lindsey graham’s aorta at 2am:

TALKING IS USED TO HIDE ONE'S INABILITY TO ACT

i believe that 95% of these are from thumbs down but let's all be honest that "it made me feel unclean" could very well have been a thumbs up from ebert

has anyone ever done a twitch-streamer-style video making a tier list of jenny holzer truisms

whyyy was i not tracking that there was an early showing of teenage sex and death at camp miasma at the music box last night

the most anime thing i’m aware of happening in my immediate vicinity is a beloved neighborhood dog named jay dying recently and being replaced by a puppy, also a golden retriever, named jj (or perhaps jay-jay)

i keep being dumb and not using my professional development funds but maybe this year i’ll finally enroll in some editing classes

had a dream i went on a date and literally couldn’t understand what she was saying most of the time, in part because she was steeped in parts of trans subculture and slang i knew nothing about and in part because she was missing her front teeth

Born Again https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19741

just spilled the lemon juice i squeezed for tonight’s dinner and said “ack” like cathy from the eponymous comic. goes kinda hard tbh

i wonder if misatrophy could be anything. like when something withers and it isn’t supposed to. could be poetic; could be ed; could be nothing. thanks for tuning into misspelling wordplay hour. i’ve been your host, miss spelling. have a great day

a friend just said that if someone ever asked her who the most feminine writer is she'd say melville

accidentally bought hand soap that smells like axe body spray (apparently the main scent is ”birchwood”) and i’ve literally been tensing up every time i wash my hands. i usually think of my adolescence as “not as bad as it could have been” but i wonder if that misses the relevance of “bad”

need someone to plug in one of those calming pheromone diffusers for me

taking life steps like a cat with a tail puffed in startle at a coat sliding off a chair

if the us men's team keeps getting eliminated by teams from the low countries maybe it's the usa's homophobia that's to blame. (because of the dikes. like dyke. y'know)

Happy 232nd birthday to Fanny’s husband—the ultimate wife guy, not a musical bone in his body—Wilhelm Hensel.

you've all gotten me. i'm nancy-pilled with the rest of you

playing trails in the sky with my brother. a woman sitting on a bridge gave us a history book and said “why, you ask? because life is full of contradictions.” iconic behavior

i don’t think it’s a coincidence that this moment is tied to the memory that leads alpha to this experience, a moment of aesthetic bliss, interpersonal connection (past and present), and an affectively complex sense of self within history. hard to put in words but i just feel like It Gets It

i love this moment in the anime a lot but it might be even better here. the way she’s drawn without a border to her body in the gutter between the upper and lower pairs of panels is soo real tbh

not the first but close enough that i’m taking the luck for the month (and may good luck bless the uhaulers i just saw in turn! they were blocking a tesla which is extra credit)

at first, i did indeed think it was a rabbit. but of course it was that delightful bear, winnie the pooh, all along

turn that shit up

country roads being everywhere for the world cup has me constantly thinking about one of the best scenes of all time

felt cute going to the beach for the first time in my entire life today. literally didn’t believe that was a feeling it was possible for me to have. who knows what other feelings await us all?

do you think these biscuits have a toxic situationship thing going on with the 27th and/or 29th most legendary desserts in the world

crossing through mag mile and the loop to get to the south side often brings new horrors. like what do you mean there’s a line around the block to get into the “starbucks reserve roastery”

may you sleep on the breast of your delicate friend

i feel like there's a very strange lack of imagination at play when people who consider themselves center-left get defensive about american national symbols (flag, anthem, etc.). i find they tend to defend them not on the merits of the US, but on the pragmatics and reasonableness of rejecting them

I do think the American flag is a pretty evil symbol. sorry.

i've never been a manga reader but yokohama kaidashi kikou is soo good

i love the remedios varo bot but i will say that looking at the alt text triggers ptsd from grading student papers that may or may not be LLM-written ("explores themes of" ahhhhh)

posting the "you thought this was a rabbit?" video in four days is going to hit harder than anything has ever hit i think. this thing should become an important national symbol of whatever temporary state formation comes after all this bullshit

would it be cooking to say that guy maddin is the canadian nobuhiko obayashi

okay so i feel like the music box’s new pre-show introduction that tells people not to make out and the new theater 3‘s semi-enclosed loveseats(!) at the back of the theater do work at cross purposes

guys let's replace cops with coos. they can still be government employees (coo d'etat). anyway you'd call 911 and just hear pigeon sounds on the other line. everything would be better

it happened to me: i finished my iced tea and i want another iced tea

just took a midnight walk to deposit ~20 books into my neighborhood little free libraries. i feel like i'm probably in tune with some kind of entity from irish folklore

i can’t wait to become old women with you all.

botan finale was BEAUTIFUL. i can't believe it, a near-perfect 12 episode run. one of the best yuri/GL adaptations of the 2020s. everyone should watch kamiina botan post haste

pro-tip this is so much better than it ought to be

my brother got his wisdom teeth out today and told me to look up the white sox score (22-1 lol). i tried to gaslight him like “2-1 is a normal baseball score dude, you feeling okay on the pain meds?”

in an era of massive cruelties, one relatively small-seeming one that especially upsets me for its wanton arbitrariness is the 1-year extension of "childhood" to include 18-year-olds when it comes to blocking access to transition care

i fully did not like strawberries at all until i transitioned and now i love them. from this we can surely conclude that strawberries are a girl fruit

i wanna start a moral panic early 20th century newspaper style about coffeeshops stoking lesbian yearning incidents by playing adrienne lenker songs. exclamation points in the headline and everything

no fucking shot one of my high school classmates‘ dad is a psychologist and was on a podcast episode titled “shame, narcissism, autism, and autogynophilia”