I'M GONNA CRY

This is one of the last days I get to post these absolutely curséd animations I made for eel facts season. I think I'll post them in a thread here for posterity. Get a calendar at EelFacts.net

LISTEN UP! December 1 is Monday. This means I only have another 6 days to get an advent calendar to you.. Those days include Thanksgiving and a Sunday. I will be doing a post office drop tomorrow! This is your last chance. I can't guarantee it'll get there by Monday, but it could! SquidFacts.net

If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.

reinventing fandom wank and otf wank from first principles

[to the tune of "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"] Iiiii want a tentacle necklace for Christmas

that first shower at my parents' house with the incredible water pressure, what a joy

everything is Clean Enough and my brother's plane lands in two hours, they will sing songs of my heroism and fortitude

so sad to hear of the passing of Gilbert Lawall, who is probably a huge part of how I ended up with two classics degrees gazettenet.com/2025/11/21/o...

I gotta say, of all weeks to have a family situation sucking up all my energy so I have none to spare for the news, this one seems like a good option

The way we watch movies has changed since Arlington's Capitol Theatre first opened in 1925. The theater has, too.

okay self you gotta go to BED so you can get UP in the MORNING and CLEAN before your SIBLINGS arrive

I DID THE TASK. and sent an email. I'm a hero and a champion

home from. a doctor's appointment and there's a work task I should really do because I have no idea what's going on next week but I would really rather lie face down on the floor

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TRUE LIFE: I Didn't Finish The Library Ebook Before It Was Due And Now I'm Sixth In Line

update: the special was fucken great

If you are wondering about my extensive backlist, and which book/series might best fit your current reading needs/tastes, I wrote this post for you (boy-band style): imakeupworlds.com/index.php/20...

god bless my colleague who stocks the breakroom and decided to put the single serve packets of ghirardelli hot cocoa in there

oh the winter nosebleeds are upon us

#criticalrole I love all of the choices Sam is making with Wic, I am DELIGHTED

put on "the very best of enya" and I do feel better about life, tbh

me: I will focus up and get a bunch of editing done this afternoon the world's worst car alarm: ahem

cost of laundry went up by a quarter a load on our building's machines, that's great

it's TIIIIIIIIIIIME

cloudflareoff / cloudflareon

I shall always be impressed and terrified by the people doing their makeup on the subway train

having a real day of it. tell me something good that has happened to you recently, pals?

nicolas wingdings refn. is this anything

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demi's special is the only thing that's going to get me through this week

well, I didn't get any laundry done, but I did: finish swapping my winter and summer clothes, change the sheets, and baked a pumpkin bread (yesterday) and made dinner from scratch (today) AND did all the dishes. so I feel accomplished

me: I'm gonna get so much done today! my uterus: BITCH,

this post made me put on Rumours while doing housework and you know what? correctly rated album

I haven't made these in forever but they're delicious; the tart cranberries add a nice counterpoint to all the sweetness

Sometimes I actually agree when people say Bluesky is the most insufferable social network.

Had a dream where I was at a Bon Jovi concert and my wallet was stolen and I am not sure which part was more alarming

trying to express my sympathy and understanding with only eyes and eyebrows to a woman whose three children are making a droning "aaaahhhh" noise at three different and dissonant pitches like: you are clearly not having your best day ever, my friend

CRYING, SCREAMING, THROWING UP: On Grief & Horror My FREE, VIRTUAL master class for the Western Colorado University Graduate Program in Creative Writing is next Monday, November 17! You do not need to be affiliated with Western or have prior writing experience to attend. Tell your friends!

the number of people who don't know their own email addresses continues to baffle and dismay hope Petra gets their new desk, it looks nice

Guys and Dolls is the show that is most likely to be wildly entertaining regardless of which company is staging it, up to and including 7th graders.

IT'S NOT EVEN FOUR YET?

really want to bake this sometime. maybe december's book club?

only one?

I fully understand and agree with the reasons it sucks for so many films to go straight to streaming, or with only a very limited theatrical run before that however I do love how quickly this means high quality gifsets show up

OH NO MY WALLET

gotta get his book from the library so I can see if Corey Loog Brennan is in it (cc @lizgloyn.bsky.social )

THE SECRET HISTORY did not make me a classics major (I already was one when I read it) but it did show me that I could still love a book even when every single character was on a scale from "insufferable" to "horrible"

I love my friends

the millennial urge to persistently misspell "tumbler" when talking about a drinking vessel