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To begin with, it’s not what you'd call "gravy." Over the past 200 years, a consciousness appeared layer by layer at the crucible of the Trawlerman. It's not unlike the way life started in the oceans four billion years ago. Wigan was our primordial soup, a base of evolution. We are formless. We are the very smack and barm that Wiganers invoke so often. How can anyone hope to eliminate us? As long as this chippy exists, so will we.

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i turned on my supergravity in all four of my pawbs

ID: Orange and white tabby standing on a bed, his four paws are putting dents in the bed

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They need to invent a locking in that is permanent

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Some fanart of this ancient figurine! Also got commissioned to draw her hanging out with a friend!

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I am incredibly amused by these random Japanese women for scale with prehistoric creatures

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Gen 3 maids

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you're the only one who understands me mr strobbery

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In a double-blind study, 53 of the 136 surveyed wigan residents were not able to tell it apart from gravy, while another 79 participants described it as "different, but just as good"

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Two ladybirds having a shag that i edited cbat over

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Im sorry but polyamory is the only natural way a relationship can work, a princess needs both a knight and a maid depriving her of one or the other is a fate far worse than even hell could conjure

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gwyndolin is a beautiful woman, and I find myself compelled to her despite everything, but I cannot abide her role in the church. I can tolerate, and even develop affections for a degree of religious neuroticism, but shes on some vatican black ops shit, shes got knights on every block of anor londo sliming dissenters for god king and father (all of whom happen to be the same guy, I might add!) to say nothing of the citywide propaganda hologram. with all that in mind, gold pine resin'd up snakejob, milady ?

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I need to see BDSM haters go on rants about the evils of capsaicin

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bumper sticker idea whos with me

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My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch

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Florence Pugh

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McMansion Hell urges all New Yorkers to Rank Zohran Mamdani #1 for Mayor of NYC

I know I am just a blog about ugly houses but I want to say something important here: the ruling class in this country does not want you to have affordable housing. They don't want you to have clean, reliable public transportation. They don't want you to have access to groceries you can afford. If something bad happens to you, they don't care if you live or die. If you lose your home, they will hole up in their penthouses, McMansions, and mommy-bought apartments and tell you it's your fault -- but it's not. It is theirs. Everything from budget cuts to rent hikes, is their fault, their way of ensuring that the city becomes a place made up solely of people like themselves.

Zohran Mamdani is the only high profile candidate I've seen in my narrow, millennial lifetime running for any position -- least of all the mayor of the biggest city in the country -- on a platform of decommodification in terms of access to food, housing and transportation. City-run grocery stores would ensure that food stays affordable because there is no profit motive. While some are critical of his policy of fare-free transportation (as opposed to spending the same amount of money improving services), given the amount of policing involved in watching the fareboxes, it's something I'm coming more and more around to.

In demanding a rent freeze, Zohran is one of the only politicians able to articulate a direct plan for keeping people in their homes at a time when rent is skyrocketing with no end in sight. Zohran is one of a limited few in this miserable, cowardly country who are willing to speak out for the rights of Palestinians being murdered en masse by Israel. A vote for Zohran is a vote for the idea that better things are possible and, if you ask me, I think we live in such dire times that we've begun to forget this fundamental truth: things do not have to be like this. We do not have to live under the jackboot of privatization and exploitation forever. That choice, however, is up to us.

I am forever skeptical of the power of the ballot box to enact lasting change, especially in recent years. In fact, I am the most skeptical of electoralism I have ever been. However, why is it that the right can use what little sovereignty and enfranchisement is available to us to enact sweeping, if devastating changes, and yet, when the opportunity presents itself to the left, all we hear is that such things are no better than pissing in the wind? The answer to this question, of course, is that the ruling class is perfectly content with a party that hinders rather than ushers in change. Zohran may be using the sclerotic party system we've been doomed to inhabit, but despite these limitations his candidacy has surged immensely in the last few months, and the momentum of the people is on his side. This may be one of the last chances wherein one can attempt a truly progressive campaign like this.

Now that things are heating up, the ruling class, the backers of Andrew Cuomo, an abuser of women and a man responsible for the untold deaths of the elderly because he valued profits over their lives so early on in the pandemic, will stop at nothing to make sure that Zohran Mamdani does not win, that things stay the same. That the rent goes up, that the grocery prices continue to explode, that New York City becomes the playground of the rich and famous at the expense of everyone else. The party will try to intervene in undemocratic ways just like they did with Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primary. There will be untold lies and accusations, the press will abandon what few journalistic obligations they still abide by, and it will get ugly. There are even rumors that Cuomo will run as an independent even if he loses the primary, which, to be honest, isn't a bad tactic -- he's just the worst guy to be using it.

I realize this post may be annoying to some (hell, I myself live in Chicago), and I'm sure there's some rightful criticism for my not having used my blog like this before. (However, for those of you who don't know, I usually write about all manner of politics in my column at The Nation!) That being said, if you follow me and you live in New York City, rank Zohran #1 and Brad Lander #2. DO NOT RANK SUBURBANITE BIKE LANE-PARKER ANDREW CUOMO.

Anyway, that's all. I'll be back with a new McMansion Hell this Friday, so stay tuned.