“It exposes a critical gap of moral imagination to see the Biden era principally as sleepy or boring. Yes, the Trump era was exciting and newsy, like living in a home with an abuser. The Biden era is less fraught. But the drop-off in news readership/viewership was driven in large part because people thought they didn’t have to worry quite as much about the new terrible thing that was going to happen at any moment. They got Biden in and he’d take care of things. They could take a break. The related factor that the journalism business, as well as American civic life, has had to grapple with is that people simply got exhausted. A lot of people who had been regular news consumers through much of their lives decided that the toxicity of American public life was poisoning their personal or inner lives and they tuned out. If you’re wondering where I’m getting this stuff: I have interacted with many readers via email over many years and this is my takeaway based on those conversations. I did no formal study, but this was not just a few stray anecdotes. It’s the upshot of hundreds of conversations over the years in question. It’s a very clear and consistent pattern.”

— The Brass’s Take on the Shake Up at WaPo

I’ve gone insane and started writing a cliche fantasy novel

ppl in the age of cell phones: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of books: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of textile art: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of picking lice: fucking up their necks

ppl in the age of cooking: fucking up their necks

many such cases

by far the best part of grocery shopping is the little babies. i was carefully selecting mushrooms when i felt upon me a piercing gaze and looked up to see a very chubby and very red-cheeked baby staring intently at me from a grocery cart with a slightly furrowed brow, hand clutching an apple for dear life. i wiggled a mushroom at her and she gasped and kept staring. i turned back to the mushrooms and heard a shriek. i turned around and the baby stared in anticipation. i wiggled another mushroom and she shrieked again in delight. she looked down at the apple in her hand, considering it for a moment. fair-minded as she was, she decided it would only be right to wiggle produce at me in return, and she held up the apple and shook it with all her might. i think i could live forever now

Soft as a River

I want to be closer to you— I mean this in more than one way, but I don’t say it,

I don’t think I have to, I think you already know, I think you already see that I’m standing here, heart in my hands, no pretense, or worry, or fear, just an offering, something you can read if you want to— I want you to.

There’s a gentle trust here like a current, soft as a river, and the truth is— I want to get tangled up together, bodies like quiet vines, endless softness as armor against a hard world.

Tell me what you want, let me learn the truth, word by word, inch by inch— the way heat unravels slowly, before it builds into a gasp.

Please reblog, I'm curious

The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

Everything is depressing and my head was throbbing. So I felt like being silly

1. Engineer Blahaj in his oversized shirt

2. Engineer Blahaj in his oversized shirt, sleeping after coming from work, while his business shark son tells him stories of business

playing in th snow, splish splashin around, havign fun, frolicking with wild abandon

these are a kind of animal

My version of "Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene" attributed to Georges de La Tour :]

My composition got a little spread out and I feel like I could have kept it a lot tighter and more true to the original, but I'm VERY happy with it overall. I totally made up Data's insides as I went along because there isn't a lot of info on his guts, and the one image I did find didn't have any lungs, which I find hard to believe since he breathes a lot. Is there any practical purpose for his lungs to glow blue? No, but he canonically has blinking lights inside his head so i figured I might as well do whatever I want <3