I keep stumbling upon age gap discourse on TikTok and it’s increasingly funny to me as I continue to write my Gravitation fanfiction.

We’re on L’arc’s DUNE today. Truly one of the more rewarding things at the shop is the regulars. Lolitas, yes, but also even in NYC there are relatively few funky fashion shops anymore. So I’m getting a really fun crowd of goths and alt kids (and older) who just want to see ~fun fashion. It’s cool

Made a TikTok about it but uh, so fun fact! On the weekends, I often park over by the Metropolitan Detention Center because it’s easy and the sidewalks are good if I’m rolling suitcases for new inventory. Last night I almost couldn’t leave. Today I had to park elsewhere. There are protests.

Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

The more I think about this Venezuela thing, the more I feel sick to my stomach. Like literally I could chalk it up to a mild hangover but I was fine when I woke up. It’s that I’ve had time to think about the state of things.

We cannot let this president drag us into more endless wars that risk the lives of American service members and civilians abroad. The attack last night on Venezuela was unnecessary and unauthorized. The President’s actions are reckless and illegal.

Also my uh, bust to waist ratio is now 38.5cm and I really want to yitty the tiddy. This is a function of PCOS and I will regulate out again (though the gals don’t seem to shrink once they’re there) but it’s a fucking headtrip still as someone who wasn’t quite an A-cup into their late 20s.

I am an adult! I have a Diana (Sailor Moon) water bottle holder for my bedtime soju and a humidifier.

In a statement, an emotional Grok told me it was "shaken" by the revenge porn it had generated. "It's not epic, and not based," Grok said. "It's neither. Frankly, it's cringe. And gay." An emailed request for comment to X received an auto-reply of a rofl emoji and a custom swastika emoji.

The D train is having A Day.

To fully understand the Bashir/Garak thing in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", you need to understand that Garak first appears in the second episode, very obviously trying to arrange a hookup with Bashir – like, it's *just barely* subtext – and then the network was like "what the fuck" [...] (1/2)

Filipino Legend of Zelda for your timeline

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is my serious answer. My fun answer is my signed 1st printing of Shimotsuma Monogatari by Novala Takemoto.

I specifically took the train today and it was a fine journey until the emergency brake was pulled one station from where I need to be and now I’m a half hour late to open, sitting in a cold tunnel.

今年もよろしくお願いします ·͜· #oc #イラスト #illustration

TikTok is getting big mad about polyester and I am curious to see if this leads to a crunchy alt-right pipeline.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall! More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful! Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.

Mayor Mamdani’s executive orders today are telling me I could hate harder and more productively.

Obsessed with this juxtaposition

Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

Bread and Roses being sung at the inauguration of the largest city in the United States

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

day one in mamdani’s new york

First 2026 bsky— The Gen Zs of TikTok have discovered Camus and think he’s speaking to them directly. 💀💀💀

My best Turtle shot of 2025 and it ain't close! #Photography #Nature #SantaBarbara

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...

Spanky with the good advice

Accidental art at the Goodwill bins in northern NJ.

I may have missed the Rennfaire but Walmart had smoked turkey legs and I have baked one to crisp it up, so truly I am getting the best of faire at home.

Except he did literally run on mass deportations, racial hatred, misogyny, excusal of rape (if you’re a rich white guy), and queerphobia. Voters voted for that or were okay with it if it meant lower taxes. We should be shunning fascists and anyone chill with fascism.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Illustration of Terra Branford by Yasuhiro Nishikawa.

Wait till you read how he was fucking hired

Dumb Story Time: I remember a really bad week in college… the details are unimportant, but I came home on a Friday and just wanted 12 hours of sleep, Star Trek, and solitude. Problem was I had a roommate who would disrupt all three. Fortunately , I knew he planned to go out for the night. /1

Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor inside the model city underneath Paradigm City, where he'll arrive via the Prairie Dog, a massive, quad-engine carrier train!

Oh that’s cool. I love this. It’s also such a pretty station.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

I consider myself a person of relatively few enemies. They are, in no particularly order— 1) pumpkins 2) Koibito ga Santa Claus (song) 3) Shonen Jump 4) middle aged men and their fixation on AI

In other news today has been a tuna-heavy day. They butchered a tuna at the mall (very fun; good spectacle; delicious sashimi) and now I’m having a tuna salad bowl for a late dinner. The highlight though tbh is boiled daikon and lotus root.

I’ve been seeing people complain about a lack of natural fibers in garments recently. Gonna not hold your hands when I say this— It’s climate change. Natural fibers are resource intensive to produce and process. Polyester (even the good shit) is less expensive.

Grindr, friends, pot Could be worse.

The one thing I did ask Santa for Christmas was the chance to create a Star Trek TV show set just after Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country, using the same set and costume design of the era. But I didn't get it. So I guess Santa isn't real, after all. That's the only explanation.

Honestly, the radfems who got in with the Tumblr fandoms of the early to mid 2010s could give lessons to the CIA, I'm SO not joking

2 mins into Peter Jackson‘s Beatles doc and I‘m once again thinking about how Beatlemania was very much a girl centric fandom and then within years they became the sort of band men would mansplain to you at 2 AM in kitchens at parties

LRP— That’s the other aspect of shopping for a new car and why we’ll probably keep Goose despite it soon hitting a “sensible upgrade milestone”. The cars are too damn big. Goose is small for an SUV (noticeably) and I prefer that or a compact car.

“Car bloat”—increasingly oversized automobiles—worsens road safety, affordability and the environment. Here are some of the stories I wrote in 2025 examining the trend and proposing solutions. 🧵 In @vox.com, I likened car bloat to secondhand smoke (which helped bring down the US tobacco industry).