Took me a bit to get to it but I’m currently doing a reread of HC before starting PE, admittedly not quite as exciting as a fresh back to back read would be but still pretty fun.

You might as well “separate the politician from the politics” and “separate the journalist from the journalism” while you’re at it. In fact, why ever hold anyone accountable for anything?

It’s one thing when you’re discussing someone who is dead and whose works are public domain but it’s absurd to use it for contemporary artists who are actively using their art to spread harm.

It’s almost like ”separate the art from the artist” was just an excuse to reify predominate social structures by making sure awful people never face consequences for their actions.

Nudity without sexual intent is not an example of someone harming you you puritanical weirdos

Growing up going to a Unitarian church with pagan parents, we would go every week except Christmas and Easter so we could dodge the overly Christian services.

Also props to my dad for walking out and not engaging in the “boys club” talk.

Remembering when my dad walked out of a car dealership because the dealer talked about putting my mom’s “sweet little ass” behind the wheel of a sports car. I thought my mom was going to burn the place down when he told her about it.

meme of woman making a bad face with text “when the yuri love interest is built like a man” over her making a good face with text “when the male characters in a yuri are drawn to look like women”

Being “color blind” or “gender blind” or any other oppression-blind is like being nose blind to the smell of dog piss in your rug. The smell is still there and your only friends who still come over are the ones whose house also smells like piss.

I don’t think it can be overstated how many of our society’s perceived virtues are based on generational trauma from past wars.

I hate “resealable” packages that have stronger sealing mechanisms than the glue that holds them on

I especially love it in monster romance.

I love the monster trope where by trying to be human, the monster starts to actually become human, and often is thus rendered vulnerable. I find the concept that trying to be human makes us human fascinating.

List that says “Current Favorite Pens” with the pen’s name and current ink written using each pen. Tom’s Studio Fountain F - Diamine Laurel Asvine P20 M - Diamine Myrrh the Merrier Lamy Safari M - Diamine Pineapple Spritz Kaweco Collection Sport Honey - Kaweco Blue included cartridge Sailor Fude de Mannen - Diamine Mittens The pens are all underneath the text held up by two wiener dog chopstick rests

Here’s my favorite pens right now. The inks are all from the Diamine advent calendar this past year if you see a theme.

I Asked Claude to Generate 10 Jokes About Pete Hegseth, Tradcaths, And The Hundred Years' War in the Style of Dennis Miller and None of Them Were Funny. AI Is Just That Good.

person who thinks it’s unfair for the ASPCA to use images of cute animals to raise money to help save animals that aren’t as cute

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.

I love my fountain pen hyperfixation partly because wanting to use new inks and pens encourages me to write more of my book and do more art.

the number of times i was told called lazy because i aced tests but didn’t do homework is like half my trauma. for the life of me, my younger self could not understand why they cared if i did homework when i clearly learned the thing the homework was supposed to teach me.

I took a class on conspiracy theories in college from a professor whom I’m pretty sure believed quite a few of them.

The theory then goes that for decades they kept Hinckley hopped up on so many drugs in a psychiatric institution that he could never reveal the truth.

One of my favorite conspiracy theories is that the CIA didn’t trust Reagan‘s union background so the first assassination attempt was a chance to implant a device that could stop his heart to keep him in line.

Disclaimer: I am not saying I believe this, I am merely stating that it is interesting.

A huge pet peeve of mine is text files on a multi platform system that have a .txt extension. Keep that nonsense to windows where it belongs

Some songs are timeless

Allies on TDOV: I feel the pain of everyone

Allies the next day: Then I feel nothing

i’m not sorry myself. i’m proud of how whimsical we kept it as we watched the world we were promised get slowly pulled out from under our feet

An underrated aspect of skirts and dresses is how much cheaper it is to replace underwear than a pair of pants with a hole in the crotch.

If he believed it he wouldn’t be getting literal brain worms from eating raw pork

It also is super uneven just how dangerous visibility is across our society. I’m a well paid white woman in Minneapolis so that affords me more safety to be visible than much of the community. I would never judge someone who does not have that privilege for prioritizing their safety over visibility.