I bought the gayest lil boots from the thrift store for just $5 oh my GOOOODDD 😭❤️

Look who I caught a glimpse of while watching Derek DelGuadio's 'In & Of Itself'!

I thought it was our girl Adepero, but I had to double check and sure enough! There she is.

Side note: if you'd like feel all your feelings and cry about the human experience and connection, I cannot recommend 'In & Of Itself' enough.

It's on Hulu and everyone should watch it.

re ur stoncy ask - I always think Jamie’s love confession was messed up bc she was in a relationship at the time but at least he didn’t say he wanted to get married and have six ~nuggets~ with her while she fully had a man lmao

RIGHT. the whole conversation was so ??? I felt so embarrassed for Steve like why are you saying all of this man 😭

Yesterday I asked one of my nonverbal kids if she needed a nappy change while using the sign for "change" in French sign language, and she immediately signed it back

When I asked the TA to give her a nappy change, she said "I think it's okay, she got it changed 20mn ago" and had a vague look at the kids shorts (how does that help? Idk)

I let it go and didn't insist the kid should get her diaper changed even though I'm pretty sure I smelled pee, and now I'm like. Frustrated at myself for not insisting -_-

I mean. I will next time, and I'll have a talk with the kids' homeroom teacher to see if we can make it a habit to actually take her to the bathroom systematically at least until we're sure the kid remembers the signs (...and the adults too xD) but you know. My brain x)

Note to self: I also need to teach her "diaper" (which I just learned specifically for this) and start quizzing her when I see her to make sure she remembers the signs I teach her^^

...Also maybe I should quiz the teachers too, but that feels presumptuous at this point^^"

also my new favorite thing in the steddie tag is bat!Eddie and the idea that Steve carries him around in his pocket

new interest is misguided selfish nico. yeah he’s real keen on self-sacrifice but he considers/attempts it in self-interest. maybe he wanted to trade his soul for bianca’s so instead of being liable for her death he’d be her savior, thus absolving him of personal guilt, allowing him to die thinking he’d done something good. maybe he was willing to transport the athena parthenos bc he didn’t fear dying while trying, failing to consider if he killed reyna and hedge during the process, or how his life might be more useful to saving others besides being a sublimation-style taxi service. dude wants to help people but his self esteem is so low that he can’t recognize the benefits of staying alive

This sounds really dumb (Im quite buzzed from a party lol), but I think everyone should have a John Egbert-akin person in their lives 💙

Moka Only - Naturally

i propose a support group for those of us who relate to 104 degrees by slaughter beach, dog

i love witchblr and folklore tumblr et al but sometimes y'all will post a list of "pagan things stolen by christians!" or "pagan origins of everyday things" list and its literally Brown's human universals

SAD: she did not walk outside and see a giant green glow in the sky blanketing the land, as appeared to her in a dream

Just watched Derek DelGaudio's In and of Itself on Hulu. It was stunning. Completely engaging all the way through, but in a very gentle way that played more on my sense of curiousity than my feelings of suspense. Highly recommended - and if you can, go in unspoiled. I knew nothing about it beforehand and really enjoyed the ride.

Tell me you know nothing about history without telling me you know nothing about history

i love graffiti. "comics and jazz are the only american art forms" you forgot graffiti. did you remember graffiti? That art form birthed in Philly and NYC in the early 70s by poor Black kids. that art form that spread all over the world and influenced so many. that's used without irony in commercials when they're trying to appeal to a "young urban" customer.

did you forget graffiti? that racism broken windows theory victim? that reach the establishment takes claiming that it's exclusively violent gang members throwing up those full-color pieces and wildstyle tags in the middle of the night outsmarting fifty security cameras because the billboard was ugly anyway. as if, even if it was, it wouldn't be impressive as all hell. risking brutality and fall damage so your art can occupy the space a gentrified condo named something like "Coluumna" took away from you. proving that despite only assholes affording to live here anymore there's still a soul beneath it. an animal with dripping stripes and teeth that go clack-clack tsssss

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.