Elly “a peppercorny and farinaceous character”

lol saaaaame but I love checking stuff out of the library off it at random that I added ages ago and not having ANY idea what to expect (horror? Romance? Fantasy? Sci fi? Lit fic???). Like a little surprise present from the universe!

Enjoy!! That sounds like a fun goal to accomplish!

It is! I dunno who’s done it to him tho; feels self-inflicted. ☹️

Wow, a striking and beautiful man

That sounds lovely! What’s your fave game rn?

Crashing now 😴

We’re talking full-on cognitive dissonance happening, so 🤷‍♀️

V sleepy but otherwise not bad; how are you, charloh?

Two people walking down Seattle's Denny Way on Monday afternoon. High of 57°. One with long brown hair and rainbow wings, the other with blond hair, a shoulder bag, and sneakers--otherwise nude as the news.

Just another day in the neighborhood.

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

I can't find the shot of Baby Mama as Yitzhak, so I guess this will have to do.

Beard thread: post em if you got em!

Botheration Buildings is pretty good. I still really want Mr Skimpole to hit a wall in what people are willing to let him get away with, and maybe he’d grow up. Or not??

My dog as of twenty some years ago, a beautiful fawn Bullmastiff with a black mask and ears and a cute little vee of white on her chest. She’s sitting in front of a door and her head is at doorknob height. She’s panting and looking very relaxed, and has a big red ball on the floor in front of her.

Yeah I’m pretty sure my husband knew, when we started dating, that he came after my dog. 😂 Who could blame me tho; she was magnificent ❤️

The blitheness with which he talks about his permanent dependency on other ppl! Ugh. I v much want these dumb kids (and their dumb guardian) to get good.

Bensky: And then we have the moment where all of my information is released. All of these other survivors — all of our information is literally out there for the world to see. And you’re like, “Wow, the DOJ really — our government doesn’t care.”

What’s upsetting is that I read these two skeets and debated with myself for a while about which of SEVERAL “he”s you were referring to. I finally concluded it’s Luxon, but damned if there aren’t several other possibilities. Isn’t the world grand 😭

I’m super allergic to cats and absolutely could not live in a house with them, but I am also not a psycho and so I don’t say shit like “fuck cats” or give people ultimatums to get rid of their pets. The bar is truly in hell.

Beard thread: post ‘em if you got ‘em!

Beard thread: post ‘em if you got ‘em

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

🤔🤔🤔 now I kinda wanna read it again, but also I don’t bc I HATE that guy.

Huh. I’ll have to stew on that. I thought he basically threatened to rape her but that at the time there was no sex til marriage (for fancy ladies!) and they werent married yet

Oh I thought polonius’s speech to laertes was just Shakespeare making fun of him as a fatuous idiot whose advice is entirely composed of mutually contradictory suggestions.

TOTALLY. Here’s one recent-ish example of this misreading (from historian Timothy Snyder’s book “On Tyranny,” which, aside from this, is very good!)

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Arguably you could outsource all your parenting and thus figuratively sully your hands OR you can do the parenting yourself and literally sully your hands. 🥴

Yes that’s fun too ❤️

Wait but talk to me about why it’s about queer closeting. Are we doing a Laertes something??

Haha, but he’s described as noble or whatever all the time—like his only tragic flaw is a difficulty being sure and deciding to act, whereas he’s happily horrible and even murderous to everyone “beneath him” on the totem pole. Anyhoo, I know you know this. His incelliness infuriates me tho.

This is from 2023 but is nevertheless unfortunately very timely. A thoughtful exploration.