Rebecca Jones-Howe

Addison Rae's music kinda sucks but I've still been listening to her album on repeat idc

I still remember being in 9th grade unable to understand how the k!lling of one dude could start a whole war and now I'm like, "Oh, okay, I think I get it now."

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

If Emily Bronte were alive today she'd probably be a Charli XCX fan, so like, chill.

The stupid AI telling me to inhale and exhale while it's tabulating my anxiety test results.

I entertained too many theories of the "where is Kate Middleton?" conspiracy hole to do this again with the fa$c!st president.

It's like staying up late to see if Santa is real but we're hoping Santa's dead

"Mom, I tried cleaning out these headphones with Play-Doh and now it won't come out."

i'm so over the "hold the book sideways on the video while you explain about how insane and unhinged it was and then reveal the book 30 secs into the video" trend, i am literally doomscrolling, i don't have the mental energy to wait on bated breath to see the title of a book i could potentially read

The Last Week of Summer It's kinda manic and full of headaches and dread and some half-decent life realizations, considering the hell world we're all living in...

couldn't sleep last night cause i was reading reddit threads on what might happen if the dementia man goes into the great white light and i wrote this to cope about it rebeccajoneshowe.substack.com/p/the-last-w...

I'm just sick of migrating around social platforms, man. Like, oh, let's build up that follower count again. Fking bs.

It's not so bad. I find most of these short form post platforms to just be big echo chamber, honestly. I don't spend enough time and haven't really built my algorithm up, so at this point it's just guessing what I'll engage with and most of it is annoying af. I don't have the patience.

I like it. I'm in a place of personal reflection right now, and it works for that. It might grow on me more, but this point it feels more like background music as opposed to a fully cohesive album that feels like a whole.

I'm still mostly on Insta or FB. It's a shell of what it once was, kind of like walking through a dead mall with a bunch of boarded over shopfronts full of ads, really, and I keep going back in there, checking out the still open places and not getting that nostalgic feeling I want.

Thanks for reposting this, man. I fixed the typo I noticed in your excerpt as well haha

okay i'm *finally* giving the new deftones a listen

HBD EIA! Some musings about Ending In Ashes, my ode to gothic fiction.

Ending in Ashes is 3 years old today. This post is from its first year of life, but I still have a fondness for this little ode to gothic fiction. It got me through my first major agent rejection and got me back down to earth. I'm grateful for it and for the folks at @quillandcrow.com.

Gonna be Day 2 of my period for the Nine Inch Nails concert.

naivete is a spectrum

chatgpt is just a sycophant you carry around in your pocket

Its crazy cause we're getting products once sold through mlms or the shopping channel or infomercials or that random blue envelope full of junk mail now marketed to us by A-list celebrities

What kind of beer do crypto bro type guys drink? I need this for novel research and ive been doing a bit but my algorithm is already so tainted.

What Instagram Used to Be I was forced to become content in an era of distraction and now I'm doing my best to just return to my roots and be a simple cringe millennial or whatever.

open.substack.com/pub/rebeccaj...

It's funny cause I usually do write my stories around tropes or quotes or with a specific a fantasy in mind but I HATE marketing my work that way because it'd just pick up the wrong audience in the first place.

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

Content Depression - that feeling when you're aware that your purpose online in is to create content for distraction, so you keep making content because it's the only thing that really makes you feel content in the reality in which you live

I scroll past a couple of posts of people starving on this app and suddenly my humblebrag post about being able to write a sexy scene where a woman eats pringles feels really pointless and stupid. I post about both. It might get a like or two.

This is the world I live in. I am a piece of shit.

I love when it's summer and the tights stores sends me emails like COOL OFF WITH THIGH HIGHS!, like bitch I ain't leaving the most vulnerable to chafing part of my body uncovered, wtf

The day the last suburban mom paints over the last honey oak banister white will be the day that warm tones finally become mainstream again.

Im already sick of the Coldplay meme.