The wizard's pajama robes are set on a little table next to the bathtub. He carefully steps into the bath. It is just the right temperature and the bubbles smell of cinnamon.

Okay I've been trying to assume good or neutral intent of the guy whose room I'm subletting—he's been just this side of pushy in a vaguely misogynistic way—but I just received directions on how to exist from him that I genuinely cannot even repeat here, I am flooded with anger & shame & disbelief.

LRT I don't see how much longer the majority of us can go unmasked pretending COVID isn't still here. 2 of the roommates here have chronic wracking coughs. 1/3 cases of COVID lead to LC. It damages every bodily system. I wish ppl would snap out of it. I don't want to be one of the last left standing

Disappointed to see Jon Stewart & co joke about masking in public. I do it for my medically fragile daughter (Batten Disease). People not masking properly led to her getting pneumonia, which led to her being on life support, which led to me getting price quotes on her cremation just in case.

Top/bottom is not a personality trait, a power dynamic, etc. Fan fic writers PLEASE I beg you, stop thinking gay sex positions are hogwarts houses. Nobody seems like a top or bottom in real life. It means nothing.

The Gentleman Pirate, I presume?

Me about every food I miss from back home, clearly they nail Mexican food, and they've got pastries and coffee so fika is safe, but everything else is just depressing the shit out of me. Why are non salty foods so salty and vice versa? Sometimes I want to not have to make my food.

Every neighborhood has its own sounds that either enhance or detract from being there and this neighborhood's are a solid negative - Man repeatedly yelling what sounds like all aboard minus the consonants - VERY loud dog barking and whining 12 hours a day - Overenthusiastic church bells

I forgot this video existed I miss New York I also miss Nordic bike paths That's all for now

i miss my best friends ed teach and stede bonnet and jim jimenez and izzy hands and wee john feeney and oluwande boodhari and frenchie and roach and the swede and nathaniel buttons and zheng yi sao and mary read and lucius spriggs and black pete and fang and ivan and spanish jackie and archie and —

I woke up with cramps and then immediately saw at least four people on the TL who have been taken down with their periods, I do kind of love that every now and again we all sync up

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

izzy come here they’ve got a bird guy

It is more than a little disturbing that humanity's current trajectory is canon compliant with Battlestar Galactica

This exposes the core lie on which the entirety of “gender-critical” transphobia is based. The transphobes’ entire campaign is based on the false claim that they represent cis-women. The number of signatories to this, is way higher the number of signatories to their transphobic WDI “declaration”.

to be honest i’m thinking about packing it all in, it can be a bit of a grind

If this is a bait post it's a really evil yet effective one Bc this is the wrongest fucking take I have seen in quite a long while and I need people like this to fucking pay attention and take the destruction of lives and communities seriously because WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS??

These parents killed their child and we need to say it

i know what you’re all thinking

I keep trying to meal plan something nice, instead of grabbing something quick and cheap at random, but inexplicably this apartment, which has an electric kettle and toaster oven, doesn't have a microwave? I keep forgetting only to startle myself when I remember. How do they live like this?

Tonight's mood: I hope a rogue planet crashes into Earth

When it's my time, I hope this is how I go

The wizard sleeps tranquilly. The little cat appears to be reading a grimoire in the library.

Friends Okay Test I'm torn between appreciating that it's not blowing wind up my skirt with like "happy" or "financially stable", and feeling like 2/3rds of this only confirm my apprehension about the future is very warranted.

Chapter 6: uphill archiveofourown.org/works/633378...

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

Post a perfect album from the 90s

Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.

Financially, emotionally, historically, psychologically, intellectually, culturally, spiritually, aesthetically, thematically and existentially speaking, what happened in 2025 can never happen again

Weirdly affirming but also really sad to see multiple other people describe 2025 as the worst year of their life. This year has been me teetering on the brink of disaster, with a couple of months where things felt like they were going well right in the middle. Scared it's only gonna get worse.

I spent 3/4ths of this year terrified about money & am still not out of danger til at least February. Which may mean I will lose the opportunity to move abroad but I cannot go back to the US. It makes doing anything impossible, it makes writing impossible, & anything accomplished this year undone.

The ex-paladin and the wizard go for a walk. The wizard picks lobster mushrooms and the ex-paladin carries his basket.

no one gets me like they do

The little cat steps on the wizard's hand, waking him up. He goes to make waffles with blackberry compote and put some fish out for the little cat. As he makes tea, the air fills with the smell of clove. After breakfast, he unpacks his reagent delivery and puts the new reagents away.

Not a knock on Heated Rivalry bc the writing gives compelling reasons for why they hide their sexualities, but it reminded me that I’m so tired of watching tearful coming out confessions, apologies for keeping it a secret, etc. I want more characters who are gay and it’s just treated as normal. 1/

Somehow I misunderstood the timeline for the other roommates in the apartment I'm subletting a room in — thought I was solo here for 3 weeks, turns out it's 3 days. Had to do a hasty cleanup and 7-10 trips to get my shit into the room, gave myself an asthma attack. Undid all the good rest had done.

When I was a kid, I told my parents to change my name to "Ray" from "Raywat" because I was tired of the endless racist taunts from assholes. Years later, when I got my first book deal, I insisted on always being called "Raywat" because that's my fucking name, and my name is a gift from my parents.

Here’s to 2026

I know you'd almost never need it here but when it's still only 10 C at ten am and you're battling some hulked out version of the flu, I feel like having indoor heating would be worth it I am a popsicle 🥶

Bill Murray calling Chevy Chase, to his face, “Medium talent”

I'm too weak to make it to the first floor so I've had zero foods today I'm also too weak to make anything if I made it down, and even if I ordered something, that's down stairs across living room all the way down the private road to unlock the gate No way in Hell I'd make it 😭 Pls send foods

In less than a week, I will be sworn in as the next mayor of New York City. It was only possible because of the more than 100,000 people who volunteered on our campaign. Here’s a story about one of them, my mother.

Merry day after Christmas, I have stomach flu 😣

While Your Sleeping is starting, this rom com is the best in its genre and its main theme is found family, what more could we ask! Come join us if you'd like 💜

Moonstruck watch party is now starting! I think While You Were Sleeping is up next and I cannot emphasize how much I hope people join. It has mutual pining, Bill Pullman is such a snack it kills me,the main theme is found family — it's incredible

It sounds like the neighbors got a karaoke machine, bc the tuneless halting sound of a completely unidentifiable song, sung by what sounds like an elementary school-aged kid is being pumped at full volume into the private street we're on and into this apartment and I am in NO MOOD

Merry Christmas