I still remember being in 9th grade unable to understand how the k!lling of one dude could start a whole war and now I'm like, "Oh, okay, I think I get it now."

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

If Emily Bronte were alive today she'd probably be a Charli XCX fan, so like, chill.

The stupid AI telling me to inhale and exhale while it's tabulating my anxiety test results.

I entertained too many theories of the "where is Kate Middleton?" conspiracy hole to do this again with the fa$c!st president.

It's like staying up late to see if Santa is real but we're hoping Santa's dead

"Mom, I tried cleaning out these headphones with Play-Doh and now it won't come out."

i'm so over the "hold the book sideways on the video while you explain about how insane and unhinged it was and then reveal the book 30 secs into the video" trend, i am literally doomscrolling, i don't have the mental energy to wait on bated breath to see the title of a book i could potentially read

couldn't sleep last night cause i was reading reddit threads on what might happen if the dementia man goes into the great white light and i wrote this to cope about it rebeccajoneshowe.substack.com/p/the-last-w...

okay i'm *finally* giving the new deftones a listen

Ending in Ashes is 3 years old today. This post is from its first year of life, but I still have a fondness for this little ode to gothic fiction. It got me through my first major agent rejection and got me back down to earth. I'm grateful for it and for the folks at @quillandcrow.com.

Gonna be Day 2 of my period for the Nine Inch Nails concert.

naivete is a spectrum

chatgpt is just a sycophant you carry around in your pocket

Its crazy cause we're getting products once sold through mlms or the shopping channel or infomercials or that random blue envelope full of junk mail now marketed to us by A-list celebrities

What kind of beer do crypto bro type guys drink? I need this for novel research and ive been doing a bit but my algorithm is already so tainted.

It's funny cause I usually do write my stories around tropes or quotes or with a specific a fantasy in mind but I HATE marketing my work that way because it'd just pick up the wrong audience in the first place.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Content Depression - that feeling when you're aware that your purpose online in is to create content for distraction, so you keep making content because it's the only thing that really makes you feel content in the reality in which you live

I scroll past a couple of posts of people starving on this app and suddenly my humblebrag post about being able to write a sexy scene where a woman eats pringles feels really pointless and stupid. I post about both. It might get a like or two. This is the world I live in. I am a piece of shit.

I love when it's summer and the tights stores sends me emails like COOL OFF WITH THIGH HIGHS!, like bitch I ain't leaving the most vulnerable to chafing part of my body uncovered, wtf

The day the last suburban mom paints over the last honey oak banister white will be the day that warm tones finally become mainstream again.

Im already sick of the Coldplay meme.

Nathan Fielder warned us.

Slow burn erotica must piss a lot of readers off.

I hate movie remakes but IF they remade American Pie, she is my top Stiffler's Mom fantasy casting.

The fact that I grabbed a lipstick from the medicine cabinet and accidentally knocked a jar full of makeup brushes into the toilet and I didn't even get angry about it means that all the mental work ive been doing lately on myself is finally paying off.

I had no idea who the fuck Bob Vylan was before the Glastonbury scandal and now I'm listening to his music lol.

"Go fuck yourself!" "Get the hell out of San Diego, asshole!" "Go to the Hague!"

As I said before the election, Mamdani's rise is the kind of thing you basically never see in actual elections. (And he wound up outpacing this poll by eleven percent.)

Not sure why, but today just feels like a good day to listen to Lana Del Rey's "National Anthem" on repeat.

If your "MAGA Christians in church after..." meme doesn't have you sporting a Righteous Gemstones-inspired fit, you're not doing it right.

I'm still trying to work through The Artist's Way and give myself some grace, but every time I see a post from a press looking for novel submissions, it makes me feel like shit for not having my novel done. It's so awful.

someone uses gen-AI to write a report someone else thinks they don't have time to read it, so uses gen-AI to summarise it that same person responds to the report using gen-AI nobody wrote the thing or read the thing no one has any idea what the fuck is going on bUt iT's tHe FutuRe

Pretty sure we're at the point, or very close to hitting the point, where the good art that actually portrays where culture is at exists in the underground.

God grant me the serenity to accept this hellscape summer that I cannot change.

my zoomer neighbours don't party like my millennial neighbours did back in the 00s and i like it. keep it quiet zoomers. i hear you find thumbs up emojis disrespectful.👍

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

Of course the night Mamdani wins is the night all my horniness comes back and I write the first draft of 3 sex scenes.

The older I get, the more I believe that it’s critically important not to catastrophize to the point of nihilism or despair even when you feel overwhelmed by nihilism and despair.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Instagram post: THE US BOMBS IRAN!! The ad beneath it: IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO START YOUR 2025 SCRAPBOOK!

I still have a blanket that makes me feel safe and i kind of need it a lot right now, but dont we all, read my substack lol open.substack.com/pub/rebeccaj...

All my social media platforms trying to convince me that I've got perimenopause or PMDD or some other female problem I've spent 38 years dealing with, like bitch I am just surviving here, taking it day by day. I don't need more shit to research. I'm fine.

In the 90s, I only had to see 1 Shopping Channel segment for the C-string to make me paranoid about having visible panty lines for the rest of my life.

The fact that millennial moms dont wanna dress like a 90s mom because that's the trend now is baffling to me. Finally, I can dress down and feel both frumpy AND cool at the SAME time. Not embracing this moment is a missed opportunity.

Why have I not had a Zohran Mamdani sex dream yet

I saw some zoomer's insta post about "how I live my life like it's the early 00s" and the slides were all about spending time in the real world like bitch in the early 00s we were all on msn and we wrote wattpad fiction on a rewritable cd and shared it with nobody. we did go to the mall though.