Hope Rehak

This is what we're talking about when we say we're excited to have honest-to-goodness sunlight in our new game, Mandrake.

Obsessions This Week: May 11–17, 2025 Polish poetry, yuzu kombucha, and giving people their flowers.

Obsessions This Week: May 11–17, 2025
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I Am So Fucking Tired of Listening To Women My Age Complain About Being Old and Washed In honor of my recent birthday at the end of Aries season, here’s an essay about the pleasures of getting deeper into your thirties and the pernicious obsession with female abjection in cinema.

I Am So Fucking Tired of Listening To Women My Age Complain About Being Old and Washed
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Oh this one is gonna be fuuuuuun. AND ALSO? INFORMATIVE. Build queer community and learn from the TV of our elders, with instruction by the brilliant @hoperehak.bsky.social

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Nobody voted to let Elon Musk cut funding for pediatric cancer research.

I love getting chain gunned by disease from the daycare plague pit. I've had more respiratory illnesses in the last year than in the previous decade put together

Pritzker: "He promised he was gonna lower costs & make us safer. He's done none of it. I realize he's only been in office 2 weeks, but it's gotten worse, not better. You think grocery prices have gone down? No, they've gone up bc of what he's threatening or what he's already put in place"

Please kill me

This is a great piece, and sadly on the money on how hard it is to admit you were used and manipulated by someone you’d worshipped.

Leopard: I will eat your face

Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating

Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

Every time I remember Stephen Miller designed this rush of orders to burn me out specifically I get a new burst of energy from the spite alone. The very thought of my exhaustion giving him an ounce of joy makes me want to burst through walls

Shameful and murderous

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and it's worth noting that the Biden admin kept the Trump Title IX rules in effect for almost his entire presidency. Survivors and advocates begged for change earlier but they didn't release anything until Spring 2024 www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

YouTube video by Indivisible Vote NO on Vought

Leah and Ezra explain how you can help stop the nomination of Russell Vought, the architect of Trump’s unconstitutional power grab that set off mass chaos: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

“NOTE TO ALL NAZIS FASCISTS AND KLANSMEN” You delight, So it would seem, At making mince- meat of my dream. If you keep on, Before you’re through, I’ll make mince- meat Out of you.

Langston Hughes

Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies:

“What a weird thing to say”

“Do you hear yourself right now?”

“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”

“I won’t let you talk to them that way”

“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”

“Shut the fuck up, dude”

I enjoyed learning that if a moose ever decides to kill me, it was meant to be, fated in the stars, foretold in the ancient moose texts. It was always going to end this way and really, the moose would be setting me free.

Oh also, they enjoy swimming! How neat!

Midweek Obsessions, Vol. 67 The Logoff, music, and oops! I loved "The Brutalist."

Midweek Obsessions, Vol. 67
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Is this any way to treat a face? The era of the 'undetectable face lift' is here, and it's coming for us all...

Where we started; where we are now. Thanks for sharing this, a while back, in your own Substack, @hoperehak.bsky.social anitabhagwandas.substack.com/p/is-this-an...

Same and now I’m relentlessly listening to each painful episode of the podcast

Wondering why my vibes are off this week then remembering I started Monday morning reading the entire Gaiman article at 6 am. I am my own haunted house.

Ope, it me

Can we just talk about Danny Kaye for a minute
*two hours later*
Anyway that’s why my first two boyfriends were gay

Briana Boston crying

Police chief justifying jailing Briana Boston

Judge setting Briana's bond at $100k even though she has no record, no guns and is a mother of three children

About Briana Boston:

This is what prison abolitionists have been trying to tell us. Prisons don't exist to lock up "bad people," they exist to lock YOU up as soon as you realize how dangerous the system is and try to resist it. Police budgets are rising along with inequality, it's not a coincidence

Gonna be a lot of focus on what kind of internet douchebag this guy is but in some ways this backs up the other theories: a person who has been fucked by the health insurance industry and is suffering with chronic pain.

a white guy doing vigilante gun violence is inherently right coded.

so they're saying the killer just went to a neighboring state, kept the murder weapon, and just carried around a manifesto????

Join @lanikaps.bsky.social and myself at The Ripped Bodice on Dec 9 for an event celebrating her book NORA EPHRON AT THE MOVIES!

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