Vic ✨

Listen, we've barely got bread. If you take away the circuses, the proletariat are going to get restless.

SAME. Was overjoyed to have Bela on Last Stop/DDTW and then I went, wait, if they play Stay next...

Then after Stay I thought, if they play Halloween, this place is going to come undone.

I have never heard a crowd roar like that. I just stared with tears in my eyes for half the song, stunned.

That makes it even better. I wish I could have seen your faces when you found out. He had to have been planning it before he wrote Friday's list, so he just sat quietly on that all day? 🤣 Tremendous.

Thank you. Truly. This whole weekend has been staggeringly transcendent. Thank you. Thank you. 🙏💚

the flowers will die.

grow them anyway. grow them again. grow them as long as you can.

A Discord server I'm in...
Question: What is one thing that you're SUPER into that most people wouldn't guess about you?
Me: [autistic special interest]
Everyone else: Here are my hobbies!
Me: 😶

Ever held a weird splayed squat too long doing macro photography in the woods, trying to avoid crushing everything beneath you while holding steady for a shot, and pulled the muscle in your buttcrack? Or is that just a special trophy I get to win today?

"Regulating your nervous system" as a fancy term for being consistent and healthy about self-soothing and managing your stress/anxiety = legit.

"Regulate Your Nervous System" as a marketing slogan = sketchy.

Close-up of magenta flowers on a Japanese flowering crabapple tree

New Goose album. New DMB Live Trax from the Buddy era. It's 75 degrees, light breeze, and my favorite tree is opening her flowers. I like today a lot.

I ran away for the weekend and found myself.

I was hiding under a pile of fresh pine needles in the forest up north. I really should have known. That's exactly where I would go.

If this is real, it's hilarious how insecure they are behind closed doors. We knew, but it's really satisfying to hear. 😂

"Will someone please fuck this bird so it will shut up?" -Me, having a totally normal reaction to listening to the same chickadee's two-note chirp for ten straight hours

I just found out a couple of days ago that the reason none of my cousins invite me to anything, including my godmother's husband's funeral, is because I'm out as trans nonbinary and they're all hard-line MAGA. They chose that lying fascist over me. Feels fantastic, doesn't it?

I helped an elderly man stand during the intermission of an orchestra performance today. It was really nice and brightened both our days. Strongly recommend just doing something nice for a stranger. It quieted so much of my background anxiety about the world.

I was deep into a game with an island settlement I was very proud of. And then stuff on the news cycle looked too much like my game, and suddenly it didn't feel like escapism anymore. I miss my island.

Oscillating between the highest imaginable high and the lowest conceivable low is WILD. This is a sector of the unhinged I've never explored before. I could not sleep worth a damn last night so I'm deliriously tired on top of it.

It feels like I'm speed-running a manic episode.

Two potential things may happen in my personal life today.

One of them would be a fever dream come true.

One would be an abject waking nightmare.

They have absolutely nothing to do with each other, yet by their powers combined, I am simultaneously the most excited and terrified I've ever been.

I absolutely want to watch someone give a presentation on he/him lesbians to a group of transvestigators.

I inherently distrust anyone who chooses for themselves to go by Loki.

And I have a feeling anyone who would choose to be called Loki would praise my self-preservation instinct.

Grieve as much as you need to, but there will be another fulfilling space for you. And then that will end, and there will come another.

You weren't wrong. You couldn't know when it would end. And it was worth it while you had it. It won't be the last time you find connection. I promise.

I don't know if this helps or makes it worse, but. It doesn't matter where you structured your social circles. Social groups have shelf lives. I've gone through this five or six times now and I've just learned to accept, it's never forever. People change, good and bad. Grow together, grow apart.

I see we are having entirely parallel internet experiences tonight.

My condolences.

Literally just came here from posting a "stop being such a bunch of cynical little freaks" comment on a local reddit post where people are huge mad about some people buying some strangers a meal. This leftist desire to grind any whisper of joy under a boot heel is exhausting.

Yes. Yes, it absolutely is.

Is Battlestar Galactica self-harm?

Shut the fuck up before you get us all killed. I don’t care about your beef. Your drama. Your personal issues. Work them out in post. Right now that trans person standing next to you is your brother, your sister, your sibling. You are reliant on each other for survival whether you like it or not.

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program

learn about the Zapatista uprising

learn about Jane

learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union

learn about STAR

learn about Act Up

learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain

learn about the Spanish Civil War

we are not the first

TRIPPY

Waaaait, this is actually really delightful. It's so sparkly.

Because she's a poor white woman with no teeth. It's a snap judgement based on appearances, and it's literally the fucking problem. Specifying that doesn't stop the optics of using her face to make a point she isn't representative of. Like, she's a real person on social media right now.

Fun fact: The first woman in that video is a disabled widow who voted for Harris, but for some reason 🤔, people keep using her video in FAFO videos. Kinda fucked up.