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‘Dynamite’ by Taio Cruz, an Exegesis Exploring an apocalyptic text after a non-Rapture

“Yellow lights are blinking and our democracy is issuing troubling metallic belches from its mechanical guts and the most recent technological innovation of my noble race is a Magic 8 Ball that’s making people forget how to read (some people claim to be dating it).” @jpbrammer.bsky.social

‘Dynamite’ by Taio Cruz, an Exegesis Exploring an apocalyptic text after a non-Rapture

I wrote about the rapture that didn't happen, why we fantasize about the end of the world, and make the case for "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz being one of our great apocalyptic texts johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/dynamite-b...

I wasn't aware that the TikTok Christian Rapture stuff last week stemmed from someone who claimed to have been visited by Jesus in a Kroger parking lot. I think I'm rededicating myself to the American Revelations in Parking Lots beat.

This whole piece is so good, but this part just punched me in the feels. Way too familiar. 🫠

I mean, go read the whole thing, but this part in particular hit me like a sack of bricks

sent this to my sis, she said she does not know how to describe how reading it made her feel but that she wanted to go lie down

oof

Granted i was already not in a great mood before i read this, but reading it did almost make me burst out crying in public. 10/10.

this came about because I love the em dash and wanted to make something with it that AI couldn't lol

❤️❤️ in keeping with the "horror movie trope" in the piece, it was weirdly easy to write 😅

it's an honor just to be nominated as Swedish

damn this hit me like a ton of bricks

"Ritual plays a major role in the life of an anxious person. The poor creature is ruled by a fate obvious only to themselves."

Will be thinking about this for a long time:

I love @jpbrammer.bsky.social’s writing on so many levels, but I especially recommend it to fellow teachers. Just, read this

as a fellow anxious/traumatized-from-a-young-age-calling-home-sick-every-day-who-also-loved-to-draw-on-copious-amounts-of-computer-paper-queer-child, this article was a fantastic and validating read.

line——— Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny

“Such are the rantings and ravings of the conspiracy theorist holding a cardboard sign in my amygdala.”

@jpbrammer.bsky.social going for the jugular in one sharp line

Feeling very seen by this piece on anxiety and lines! (My version of the brain-scissors is a fire extinguisher btw)

ohhh this fucked me up today (complimentary). thank you JP.

line——— Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny

I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line

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Expanded notification, "I have zero respect, none whatsoever, for airline safety videos that don't depict some rascal for getting in trouble for attempting to smoke in the cabin..."

The most pleasant push notification I've gotten in days.
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A screenshot of the headline "Eater Wins Silver Medal From the Society of American Travel Writers"

Yaaaaaayyy my essay on Meers Restaurant was part of this package! A silver medal! It's real I bit into it www.eater.com/press-room/9...

WOW this frame!!! coral really makes it sing

At the very top of Part II of course

“The Not Deer is a recently-invented cryptid, a creature of TikTok, and a chilling reminder that we’re forgetting how to read and write.” I enjoyed this.

Cryptid Tier List An incomplete yet substantive ranking

At long last I have published my Cryptid Tier List johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cryptid-ti...

I said I'd unsubscribe if the Diva Flatwoods wasn't in the top tier... thankfully you understood the vision

thank u

Alabama White Thang

livid at the exclusion of cunty Alabama White Thang

This is a really fun list! The first section is free, but I recommend subscribing for the rest!