a four panel comic. in the top one, there's a bird-like silhouette with glowing red eyes. in the other three, Mulder looks up in wonder. he's holding his cellphone, a 90s nokia, and sending Scully a text which reads "Scully ur not gonna believe this"

close-ups on Mulder's phone screen. they read "just saw the mothman" and "effervescent". Scully is holding a flashlight, her phone chirps in her coat pocket.

close-up on Scully's eyes reading Mulder's text. then two panels of Mulder and Scully together, Scully telling him "Mulder, I was standing right next to you. Also, it was an owl." at this, Mulder texts her a sad smiley face

#xfiles
he can't go without his cellphone for two minutes

look, somebody has to be at the bus stop to walk the nieces home ok??? formal logic and phonology and software dev is all very well but. Pick up nieces at bus stop.

what I really want is to put on slacks and a turtleneck and go to Work but instead I have to lie down for an hour in between each stage of cleaning the bathroom because of ye olde mitral valve regurgitation

I talk a lot shit about elder millennial awesomesauce humor but also some of the only men I can stand embody it with a purity that comes from being extremely online until 2014 when their jobs and lives picked up, after which they became normal.

fascinating 🧐 write that down

the saga of my bro and SIL’s psychotic upstairs neighbor continues tonight as through the peephole we can see him getting his ass beat by a delivery guy. how do you do something so heinous a delivery guy takes a mo out of his grueling underpaid time sensitive schedule to beat ur ass?

I don’t want to move because it’s a supreme hassle and I really love the quiet and space of rurality but I have to move because I spend so much time in the city it makes more sense to move there and also if I don’t I’ll die of the isolation crazies

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

tornado watch on the blue line show your coward condensation funnel and fling us into orbit

also, I can guarantee that among my connective tissue disorder brethren not a single one of those tragic tiktoks is about spontaneous anal prolapse. “GRWM as I bedazzle the jar of sugar I keep in the bathroom: 🌺 Not For Consumption ✨ “

A mantis egg sac on the spindly sticks of a perennial. Green things are starting to emerge from the soil beneath the sticks.

another mantis egg sac on the same perennial, slightly closer to the ground

two of the mantis oothecae survived the winter hell yeah brother

Horrors!!!! I’m so sorry.

Oh god tell me the gastro P isn’t back

is it respectability politics if I say stop making us all look bad and open a lunchable for your fucking kid or

and I know that right after you get your diagnosis there’s a massive adjustment period where the grief takes up all of your brain and I should be more understanding but girl. No I do not want to watch the tiktoks you made with your best tragic face

went to a chronic illness support group and I am so sorry mea maxima culpa but the whining and complaining and refusal to attempt literally anything oh my GOD some of you bitches (gender neutral)

the red-winged blackbird boys are back in town and they Do want to fight and you Will let them

nightmare Eucharist rotation

half-intelligent catholic white women who NLOG too close to the sun meet me outside for an asskicking you absolute monsters

when you realize that you are in fact like other girls 😔

she’s great and her husband shouldn’t have lied to her for 15 years or whatever

I KNOW THATS RIGHT

hey I’m reading ASOIAF for the first time and trying to square these characters with the fevered apologia that littered tumblr back in 2012 and like. was everyone high? Cersei? this is who you spent 30K words defending because feminism?

the fevered terror of Satan and devils among Christians is idolatry by their own standards. like what, your god is so weak we have to spend our lives in fear of one of his fired employees?

Wet dead leaves cover a mulched ground over the bottom half of the image. Above is dark damp mulch and earth with tiny vivid green crocus shoots.

hell yeah brother

never where I could hear. more defending and excusing. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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my insane mother’s personal heresy is that Jesus died for men and their weird sins, but since Eve wasn’t fully informed, women don’t have that kind of original sin, and we have our own little salvation situation going on that is a Mystery. you know what sure why not

spoonfuls of ajvar for breakfast? spoonfuls of ajvar for breakfast this morning queen?

touching grass, as it were