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[a-driftamongopenstars]

the horror of being "god's favourite princess". literally one of my favourite horror themes. the god loves you and it's so scary.

it will always choose you. you cannot die. you'll always come back because it loves you so much. you are its right and left hand, its eternal weapon. it will drown you in its light. light as horror. darkness as horror. what if it thinks you are its best friend.

you are god's favourite princess and it's terrifying.

[edge-lorde]

I watched the first 2 episodes of castlevania nocturne with my friend this weekend, and I had previously learned just enough about late 1700s fashion for this characters outfit to fucking send me

Like obviously she reads as ultra feminine to a modern audience, but the fact that she's wearing breeches at all would have been super butch. And I don't think pink was even considered a feminine color like it is now yet, and embroidery was common for men who could afford it. And that is an anime version of a real historical hairstyle fucuufgjgcvjh.

This character is a French revolutionary, and during that time period, there were styles of dress that people wore to show support of the revolution, and they instead chose to have her outfit be at glass shattering levels of futch princeling

[robertreich]

Today I start my ninth decade on earth. It’s astounding and distressing, but I suppose it’s better than the alternative. In his latter years, my father would always answer my weekly phone question, “How are you, Dad?” with a brisk “Still here!” Several of my joints ache, I can’t remember shit, I can no longer do 20 pushups at a clip, several good friends have passed, my bald spot is claiming more territory, and I can’t hear very well (especially in restaurants). But, hey, I’m still here. And hardly alone. All 1946 boomers still here are turning 80. More babies were born in 1946 than in any other year of American history up to then. Dolly Parton is one. She has been 80 since January 19 of this year. I still haven’t met her. Meeting her has been on my bucket list for six decades. She’s my height. We have similar values. I’ve been in love with her since I was 15, but so far, zilch. When I was a small boy, my grandma Frances was courted by a man named Jack Hirsch, who was then 80. I had never before encountered someone as old as Jack. I was scared to speak loudly in his presence, or sneeze, or cough, for fear he’d fall over and die. I remember thinking he could be Methuselah (who, according to the Bible, lived until the ripe old age of 969). What happens after you hit a ripe old age? Do you ripen until you rot? Three score and ten is the number of years of life set out in the Bible. Modern technology and Big Pharma add at least a decade, bringing us 1946 boomers to where we are now. Yesterday I ran into a former student who upon seeing me exclaimed, “You look great!” I thanked her even though she was probably just being polite. An elderly friend once told me there were four ages to life: youth, middle age, old age, and “You look great.” I’m now in the fourth stage. My wish for you is that you have a long lifespan and a long health-span, that you relish every day you have, spend time with people you love and value, let go of all the petty crap, wish no one ill (except perhaps Trump), and continue to fight for what’s good and noble and important. And regardless of your age, my thanks to you for joining me on this journey. (By the way, you look great.)

[requiem-on-water]

Survival (1983–85) by Jenny Holzer

[petulantpony]

let’s all gain weight and get strong as fuck

[powerblossoms]

Reading of the Week!

Hello! This week, we're looking at "Necropolitics" by Achille Mbembe, the article which proceeded his book of the same name.

Mbembe presents necropolitics as the production and regulation of death to the ends of imperial and colonial oppression. He argues necropolitics, while related to biopower (how socieities regulate the lives of their populations to the advantage of the state) is seperate because the aim of colonial and imperial states using necropower is not to regulate their oppressed populations, but to keep them in a "living dead" state where they have no power over their own bodies or actions to be disposed of by the state at will.

Necropolitics, he argues, guides the institutions of slavery and apartheid, and is epitomized by the Israeli occupation of Palestine. These examples are what Mbembe calls "death-worlds"- the populations subjected to these conditions are in perpetual states of death and their deaths serve to further the interests of the colonial, "civilized" metropole.

The United States has both a necropoloitical history and present. For the context of our work, the prison industrial complex creates "death worlds" within prison walls where prisoners are denied basic necessities, are tortured at the will of those around them, and they are receptacles for those left by the wayside in the wake of deindustrialization and the gutting of welfare, amongst other social fractures.

As a bit of a bonus reading, "Those Who Walk Away from the Omelas" by Ursula K LeGuin is a necropolitical story. It illustrates Mbembe's point very clearly, and is a useful tool for understanding this theory and the societies which make use of it, including our own.

[halos2deac-deactivated20260223]

yep

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

Endlessly diabolical how you can't say words like rape and suicide uncensored without either being criticised by idiots or punished by conglomerates.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

It's not r*pe, it's rape. It's not su*cide, it's suicide. Not unalive, dead. The backbone needs to be reintroduced en masse because softening the blow of these concepts with advertising language does absolutely nothing but allow people unaffected by them to feel not even a sting of what they can do, prompting inaction.

[bigfatbitchdotcom]

And it's been proven that on certain websites, you don't even face a repercussion for using the words as they are. People just started censoring themselves because they feared the potential lack of views and likes and followers which is so nasty itself.

[its-the-blob]

I attended an anti-suicide seminar in college. One of the big takeaways from it was that stigmatizing suicide increases the rate of suicide, because people who are feeling suicidal feel like they can't ask for help. Every time I see babytalk garbage like 'unalive', I think of that.

[ralfmaximus]

Use the real words. Words have power, and they matter.

[weepingwidar]

Kelsey Shwetz (Canadian, d.o.b. unknown) - Sanctuary (2025)

[anonajn]

relentlessly funny to me when people treat a relationship between someone in their 30s and someone in their 40s as "age difference". bro i cannot tell you which of my friends are 34 and which are 44. i can probably tell you which ones aren't 30 yet, but it's probable some of them are 50 now and i didn't notice. if you're over 30 and don't have kids, it's kinda all one age until you can collect social security.

[addamatic]

[id: a photo of Toni Morison, with her quote across it, which reads “it’s not possible to constantly hold onto crisis. You have to have the love and you have to have the magic. That’s also life.” End id]

They wouldn’t be trying so hard to keep us from our joy if joy were not liberation.

[crowwkui]

creature-y witches

[robertreich]

The world's first trillionaire.

[sofiaswaves]

Kelela photographed by Daisy Zhou, hair by Matt Benns, makeup by Raisa Flowers and styling by Jahleel Weaver, June 2026

[parkchanwoohoo]

Seeing strangers bond excitedly despite cultural/linguistic differences, idk it's hard not to be like, at the end of the day this is all it could be

[parkchanwoohoo]

I think at the end of the day most people are more curious and more optimistic than we tend to think and it's easy to forget that

[farewell-to-lorien]

Hummingbird nesting on cactus, Living Desert Gardens in Palm Desert, California.

[theatsthetic]

female-presenting vitruvian