i don't think this is incorrect either factually or spiritually! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeKS...

i want my brain to not feel like it's been beat up even at the very end of the weekend and i want two ponies

"What if it were actually the objects that held the power."

More buchs

5. Have a dark heart 💜

At a previous job we had this concept of "malicious compliance," which I know the illustrator of this piece understands. Now that the planet is shattered on the floor, all of us on it will definitely be able to flip that Nebraska house seat blue well in time for the next judicial vacancy

Anne, giving Dorothea 🛖 🛁 (Anne really wrecks me--I think the part where she tries to advise Elizabeth about Mrs Clay, knowing Elizabeth won't listen, is what did it. the way she has gotten to a place where she just expects and asks for nothing, and tries to make things go well for people anyway.)

:(((

@astoehr.bsky.social & @katpburke.bsky.social

Did I post this before dept: two weeks ago after & based on therapy I added "spend time thinking about whether it is worth fighting to live" on my finch daily tasks, and I think it is the most consequential personal thing I have ever done (I guess transitioning is maybe also important)

For All Mankind S5 is great but today's episode reminds me of how much I've been jonesing this season for a horrible non-political thing happening to someone in space, and it has taken seven episodes for me to get my Fix

Yomu yomu has a new story by the same writer; we are so back

second shift, its fruits; she goes to lie down

Q: What kind of enigmatic, weather-ruined sailor would you rent your unsustainable country property to while you decamp to Bath? Wrong answers only. 🛁 (and perhaps, 🐋)

resolved: i would like to take seriously that what i am doing has value, in the way that michael brough seems to. i believe it of him why not of me anymore. it is something that it is okay to fight for time and resources to do; it isn't just this doofy thing i persist in; it has Community Worth

worked first shift til 7 because that's how it is in this vale of tears, now crapping out on second shift. but i am excited to listen to michael brough in the forest one by one, saying things i love about how the process of making weird things changes over time www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Tm...

The "out of the way swine" comic is great but this is the best comic strip of all time

"Trans people curdle the milk; we do it even as we're being milked, our transness extracted from our overall humanity & funneled through narrowing, pathologizing rhetoric. We're not real. We're not real, and yet we're ruining the nation" @meganmilks.bsky.social MEGA MILK @feministpress.bsky.social💥

The super basic egg biscuit sausage and gravy deal at kerbey lane Cafe in 2005 that cost $4 and you could get it with an orange juice and seltzer for $1 more while you read your little books

"well I'm not braggin' babe, so don't put me down / but I've got the fastest set of wheels in town" how is that not bragging. MF your whole song is bragging. This whole SYSTEM is bragging!

Come read Persuasion with us this month! We start tomorrow! 🛁 #inthenavy

(dril candles tweet) 🛁

Slightly diminish a book: On the Calculation of Area

gabrielle bell

We have news! Transistance Press and Galaxy Moth Press have merged! We are now... Prismata Press! Same trans vibes. Same trans goodness. prismata.press

Happy general strike day to those who celebrate <333

Hmm! K, weird idea, but: i might be tempted to write down every fact you know about the different you you worry your mother wishes for? A lot of the harm of a projection is from holding both the projection & you in mind; getting it on paper means you don't have to hold so tightly. What do you think?

At one point in my life I tried to do one scary yet safe thing a day, then to give myself nice rewards for this. That isn't exactly living, but it isn't exactly not either, and it builds good muscles for it. I think if you do that and also journal about it a lot, you will get farther than you think.

Ooof <3 intimacy is a habit you have to sometimes consciously change. To change a habit you have not just to desist from something but to find a new liveable status quo and routine, and to do it very, very slowly, and guided by what feels comfortable and also clean. I wish you both so much luck. <3

Who needs to know what to do. This account has got u

I was a product of the Texas public school system, which means I have the opportunity to say: lee iacocca's autobiography about turning around Chrysler (one of our assigned seventh grade English books)

What happens when you bump it from below. What comes out

It is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter

when summer fun first came out it was impossible for me on some level to believe it because I didn't believe anything good should happen to me; I was bad and maybe evil. I remember being interviewed by my friend, looking at a copy of the book, and thinking "you didn't write a book. That's not real"

Try starting small with characters very close to home. Try writing scenes with these characters, further, that are really mundane--my favorite warmup is following them to the grocery store. Watch what they do until they begin to surprise you, and it feels like discovery (it will)

Best piece of craft advice: It can and should be simpler, even and especially when it is complicated

working on this ludicrously labor intensive project is exciting because there are a few islands of finished test pages scattered throughout the book file, so every little bit i improve from the Crude Thumbnails feels like a spreading stain of color and ink throughout a base medium

every 100 years, the veil between worlds thins. the evil power swells. the second shift begins

All I had to do today, other than all the things I am behind on doing, was send one email. And you'll be pleased to know I didn't send it

$5.25/HR at office max store #242 in plano tx. I was 16 and bought any used CD I wanted; I thought I was such a lucky duck

gamer youth pastor voice: is christianity a rougelike, or a roguelite? well, that all depends, doesn't it--on what you believe

A micropress is a whole legal business with $ obligations to authors. I strongly advice, especially if you don't have publishing experience, starting MUCH smaller. Can you put together a reading? An email newsletter for just your own writing? Do it, but teach yourself slowly.

Ooof <3 this one is hard. When my brain got slower and less fun after covid I could def feel people pull back. It hurts. You say most friendships, not all. If you have to spend your spoons wisely, it's worth putting the energy toward just people who are giving you energy back--

I think you should always bother with groups in general. Q: Are there friends from the stillborn group who were more active than others? Maybe talk to just them with a lil retro on what happened, and see if that points any kind of way forward to a v2 group structure? Sometimes it takes a few tries.

Be brave; ask them for anonymous advice 💋 Honest tho I don't know. I think the life stages work of 40+ is about trying to be secure enough in soul to provide care to what you care about; I have mystical faith that if you do, the people you need to meet will come into your path when you are ready.

Okay so if you follow me maybe you know about my book summer fun: started 2009 pubbed 2021. Or a/s/l: started 2016 after two years of planning, pubbed 2025. Novel 4 started 2019, still isn't done. It just takes a long time; if it feels important it's worth it; the future will wait I promise, bb <3

Yes yes yes. <3 right now I'm reading a book by the Eriksons (life stages) about finding meaning in old age. The idea is that of the eight "big conflicts" in life (autonomy vs shame and like that), finding the wisdom to be able to become okay with death is the very last and hardest--

This is relatable. One of my favorite things to do when I'm in a new place and feel disconnected is establish a little routine: go to the same place every day for a while and say at least a few things/ask a few questions of people there. Grow little shoots of connection: it will start to help 🌿