Also, here is a thought: I wonder how much "not feeling like an adult" is correlated with impostor syndrome.

Straight up. The 5 Remembrances alone puts the self in a bubble. It's isolationist, and it's a cheat. You pulled yourself up a security blanket, and said 'fuck you, I got mine' to the rest of the universe. With the 4 Immeasurables, the practice is as nothing.

The leaf thrower (Experiment with different style of pose)

This is a gorgeous photo of a beautiful cat, but I can't help but think that expression foretells an *epic* amount of chaos to come. He looks like he's plotting how to land on someones head at 2am. *alt text: pic of a white furred blue eyed cat on a blue blanket, paws outstretched.

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

would be so amazing if instead of this shit publishers would pay higher advances or hire more staff to support the books they acquire but sure, garlic book

mostly: bones! sometime, though: BLOOD

At long, dreadful last, it is October! We eternal denizens of autumn lands welcome all!

I am so excited for this! An evening of storytelling by two extraordinary, magical authors!

ASTORIA!!!! TONIGHT! Come to @astoriabookshop.bsky.social for the launch! SURPRISE SECRET HANGOUT AFTER!

Debating doing another heraldry piece, but with a beheaded dragon and the scroll saying 'reclaim wealth' Yes im angry at capitalism today lol

GAAASP! Reading Rainbow is back, now hosted by Mychal the Librarian! I guess on PBS?

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

if there’s someone whose takes you consistently like on this app, find out if they have a non-app body of work and support it Do they draw comics? Buy some! Do they write Star Trek books? Borrow them from the library! Etc

Stay right here I’m about to see if you can spend the night 😂 🐶 🐻

Revisited this spectacular Kaleb Horton paragraph about crows this morning. "I have met crows that should be in jail" is one of those sentences that's so good you're initially furious you didn't write it yourself before circling back around to just being glad you got to read it.

How fn charming; this would make my week.

Read this! So much history, heart, and respect here. @dieworkwear.bsky.social , sir, I am looking forward to the days you publish a book or 5, as I deeply appreciate your knowledge, grace, wit, and compassion.

I need this.

I am constantly, delightfully startled by what a gift birds are to the eye.

@holzman-tweed.bsky.social, DO NOT.

3 things I could talk about for 3 hours with no prep: William Morris, his family and social circle, with bonus 1/2 hour aside on how Rossetti was a talented ass. Finding community in Astoria. It's easy! (ish) Modern American Buddhism. It's complicated.

The girl is a herbwoman. She is feral. All she wants is to find a weakness.

The Lurking Horror seems to be hovering over my shoulder singing right now. (why am i sooo tired?!)

If the teen daughter of two A-list stars had picked a media friendly cause to advocate for, I’d imagine their would be profiles and photo shoots of her in every women/teen-aimed magazine in the country. And yet.

I’m just here to watch Eric Adams be sad

This is so wholesome I don’t know what to do with my face.

Stoat with a guisarme #sketchbook #WeaponizedCuteness

I'm losin it at the crow definitely knowing when it won, too, throwing its head back with a smile and struttin like aaaayy das right!

Blessings to you upon this Equinox! May well all find our balance. Here's some joy for you.

happy autumnal equinox, beloveds!! 🍁 it's our favorite time when things begin to die away and the deadlands fill and fill 💀 🖤 oh, and there's decorative gourds 🎃

combat boots and slip dresses can fight fascism

Muhfuggers singing “Let’s get down to business” As the click “ cancel everything”

two misters

I really really don’t like the advocacy for media literacy if we don’t acknowledge that the media itself hasn’t been literate People get mad and Good Because how can you demand a literacy of an audience while simultaneously gaslighting them about your coverage

I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣 The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

victory gardens but the victory is over existential dread

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

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Enough with the “that wasn’t on my bingo card” the bingo card has been on fire for the past two years and before that it had cocaine lines on it. Bitch, the bingo card is a cursed portal to hell at this point in time.

Best answer to “I haven’t hexed anyone” OF ALL TIME. 🤣

Horror.

I'm also recalling Joycelyn Elders. I remember being mystified by that ruckus, as I was nearing voting age. Looking back, it's rather more obvious.

Masks and marching! And what the little forward-tilt of the sun-faced figure does to the rhythm of the line. #artthoughts

Far more dangerous than Trump, I think, is how quickly the last eight months have pulled back the curtain on America's elites and shown everyone how venal, how cowardly and how utterly mediocre the foundation of our society has been.

9/30! Launch Day! Join us at the lovely @astoriabookshop.bsky.social where we'll be in conversation with one of our favorite authors, @leilataylor.bsky.social, so you can get AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC signed at the same time as Leila's latest, SICK HOUSES, which makes an amazing pairing: 🖤

NEED.

This is one of the most emotive photos I have seen in a LONG time. It's the perfect reaction image to such a wide variety of situations. Same, little bee, same.