Excellent essay 💕💕 Warning: Family History May Cause Writer’s Block electricliterature.com/warning-family… via @electriclit

jokes on david every chord I play pleases the Lord

Batting away those reviewer comments like

Academics when they realize it’s August.

Me when I’m almost finished my thesis and I stumble upon research on something crucial I should have noticed months ago.

Richard Siken’s tweets mean more to me than anything in the whole world right now

this is a test balloon for even more vile transphobia later. I don’t even know what to say.

“Language is like a vessel. All the knowledge and those worldviews are carried within that language. So to offer or to allow the language to flourish in its natural forms... could be the difference between a culture dying or a culture surviving.” thetyee.ca/News/2023/08/2…

Beautiful piece. ❤️

I wasn't always 56. For a long time I was 26. This guy wrote Crush --

At that age where I’m considering starting a Substack. Come be my friend! substack.com/@hannaheiserma…

“Music saved my life… This band is my family.” I hope every boygenius fan (and really, everyone watching the Grammys) really heard Julien when she said this. Don’t give up. Don’t fucking give up. You have no idea what your life could be.

I’ve been a Taylor fan since 2006, so this is tough: I don’t think this is a good album. It feels like she internalized “more words = art” post-folklore. A 31-track album that boldly asks: what if there are two good songs on the front half?

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