"Tattoos are becoming unpopular", "piercings are unpopular again", "keep your hair natural never dye it again, it's the trend now" literally fuck off I know what y'all are doing

puzzle games are always shilled as relaxing becuz it's not combat, but nothing will get my blood pressure raised quite like failing to solve the same puzzle 12 times in a row

im thinking abt sinners and The Scene: how Sammie played so beautifully that the house caught fire and showed the people inside, but he wasn't the center of it - there was so much movement in that scene!!! so much to SEE - no two people danced the same way - you're focusing on the spirits of the old and the new and how Together everyone looked even without four walls around them.

And then you have Remmick and his song. There's uniformity in the dancing!!! in the singing!!!! in the movements!!!!!!! Those same people who were dancing so freely and expressively!!!!! Now following remmick step after step!!!!!

Whiteness as vampirism!!! Leeching away individuality!!!! culture!!! freedom!!! ughhgghh this movie !!!!!¡!!! so good !!!!!¡!!!!!!!

Let’s go do fun outdoor winter activities and take vitamin d supplements and sign up for yoga class and go on antidepressants and buy a SAD lamp and stretch daily! Follow me everyone!! *slips on black ice and falls face first onto the ground and the snow piles up on my unmoving body*

Me: Thinking of Piranesi in Doctor Who-y terms means I really spend too much time rotating the blorbos in my head, probably—

Piranesi:

Me:

Orientalists will demand you to reify what is to them abstract, what is to you a fact of life. People think "orientalism" just means "racism against asians" when it means people of the western world insisting that anything that exists in "the orient" must have its equivalent in The Enlightened West.

When people say your ideas about the self is not rooted in a materialist reality, that you are "othering" yourself , it is them demanding you to ascribe to western rationality, THEY are exotifying YOU.

I had a feeling this album would be amazing (I was right), so I made sure to crank that pre-order.

Lianne La Havas 🥰

i hate that concerns about urban gardening/foraging safety is often met with "What are you, a cop?" scorn. I believe it's a suspicion of anything that hinders the punk/anti-system urgency to jump in immediately and do whatever feels right.

Safety, ethics, and sustainability are all a part of urban gardening and foraging. I'm sorry that means you need to do homework before you can do anything, I know that sounds lame. But life is complicated.

I know anti-intellectualism is viewed as activist these days, but like, surely you don't want to literally eat lead, right?

Let’s check in and see how those rascally solarpunk kids are doing, surely they’ve learned by now that…..

Daily reminder: Leafy greens like kales uptake all those delicious heavy metals in urban soils like lead and cadmium.

Don’t eat sidewalk-crack kale.

Here's some cool references from the EPA on safe urban gardening:

REUSING POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED LANDSCAPES: Growing Gardens in Urban Soils

Steps to Creating a Community Garden or Expand Urban Agriculture at a Brownfields Site

The portrayal of Darcy's issues being rooted in social anxiety may have done irreversible damage to the cultural understanding of his character

Hedda (2025) screenplay and direction by Nia DaCosta

We need more media about women who are tortured by their dark delinquent pasts and trying to earn redemption they know they can never deserve like I think it would fix me. And also they should have girlfriends.

it’s because you’re always living in that damn castle

i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"

while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"

well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question

third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"

i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."

and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3

@luckyybones hope you don't mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct

heartbreaking: the thing you’re currently obsessed with has an awful fandom

Weekly Bookish Question #476 (January 18th - January 24th, 2026)

Do you have any plans for changing something about your bookshelves this year? If so, what are they?

Yes! My bookshelf has been half buried for months with a pile of clothing. I also donated a ton of books and now have random shit on the shelves. I'm going to give my bookshelf a massive overhaul and set up my fairy collection on top.