Your therapist wished you good luck! Obviously everything's fine! Good luck! 🫠

Definitely. That's what it means when a thing can't be fixed.

Oh noooooooooo

I feel like this neatly encapsulates my interior struggles on so many things. Thank you for this.

PRECISELY. I sing this one to the tune of "Because the Night," so it's got double the (pardon the pun) star power.

At the very first line, I had the "girl yelling in the club because HER SONG just started" reaction.

The fairytale anthologies were so deeply important to me at a probably-too-young age. Bless my local library, and my grandmother's firm belief in letting children loose therein.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

My only quibble with this is that it's generally not considered acceptable to lean on a stranger's shoulder to sleep.

It was good! The space wasn't over-crowded or over-warm, which meant it wasn't super obnoxious dancing in a mask. The cement floors reminded my knees that they are Not As Young As They Were, but I had a lovely time.

They were really comfy!

... right up until they weren't

This post physically hurts me, as I think about what shoes to wear out to the goth night tonight, which is one of our favorite local DJ's last events before retirement.

@mpgphd.bsky.social THE DREAM-MEECES GOT INCREDIBLY CHEESED

Thank you!!!

Ooooh! What book?

*Wassailing the potty*

I am *dying*, this is so good.

All? Yes? Do I have to chose?

YEAH. Whew. That's a concise expression I wasn't aware I needed.

Look, we love a skid making an effort.

AND who's not! I'm on there! I mostly read other people's stuff! I am not influential! Like, you have to be REALLY committed to the bit to sweep me up in this, I feel.

Still and all, an honor to share a malicious blocklist with such fine folks.

I appreciated the running theme of time/the afterlife making enemies into (possibly 'really good', I'm looking at you, Theseus and Asterion) friends - see also Sisyphus and Bouldy.

...and I really like the moments where that very much *doesn't* happen, too.

Amanda Seyfried as Mother Ann Lee in the Testament of Ann Lee. Seyfried is leaning into frame from the right, in profile, staring straight ahead, with one arm thrown out, hand spread wide open.

...it was this or Jane Eyre

EXCELLENT. I shall ensure my scorpion flail is nice and sharp.

Will snakes in hair/as belts be permissible? I know it's crossing the streams a bit, but these are important questions.

And...I love this framing for the legacy of the Shakers. "Mother's grace, mother's virtues raining down on her children" also feels appropriate, and I hope Ann Lee is pleased, if not, perhaps, satisfied.

OH GOTCHA. Yes, then. Unqualified yes.

as a base for 12/24 things. Not that this is unusual, really, in the grand scheme of traditions, even Post-Reformation Christianities. I suppose I just like a lot of Shaker theology and praxis better than other forms of charismatic/ecstatic Protestantism.

I don't *understand*-understand this, but my tiny bit of searching around it has me inclined to agree with you.

...AND I think one of the most compelling things, to me, about the Shakers in this respect is the whole-hearted integration of, I guess, World 48 things - physical body things -

This brushes right up against my own strengthening determination to prioritize Doing Helpful Things That May Or May Not Be Remembered and not give in to the lingering Gifted Kid desire to Be The Most Specialest.

I think about you, and the ways you serve your community, a lot in relation to this.

Owwwww.

Well done. Extremely well done.