happiness is in just being

Good Will Hunting (1997) Dir. by Gus Van Sant

December 2025: Oh, you wanted to watch your favorite Christmas movie? Get fucked. You have access to 7 different streaming platforms (with ads) but their catalogs are all shit and the one movie you actually want will always be on one of the ones you don’t have. It doesn’t matter that all the movies and all the streaming platforms are all basically owned by the same parent company, you still have to subscribe to this platform in particular. Oh, and that other movie you wanted to watch instead when you found out you can’t watch the first one? It’s not available to stream anywhere. You could maybe buy a digital copy for $20, but also we can remove it from your library at any time so don’t bother. Merry Christmas!

queen shit (and she was right)

To be loved is to be changed / I am a mosaic of everyone I've ever loved, even for a heartbeat / “You erode all my edges and make me into love” trivia: love (2018)

Ted Chiang, “Why A.I. isn’t Going to Make Art.” The New Yorker.

Skip Whitcomb, A Winter Evening Walk Home, No Left Turn, 2024, Pastel on handmade paper