LP the Book Goblin

Amy Sherald’s cover for this week’s issue, “Trans Forming Liberty,” is a portrait of the trans model and performance artist Arewà Basit. When the National Portrait Gallery seemed hesitant to display it, Sherald cancelled her exhibition there. nyer.cm/XFwJ6ZH

I have chaotic neutral genes

It was a matter of urgency … that I learn to keep myself safe from the terrible fate of desire.

Akshi Singh, In Defence of Leisure

*drool* I love pasta so much.

I'm excited!

As promised, a rainy, windy day so far in Stirling... Am sitting at my desk in the study with the window open, and it's like listening to one of those relaxation audios.

another monday, another villain origin story

Spiritual Atheism & Religious Deconstruction (w/ Britt Hartley) Soul Boom · Episode

This is such a salve for someone like me, still in the confusing midst of deconstruction.
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The We Reads Podcast: A Conversation with Imani Spence, Producer — we here Jennifer Arévalo Ferretti sits down with Imani Spence, We Reads Podcast Producer to learn what we can expect from the podcast dropping later this year.

we reads is dropping a podcast. what you can expect ~ a conversation with producer imani spence www.wehere.space/news/the-we-...

TALK by Linda Rosenkrantz

“You are a product of the nineteenth century: you believe that sadness implies goodness and suffering implies purity.” (p31) #NYRBWomen25

another failure in my endless quest to return a library book without immediately checking out at least two more

Every AI evangelist makes it sound like I’m basically gonna be a witch in a decade because I can still tell time, make change, write cursive, read/write/speak multiple languages, read maps, hold focus for longer than two seconds, do math in my head, engage with culture

I'd love to know too because even on my week off this week, I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT.

Tolkien, The Artist Over 30 stunning pieces from the Professor

I’ve gathered over 30 of my favorite illustrations and paintings by Tolkien all in one place - some you’ll recognize, others you might see for the first time.

bamboozled

#SundayYellow

Being chronically ill was one of the most expensive choices I’ve ever made

read books. it's good for your brain

I have so many I have been trying to sell online but I think you're right! Used bookstore is probably the better option.

Bone Eater It creeps with breath like mildew in the lung

I wonder if burnout gets better.
#Burnout #DarkPoetry #Writing #InAgoniesIExist #WritingCommunity
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a cat and hummingbird sculpture made of worn blue and brown wood

a lion sculpture made of worn yellow wood

Wander into Kirsty Elson’s Cornwall studio, and you’ll likely greet a menagerie of creatures alongside scraps of driftwood and rusted bits of metal.

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one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

..afterglow ✨

#Photography #Sunset #Oceanside #California #TimelineCleanse

Your fortune for today:
Become the mossy forest monster, or the mossy forest monster will be coming for you.

A trip to the bookstore is in order! ☝️

I love this. Reminded of Tobias Wolff's line: “The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.”

I don’t need to be “wealthy”, per se. I just want to have enough money to buy my own castle on the Scottish coast so that I can never be seen again.

“The sea: I didn’t lose myself in it; I found myself in it.”
~ Albert Camus

A sketch by Edward Hopper (Age 9)

Driftwood girl summer, hollowed out girl summer, collapsible girl summer, empty ornate picture frame girl summer

So i guess this is what it felt like when Scar took over and turned everything into Shadowland.