Happy New Year, friends! May you find safety and affection this year. 🙏🏻

Well… between my Christmas presents from Chris and @tamirthepunner.bsky.social looks like I’ve got an army in progress to play at @cmdrsealed.bsky.social next year. 🥰

Spike Lee was talking a phone call and pacing around a few empty gates past me at the airport.

The movie also made a false dichotomy by forcing a choice between an ex who has not changed a single thing or grow in five years and is broke, or a super rich dude who doesn’t love you. These are not your only choices!(!!!)

I watched Materialists last night and it was… not good. The tone was the first thing I noticed: This movie was billed as a romcom, but ends up feeling somewhere between a badly-done black comedy and just completely flat. Also the actors had WAY more chemistry on their press tour than on camera.

As a treat.

Watching the first episode of Heated Rivalry. Anyway… boys kissing. 👀

Nothing like a little mutual hate on billionaires with your Lyft driver to start your day. 😌

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

I couldn’t pick a single favorite selfie of 2025. 😩

I think the Democratic establishment severely underestimates the extent to which the younger half of the electorate would cheerfully send Bill Clinton to Gitmo ourselves

"i only use AI to come up with ideas" dude come on that's literally the easiest and most fun part. why would you even WANT to not do that part

I’m just more and more convinced that ChatGPT is popular because people don’t want to do the work to actually communicate with people. It’s easier to be like “It always says ‘Nice catch’ and never gets mad when I ask it to repeat” than to listen or adjust your behavior with people around you!

“My Secret Santa” is a fun, silly little movie if you like movies that are trope-y as hell and have characters that are actually older than 25. Even more fun if you treat it as if everyone is having some bisexual awakenings (the way the MMC gazes into Santa’s eyes!!!!).

My partner has gently informed me that trying to figure out why the 11 hours of sleep + nap yesterday didn’t magically fix my energy levels is maybe not useful. Instead, it’s okay to feel my feelings and to just be tired sometimes. How dare he be so wise and understanding. 😠🥺

I struggle with accidentally scheduling too much, especially when most (or all) of my week is seeing my partners and closest friends. The other variable is sometimes I have a week with 20+ meetings and it wrecks how much energy I have.

There are two phases to evening when darkness comes so early during this time of year. The first is: it’s a MILLION o’clock, it’s so late, I can’t go anywhere, I can’t believe the day is over. Then the rational brain says no, it’s still early. Then the second phase: Time has no meaning. 🥲

Because I wanted Google Calendar to be a hobby.

More photos from last night. 🥰

Went to a femmes only Christmas masquerade and there was a mystery ornament exchange and I got the best ornament.

“do it for the plot” i say as i continue to be a menace only to myself

You’re free to dislike things I like! But just “idk it’s bad” means you’re not even interested in engaging critically with one of the most beautiful, nuanced, and heart-wrenching pieces of art I’ve ever seen.

I went to look for an examples of Magic art that I like to show some friends, and I realized “Oh, these just show that I’m a freak.” 😌

I always commit to posting more and being more unhinged here and then I don’t. Maybe I’ll actually stick to that someday, chat.

The loan ended when I hit 87% last night. It is… okay? And I’m too stubborn to not finish it.

There was a THREE in front of the temperature this morning in Texas! I could see my breath.

Okay okay so the key combination is that the weather can be dark IF it’s also cold. Dark and just… still warm means I get less sunlight for no good reason. At least dark + cold means it’ll feel like Christmas and I can do cute, cozy hibernating bear activities. 🥰

My slice of happiness today is Libby alerting me of a Skip-the-Line copy of “Problematic Summer Romance” by Ali Hazelwood… 👀👀👀

Today I played a one shot D&D campaign with some friends over Discord. I played a half elf Druid who would much rather be hanging out with her sheep or in her mountainside cottage but was reluctantly dragged to a harvest festival. And she has a cowboy hat.

This isn’t to brag. Just to reflect and realize how full my life is even though I’ve stepped back from MTG and being as online here. 🥰 I’m lucky, and very rich in love.

Things I’ve been doing despite being quiet here: I’m on my 39th book of the year. This week was my 3rd(!!) anniversary with Chris. Early November was nine years with my nesting partner. I have a newish girlfriend. I’ve had both monthly queer movie nights and Magic nights with my polycule.

The Sunday Scaries after one of the big holidays is always the worst. (And it’s not even Sunday yet!!) 😭

Make MTG mean Magic: The Gathering again

Finally, Magic the Gathering quit congress.

While this state may be fucked up politically, I also have a deep love for this place and the people that have made this decade the best of my life. (A photo I posted in 2017 after my first trip away post-cross country move with the caption: “So thoroughly relieved to be back in Texas.”)

I could stand in defiance of the people who exist to erase me, my friends and loved ones, and my community, all day long forever but nothing's more despair-inducing than your supposed allies telling you how hopeless your fight is, how you're a coward for even trying

no one who lives in a blue state gets to lecture anyone about racism if they also believe red states "get what they deserve because they voted for Republicans" more black people live in GA/TX/FL than in NY/CA, but they're gerrymandered to hell so racist policies win out

I’ve figured out that winter and less sunlight does an actual number on me. The past two years around Feb/March I have felt unusually burnt out and had very little social energy. SO, to combat this, I’m going to try to romanticize my winter this year.

Anyway I can confirm once again that saying my feelings out loud to my partner made me us both feel better.

I’ve been using the Balatro theme as hold music for my brain while working and it’s surprisingly effective.

Do they break us, bsky? From PA to Georgia, I look at these results and I am so goddamn *proud* of everyone who voted, who volunteered, who worked, who pursued this most fundamental civic duty far and wide. AND DID THEY FUCKING BREAK US? WITH THEIR VILE-ASS SHIT THEY WERE SLINGING? I. THINK. NOT.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed. The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Disgusting.

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

Genuinely the most terrifying costume.

Got the best sweatshirt in the mail today. 🔮

It’s happening.