☀

[slakebunny]

I’m sure there are already courses and stuff on this song alone (TV obvsss) but it’s amazing how a person can just go back in time from a song alone. Like that’s art. Thats time travel. A big, beautiful life.

[slakebunny]

I haven’t read anything in a few weeks and thought an easy, small town, smut filled romance book would be nice. First 3 chapters and we have an inn, a psychic tarot card reading old neighbor and a found dog. That’s like 3 of my favorite tropes. It’s a good day and I’m locked in.

[slakebunny]

I love that somehow a kid born and raised in North Carolina is making me delicacies from around the world everyday. We went to the Asian market and spent all our food budget + $50 of fun money. Tonight we’re having Jamaican curry.

[slakebunny]

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[thecollectibles]

Art by Alai Ganuza

[slakebunny]

Hysterical Bonding

I want your comfort/you caused my pain

this dichotomy has me feeling insane.

Remember when we met?

Early mornings, late at night.

Making up after a fight.

You held onto me so fast and strong

It scared me a little

what if this is wrong?

Is life determined? Is it fate?

Maybe this path we walk on is not so straight.

I think I’m in mourning

I’m holding onto such grief

For what I thought we were

And could be

I think back to a time before us.

Another heart broken, I’m repainting the lines of what was

In a truckbed at a party

tequila and drugs

Thought maybe I’d keep it

that now tainted love

Am I repeating patterns?

Am I missing some sign?

Does anything matter?

Can I forgive your crimes?

Now I sit at the kitchen

trying hard not to think

of mutual masturbation

and your weird little kinks

Did she know you like I do?

All your scars and your flaws

Fuck you and your insecurities

I’m not trying to be mean

Your strength was an asset

This act: pathetic and weak

Now we’re clawing in a bathroom

Playing Mormon and raw

Hearts on the table

I guess it’s your call

Can we fix what you’ve broken?

I need more than tokens

Hysterical bonding

Intimate fiction

Fanatical visions

Mystical, mythical healing

Lemonade and old debts paid

I’m calling for it all

[slakebunny]

Today would have been your 28th birthday. You’ve been gone for almost 1/2 a year. You are so missed, Frankie. I find myself wanting to send you pictures of the dogs constantly. It’s weird because they are your dogs but they are ours now too, so I’ll just say “the” I feel honored to be trusted with their care and can’t help but love them as hard I can. Even the cow-pig, with her shifty ways. You were always so good at that- finding the good that is sometimes so easy to overlook. I told your mother that I loved her tonight, twice, just in case she missed it the first time. I told your sister stories I never would have told her if you were here to stop me and we laughed until we cried. I arm wrestled your nephew twice and I DID NOT let him win. I hope you saw him- 7 years old and preening. Flexing his muscles from across the table. I hope he never loses that confidence but also doesn’t let it go to his head. A thin line, I know. I read through every text we ever exchanged today. I cried into Axle’s soft fur and kissed Ruby’s hard head. I can still hear your laugh sometimes, still know what you would say to Fox at certain moments when he has a hair-brained idea. I try to let him have those ones. I know it’s not the same as having you here to say it. But I try.

I hope you are somewhere with a fast, mint car. Somewhere with a Chinese chin named Sara eating frozen grapes. I hope it’s always sea faring weather fit for a quick ride in the checkmate. And I hope more than anything that you save us a spot. I’d give anything for another sunset cruise with you, bud.

[slakebunny]

For the first time in my life I just withdrew and application after several interviews. I feel weird about it like a decade ago I was begging a local diner to let me work 2 serving jobs and please not fire me and now my current job is begging me to not leave and offering a raise that literally equates to one of said serving jobs. I worked 1000x harder at said dual serving jobs and still made less $- both jobs combined- than I will in 2023. Anyways. This isnt to brag. Unskilled labor is a myth. My one “professional” tip is whenever you have imposter syndrome just remember there is some old crusty white dude making more than you and doing less so why should you feel like you’re not doing enough work/doing good enough work? You shouldn’t.

[livtheotterkit-deactivated20241]

Gratitude to Diane Duane

In the tradition of looking for something to be grateful for on this day in the USA, @dduane, I want to say thanks for your Young Wizard series. It was one of the works that helped form my worldview. I’m of an age that I grow up with the characters as you released the books. I found a battered copy of So You Want To Be A Wizard in –fittingly–the local library. And the universe you wrote in the series became a haven I ran to whenever the life I was living got me down or tried to take away my hope. I still turn to them for comfort and sanctuary in my thirties, by listening to the audiobooks. They always restore me. Thank you for writing this wonderful universe. Thank you for writing lonely kids who get invited into a universe of cousins and committed friends. Thank you for writing young people with the agency to help heal the world and stand up to evil. Thank you for writing magic that is a good and wholesome part of the world, walking hand in hand with science. Thank you for writing books that told a lonely kid there were friends out there, if I kept looking for them. All my gratitude.

[dduane]

Thanks so much! It’s a pleasure to have been (and to continue to be) of service.

(And hey, have a good signing today!)  :)

[justsomeantifas]

how many people could be working on actual problems in the world instead of being forced to do jobs that they are over-qualified for just because they dont want to go homeless and starve?

[justsomeantifas]

climate change is threatening to kill us and people with biology degrees are working at starbucks if they didn’t get lucky in the nepotism department.

[justsomeantifas]

capitalism is possibly the least efficient way to allocate work. 

You love art–have spent your entire childhood developing a style people love and appreciate? you could possibly work to improve the lives of millions with your beautiful creations?

sorry you need to work 12 hours a day at a walmart that doesn’t need you while some billionaire who took a painting class once sells some ugly bullshit for 3.5 million.

[justsomeantifas]

Millions of people want to be doctors but can’t afford medical school, it is a well known fact we don’t have enough doctors for the demand. hmm wow real efficient capitalism.

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” - Stephen Jay Gould

Capitalism and wealth are bankrupt concepts.

[slakebunny]

I am unreasonably excited that I won this.

[slakebunny]

This world is too cold and too cruel for you to stay long, my sweet girl. But oh how we love you. Friday night dinner as usual; Sunday we are saying goodbye. I wish you no pain and that you know how loved you truly are. Bye for now Belews clues💜

[slakebunny]

When I started my new job I decided I was going to have strong work-life boundaries. This has become even more important now that I work from home. I swore I was taking a full hour lunch break everyday, I was using AT LEAST the equivalent PTO as if I had 3 weeks (we have unlimited pto) and I was not working overtime as I’m a salaried employee. I was super anxious and still sometimes get anxious whenever it’s a super busy day and I unplug for lunch or there’s renewals to go through and I could easily knock some out after hours BUT…I like this job more than any other job I’ve had. Is it because of this new boundary thing? Or do I just like it…idk. I’m taking 4 days off to go to the mountains and for once I don’t feel immense guilt about taking time off. I’m one person and no one else is going to protect me from overwork than me. Anyways use your PTO and don’t work through lunch 🥙

[slakebunny]

Our neighbor has to put this big, lovable goof down Monday. He has a brain tumor and has gone downhill fast. I cried all night. I didn’t even think about Nick having to do it alone but Fox did. He offered to go with him to the appointment which is just another reason I love him so much. So today we will spend the day spoiling him as much as we can. Rest easy, sweet King dog 💜

[slakebunny]

We went to Saigon Asian Market (go if you’re near Wilmington!) and I think I broke Foxs southern little heart when I bought kewpie mayo. We are a solid Dukes family but I didn’t want to ruin the sushi casserole recipe by disregarding the explicit mayo needed (@lizzymwong) anyway I’m excited to try this recipe it looks so good!

[slakebunny]

My coworker had weight loss surgery. No big deal, I am 100% on board with using every tool available to make your physical self exactly what you desire.

The thing that gets me is..they did the ole 10 year challenge with two images-one from now, one 10 years ago. and so many comments about “healthy lifestyles” and “what’s your secret,keto?” “Rise and grind” “weight loss journey” “some ppl just don’t have self control” …blah blah blah.

Large bodies, small bodies, all bodies. None of it equates to “health” and they are all valid. I’m so tired of everyone’s meat bags being some kind of signifier for health or wealth or what the fuck ever.

Were All just trying to get through this fucked up timeline with minimal damage. There’s nothing wrong with their body before or after the surgery. There is also nothing wrong with large bodies. What is wrong is the state of this godforsaken place where kids have shit like lunch debt, and organic, non-gmo “healthy” food costs the same per month as unaffordable housing and shit costs money and money is so fucked and I’m so tired of this boring ass dystopia where billionaires launch their phalic midlife crisis’ into the cosmos and people vote against their best interests because they aren’t even given an option besides literal fascist or thoughts and prayers, no change, corporate bought talking old ass head.

There are so many things we could have done, and instead we’re all judging each other and treating each other with absolute cruelty most of the time. It’s so sad. It’s just so fucking sad.

[slakebunny]

I spent a week + with some of the people I love most. Now, I am home with my zoo and everyone is healthy and happy. Right now, life is good.