a page from a small journal orange ink wash crossed with a copper-green a flood scene in black and white gel pen a hula hooping juggler on a disk floats in the upper left corner, a suffragette teeters atop a tower with a spiral staircase, a boat capsizes, another boat moves forward, oblivious written on the water: "I do not recognize this place. it is new and strange the sky is charcoal, the water is iron and rust"

I had a free substack hardly anyone read, and abandoned it but didn't fully migrate bc I was sick and had other priorities (sleeping) put it off, and forgot. i want to shut it down — where is a good place to go? #longformessay #blog #writers

I would like to write long-form essays again, and have limited good hours in a day where my brain actually works properly, so it needs to be stupidly easy so i can focus mostly on words and stupid little drawings. #writers #blogs #longformessay

The West made awe into an argument for human greatness. Taoism made it into an invitation to stop arguing.

New essay exploring what several philosophers do with the same four seconds of overwhelming experience.

open.substack.com/pub/tjbrewer...

#Philosophy #Taoism #TheSublime #LongformEssay #Awe

#DictatorshipForDummies, #TrumpPlaybook, #BoltonRaid2025, #TrumpPutinSummit, #AuthoritarianWarning , #PoliticalSatire, #CrackedSpine, #EnemiesList, #MAGAUnraveled
#LongFormEssay

open.substack.com/pub/holdmyla...

#writing #longformessay #art #thomaskincaid #christians #conservatives #badart #magaesthetics #garbage
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Elizabeth Bruenig’s essay on executions, the death penalty, and the quality of mercy is a profound, revelatory read. #writingcommunity #capitalpunishnent #longformessay

Judith Butler at Altamont Judith Butler’s plea from the wreckage of a movement

open.substack.com/pub/jmcfire/... 

#JudithButler #WhoIsAfraidOfGender #GenderTheory #CulturalCriticism #Substack #Altamont #AcademicFreedom #LongformEssay #MickJagger