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“Largely in favor of humans” —John Green

[m4nsch]

happy pride! remember that being a transgender is everything but fiction. there are so many real historical figures from every century about whose transgenderism we aren't even aware of

on this picture i drew Alexandr Andreevich Alexandrov - cavalry officer of the russian imperial army that participated in napoleonic wars. people persistently keep on misgendering mispronounsing deadnaming and calling him a crossdresser although alexandrov clearly stated that he didn't want to be called by his deadname and being treated like anything but a man. that's an interesting historical figure and i wanted to draw attention to his person. i can't tell everything about him in only one post so i recomend you to read about alexandrov by yourself

also be proud of yourself and remember that you're valid! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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jeez. sorry you didn't like it.

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good.store just passed $13,000,000 raised for charity, which is both a lot and an amount that sometimes comes out when billionaires cough really hard.

anyway, why buy your household cleaning supplies, socks, soap, coffee, tea, and more at a regular store that enriches the few when you could buy it at good store and support vulnerable people and ecosystems?

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rip critical reading born 12,000 years ago in mesopotamia died on twitter in 2013. :( rest easy king.

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[safije]

Native Americans march in solidarity with Palestine

Denver, Colorado USA

© Malek Asfeer 

[bugsnbites]

Grace getting knocked out at the control panel was probably some sort of nightmare for Rocky. Eridians don’t look like they get knocked out easy if at all, and here’s the squishy alien friend, sleeping very suddenly, and leaking a fluid Rocky surely knows by now is incredibly important. He was watching and Grace is dying anyway.

[mildly0bsessed]

I have read six books in 2026.

And I feel weirdly bad about that number. When I was in middle school, I could clear six books in a month or less. Those books were at or above my reading level. Now at 21, I’m easily sucked into my phone, I’m burnt out, I’m exhausted, and I’m BUSY. I am also facing chronic pain, brain fog, and fatigue. I read slower now. Being hard on myself for that only makes me want to read less and less because I’m not doing it the “right way” (Aka the way I did in middle school).

But I shouldn’t feel bad about reading “only six books.”

A recent survey showed that 41% of Americans read NO books in 2025 and a further 27% read 1-4 books. The graph is pictured below.

By reading just six books, I have read more than the majority of Americans in under half the year’s time.

If you’re seeing this post and feeling bad about reading slower than you used to—or maybe you could never read fast at all—you don’t have to. The literacy crisis in America is real. But even reading a few books this year is actively fighting back! Read as many as you can. Even just ONE is better than most people.

A link to the survey, if you want to know more!

https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/53804-most-americans-didnt-read-many-books-in-2025

Most Americans didn't read many books in 2025

40% of Americans who didn't read any books in 2025. The median American read two books.

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Friday at 5:17AM central standard time, I submitted an essay for my senior capstone class. I had to pull an all nighter to get it done, but it’s done. And I’m sitting here, still working on the rest of my finals, thinking about middle school. All the hours spent late into the night buried deep in a book. The days spent in the library, learning what it means to be human.

And I think of high school. When I was fifteen, I couldn’t even wrap my brain around the concept of being nearly 22 and finishing undergraduate education. Those were the years that I spent hours late into the night depressed and failing classes. I thought I was a failure.

But here I am. In August, I will face my final semester of undergraduate education with an English major and religion minor. The end is in sight and it doesn’t feel real, honestly. But I keep moving for middle school and high school me. My GPA is not what I would have it be—perfectionism is a bitch, after all—but I am doing it. I have survived and I will survive. Graduation is in December. I’ve got miles to go before I sleep. But this moment of my life has such transient beauty I must stop to see it. Saint Julian of Norwich said “All shall be well, all shall be well, all manner of things shall be well.” And I look back at the me of 10 years ago, reading the Twilight for the first time oddly enough, and I tell them that all manner of things shall be well.

(Also a lot of st. Julian iconography and art depicts her with her cat which I just love so much)

[casual-darkness]

[mildly0bsessed]

How incredible is it that those four astronauts left the earth—traveled further than anyone before them—and still, AND STILL, want to come home? When they looked back on earth, they didn’t see war or injustice. They saw home. They saw us. I am eternally amazed that in all humanity’s curiosity, in our research and exploration, the drive to find out more, we can still choose each other. It is that that makes us human. To explore further and further beyond ourselves and yet still love humanity.

We, even as humans war against each other, carry love into the stars. I think that’s why we do this whole space-travel business. So that in an infinitely large universe, so too may love be infinite.

I am apt to reference John Green at a moments notice, and I will do it again here. In his essay “Auld Lang Syne,” John explains that in the First World War, soldiers sang the tune of Auld Lang Syne to new lyrics: “We’re Here because we’re here.” Those lyrics looping over and over. And the nihilism there is an easy move. But I refuse to bow to it. What an utter miracle that WE are here. Here at the same time as the largest animal to ever live, here to watch as man reaches for the stars. Here at the same time as towering trees. They don’t grow for me, but what a miracle that I get to enjoy their shade. Here at the same time as bumble bees and flowers and wasps and mosquitoes (even though I hate them).

What a miracle that we are here.

Another John Green reference to close out this yap session. Each essay in The Anthropocene Reviewed is closed by a five star rating.

I give Artemis II

Five stars

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I think bread is a super underrated invention. I am very grateful to the ancestors for bread. I bet it was a lot of work to figure it out and everything.

Everyone's always like, "The wheel! Masonry!" But what about fucking bread, you know? 15,000 years old and arguably better than ever.

[saiscribbles]

"Glitch/Spindlehorse Isn't Indie Anymore"

I'm so tired of people not understanding what indie means.

Indie doesn't mean "has no money". Indie doesn't mean "low budget". Indie doesn't mean "not on mainstream platforms." Indie doesn't mean "no SAG actors." Indie doesn't mean "not in a movie theater".

Indie means you are producing and distributing your media independent of the Hollywood studio system.

Everything out of A24, for example, is an indie film. Everything Everywhere All At Once? Ladybird? Ex Machina? Moonlight? Hereditary? Midsommar? ALL INDIE FILMS.

Entertainment as we know it is rapidly changing. Anyone can make anything from anywhere now and find an audience.

That's a GOOD thing.

[mixterglacia]

To my fellow TADC viewing attendees.

*grabs mic*

You can cheer, you can cry, you can gasp, you can laugh, but by the gods SHUT THE FUCK UP IN THE THEATER.

You are going to be on your best behavior. You are not going to make a Minecraft movie out of this. You are going to stay off your fucking phone. You are going to not talk unless you're damned sure you can't be heard. You are going to clean up (within reason) after yourself.

You remember how good Iron Lung viewers treated their theaters? I expect that and more. If you make a significant spill? Offer to help clean! They'll likely tell you no, but the thought alone is a big deal. Plus! Telling them where a large mess is helps deal with it more effectively.

Do not fucking talk. Do not record your screen. Do not use your phone. Do. Not. Ruin. Your. Audiences. Good. Time.

Do not embarrass Goose.

(also this is a semi-aside, but if you're going to dress up, 1: make sure it won't obstruct viewing/make sound. 2: no facepaint. Don't even risk it. If it can't reasonably pass for makeup, don't even try it. A LOT of theaters will make you wash it off. Or bar you from entering in general.)

Also, while I have you.

If you're at an area without/your theater doesn't have a showing?

POLITELY. I REPEAT, POLITELY.

Call/email to see if they can get a viewing hosted. The reason Iron Lung went from 50 to 4500 theaters was by request. This goes for any theaters in any country. It helps if you get a lot of friends together to POLITELY ask if they'll show it.

And always check back! None of ours had it, but they added them last night! And I'm in the middle of nowhere.

Anyways.

Don't talk. Clean up. Be polite.

AND DON'T SPOIL IT UNTIL IT'S OUT ON YOUTUBE.

[gasterofficial]

episode 9 prediction

[mildly0bsessed]

Look not every craft is a win, ok?