...is this hockey, baseball, or politics?
I'm either rooting for your team or very sad.

Yay, I'm so glad!

...honestly Bree nothing about this surprises me.

If ANYONE want's to "possess" something yeah, that's probably bad or they're a poltergeist but ffs dudes can gush about cute kids in public and pretending "Ooooh that's just predator behavior" reinforces patriarchal norms that let them avoid contributing.

I would posit that lots of men actually are very good at gushing over kids but that there's a model of patriarchy that offloads a lot of the parenting labor to women. As such, the dudes don't have practice AND THEN they used feigned incompetence to avoid doing any of that "parenting" stuff....

To be clear, I don't mean the post as any sort of shade or anything. I get where you're coming from. It's just part of my personal journey as a writer. I wasn't always aware of that in my work and I had some people educate me and I was like "oh, shit, I need to think about this."

One thing I learned from your trip is Nepal isn't Tibet.

Ooof. Sending hugs for Crone cat. That's always tough. We've got a dignified old lady cat who is similar.

i respect season 2 of the pitt for saying "ignoring your depression & trauma doesn't make you the sympathetic hero, it makes you a problem in the fucking workplace"

Congratulations!

Okay the "...for reasons" sounds creepy af I just mean I might have need of a similar commission sometime.

Gawd that's such a good post.

Also, I'm definitely jotting down your artist's name for... reasons.

That seems serious.

Sara your growth is purring.

Oh no.
I'm so sorry John! I know that's been a lot of frustration and a lot of, well, physical pain. That is overwhelmingly exhausting.

Sending you care man. And some puns. I know puns don't actually solve fractured ribs or pain, but it's what I got.

Counterpoint:
Politics are present anywhere people are interacting; we are not immune to or separate from the power structures we live in.

All art is political; the question is are you conscious about what you're including.

Kinda like fashion that way. Everyone HAS a style. Do you control it?

Don’t just let it be terrible, LEAN INTO it being terrible, because no one’s going to see it.

I only bring this up because someone mentioned just this week that this trick is useful, but I *still* 30 years in, when stumped, write this on the top of the page.

spittake

Yeah. That Cory Booker speech.
"You let someone get into office who..."

I get the point he's trying to make BUT ALSO bro. You're blaming US? THE VOTERS? What was the establishment who let Biden stay in the race too long? What was the establishment who has capitulated to the mango often?

Good luck and be safe.

WE WERE FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMAN.

I *cannot believe* that high school freshman seem to have fucking thought through geopolitical implications more than those assholes. Except I actually kinda can. The dude who quotes the Tarantino Bible via Chat GPT prolly is shit at thinkin.

Okay okay but to just hop on a soapbox for a fuckin second RE: Iran and shit.

Waaaay back in the day, in 2001, I was in debate. The topic was Weapons of Mass Destruction. We LITERALLY had a file "Hormuz Disadvantage"; the argument was "Do ANYTHING to Iran, they'll fuck up the strait of Hormuz."

So I keep a little daily moleskin notebook with me that's just plain for random thoughts. And I realized about the third one I'd gone through I could just... decorate them? However I wanted?

So I cannot fucking wait to do one plastered with anti-AI shit. @hebaha.bsky.social also got some! :D

Also: you're so COOL.

Sick.

Annnnnnd done.

I dunno gang, maybe letting a few greedy bastards accumulated wealth with that many zeroes was actually a bad idea.

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time