the more cultural criticism i read, the more i think "does anyone actually hold the opinion you are arguing against" needs to be a barrier before you can talk your shit in a magazine people pay money to read

i was really not expecting to like The Rest Of Our Lives very much at all and tbf if i wasn't coming off one of the worst reads of the year so far maybe i'd be harsher on it but i'm honestly quite enjoying it. it's well-paced and i'm enjoying how contextual it is. this is difficult to articulate

thesizhensystem.substack.com/p/gender-ter... this remains a fantastic read of gender as a class system that needs minority genders to reinforce the power of gender hegemony. the terminology can come across as dense but it's really worth to read and re-read a couple of times.

why is starting always the hardest part of doing a task

the lion is not intimidated by chores

i'm so oppressed as an internet homo who's not really into halloween

good morning i'm sleepy

tbh sometimes i miss mood stabilisers but then i remember they were worse than prozac

can't remember where the hell i left off w the sopranos but i can't be arsed to start from day one so i read wikipedia episode summaries until nothing seemed familiar anymore (just started s1e6 so i clearly did not get as far as i thought)

it is so funny that there is a whole generation of 30-40 year old white men who think The Wire is the greatest piece of television ever made and then you watch it and it's literally just a cop show

loooong ass day at literary festival and i have so many dishes waiting for me at home but i think im going to throw vegan nuggs in the airfryer and call it a day

tried to do something with my hair and it's so ugly but i'm already out ugh

i want to sleep longer uuuugh

kate bush is so funny bc her cadence really primes you to think she has lyrical and complex songwriting and then she hits you with the (most beautiful voice you've ever heard) "yabba dabba dooo"

okay, i've found one good thing. which is that the time limit basically functions as an ad blocker

BUSH #phanniefriday

i love trans people but some of you are fucking stupid and/or misogynists

IT'S NOT EVEN A PARTICULARLY GOOD DESCRIPTION OF THE IMAGE OH MY GOD...............

does anyone have tips for paper crafts i literally have SO MUCH craft paper i need to do something with it

OK Computer by Radiohead is legitimately one of the greatest pieces of music ever made like name one melody on that album that is not fantastic? you can't do it and if you disagree you're huffing copium

i updated to ios 26 and now my phone looks like a teenager at apple design was like "we gotta totally go back to frutiger aero y2k it's going to be so trendy" except they don't understand what made that design style look good so they just made everything shiny

good morning i'm so sleepy

now who the hell is this guy and what did he do to my dad

2 eps left on The Pitt and ep 10 just ended in the sexiest way ever im going to have to finish the show tonight i fear

i'll be real i do not need another phan memes video

lowkey infuriating that THIS is a book i had to pay real money for in my >2.5k master's degree in publishing

i'm just going to pretend like i don't have a scary stabbing pain in my side and then it will go away

Radiohead Kid A is the perfect album to get in the mood class surely

omfg i just made 3 consecutive posts that start with "i hate when" and i didn't even realise # proud member of Hater Nation

i hate when ppl respond to experimental poetry with "shakespeare is rolling over in his grave" like my man bill didn't popularise the use of the word eyeball

to be honest i hate it when people are like "don't be sad at my funeral it should be a celebration of my life" like mate you will be dead you don't get to decide how all of us are gonna grieve you

i hate that money is just numbers that we made up like it actually pisses me off on a daily basis

the lion is not embarrassed of plugging their ears when the coffee grinder turns on

good morning beautiful people. it's another day on planet earth and the world is full of love and growth!

this seems as good time as any to start that poetry thread, right?

i have soooo much writing paper does anyone want to be pen pals

it's empty for now but you can subscribe! jamesruwen.substack.com

funny thing to say as a catholic is all

made my food too spicy and it made me nauseous :(

can't resist the urge to stop studying anymore (i did less than half of what i was supposed to) im going to watch The Pitt again

if i had a substack where i just like wrote about books/tv/culture would anyone even be interested in that

the sims 4 is so ridiculously easy that it makes the game bad and yet dan and phil can barely manage to have more than than 3000 simoleons in their household inventory at any time

i was so brave and sent a really scary letter to the billing company that keeps sending my bills to the wrong address

i love using the delicates cycle on the washing machine cause it means laundry only takes 30 mins and it's so good for my clothes 🩷

sometimes i wake up thinking i wish i was tony hawk

dan and phil's sims baby is a boy but don't worry folks they will resolve this by making the kid a girl later so she can transition at the same time as dan

sighing deeply at the fact that i am now watching the booker prize shortlist announcement livestream knowing that they will probably spend like an hour faffing about before saying anything like a fucking pop idol finale

going to watch The Pitt and eat my spicy rice/smoked tofu/cauliflower dinner i hope The Pitt is actually good

sometimes i still can't quite believe that whoopie goldberg, steven hawking and the then-prince of Jordan were all in star trek at some point

the lion does not concern himself with jobs rejecting him