there’s no way to stop my singing in this world but to cut my throat. And when that’s done, ten to one I sing ye the doxology for a wind-up

does anyone know if confessions of the fox by jordy rosenberg was translated into french

We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up.

Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done

What tenderness there is in that preliminary touch!

if you take the breath out of his body how can you expect to find it there when most wanted!

pls let me write this good one day

suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab’s leg.

i am truly sorry that not enough ppl appreciated this

Very squiggly ink, paint, watercolour and pastel drawing of a ln expressively distorted donkey trotting by a crucified Christ on the side of a church with a window

A donkey walking past a Norfolk church with a Jesus on it

or mine are such rare pairings. t'pring & uhura lol.

all of mine are from battlestar galactica which is a mostly dead fandom so i probably won't do 😭💀 typically i've taken requests. i don't have any particular pairings which is part of what makes the decision difficult...i should prob research.

what pairing should i do for femslash bigbang

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations

like hungry dogs round a table where red meat is being carved

only by a certain self-adjusting buoyancy and simultaneousness of volition and action, can you escape

unsay that story

conscience is the wound, and there’s naught to staunch it

for the millionth time we say amen with Solomon—Verily there is nothing new under the sun

it was my cheerful duty to attend upon him while taking that hard-scrabble scramble upon the dead whale’s back

And just so much more true to life 😭

a strange fatality pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out before the world itself was charted

you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men

This is so helpful. I really appreciate it <3

The way things on Substack can be shared and circulated between members, people followed, etc!

I felt dreadfully.

What do people use that has the social media aspect that substack has?

should i start a substack?