Y'all know that post about that person who was stuck in grief and hadn't unpacked their new apartment despite being there a couple months, then a friend came over and realized they needed help, and that friend invited other friends and they got it all unpacked and it became a party and was wonderful?

The house is a mess (both dirty AND unorganized and also the driveway is only partially demolished so we can't get it replaced and I wish my husband hadn't decided to do demo himself to save money because it's taking forever) and I wish A) I had friends like that and B) that I had an excuse other than just me being pathetic and depressed for why the house is in the condition it is.

Hit reblog with the most and/or least practical way you'd use your powers!

[Guy Liddell:] I asked [Igor Gouzenko] how it was that Russia had been going on in its present state for 28 years and how it was that the Russian people fought so well. He said that if I had been brought up on Marxian dialectics from the age of 6, if I had heard nothing but Soviet press and radio telling me that conditions abroad were far worse than any conditions in Russia, in fact that the rest of the world was living in squalor and revolution, if I had known what it was to walk down a street with my best friend and feel I could not talk freely, and if I had had no opportunity of comparing my standards with those of anybody else, I should have been thinking as he did before he came to Canada.

Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm

Hi there, I’m Marshall Reddick. I’m here to explain...what we are about!

- Personnel who perjure politely

- Paper shredders

- A County Judiciary pathologically subsidiary to rapacious greed 

- Code Enforcement = Bribes

- Aimless folk willing to live in squalor and pay out the ass for the privilege

El Otro Hermano [The lost brother] (Israel Adrián Caetano, 2017)

Apart from The Rocks, where convicts lived in squalor by the wharves, he thought the town presentable.

"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr

I stepped inside after Grimshaw. He had his back to me and he was scanning the living room. I didn't have to see his face to see he was disgusted. I imagined his office had carpet and red velvet chairs. Fuck that. I like my squalor.

I waited for him to take in the mess and get over it. --Steve Niles/A Proper Monster

August 15, 2023:

This author took "character voice," turned it up all the way to 11, and snapped off the dial, and I think it's this book's best (& most prominent) feature. Wondering "what is this kid even saying" is kind of the point and I love it for that. It's disorienting, and depressing, and made me immediately get up and wash my sinkful dishes. There's a kind of curious peace about it, the way only a child can accept even the darkest developments, but it's also deeply unsettling for the reader.

I'm really not sure about the ending. I don't know why what happened, happened. Maybe that's also part of the point.

8/10

#WhatsKenyaReading I picked this up pretty much just because of the aesthetic of the cover. I wanted to read Whalefall (same author) but all the copies at the library are checked out for now, so I decided to get a feel for this author while I wait. Even more excited to read Whalefall now!

finding out that the ao3 DDoS could continue for WEEKS is the worst news ever. how am I going to survive without my silly little tales?

Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

personality test: who are your icons on your streaming service profiles?

Diet soda's a blessing; you might have to work without it for a little while, though. Just making it clear that I never "backed off" diet coke. Yeah; not much need to add anything else to this post, really. Just stating an objective fact.

Well; we'll see what's in the cards for tomorrow. To anyone who actually reads this; don't study it too hard. Sometimes you just can't tell friend from foe. Gonna' be administering supply like always. Just sharing something that makes me feel older than dirt. I suppose it is more menacing to drive more slow.

If you want I can hop an 847 to torch the __________ factory; the _______ clinic; & maybe do something about Mendez, Morris, Erwin, Watkins, Stamper, Duncan...and maybe rutherford/mallowitz depending on which way you swing your ponytail; bc i do love you.

Liberteens (tumblr.com)

pretty sure gabriel has gone from "neglectful and strict at the same time" father to "just neglectful" father now. like he just straight up does not care about what adrien does anymore at all. he's full focused on the miraculouses and nothing else matters to him