JP Robichaud

these are the vampires you've been searching for

Moon, Jellyfish, Woman Jellyfish are found all over the world, from surface waters to the deep sea. They’d lived on earth for more than 500 million years before she saw one, invisible or not. They were one of the oldest com...

Another post today reminded me of this story, so here it is.
'Moon, Jellyfish, Woman' a Short Tentacle Romance
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Happy Halloween
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laurenjanek.com/post/moon-jellyfish-woman

So how do you find a skilled carpenter? I can't find anyone who can refinish the curved details in my kitchen cabinets - all anyone can do is install pre-made shit

A big one for me is At Last, by Etta James. There is a moment mid-song that always leaves me a bit choked up.

Some of yall have never known real joy but I'm here to tell you that you can just make up stories with your friends

YouTube video by dj bitcoincrash Aesop Rock - One of Four

One of four by Aesop Rock, the longer i don't die the more I love it
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music.youtube.com/watch?v=uISZ...

Is there a song that every time you hear it you feel big feelings? Like a guaranteed swell of emotion?

Yeah that does sound Very Unnecessarily Stressful.

Excellent choice! This was the first 4k I bought when I decided to start my physical media collection. VERY happy to see it on this list.

A pale female reclining on their bed, their robe open body exposed, chest and stomach and legs all receding down to the edge the bed. A selfie in black and white, compositionally rich and visually compelling an attempt at something downright beautiful, an image describing a body as resting, sleeping, resisting death.

Black and white photos and a world I can swallow, resting, sleeping, resisting death
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I was recently laid off by ARTnews, a few days before the theft at the Louvre. The terms of my TN work visa means I can't freelance unless I donate the funds to charity. I'm open to new FT roles in business reporting and communications, and am willing to relocate to other cities, including Toronto.

The poet said:
"Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow"
and I say:
So much more pleasure and sleep and rest and tastes and textures and gasps and photos and the joys of them all
oh, my always

North American people, can someone recommend a budget-friendly daylight lamp they like? Gotta get ahead of the SAD and replace my UK one.

Amazing & thank you - adding it to my Watch On Vacation list.

What's your favourite horror movie you've seen so far this year?

Everything is out of focus and a little hard to see. It's a color image portrait orientation. Someone wearing thigh eyes with lace tops or maybe that's not lace. Maybe it's just the shine. They are wearing a waist harness so the tops of their thighs and their waist are stripped and striped in black bands. A t-shirt probably cotton gathered up, they are bending or moving or something, and does previously mentioned it's a little hard to see.

Some things in life are hard to describe, a landscape orientation photo of a corner of a room. Or is it two corners or is it three? A slanted Cathedral ceiling? A body is pressed against a wall to the far right gray tank top pulled up so their breasts press against the cold drywall. They're arching their back and bending their knees rounding out their hips so their ass perks out hips raft and harness and fishnets and thigh highs, their face obscured by gathered hair and then somehow, impossibly, far to the left, a mirror leaning against the wall reflects this person while somehow being behind them, or is it infront?

An empty mirror standing against a white wall reflecting a white wall, an image of at least 50 different colors of white light and Shadow. The mirror reflects nothing.

The mirror reflects nothing

I love you. Such a good day.

Pale pink roses that look like they grew up in a world without suffering, standing out against a white sky in the dark, dark green, crisp texture of their leaves. Across the roses almost obscuring them stretching almost the width of the image are the words. Every time I almost die the world gets more beautiful. The letters are huge and white and rush to fill space.

Everytime I almost die the world gets more beautiful
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A thing they don't tell you about really long relationships, even atypical ones, is how another person can become like an emotional external hard drive so you don't need to express everything for someone else to be like "I know, and you need the best 1 am foot massage of all time"

A casual intimate self portrait of the photographer standing before a mirror in a black housecoat, held open to expose the diamond shape of pale skin and throat and chest and breasts. Their face is obscured by the camera.

If all the systems you experience as suppressive or oppressive because of a core assumption that all people always intentionally intend to deliver maximum harm, and you recognize that as wrong - how are you unlearning that in your own relationships?

262!

This existence of the latte has made it impossible to get a decent cappuccino and I will forever be resentful

This was overblown hype back when I first tried it in 2004 and I guarantee its overblown hype now.
Want to have excellent coffee? Support your local roasters and pay attention to where & how they source their beans. Be specific in your preparation. Clean your gear. Stop drinking lattes.

Oath of Moment 【OATH OF MOMENT】 An Astartes Roleplaying Game They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be...

SURPRISE!

I had an idea on Tuesday for how to do the Perfect Space Marine RPG, so I wrote the Perfect Space Marine RPG.

It's both a shitpost and a dead serious game. And it's, uh... 34,000 words long?

Anyway enjoy!!!

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A solo trip. This is an excellent plan.

The Kindness of Summer This summer was a season of healing and happiness.

A blog post about summer, growth, and how not everything needs to break your heart
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www.laurenjanek.com/post/summer

I should probably mention if TV or radio producers need a knowledgeable art reporter specializing in art crime to talk about the theft at the Louvre, I am available

Thieves steal €600,000 worth of gold from Paris's Natural History Museum The break-in on Tuesday morning, targeting gold samples of 'immeasurable heritage value,' comes amid a wave of robberies at French cultural institutions.

have i become overly fixated on the louvre heist? maybe. but there have MULTIPLE french museum heists in the last several weeks??

600k worth of gold from the natural history museum! 10mil in ceramics from limoges!

www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a...

Creating a community where inevitable errors are the same as intentional abuse leaves you with a community haunted by the ghost stories of harmful monsters and does nothing to prevent future ones - or help anyone heal

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.