when i’m asked to click all the squares that have a motorcycle in them, does that include the motorcyclist? O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer, are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?

Is it just me or did the concept of dysphoria really lose its central place in discussions of trans identity? I don’t see people talking theoretically about dysphoria very much anymore. why is that?

“To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them…” - Frantz Fanon

The essay written by Sufjan Stevens found within physical releases of Carrie & Lowell - 10th Anniversary Edition: (📸: madeline)

reading mrs. dalloway for the first time and loving it of course, one thing i noticed (and often notice from books, say, pre ~1920) is the use of multiple colons in a sentence. i love it. e.g.—

i bet i could free solo it

In Milton’s divorce writings he says that God invented marriage primarily for the sake of “apt and cheerfull conversation”, not reproduction

i'm starting to think that there is no good word processing software

what’s a good lesbian novel for me to read in pride month? i liked Boulder by Eva Baltasar a lot

the man who taught him to swim:

My first impression of The Phoenician Scheme was that it was quite fun but also quite flat. Definitely the most disappointed I've been seeing a Wes Anderson film for the first time, unfortunately

I’m begging for another “I’ve had a rough year”, “she was my Rushmore”, or “do you think it remembers me?” moment

what year/s would you identify as the golden age of the internet?

you must be really into theories of performativity to give your son the name “Austin Butler”

Iris Murdoch’s idea that every moment has a “moral tag” would probably only be true in a communist society

the nixon tapes are a national treasure