Scallywag

my friend's puppy has baffling levels of attitude for someone who's only been around for a handful of months. he understands concepts like deceit and civil disobedience and other things i didn't fully grasp until well into my 20s. this guy doesn't even know the seasons loop yet. he's probably like okay spring. what's next. some other new bullshit i bet

^ this ^ blogger was exposed to george saunders' Pastoralia at too formative an age and now can't help but see the simian distress grimace in everyone's smiles

it is both useful and terribly crushing to be able to look at a given "middle class" family and just see debt tickers and benzo scripts and the developing currently-collegial-but-eventually-chronic drinking problem that the youngest son is hiding from everyone else as he slips into a pleasant cocoon of MMA cryptofascism while the middle and eldest daughters slowly file off all their own edges and dull their dreams and get subsumed into the churn of white patriarchal capital, etc etc etc etc

also helpful to realize that america does actually functionally have a peasant caste except theyre denied the dignity of even actually realizing theyre serfs, so liberatory consciousness doesnt even have a single seedbed in which to germinate. ongoing tragedy! a numb wretchedness! like if the omelas baby worked at the same gas station within walking distance of its house for 20 years at minimum wage, while still swearing that bootstraps will prove to be its ticket out

there's this hunch i have that a loadbearing pillar of the collective american psyche is a flat refusal (or inability) to even acknowledge discontent. motherfuckers with visible cushings syndrome and hypertensive rosacea bitching about their wives and children and work and taxes and car payments and then looking you in the eye saying I Fucking Love The Life I've Built, I Would Fight And Die For This Freedom

So... Poignant. Declararive. It is a toy. He is allowed to have a toy. Looking back at the player. Not looking back at all. His eyeless gaze expressing everything, nothing. His toy

we went to ikea as an activity tm and we weren't gonna buy anything but Aurora instantly picked up a dog plush that was part of a kid room display and carried it the whole time... jose tried to switch it for a "new" one when we found more, with the correct logic that it had been handled by a lot of other people by being on display and might be dirty, and i looked at that yucky puppy being dragged by our daughter and was like actually ☝️ toys have souls imbued by the experiences shared with them physically and therefore cannot be replaced. i remember this from childhood. from my neurotypical childhood. no swapping. we can wash the dog at home.

Melanie Martinez wishes she was Grimes. Grimes wishes she was Bjork. Bjork wishes she was 2 inches tall so she could go inside the computer and have a big adventure

huge fan of when characters love each other and are closely bonded in an explicitly nonromantic way. however ☝️ i am very much not a huge fan of what happens when characters like this are introduced to fandom