Remember the mid-90’s when Gregorian chant became all the rage? What the fuck was that about?

Don’t believe me when I say nothing in Hookand is made up, just remembered differently? Please read Richard’s wonderful Alt text. Folklore is an amazing living current with wonderful manifestations. Scratch the surface and stories like this always turn up.

If you don't read you won't be able to write well. You need to consume a variety of genres to write effectively and craft a well-rounded story. This is a simple fact. If you never read, your writing will be flat and unengaging.

My guess is that Trump genuinely believes he’s in talks with Iran when it’s really some random staffer Susie Wiles tapped to play pretend. They’ve constructed a whole false reality around him like he’s the world’s most fucked up Make-a-Wish kid.

Do not pander. Do not dumb down. Trust your audience to be smarter than you. Trust them to be curious. Don’t erase your own voice for spurious bowing down to factors that bring nothing to the stories you need to tell. #Writing

I highly recommend reading Hello Sunshine if you haven’t read it. If you have, please consider reaching out to the publisher in support of a sequel.

Rest and be well, dear. We’re here whenever you are ready.

Remmick even carries around a banjo! (The origins of which are African)

There’s also the the inclusion of Chinese traditional percussion in “I Lied to You”, symbolic of how the Chows are *included* in the magic of Sammie’s performance…

While I would have loved to see Sinners win more awards, it definitely deserves the ones it received. I’m listening to the score again and there are so many brilliant little details:

lol. lmao.

The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026

new discovery strawberries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1913

As strawberry season comes to a close, you can now get an entire bucket of strawberries for roughly $3. When I say bucket, I mean bucket. Not a cute little container. They clearly bought these in bulk from a garden supply store. I shouldn’t buy two, right? That’d be ridiculous…

I just learned that Anthony Bourdain was 44 when he wrote the book that really launched everything we will remember him for. Gonna remind myself of this whenever I feel like I'm getting too old to pursue anything new.

So far, I have eaten half of this bucket in one day. The picture is slightly distorted so you can’t tell that the bucket is the size of my head.

Met some other expat immigrants today and the conversation was pleasant enough until they started complaining that the reason they left their home countries was because they don’t like progress and change (not their words but, “I don’t want to be told what to do, think, and say, blah blah blah.”)

Oh hey! Another picture of me captured during Strawberry season!

I’m listening to John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and it’s like listening in on someone’s deeply embarrassing therapy session. And not in a good way. Raw and emotional for him perhaps, but vaguely cringe in places for everyone else.

It is strawberry season and I look like this:

I oscillate between hoping that the only thing after death is the cool embrace of the void or being able to haunt the these monsters of humanity like a vengeful wraith.

I feel like I have achieved a weird milestone in caffeine addiction; I crave a cup of coffee daily, but it’s irreverent what time of morning I drink it. I wake up just fine without it. I just know I want to drink a cup sometime before 2 pm.

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

Can’t, I’m the last splash.

The conservative political project is to force conformity and punish those who would deviate when good art requires curiosity and a willingness to push boundaries.

America is building concentration camps. Not detention centers, CONCENTRATION CAMPS. I can’t even think of the words to describe my anger and grief. I feel sick.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible

Prosecute ICE.

In this moment, it has never been more evident that “when they go low, we go high” was a fucking mistake.

At least he (most likely) won’t get a GQ photo shoot this time. Remember this guy?

Also if this is what it takes to get ahead, maybe behind is a perfectly fine place to be.

A picture of me on my birthday, rewatching Sinners and eating cheese (which is all I wanted, really.)

Centrist Dems determined to lose by discouraging base turnout again. Nothing was learned from Kamala. To state the obvious, if leftists are actually powerful enough to sink a candidacy, maybe you should cater to them more? Not sure why they continue to believe they can win without their voters.

“We had a pretty good year, right?”

People mostly say "Americans live in different realities" to talk about politics but it is blaring in my head reading the positive reviews of One Battle After Another

I think children should be taught how to self-regulate their emotions in kindergarten and elementary school.

I think most estranged parents are estranged from their children because the parents prioritize their need for emotional comfort and validation above everything else. They can’t understand or accept the loss of parental control and eventually crash out.

I wish I could talk with estranged parents without them getting defensive. “I made sure you had food and shelter. I didn’t hit you.” Yeah, that’s the bare minimum of what parents are supposed to do. Just because someone gets a F and you get a C doesn’t mean you’re a good student.

I have to remind myself that I can’t actually eat my bad feelings away. In fact, it makes things worse.

These sour cream and onion Cheetos cheese puffs are disgusting. *proceeds to shove another handful into my mouth*

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

I think being human is and should be a constant forward motion strive to be better, kinder and happier. It’s what we owe to ourselves and other people. Find those who help you to become a better version of yourself. Be a werewolf.

Make peace with the terror of being alive

Every hour is the witching hour. We are as potent at dawn or noon as we are at the suggested 3am. We flourish during the solar alchemy of twilight. We are creatures of the threshold. The turning of time is a powerful engine of magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky