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Watching zootopia it's sooooooooooo insufferable and also very stupid. I can't help but feel that children's movies from when i was a kid were smarter than this. I don't even think I'm being biased. But still I could write so much about this movie I wish I was a video essayist on youtube

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i have too much joie de vivre for this

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A lot of people don't realize how crushing sudden disability is. If you don't have a good support system you're screwed. Coming to terms with your inability to do what you could do easily even a week before is really hard. You need people you can trust and who can advocate for you. If you don't, you're fucked. Disability services are useless and dehumanizing. Not being able to work suddenly can literally kill you.

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I'm not gonna lie the secret to success for a great many people is absolutely stimulant abuse

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I am making this post on the behalf of Sami and his family -- Gazans currently suffering from hunger and violence.

Sami says:

"Imagine starting your childhood carrying your little brother on your back instead of a schoolbag. Imagine your first lesson in life being not about games or dreams, but about survival and responsibility. In Gaza, many children grow up too soon, not because they want to, but because war has left them no choice.

These children have never tasted safety. They've lost their homes, their families, and their innocence. Some became orphans in a single night, standing in the ruins of everything they once loved. And yet, even after all the pain, their hearts still beat with hope and kindness.

This is my life, and the life of my family, in the heart of Gaza. Displaced, surrounded by destruction, and living under constant threat, we cling to each other and to life with whatever strength we have left. When someone from Gaza speaks to you, it is not just a story—it’s a cry for help."

Please consider supporting Sami's fundraiser, found here.

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the thing about eggs as a trans metaphor is that, like, if it cannot break out of its shell a chick will die without being born. we are the chick. the world is our egg. if we don't crack the world's shell, we will die without being born. smash the world's shell! for the revolution of the world!

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I think the ultimate problem with contemporary Anglo discussion around Lovecraft is that his fundamental beliefs are still accepted by the mainstream; he just expressed them in ways that are considered excessive and distasteful. Like you can write all you want about genetic degeneration on a combined physical and moral level, the inevitable fall of decadent orientalist empires or the constant onslaught of savage insanity against rational civilised life. It's fine as long as you separate it from literal reality by a degree or 2; many people who might otherwise take issue with 19th century level racism and eugenics won't bat an eyelid if it's directed against orcs or aliens or post-nuclear mutants.

Like it's very common for someone to oppose the surface signifiers of bigotry while having no real disagreement with the deeper ideology behind it. Just look at how enthusiastic some people are about "progressively" making up slurs for robots (which is totally fine because robots aren't real okay!!!!!). Their only problem with Lovecraft is that he went out of his way to say explicitly racist shit about Africans and Pacific Islanders and Inuits and... If you went and surgically edited out the specific racist comments while leaving the deeper implicit racism fully intact, Lovecraft's work would be no different than a lot of things written today. So your typical Lovecraft derivative has little reason to actually remove the racism of the source material; it just needs to be made a little more palatable

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i need to learn everything about modern textiles and ancient textiles and automotive machinery and road-paving and the study of plants and niche kinds of flies and beetles and brick-laying and nuclear technology and social anthropology and economics and religious anthropology and archaology and ancient animals and gender studies and the history of communism and I need to have a two hour conversation with every other person in the world. or how will I ever become a great fantasy writer

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me and boyfriend have started saying to each other i love you badly but i love you gladly. his influence.

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lol *creates a shrine to something obscure and unimportant

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In a language that contains words like devotion, passion, enthusiasm, love, fascination, obsession, etc., I can’t help but regret this tendency to cram all those meanings into "hyperfixation," a word which manages to pathologize and medicalize the act of having interests.

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ever since i was a little boy ive always wanted to put on a bra and panties, pour myself a double bourbon, and listen to John Coltrane on vinyl while i play with a loaded snub nose revolver and then accidentally discharge it into the drywall

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Activists from 44 countries plan to launch the largest civilian flotilla in history at the end of August in an effort to break Israel’s siege on Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the starving population of the enclave.

The Global Sumud Flotilla, along with three allied initiatives, will send dozens of boats from Spanish ports on 31 August and Tunisian ports on 4 September, aiming to establish a humanitarian corridor and confront what organizers call Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

“This summer, dozens of boats, both large and small, will set sail from ports across the world, converging on Gaza in the largest civilian flotilla of its kind in history,” said organizer Haifa Mansouri at a press conference in Tunis hosted by the Joint Action Coordination for Palestine.

The mission brings together four groups: the Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, the Global Movement to Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, and Sumud Nusantara.

August 5, 2025.

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We have this interesting situation where we basically no longer have privacy nor the expectation of privacy, but we also don't have community or meaningful connection with others, so we're all simultaneously both completely exposed and absolutely alone, and please understand that when I say this situation is "interesting", what I in fact mean is that it's "nightmarish and I wish I could wake up"

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portraits of utility poles

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An older comic from when I used to work at Build-A-Bear