their complicity in global horrors, while I myself am living life with a 100% clean conscience in the shoulder blade or big toe of the beast or maybe one of its several eyes

He can do things Wolfe and Le Guin never could: consistently write the literary equivalent of paisley wallpaper.

Sanderson's power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings.

Worldbuilding Guys ruined magic in fiction by demanding that magic be science and/or video game mechanics

I want to read more fantasy but I am not interested in magical systems. Magic is extended metaphor and a stand in for the power of imagination. When you start spending a bunch of time working though some rules that you made up I just think “who cares”. Show me something unimaginable

DUNGEONS OF BLOOD AND DREAM was just fully released on Steam!

Hurston could write a young woman’s first orgasm like someone who truly beheld the face of God.