You'd love it!

Yeah, the bodice is wrong. It should be cut on the bias, but it's not, and so I suspect the whole thing fits badly.

Tyler Mcgillivary's Sea Kraken dress, on a model - a long greenish blue drsss decorated with red tentacles and pailletes.

Trying to figure out what I should wear to my daughter's wedding next month, and nothing is jumping out at me. That said, this dress is being advertised to me everywhere, which is unsurprising for my general aesthetic. A bit too sea witch though, I fear.

The cover of Jorge Luis Borges' The Book of Imaginary Beings, featuring a human-faced creature with long ears, small wings, a sort of turkeyish tail, and elegant hooves, illustrated by Peter Sis.

Started reading Grimoire an imaginary being from Jorge Luis Borges every day, and I recommend it. It's possible to read an imaginary being to your 6 year old while stirring pasta sauce, or making chicken nuggets, for example.

The cover of "folkish" by kym deyn. Published by nine arches press.

Reading @kymdeyn.bsky.social's 'Folkish' and whispering "fuck offfff" after every poem because it's just so good.

This book is clearly my kind of book, and likely many of yours too!

Luna Park at Coney Island, New York, 1926
(Daily News Archive)

#Photography #ConeyIsland #LunaPark

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

It's pretty great! I have been married twice, so both marriages brought kids, and the second one, we had a kid together. Was all this easy? No! But worth it.

I have, all told, 4 stepkids and 1 kid I gave birth to, and it's a little bit wild, to hope for people across many age groups, all at once, to have spent the past 26 years (!) raising so many people, when I never even saw myself as someone who'd have children. But it's pretty awesome.

Lately, raging & raging & raging, combined with considering the entire history of humans, combined with making purpose-built amaro for my daughter's wedding, combined with waiting to welcome my son's baby, combined with soccer games for my 6 year old. A lot of living, mashed with a lot of thinking.

!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, it's gross - there's also a pill version, which is what I had, and that was okay. Pills and like, a bajillion gallons of water.

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Sometymes evil doth seeme so powerful that the heart groweth sick. But ther ys comfort yn the fact that evil ys an aberration. Our default settinge ys lovinge each othir and lookinge out and takinge care. We smyle at children. We give somebodye bus fare. We share advyce. Kyndenesse ys braverye.

:((((( I'm so sorry.

It does. Sounds like you might have some of your own sad experience. :/ i'm sorry! I hate it.

Thank you! At least my ow horrible knowledge can be used to remind other people to get their colonoscopies. :/

Yeah, I get it, I'm a type 1 diabetic, so the fasting prep is hard for me and I have to constantly battle low sugar. But I got it done. I think there are some sugar workarounds?

If you're anxious about getting the colonoscopy done, know that it's only about 6 hours of intermittent shitting your brains out. At least you're prepared, not post-bad oyster on a street corner somewhere! The rest of the prep is just fasting, & the procedure is sleeping while they check you out.

Also: colonoscopies are unpleasant, sure, but colon cancer is much much more unpleasant. So, please do it. I just left a message for the people who did my last one, 2 years ago, because given my mom's death, I'd like to get in a little early for my next one. Cross fingers.

This is your reminder to schedule your colonoscopy if you are 45 or older. If you're high risk, earlier! My mom died of colon cancer in February, and it was terrible. She didn't go in for a colonoscopy ever, and it would have been caught a lot earlier if she had.

You actually just improved my rage spiral a moment ago by posting the article about people who study tiny beetles and chaotic dandelion reproduction.

Right here with you. Is it a hot flash or is it the bullshit of everything, everything, everything, creating a fiery rage spiral?

Walking through the airport, as I always am lately. One of these signs at the Korean Air desks reads "morning calm" while the rest read "bag drop." I stood here a minute, wondering how this happened, and wishing that morning calm was an option for me.

Another day, another round of "Am I filled with incandescent rage because of perimenopause or because of the increasing inequity and inhumanity of society"

If you're gonna turn in a skyship story you didn't actually write, best to check that your professor didn't write a skyship book that was a NYT bestseller. 😵‍💫

A student of mine turned in a chat gpt written short story, and had the major misfortune to base it on my own novel, which he apparently did not realize. But I do. Also it's all the things that suck about chat gpt writing. So passive it's comatose. Arghhhhh.

Me smiling from the back of a taxi cab, in a good dress covered with text, and a snake shaped necklace.

If you're bored and in Chicago (well, Oak Park/river Forest) tonight, come see me talk about old stories and why they're crucial to rhe survival of humans - or at least, why they really matter. Also I'm in a good dress.
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Photograph b & w A short expanse of wall and radiator: looking through a doorframe we see a section of paper with feet and lower legs below, faint shadow of a body holding up the paper. At an angle in the background, the image of a small door with a single hand obscuring the space where a doorknob would be.

Francesca Woodman
Angel Series, Rome 1977