Resting Sus Vibes

I’m suddenly laughing at the idea of a cliche noir detective story written in the brutally concise style of Hemingway.

A woman walked into my office. She had legs. I noticed her legs. “I have a problem. I need your help,” she said. They always said that. I knew her legs weren’t the problem. I hoped she might want my help with them anyhow.

“Can you pay?” I asked. Of course she could. Her shoes were worth more than my rent. She could pay. “I can pay,” she said. Her eyes were wet. I wondered if anything else was wet. Probably not. I am not handsome. Not since the war. She was looking at my scar. Lots of people do. Most look away. Not her. She did not look away. She looked at my scar and I looked at her legs. There were two of them. I liked that about her. I liked that a whole lot. “Will there be danger?” I asked. There always is. This city bleeds danger, then drinks it right back up again.

“I’m afraid there might be danger,” she said. She had the voice of a beautiful woman. She also had the face and body of a beautiful woman. She was beautiful.

The light from the window was striped. It made stripes on my cigarette smoke. The end of my cigarette crumbled into ash. My marriage had also crumbled into ash.

“I can handle danger,” I said. I patted the butt of my gun. My gun was a Colt. My gun and my scar were all that was left from my time as a soldier. My gun, my scar, and the nightmares. I looked her up and down. “I am good at handling things.”

“It’s about my husband. He’s gone missing.”

She was not wearing a ring. It means something when a woman does not wear a wedding ring. Usually, it means that she is not married. “Seems your ring has also gone missing,” I said. I hoped her dress would join it.

Her red mouth curved upwards. She was smiling a little. “I don’t wear it outside. A diamond that large would only invite trouble.”

“In my experience, trouble doesn’t wait for an invitation.” I looked at her legs again. They were both still there. “When did you last see your husband?”

#ernest hemingway

firetone07

The 3rd issue of my Informative series is finally done. This zine discusses why the Ancient astronaut theory is damaging to native peoples and how this theory is ultimately racist. I'll post the last two pages here since I reached the photo limit.

This was fun to put together and the research was very taxing but overall, it came out just how I wanted it to come out. Thanks for reading.

#zines #science

tending-toward-silence

*through clenched teeth* All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well

#julian of norwich

The longer I am stuck at my job I am trying to leave, the more I understand Mercymorn. 😮‍💨

#mercymorn #the locked tomb #mercymorn the first #harrow the ninth #htn

Me 🤝 Mercymorn

Infuriating boss named John

major-knighton

Edmond Dantès and Jean Valjean are like opposite ends of a spectrum of "how does this 19th century French prison escapee who likes to wear disguises and fake identities a lot deal with his trauma?". And neither of them are doing it well, but they're still doing it in opposite ways.

#Les Misérables #the count of monte cristo

rovermcfly

not the first person to point this out I'm sure, but I love that aside from the joke of half the "kids" thinking the count is a vampire, the count actually IS a vampire. in all ways but physical. from everybody else's perspective, at least: a young man was taken away and died. one day a strange and mysterious man shows up with pale skin, dressed in all black and terrifying in every way. he seems to be foreign, doesn't understand french customs and has strange habits, seemingly doesn't eat. he's accompanied by a beautiful woman he claims is his slave but he treats like a queen, behaves all in all unusual. he seduces young men around him and tempts people with his unimaginable riches. he's capable of superhuman feats, superhuman speeds, strength, precision. he speaks every language under the sun, has every skill known to man. he's omniscient, omnipotent. but most terrifying of all- he is that same man who died many years ago. he's different now. but he's the same man. and he still looks as young as he did, only... different. his mere presence forebodes death now, people he comes into contact with die or go mad shortly after, their lives are destroyed one way or another. his life was taken from him and now he takes the lives of others, perpetuating this cycle of death. he just doesn't do it by way of sucking anybody's blood. but otherwise, in all ways but physical, the count is a vampire. and that fucking rules.

#the count of monte cristo

I was reading HtN while visiting a friend and their bones obsessed toddler was very interested in the skulls at the start of each chapter. We sat on the floor and flipped through all of Act 1 and Act 2 so she could point at all the skulls and ask Very Important 3 year old questions like "what is he (the 2nd house skull) doing?" and "why is he (the 6th house skull) eating?" She explained to me that the big first house skull is the mama and the other skulls are the babies.

#harrow the ninth #the locked tomb #ninth house #harrowhark nonagesimus

spider-artdump

#comc #count of monte Cristo #count posting #moby dick

@fauvester a friend and I are going to read it over winter holidays this year lmk if you want in.

thewanderingspaceman-deactivate

#ben affleck #fake photos #fact checking

This is AI or edited. The original photo is from October 2023. (See Getty) Text has been added to the shirt.

the-mossuary

everything is so much. we need less more and more less.

azspot

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

santhipoma

#tech #journalism

I honestly think I just like post-industrial cities if I'm honest

When I say I love a city that peaked in the late 19th/early 20th century

#urbanism

Trans people deserve to grow old.

Within the past month, 2 trans college students were murdered.

Rest in Peace Juniper Blessing and Murray Foust