announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

I hope these are the ones in France

Limited audience complaint: the thing about being pregnant is, I’ve lost my long-markèd penchant for mpreg. I never thought it would happen to me…

babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped

[hits elf pipe]

🩷🩷🩷🍹🧁

Engraving showing a mansion being ransacked, as french revolutionaries yeet all the goods out of windows.

"A quick method used by the French people to disempower an aristocrat" - (1791) anonymous engraver

I’ve read A C Bradley on tragedy before, but sometimes you come on him out of direct context and you’re just like, YES, that is what tragedy (beyond the Greek or Shakespearean definition) is… and also I should write more sad things about elves one day

@shinkicker.bsky.social happy birthday, best of allisons 🩷🩷🩷 ilu

My Uni told me contingent positions keep eating its early career post-docs so I asked how many EC scholars it has and it said it just goes to the shelter and gets a new EC scholar afterwards so I said it sounds like it’s just feeding EC scholars to con. pos. and then its grad students started crying

“Woman yelling at a cat” is an Internet meme. It juxtaposes two images: on the left, a screen capture of "Malibu Beach Party from Hell", an episode from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, depicting cast member Taylor Armstrong crying and pointing (held back by Kyle Richards); and on the right, a picture uploaded to Tumblr in June 2018, depicting a white cat from Ottawa, Ontario, Smudge, sitting at a dinner table behind a salad with a seemingly bemused expression. This version has been edited to superimpose trumps angry screaming face over Taylor’s and the cat has been given a white pope mitre with a gold cross design.

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

You’re qualified as an honorary Aussie now, you should file for citizenship

There was a woman in an honest to god Going Out Top from the early 2000s, you just don’t see them, even with the 2000s fashion return, like that anymore!

This is in no way a slam; I hear John Darnielle play the deep cuts and I’m 18 and it’s 2005 again. I wouldn’t go back for anything, but my late teens/early twenties were a time of such intense feeling and growth and change, I’ll always be nostalgic for that time and place

A mix of ages at this show, but it’s genuinely amazing how many of the people, male and female, could have just walked out of the same gig in 2005. The vaguely normie to indie clothes and hair styles haven’t changed since then: the clothes themselves may be that old, they weren’t giving cosplay

Isn’t missing @shinkicker.bsky.social basically permanent state

It is the Custom

d) I’m outraged to learn there’s an opener because I have to go to bed earlier for my very early Saturday morning appointment!

I know I’m old now because I’m at the Mountain Goats with @cznz.bsky.social and a) I need to sit because standing too long at this point of pregnancy makes me dizzy; b) I’m really mad about all the vaping around me; c) I’ve been so stressed about other things I haven’t done my set list homework

I’d fight this to the death

You’re so justified

Spiritually perma-damp

tsundere cat

Smoke signals

I went googling and apparently red/green/yellow go back to 19th century trains, and before that only red had meaning (to ships). So maybe you could have Age of Sail guys using red in bed, but

These guys! Enormous

@thatgoodnight.bsky.social they keep showing these establishing shots of Australian birds being eerie, and I do think of you

And @cz_nz immediately produced a bag of the mini ones. You can still potentially lose a tooth on them! I’m so glad this nostalgic throwback hasn’t enshittified. They still fight back.