#* a HIGHLY recommended read.

[perplexingly]

Text is from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Eurypides

[virtualplushy]

when shirley jackson said, “the very nicest thing about being a writer is that you can afford to indulge yourself endlessly with oddness, and nobody can do anything about it, so long as you keep writing. all you have to do — and watch this carefully, please — is keep writing.”

[jasminebythebay]

heavenly body ☄

[tapeworrmart]

"The scars formed a mould waiting for my fingers"

[casentine]

Scraps

[heritageposts]

A long, informative thread on the history of Yemen and its anti-colonial struggle.

Twitter link / Thread Reader link

[rebel-ezra]

my favorite lyrics of unreal unearth by hozier

first time // francesca // I, carrion (Icarian) // damage gets done // who we are // all things end // to someone from a warm climate (uiscefhuarithe) // anything but // abstract (psychopomp) // unknown/nth

listen to unreal unearth

[veritasrose]

Everyone is saying Higgs has Joker makeup, but he doesn’t. That is The Crow! Maybe I am just an old goth but it is so obvious!

Like:

Literally comes back from the dead to seek vengeance and wields a guitar!

Kojima is paying homage to the legend!

[positivelyadhd]

i have been reading through the diary I kept from ages 14-17 and realising how helpful it can be to keep a record of how you're feeling at different moments.

not only is it helpful to write down and process how your feeling and give yourself time to truly think about it, it's nice to have something to look back on. to not just remember how you felt about a certain situation but to actually have yourself from that time tell you.

and also, from an adhd perspective, it's really lovely to have reminders of things I'd almost entirely forgotten. it's easy to think that your life right now isn't interesting, but in 5 years time? to know what songs you were listening to or book you were reading or even that Thing that you were so worried about but now you can't even remember the details. it's nice to have a physical reminder that time passes and things really can get better.

[soracities]

Sarah Aziza, in a series of letters with George Abraham (excerpt from Sept. 2023), pub. The Nation [ID'd]

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

Sometimes I think I’m not that weird and then I spend a solid amount of time wondering what kind of contraceptives are available in the Grishaverse and specifically how accessible they are in the Barrel, particularly based on the quote “Getting pregnant isn’t actually a special talent. Ask any luckless girl in the Barrel”. Is unwanted pregnancy more common in the Barrel than elsewhere in Ketterdam because of the lack of social services in the city and especially in its poorest areas? is it because teen pregnancies often lead to kids being kicked out so they end up in the Barrel? is there a higher statistic by product of the pleasure houses and especially if there aren’t safe contraceptives readily available in the pleasure houses? and if so what do the people running the pleasure houses do to the girls because of it? is it because unexpected pregnancies in higher social classes would just lead to rushed marriages so it’s more noticeable in the Barrel? or is the comment based solely on Kaz’s individual experience of the city, ie its slums, in which case whilst it’s telling us about the Barrel it’s not making any particular comparison to the rest of the city? I kind of assume there must be some contraceptives available because the possibility of pregnancies in the pleasure houses is never discussed but I doubt they’re readily available and based on what we know about the resources and development in the worldbuilding and timeline may not be the most reliable, in which case what is happening to indentured girls who end up impregnated? Because, somehow, I just don’t think they’re safe. (Where could I have possibly gotten that idea?) So yeah, I am, in fact, that weird. But I really need to know the answer to this.

[fromchaos]

the scream i scrumpt after unspoilering these messages

[vintageskeletons]

that scene in spy x family when anya punched damian but it's sokka and jet from risking it all by @ssreeder

[demonbirds-love]

Have some gorgeous fall Damirae by @chaosticbirds

[abzania]

Would you ever believe me if I told you this comic had cannibalism in it?

[sneez]

morning in the green box [id in alt text]