I’m off Bluesky mostly but lil life update: someone found a kitten weaving in and out of traffic outside my office so I am fostering Diesel Mechanic aka Deezy until Sunday when he will go to his forever home 🖤

dressed up for my friend’s double feature of bring it on & but I’m a cheerleader

I wrote about grief, depression, and how love comes with fear (and also, my cats) open.substack.com/pub/checkel/...

ok my main report from going to Nashville is wow republican city planning (or, lack thereof) really ruins shit for everyone huh

one experience that feels almost universally true despite the players, despite the season I’m watching, is that everyone looks so fucking weird when they first appear “cleaned up” after leaving the island on survivor. like… kinda no one looks better? lmao

sorry not to get too political in my traitors shitposting but it’s soooo funny that a British aristocrat just said “good triumphs evil every time”

maybe the first real thing I’ve written since… 2016? A tiptoe into gender and identity, and what’s in a name, through the lens of a ten-year-old open.substack.com/pub/checkel/...

this season of love is blind is excruciating to a degree I didn’t even think was possible

every time I open paramount plus I curse the preview autoplay (the audio is toggled off but it still plays, and there’s no other options to turn it off) which always includes like a huge spoiler?? WHY

It is truly fucking wild how the introductory thesis of this argument is, "As we all know, men will find any loophole they can to be sex criminals and degenerates. My primary source on this is me, a degenerate."

few things I enjoy more in this life than hanging weird shit on my walls

I think this is the single best news for me since 2016 (aside from my crush liking me back and becoming my emergency contact)

I feel like my friends and I say this all the time as a bit but it’s nice to be truly on topic when I say GO BIRDS

an important thing to help you make sense of dream theater is that every single one of them used to be absolutely smoking hot

my insane demon daughter and roly poly bowling ball son

starting to see all my old twitter friends on here whose names I never rly knew but admired nonetheless, nature is healing

I’ve been sick for almost two weeks (finally tested neg), what’s going on today

can I get a prayers up I finally test negative from the novel coronavirus today

if anyone heard chappell call for a liveable wage for performing musical artists and songwriters at the grammys and thought “what is the best organization i could support that’s fighting for that” that organization is called @umaw.bsky.social

looking for some good movies in a very specific vein: late 90s early 2000s, goofy metallic sheen to them, lots of nu-metal and/or butt rock. quality of the movie almost unimportant but bonus points if at least watchable. we got Queen of the Damned obviously, Ghost Rider, Lost Highway, any more?

a key take away from reading a lot of history for me: the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”

Marceline posting

Fix your hearts or die.

I think this might be my best marketplace find yet. I feel a burst of serotonin every time I think of her sitting at home waiting for me ☺️

I think the most important qualities you can have as critic, artist, or art appreciator are curiosity and patience. The more you're willing to try, the more you'll be able to experience, the more interesting your art will be, the better you'll be at understanding why others love what they do.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

it’s hard to know the greatest cat the world has ever known won’t be crawling into my lap anymore, but at least he is immortalized forever in a veruca salt music video www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAb0...

are people actually skeeting now? hi

wait I actually have news: after several years of struggling and being a giant capricorn about music, on Friday I wrote one (1) complete song

I thought I’d be here more often but I’ve mostly replaced all my social app usage with scouring the marketplace every single day

love to push up my start date two days so my insurance kicks in a whole month earlier 🥰

I got offered two jobs in music today 🥳 now tryna negotiate more pay…

love seeing photos of wild animals that are native to where i live bc it's like HEY i know that guy

TYLENOL

goodnight rockers 💚

emailing my high school geometry teacher to tell her I just used the Pythagorean theorem to see if a cat tree would fit in my apartment

got tomatillos in the local csa, so we made salsa verde

the upside to being permabanned from twitter is that I had no idea “closer to fine” was the Barbie car anthem until it came on screen

the real downside to the Midwest is we do not have cute lil lizards running around everywhere

starting the new futurama I’m scared

I bought my GORPcore hat (in two colors)

does anyone else watch home improvement shows and think about how you’d just get so pissed off at whatever they surprised you with

coming out as I’m not slutty anymore but will one thousand percent go to the slutty event with you 🖤 a slut supporter

I regret to report running/walking 5-6 miles multiple times a week has made me feel amazing

sending the new morgan wade music video to everyone I’ve ever met https://youtu.be/gMBdY4D8h-I

Happy 19th anniversary of the time when the Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped shit on an architecture tour boat in the Chicago River

I have reliable wifi again is anyone still here

the worst part of international travel is not being able to bring my security blanket ($10 halloween fleece w pumpkins and black cats from kohls in 2020)