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The City We Became 'A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York' Neil Gaiman on THE CITY WE BECAME 'The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy wr...

Today‘s a good day to pick up NK Jemisin’s The City We Became, a wonderful urban fantasy novel about the living avatars of New York.

I just feel like submerging myself in a big for 1000 years would fix me

The overwhelming 80s/90s baby urge to live in a boathouse or a warehouse loft

At this point it feels like the almost comical cycle of being trapped in the breakers as they beat ceaselessly against the beach.

And your skins getting flayed by the hidden glass and gnarly rocks as you tumble ass over end and can’t find which way is up.

That’s what 2025 feels like.

BRING BACK ZIMA YOU COWARDS

All done summer
Fall now please

Bring back Zima you cowards

All done!!
Ready for Fall, please!

Release The Sims: Unleashed OG soundtrack on vinyl and make me the happiest bitch this side of the Mississippi you cowards

🤦🏼‍♀️

A close up of Loial’s face from The Wheel of Time. Top text reads “We are all the heroes of another age’s legend. I think it’s time we start acting like it.” Bottom text reads 150000 petitions, savewot.com, and SaveWot

Two huge milestones today for the #SaveWoT campaign: fully funded GoFundMe and 150K on the petition! Statistically the best. #TheWheelofTime

Bring back Zima you cowards

The startle reflex. Your baby has it.
Why don’t you?

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

That would be awful. Don’t share this.

Rerelease Zima’s you cowards

I love this disrespect.

Oh thank god they’ve put in elevators

I miss movie ticket stubs.

I know that it’s the least of our concerns but the flimsy paper just doesn’t have the same gravitas as the weird rubber stub.

They were like trophies for seeing all of the shitty January releases like “Yeah, you survived Annabelle 3, good job.”

Image showing an anime style girl hiding under a desk. She's labeled "me, minding my own business watching tv." A big red bear from the Charmin toilet paper commercials looms nearby, labeled "the toilet bear talking about its dirty bear ass"

👏Make👏wall👏sconces👏functional👏again👏

It's my birthday today, and what I want more than anything is 14 reviews for Vampire Therapist. 🙏 Our BAFTA-nominated game is super close to overwhelmingly positive, and it would make my day to hit that milestone! 🤠

financial advice in a weird time:

-- develop a plan
-- find friends who support you
-- preferably 10 of them
-- steal $160 million from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand
-- yes those are Terry Benedict's casinos
-- get your wife back
-- one of the friends should be Don Cheadle btw

simple

Good, good, having taste is the first step to making your own

Shrek looking grumpy

Me finishing Connections today:

The New Thing Newsletter #010

Have you read about Hit Singles, the New Thing I've been working on?

It's an audio fiction romcom series.

12 episodes. 5 BRILLIANT leads. One whirlwind New York summer. Tons of misadventures.

ALL the feels.

Check out my full(er) write up about it!
gabrielurbina.substack.com/p/the-new-th...

A musician I’m really coming around on in a way that has nothing to do with me aging is Phil Collins, whose arrangement of Can’t Hurry Love was impeccable in a way that is also unrelated to me getting older and who pours himself into his live performances (unrelated to me no longer being young)

Start releasing Alligators at Mar a lago
But like not on the golf courses