The BTS Netflix is midnight tomorrow our time, so @sonsofdurin.bsky.social is staying over in the middle of my guest room > nursery, office > guest room chaos and I’m being very parsimonious in my hospitality promises. You will have A bed There will be a CLEAR PATH to the bathroom

come back to meeeee

The universe is punishing me for my slothful ways. I have movers today rearranging my furniture between floors for the nursery and taking away a set, and they are an hour and a half early! Unjustifiably!

I legitimately believe that not only is there a 'value' in it, as a human being, to do writing and art and music even if you're not very good at it, but that it'll make you feel a lot better as a person. And you learn that it's harder than it looks but it's not so hard that you can't learn to do it

The portrait of Pierre Sala opposite a French inscription in mirror writing, from a collection of love poems he wrote for his future wife Marguerite Bullioud in around the year 1500 (Stowe MS 955) searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

I mean, it's not actually a surprise that they think this; it's been pretty obvious for a while. It is a surprise that they're stupid enough to say it out loud.

I got home from Australia around 2am last night (late flight) and I had ambitions to do things today, but I have cancelled all of them in favour of lying on the couch & reading

Some Sydney

Adrenaline jongho study (((jorehead supremacy)

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so: 🍃

Midnight post-show gelato in Chinatown while the shop blasts Umbrella (ella ella) 🥰

Jongho forcing Mingi to sing his solo song 🥰 #ateez #ateezinsydney

Got a little teary at the end of the Sydney show. It sounds silly but the past two years+ of ivf/infertility have been really, really hard and the kpop dopamine has been loadbearing

I keep straightening my hair in the morning and Sydney’s humidity goes, oh, you thought? And it is a curly frizzy mess ten minutes after stepping out the door.

In Sydney with @thatgoodnight.bsky.social now, but some Melbourne photos

"I crave books with enough specificity that I can say they are not for everyone; the alternative, I think, is books that are not for anyone. Books that are, essentially, for the algorithm."

real footage of a critic being driven slowly out of her mind

It’s so interesting now I’m visibly pregnant to discover that just existing in public (especially with a hand on my belly) unlocks a whole level of sudden special treatment????

yeah. I know it feels like you should just be able to write the perfect words first time. if you go slow enough, you should be able to just find each next perfect word. but it's not like that. it's like a bicycle. too slow & you fall. it has to be in motion even awkwardly to get where you're going.

Sharing a couch, a box of churros, and ateez content with @thatgoodnight.bsky.social: order is restored to the universe

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a few personal websites that were linked by webring, 15 or 16

A Youth complimented my blush placement today so everything is coming up Me

‘Caravaggio exploits dress not so much as a language, but as a way of posing the question: what is it we’re most susceptible to? A scrap of fur? A feather on a thigh? Hard, burnished armour?’ @erinmaglaque.bsky.social on Caravaggio’s clothes. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

you just KNOW before the Darkening of Valinor that whenever Fëanor showed up at a feast someone was like "ugh there's that gaudy bitch in his PRECIOUS SILMARILS again"

Instagram keeps recommending me the best chocolate mousses in Paris, which is so mean when I can neither go to Paris anytime soon OR eat chocolate mousse

Happy birthday, @thatgoodnight.bsky.social 🩷🩷 🩷🧁🧁🧁🧁

rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

I have never seen a sunset as beautiful as Twitter when everyone found out David Cameron fucked a pig

“Are we going to charge him, Sarge?” “Not right away, constable. Stick him in a cell and let him sweat for a while.” “Er…”

I did all the research and read the studies to ascertain you could safely drink a certain amount of coffee daily when you were pregnant, and then around seven weeks my body was like, sorry, no, if you try to drink that, I WILL BE SICK.

Dinner and a show with a friend — we’re seeing a rather charming production of Murder on the Orient Express, and an underrated pleasure is listening to everyone around us trying to solve the murder during the interval.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

Summer & Pride month 🌈

My most controversial figure skating opinions come from the peak of my fandom being 2010-2012(!). I’m not reconciled to this newfangled ‘team event’ or ‘music with lyrics’ nonsense… in my head it’s still 2010 and no one has ever landed a 4L in competition…

nothing is more compelling to me than a character who would use having unsafe sex as a self-destructive coping mechanism. truly top notch 👌

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

What do you get a couple in their early 30s as an engagement present? (My youngest brother, N).

Seeing Gaiman trying to stage a return makes me want to vomit bile.

Caramel. I’m a caramel anti.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I miss coffee so much

Hell is a children’s indoor playground during the school holidays (I love nephew and seeing him have fun, I just could do without all the toddlers with tambourines)

Totally obsessed with this photo of Mingi

Visiting Perth just at this time (and while pregnant): 🥵🥵🥵

‘Georges de La Tour’s scan of the visual field is a stark, bold testing out of basic facets of experience. What is it to face another human, when that person cannot see you?’ Julian Bell at the Musée Jacquemart-André. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Flew to Perth (7 hours) to see my sister and little nephew, and I’m wiped out. Sister’s cat is a mood.

Have discovered that my dad’s new girlfriend calls him G-Force. I don’t know how to assimilate this.