same!!!
🎶 Gimme some McLovin 🎶
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
best one yet
temporarily offline, charging teeth
gorgeous but also brilliant af
one page rpg:
winston churchill vs one otter
you are winston churchill at 90 years of age, and you have been confronted by a single otter. you have four moves: alcohol, genocide by starvation, speeches, and being mean to guests at dinner. the otter has one move, which is to bite you in the ass
I hope you go to Readercon and that it's great! 🙌
didn't get a scarf but did get some other gorgeous things!
The more art is bought, the higher the (weirdly existent) chance of me getting to Readercon
Today is the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl and disabled people are still fighting for basic rights in a society that's actively working to undermine them, surrounded by systemic disablism.
(This is a corrected thread TY to the person who flagged that I said 26th, not 36th!)
❤️ I will never not be grateful for him
but good luck and maybe the Star Tribune will see what side their bread's buttered on, it's clearly the side with walleyes on it (what an image)
I mean, it's nice that you're not a hollow shell of a person as you would be if you wrote for the Atlantic (#notallatlanticwriters, I know, but still, a lot of them), so there's that
I was able to hand out whistles to my local Cherokee community and it felt AMAZING, thank you all so very much
miasma theory of late rising 😜
same!!! They are amazing but God, what a nightmare this is
SAME😬
Sarah, you're a national treasure fyi
YES 🤣🤣🤣
(note to self: get tattoo of that first quote)
we do seem forever formed by what we encounter at, like, 14, and I'm so grateful that at 14 I fell into a deep Douglas Adams fugue state from which I've never really emerged, absolute king among men
I don't have it in front of me, but in Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, Dirk Gently is described as "three hours late but moving fast" which is absolutely how I live my life (ngl, the two Dirk Gently novels are touchstones for my inner self and have been for decades, I dunno, they're just brilliant)
*truculent
(sometimes people are rigid & truculant bc of stress or health issues but in that case they should probably prioritize things other than resentment that another culture is not optimized for their own comfort 🤷♀️)
yeah, people like that are often just showing how shallow they are because they can't comprehend adjusting to circumstances in any way. That's not a virtue imo
no doubt he was asking everyone THERE how money works, and he's not going back to work until someone finally explains it
I literally drove by that base this weekend, little did I know their shenanigans
"I enjoyed her journalism but things got REALLY interesting after they set that piano on fire and she moved into the sewers to lead a life of crime"
WHAT THIS IS A THING
