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one must imagine sisyphus locked in

gotta appreciate the evil genius of the atlantic's business model. if it was 100% trash nobody would read it. instead it's 95% trash with an outrageously good ted chiang essay every few years

reading Possession, a novel that won the Booker Prize in 1990 about the discovery of an extramarital affair between two Victorian poets, has made me realize how fuckin weird people have gotten about policing other people's marriages on the internet, even if they're fictional

am i being pranked

one thing sci-fi authors from the '60s are gonna tell u (as the sky is raining fire and the surviving citizens of earth are evacuating to mars) is what the titties looked like

i read and occasionally talk about romance novels online, so i have a good sense of the landscape, and i think a lot of the thinkpieces agonizing over why women dominate mm readership are missing one big and obvious fact, which is that not a lot of men read genre romance, period

i'm sympathetic to the argument that people are only interested in hockey romance because it's a white people sport. it observably IS (derogatory). but also... have you watched a hockey game? men punch each other in the face with knives strapped to their feet. the drama is begging for narrative

a pride month diptych for our age, presented with joy and delight: 1) the actor who plays THEE christopher "don't disrespect the pizza parlor" moltisanti unc posting a pride flag to his grid, and 2) naomi klein wearing a ball cap that says "I'm coming to the cottage"

nothing but love and light to tom "spiderman" holland but for some reason the Algorithms That Be have decided that I care a LOT more about that time he lip synced to a rihanna song 10 years ago than I actually do

I just put out a new video 🙂. it's about American visual culture—where it's been (derogatory) and where it's going (vaguely ominous). viewable by tRUE PATRIOTS ONLY rAAHH 🦅🇺🇸 youtu.be/45ynsws5zVk

The New AmericanaYouTube video by pagemeltyoutu.be

waiting for the podiatrist. nice young man got me checked in, gave me some helpful advice re: sleeping in a split, then glanced at my shirt and said, "I love that show"

one shane hollander tag to rule them all

i wont fw your book if it’s got higher than a 4.0 average on goodreads. u are simply not pissing enough people off to have anything cool to say

don't talk to me for the rest of the day. i'm grieving an unnameable loss. on a whim i just looked up the smartest girl i knew in high school and learned she became a prosecutor

idk but sunsan sontag said in 1963 that "[the novel] has sunk to the level of an art form deeply, if not irrevocably, compromised by philistinism" so I'm not sure how much we can really blame on booktok

seeing backrooms 2nite :)

if i’d gotten my MFA i’d probably write about writing, but i started in tech right after undergrad so i tend to write about people sending emails to each other

jeremy allen white as rotta the hutt is even more "zendaya as meechee" than zendaya as meechee

even if i didn't already know about the nazi connections, the way that substack notes won't let you add alt text to images but WILL let you "add a prediction market" to your post would have been a clue