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I really love your fics. As someone else who writes fics to cope with past stuff (child abuse survivor here), you don't know how comforting it is to know I'm not the only person who does it. And you're such a good author and you do so much world building and have worked so hard to make a complex, well thought out story. I'm not sure if I'm making any sense, but please just know that I love your work and hope that life is treating you well (as well as things can be right now, anyway).

Darling anon, thank you so much. Writing has always been my best coping and healing mechanism - and I never could have guessed how many others I would connect with who do the same. I’m a mom to a toddler now, so finding time to write has become difficult, but I miss my community and I think about you all quite a bit even though my online life has nearly ceased. I hope your writing has brought you the same peace that mine has given me and I am proud of you.

#anon #replies #writing

barbariankingdom

#labatt #industrial design #1930s #streamliner truck

nemfrog

Trees, Stars And Birds. 1919. Cover art.

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#book cover #covers #starry sky #trees #1910s

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René Magritte

#rené magritte #art #sky #night sky #space building

ankh-morporkianpostalworker

So I made a joke a few days ago about not expecting a Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen protest song in 2026, but the fact that he did it is really important. This is because, to a large amount of Boomers - specifically in the Midwest and South - The Boss is the de facto morally correct songwriter, his works not focusing on sex and drugs and rock and roll but instead on issues themes can better relate to like poverty (The River, Atlantic City, Born to Run) and the feeling that life has passed you by (Glory Days). Thus, the Boss throwing in with the protests across the country signals, to his boomer fanbase, that the protests are morally right.

He does this mostly by framing the protests as a conflict between freedom-loving protestors and jackbooted thugs over the soul of America and by painting ICE's victims as martyrs who were killed for no reason and whose names must not be forgotten. Then he pairs the idea of fighting for the soul of America and these newfound martyrs with protecting immigrants and continuing resistance (the refrain of the song is "We'll make our stand for this land/And the strangers in our midst").

This song is also the most overtly political and contemporary of his works. While his most famous song, "Born in the USA," is a critique of how the US military exploited the working class by shipping them off to Vietnam and left them broken and abandoned after their return told through the eyes of a victim of this exploitation, its catchy refrain was enough to give Conservatives a chance to claim the song as patriotic, but his new anthem, "Streets of Minneapolis," does not and is, instead, nakedly and starky about what its about.

Also, it fucking slaps (and every protest movement needs an anthem) and it's making a bunch of Conservatives pissed off cuz they assumed he was on their side

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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city

Source is fairly easy to find but it’s my duty to provide

#bruce springsteen #music #protests #minneapolis #streets of minneapolis #fuck ice

fucking apple and their fucking enshittification of their products. i'm going to have to learn libreoffice after all...the thought of converting over twenty years of stories and files makes me sick but supporting ai can not be born. i'm getting too old for this nonsense!

#enshittification #fuck ai #apple #wtf is this apple suite bullshit #fuck off tim apple #woes of a writer #amali lives her life #angry and bitter