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"What's your resolution for next yea-" to get more people to listen to the silt verses. Yes, starting with you. Now sit down and grab your headphones we're going to binge all 46 episodes right now

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This post is on my mind way too often

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day 9

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“And I get it. The tortured artist is the artist that gets remembered for all time, particularly if they either perish or overcome. But the truth is that so many of us are stuck in the middle. So many of us begin tortured and end tortured, with only brief bursts of light in between, and I’d rather have average art and survival than miracles that come at the cost of someone’s life. There will always be something great and tragic to celebrate and I am wondering, now, if I’ve had enough. I am, of course, in favor of letting all grief work through the body and manifest itself creatively. But what I’m less in favor of is the celebration of pain that might encourage someone to mine deeper into that unforgiving darkness, until it is impossible for them to climb out. I’m less in favor of anything that hurts and then becomes theater, if that theater isn’t also working to heal the person experiencing pain. I, too, am somewhat obsessed with watching creations that feel like work. I am less drawn to the artist who at least appears to make it look easy. But our best work is the work of ourselves, our bodies and the people who want us to keep pushing, even if the days are long and miserable and even if there are moments when the wrong side of the bridge beckons you close. All things do not pass. Sometimes, that which does not kill you sits heavy over you until all of the things that did not kill you turn into a single counterforce that might. No matter what comes out of a person in these times, the work we make when we feel like we no longer want to be alive is not the best work if it is also not work that, little by little, is pushing us back toward perhaps staying, even just for a moment.”

— Hanif Abdurraqib, “Brief Notes on Staying // No One is Making Their Best Work When They Want to Die,” They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (via hunxi-after-hours)

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northern hemisphere babes we made it to the longest night of the year. we made it. for the next 6 months, every day will give us a little more daylight than the last. let's go. take my hand. climb out of the darkness with me

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Late autumn evening moon

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The SNL crowd cheers for Luigi Mangione last night making the host so uncomfortable he said “you’re cheering for justice right?”

The ruling class is losing the narrative about luigi and it’s glorious to see

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EVERY fucking stupid liberals university in the star trek future their fucking student sketch comedy group OF COURSE has at least one Vulcan and it's like their thing where they're like "haha I bet you wouldn't expect a VULCAN in an IMPROV group!!!!!" as if this hasn't become such a fucking tired cliche like literally since 2063 every fucking comedy show has the token Vulcan to be the straight man. you're doing nothing. call me when you guys make an effort to actually include tellarites in the writing room instead of confining them to punch lines. and to be honest with you guys your Vulcan isn't even that good. his performance was highly derivative of T'min's work in the big bang theory 3 (the third big bang yheory. they make a lot of sitcom sequels in the future)

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Can't believe all that war denied Starscream the life in academia he was born for. All the petty backstabbing, ego tripping, stupid feuds? He would have thrived. It would have been his best life. The only things he ever should have had to fight over were grants, whose name comes first on the paper's byline, and which sucker has to teach the freshman intro course this semester

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peace and love on Earth..

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A few of the more creative spellings of Christmas I’ve come across while looking for Dear Santa letters in old newspapers this year.

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I'm pregnant. and it's You