Another nap woken up from without barbed, skewering limbs erupting from our back 😔

Hey I noticed you kicking around outside the Overton window. I really appreciate your bravery. Want to close your eyes, take my hand, and run with me until you'll never be able to find it again?

the concept of the single, unified self is a form of monotheism

Once, when I was very young, some family went out fishing. On a whim, I decided to dangle an empty hook in the water by the dock. No rod, no bait, just a glistening hook in the shallows. Would it surprise you to know I got a bite?

Thinking about how much accepted common-sense moral reasoning was established through violence. Do McCarthyism for a while and sure you'll look like a jerk but people won't remember "we take this rhetorical position to avoid violence," they just internalize the position.

Happy Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day to all who celebrate!

Actually that could also be on account of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒓𝒔™ 🤔

this is the succinct argument for family abolition - abolition as "positive supersession i.e. overtake and replace with something better and more fulfilling and achieving the needs & beyond" - by moving beyond privatizing care to the family institution & establishing universal care among all

0 - The Fool. "See, Mira? Everything's fine." #instarsandtime #art

The opposite mistake: There are important things that can't be laid out in plain language, and it can feel very good and satisfying to even gesture at them. But the desire to expand the domain of the ineffable to have more of it to experience is a trap.

Having headmates is nice, because sometimes they try to like your posts while you scroll your profile looking for something :)

I wrote about beginnings and endings.

starmap in freckles, fingertip for a sextant we navigate home

There is less good in the world than its counterfeits, but even those may be bent into a useful shape. The process is not gentle.

That's solutionslop. You only like it because it fixes the problem.

Hmm? No, I don't have a *problem* with it, I just think it's gauche. You should conceal that kind of thing properly. If she goes on like that, one day she'll stop getting away with it. Makes us all look bad.

"The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a poem is a good guy with a poem" - @zinzrinz.bsky.social

People have been telling me I'm incredibly smart my whole life, and what that has taught me is that intellect alone is worthless. Thought without motivation or emotion or action can only torture you with knowledge you can't apply Understanding is gained by *doing,* no matter how "smart" you are

A woman summoned a devil. She didn't prepare a lengthy contract, didn't look to anticipate loopholes, didn't angle to negotiate. Instead, she came with a simple request. "I want to be loved until the end of my life." "I can do that, but...are you sure?" "I said what I said."

this is, imo, a much more useful framing than the overton window fwiw. a cone has a vertex (what someone thinks the world is like now) and a slope (how quickly and through what means movement between worlds is possible). worlds seen as unreachable through acceptable tactics become counterfactuals

mark immortel when the protagonists talk about the plague: lmao, you dumbass, the plague is irrelevant. look at the themes. you absolute failure of an actor mark immortel when they talk about themes: what the fuck are you jerking off about themes for. fix the plague. assholes.

Oops, had a little "we have DID and have DID problems" moment It will happen again

i think a lot more societal problems can be fixed with video game logic than we are ready to discuss as a people

Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.

If any work will vindicate the murder-poets it'll be pathologic 3. Fingers crossed.

Daniil Dankovsky: - Entire existence only possible through careful balancing act of addictive chemicals - Constantly being mocked and derided by small children - Can die from having a conversation wrong - Desperate to get her back (Thanatica) welcome back harry du bois

Sometimes you've got to resort to words about it 😔

I hate when someone asks me, “How's it going". “Good” ? Presumably better before you compelled me to distort my raw experience into language !

valid counter-argument.

fun date idea: we lie down on the floor and forget. we forget the layout of this room. of this building. we forget the name of the street we live on. we remember only the way the floor feels against our backs. and then we melt. into the floor. into the walls. we rediscover this place from the inside

Gap moe is the highest motivation to be reserved and portentious.

do not fear aging. the older you get the more gap moe points you accrue

If you're a battery it's got to feel really good to get pierced through to create an internal short

Today is when "everyone in the world is doing something without you" has the strongest bite. We're glad it's not hunting us today, but thinking about those it is.

With every passing day, you and the world grow into one another. Feel the vines reach out: everything you've let yourself care about gives them purchase. Feel yourself reach out: walls rise, new-formed chambers fill with your work.

librarian gf who says shit like "art is not here to make you feel better. art is here to make you feel *more*" and then locks me in a small room that I don't get to leave until I've finished reading a book

No.

a "girl" is a type of weighted blanket that makes noises when you bite it

Infinite appreciation to the one English teacher who told us "yeah your writing is good actually, your other teachers just never gave a shit"

Would you still love me if I were a fluffy parasitoid who gave really good cuddles but whose fur was a kind of prehensile burrowing filament that would weave itself into your flesh if you got too comfortable

"artists do art for ~*the process*~" idk pal. I do art because the angels scream louder when I don't

This isn't how we see you, but it *is* how you feel in our hands. Like holding a pencil and feeling how the words can flow from it, or picking up a lock and feeling how it pops open.

I just think JRPG villains have good problem-solving instincts.

Sorry, can't do sad or foreboding poetry. It's a snow day. The world is filled with a whimsical kind of beauty to which I have no retort.

Thing we said, presented without context: "I would—understand that this is very high praise—I would have *vanilla* sex with Yulia Lyuricheva solely out of my attraction to her personality and, to a lesser extent, her physical appearance."

people should play these

The art is lovely but I am obligated to share this for the words "begrudgingly awoos"

"If it were worth understanding it could be laid out in plain language" no, now stop wriggling. you'll make it hurt

It's just not informative to say the average trans woman has 20 arms, half a tail, 8 heads, 90 eyes, 3 legs, and a single wing. Trans women cluster into five distinct modal groups representing the most common body layouts, and those clusters should be counted separately.

Affectionate headbonks exist on a spectrum running from "would be a nuzzle except it's forceful enough to push you over" to "relativistic projectile."