an echo’s pressing sound

[writingraccoon]

Love the word "also". I have more things to say

[pussypopstar]

I'm, above all else, a tangentgirl. always saying shit like "sidenote," "oh also," "by the way,"

[elwenyere]

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

[i-am-a-fish]

drink water you are so PRETTY drink water

[themathomhouse]

okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.

I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.

so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.

[the-evil-clergyman]

Die Heimkehr by Sulamith Wülfing (1949)

[processes]

common origins of suffering, euphoria, and ferret

substack

[drunkwhenimadethis]

I think everyone's desire to not piss anyone off is killing what is so attractive about personalities in the first place

[cataclysmictide]

DO YOU HEAR ME? GET UP.

[maureen2musings]

"This is nature- not AI. Lightning sprites in Oklahoma. Lightning sprites are large, colorful electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds. Extremely difficult to see and photograph because of their short duration and faintness, only about a millisecond to capture."

paulmsmithphotography

[drunkwhenimadethis]

Wake up call fr

[chloeinletters]

To Live a Textured Life

[westiec]

see the THING IS I don't feel like I ever worked hard enough to have "earned" the burnout, which is. probably how we got here.

[an-ruraiocht]

Ballet, like opera, is wonderful because it is monstrous, the hyper-development of skills nobody needs, a twisting of human bodies and souls into impossible positions, the purchase of light with blood.

Irina Dumitrescu, "Swan, Late: The unexpected joys of adult beginner ballet."

[persianmom-deactivated20251026]

what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?

[megthemariner]

@ryebreadgf / The Truth About Grief, Fortesa Latifi / bone deep, m.v.e / Sidewalk, Richard Silken / unknown / 60 hours, m.v.e / @itsblackleader / Salt, Nayyirah Waheed / @heavensghost

[sowedpearls]

[theocseason4]

cinnamon bread recipe