you MUST find whimsy in the mundane

please don’t let heated rivalry make you think it’s okay to be a boston bruins fan

the red wedding in asoiaf, the trojan horse in the odyssey, the backstabbing leading to the bloody baptism in the nibelungenlied, even oppenheimer and his atom bomb…. all stories about how the violent breaking of a certain social norm or law of warfare breaks the whole world apart on the psychic plane to reveal the blood roiling underneath. but this can easily be levied into a conservative, great-man, one single man or choice can decide our destinies sort of idea, even with good intentions…. what’s crucial in these stories is not that That specific event is the original sin of the world from which all other sins emerge, but that it is only a (uniquely remarkable) byproduct of the *existing* systems of that world, which reward and feed off blood! that there is no Good society to return to, no law of warfare that would make war acceptable

the generational gap between me and the people my age who were allowed to watch spongebob

whenever i look into a historical monarch who doesn’t get talked about much and is just kind of a blank spot in my understanding of the historical narrative, 95% of the time what i find is pure white hot blistering capability. a pencil pusher for the ages. a 39 year reign with no more than three hours of sleep a night. there aren’t any good stories from his reign because he systematically caught and stopped all catastrophic good stories before they could start. you shrimply must respect it

Hi if you've seen anything about the Indian student protests most of the on the ground reporting is by an independent news organization called PeekTV. They've been facing significant censorship on Instagram, their reporters/co-founders got tear gassed during the protests and they've been subject to many many threats from the incumbent government and their followers. If you're someone who has the means maybe consider donating something to them so they can keep running one of the only media platforms with a spine in this country.

(writes something) god this sucks so bad. this is awful. i'm the worst writer ever. this is nothing. (rereads it a while after writing it) oh dude this is fire. i'm the god of writing. (writes something again) god this sucks so bad. th

do you ever sit there in your bed with your head in your hands and it's like you can just imagine 9 swords behind you

“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know ... they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.

having now read the first of this man's vampire books, you can absolutely tell that he cares a lot about historical furniture because oh my god he really wanted to tell us about all the historical furniture in this vampire's house. material culture as foreplay. seduction via theses about chairs

one thing about me is i’m gonna go lay down

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

at the end of the day che guevara said "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."

stop using chatgpt!!!! take a bronze pin and carve your questions onto an ox scapula, then toss it into the fire!!!! use the cracks to divine the gods answer!!!!

citations still have to be APA 7th edition though. if you plagiarise, the gods will flood the yellow river again. and you'll lose your academic standing.

(The Gods, personal communication, July 18, 2024)