hearing lots of rumors that mr. grinch is a “mean one” yet haven’t heard mr. grinch call anyone a “bad banana with a greasy black peel”

Everytime I hear or read the words Paddington 2 the scene from Unbearable Weight begins to live rent free in my head

🧵The east coast is choking on wildfire smoke. Here are a few things I hope east coasters (especially journalists) will ponder in connection with the misery they are experiencing:

frankly outrageous that it’s valentine’s day and I haven’t heard a single “you have bewitched me, body and soul”

Emily Dickinson to George H. Gould, February 1850:

Three of these beautiful people were murdered by their parents.

In general, two thirds of trans people murdered knew their assailant (Human Rights Watch).

Keep that in mind when you hear about laws where a teacher must inform parents if their child requests different pronouns in class.

/ᐠ｡‸｡ᐟ\ former bakery employee here: if you ever are sad or scared at 3am just remember that we’re up preparing donuts, and the donuts are warm for you

get them what they really want for valentine’s day: a gleaming sword, several incomprehensible omens, and a 3D blu-ray of Megamind (2010)

no-context sentence from this week’s letter

bookishseawitch.substack.com/p/on-paddingto…

my super bowl was when taylor swift made us sit through all of thursday night football just to see a little midnights teaser

Seeing people say stuff like “how did those people vote?” In regards to a town in Ohio being poisoned & lied to is unsurprising, still ghoulish. political theater shit has rotted people’s brains past the point of repair. If nothing else, there are children among those people.

People who are on team “Aliens wouldn’t care about us” i think are discounting how much any intelligent species probably //loves// drama.