Katie Schenkel, Person

Santa Con

It’s Banned Books Week, and I don’t need you to buy my book as a solve for it (but buy it if you want to! That’s still extremely cool of you)—I need you to show up for your public libraries and your schools!

there was a point in time we were testing the happy hoodie to help keep mac calm in the back yard and it resulted in maybe the only good tiktok i’ve ever made

Ooooh, this one hits hard because there's a specific company mentioned in these anecdotes that I applied to early in the year that made me do a lot of work before putting me off and eventually telling me I was TOO ambitious with the writing test.

Seen random people be mean about it and like... She looks like a person! A person who has been through some shit! Good for her!

Anyone else think Pamela Anderson's new look is really fucking rad?

You should buy mine.

hey Gen z this is fake shit lol you're doing fine. I mean like none of us under 60 are really doing fine but like. *pats you on the back* you're doing just fucking fine

And Earth to Eve www.instagram.com/reel/DOt42lm...

YouTube video by Malört and Savior Malört & Savior - On The Day It Finally Happens

Also this very Chicago band youtu.be/41NOMETNp3U?...

YouTube video by Free Dirt Records Nathan Evans Fox - Hillbilly Hymn (Okra and Cigarettes)

One of my new faves (I follow him in Instagram) youtu.be/7iUmpNXtD6s?...

yeah this is child abuse sorry

All of those, especially the second to last one

The whole 🧵 but it's THIS ONE for me

The world keeps feeling like it's getting worse, people in my city are being targeted, and it's really really difficult to sit down and write a cute book about magical dogs and yet I feel guilty about not being able to make progress this week.

UK cis women, please sign this to acknowledge that trans people are not a threat. (Unless you think they are, in which case you're awful so please fuck off and never come back.) Everybody else, please circulate. 💜

The mouse watches over them always

I haven't watched in like 30 years so my knowledge might be weak at this point but it was truly prestige television for me as a tiny Midwest child

a black and white photo of two men with the words well nobody 's perfect Alt: a black and white photo of two men with the words well nobody 's perfect

Giving real these vibes:

Okay but I was obsessed with that show

I'm so goddamn tired. I'm wrung out and downtrodden from everything happening. It's been such a bad week.

This is the view you get if you're on the Loop for your morning commute.

the sun gleaming off skyscrapers on the chicago river

i think chicago might be at its most beautiful in the early hours of the morning

I hate that I know the Mac Tonight clip is a dog whistle.

Also someone should give Vera several million dollars to make her next movie cause I’ve read the script and it rocks 🤘

You can rent The People’s Joker here if you live in the UK, and you absolutely should because it’s one of the best films I’ve seen in the last few years, hands down

I will say that talking to Odysseus actually gives you good advice which I learned when he told me to go for the drummer first and since then I keep checking his dialogue for more strategy

It's all fucking grim.

Ooooh, this one hits hard because there's a specific company mentioned in these anecdotes that I applied to early in the year that made me do a lot of work before putting me off and eventually telling me I was TOO ambitious with the writing test.

I am happy that I got both the reference here and in the OP