whales

i was so naive in thinking that spirk shippers were exaggerating. what the fuck is wrong with these two.

SPOCK HAS A MATING CYCLE?????

if you are "animal lover" and don't find the beauty and silliness stored in the humble leech then you should try

its wild the degree to which people talk about reading and eating in similar terms - the concept of a "reading diet", of "media consumption", the idea of certain stories as "empty calories" or "fast food" and some as "eating your vegetables", the moralization of both as personal failings, the framing of health with the specter of degeneration if not complied with... the idea that there are things that are sensorily pleasant and that you find yourself craving, and there are things that sustain you, and those are not the same things. the framing of literacy as reading the correct way and taking away the correct meaning from a text. according to nutritional guidelines

@fractalradio you are so right for bringing up 'slop'

everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving

i’m happy I long ago developed that tick of using—-you know the third dash, I think I got it from Shandy, but I’m grateful. AI has stolen the em dash from many, but not me—-no, never me—-instead—-I just piss people off—-now it looks like a bad Dickinson poem—-

The Summertime Is A Little Different From The Normaltime

everyone rightfully complains about how the r word is back in vogue now but I think the people talking about how using ChatGPT makes you a small brained lazy degenerate are getting off way too easy

(guy who tags every single post as the same exact character) you know who this post reminds me of?