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a melancholy black doodle sits very upright on a couch and stares fixedly out the window

the mirror crack’d from side to side / my fate has come upon me cried / the lady of shalott

Has everyone bought their copies of Moon Songs?

a short history of the word "spooktacular"

books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

tfw you’ve got a ball

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This Is It Obedience and Support are the Same

"Politics is not the nursery."
www.unpopularfront.news/p/this-is-it

Announcement: my new book is BEAST MODE

if you would like a copy I can email you a somewhat janky pdf I made with my phone. he is very fixated on gender fwiw!

Good Takes on Bad Discourse; Hindsight on 2020; The Age of Innocence Reading, Watching 09.07.25

The weeks round up: @bdmcclay.bsky.social on Sydney Sweeney; @jackhanson.bsky.social on "perfomativity:" @williamhogeland.bsky.social on TCW's bad history and more!
www.unpopularfront.news/p/good-takes...

Kaiju press conference

I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.

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no I didn't read it! I didn't think I'd like it

had a pretty good day but I've concluded I can just never tell when my vizier is being polite or scheming against me

from the archives:

i am separated from him until mid august but i will try to remember to show him then and report on his reaction

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

"It has a really nostalgic feel" this thing is from before you were born you have nostalgia for that like you have nostalgia for Narnia

nooo I can't go to trivia canceling pre order now

is that concern or gloating…

I wonder if guys like Delicious Tacos understand that if they and their pedophilic LARPing were taken remotely seriously they'd get, at the very least, punched in the nose much more often.

I hate anxiety! I was just drinking paint and I got this awful feeling that it has lead in it, even though I know I would never buy lead drinking paint, but the feeling just gnawed at me until I checked. I wish I could just be normal and enjoy my paint.

I laughed so hard I dropped my phone into the abyss under the ottoman

Next year we're reissuing Nancy Lemann's Lives of the Saints along with a new book, The Oyster Diaries, two sections of which were published in The Paris Review.

I like all 3 types of movies: Period, Gay, and Fincher

i felt like mulholland drive could survive without my support

they're definitely all good movies but best lists always trigger a kind of scrupulosity in me… how can I know the best movies without having seen all movies etc

forgot to do alt text but the movies are (not ranked) Zombi Child, The Great Beauty, Fat Girl, Birth, Moonrise Kingdom, Carol, A Dark Song, Zodiac, Marie Antoinette, Red Rooms

submitting a "chaos" ballot to the nyt thing bc i don't watch enough movies to do an informed one

CHILDREN OF MEN is going to place “surprisingly” high on the NYT Best Movies of the Century list (like #7) and it’s going to formally occasion the Strange New Respect that we all know is coming so I just want to say I have been riding for that movie since I was a sophomore in high school