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i like editing things, writing things, and coding things. i blog about books, sff, ttrpgs, and nice images. i have a lot of fun looking closely at art to see what makes the gears go.
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*lying at a job interview voice* yeah i can sing all of the lyrics of American Pie by Don McLean. WITHOUT slipping into the weird al version. easy
did you write the book of love and do you have faith in God above? If the Bible tells you soooo and did you see him hitting on the queen though he's just - FUCK
apparently. me and don mclean share this issue
i think my voice is dropping and i came to this conclusion while singing “bad romance” at karaoke with j. as important stereotype representation
Becoming a writer is great because now you have a hobby that haunts you whenever you don’t have time to do it
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Safe - Anna Calleja , 2020.
Maltese , b. 1997 -
Oil on panel , 30 x 40 in.
[ID: A painting centered on a brown tabby cat held securely in the arms of a person in a thick, gray cable-knit sweater. They're seated together with soft sunlight coming in from the right, and the cat's tail curls relaxedly over the person's arm. Its eyes are squinted, as if slowly closing to sleep /End ID]
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from nowhere to nowhere
Loving star wars is a curse and perhaps a mental illness of some kind
i realized that i never actually read the product reviews for the book that i essentially ghostwrote bc last spring there were a lot of things going on. after doing so my key takeaways are 1) the author left an amazon review and made no attempt to hide this fact which is honestly great 2) why do a bunch of people on goodreads leave solely positive comments but then rate 3 stars… i want to make you happy but i don’t know how… 3) one person offered as their highest possible praise (lightly paraphrased) “this is written in english and could be helpful.” tea honestly
mostly unbothered by assertions that texts from which i’ve personally derived great benefit aren’t good. a decent chunk of the scaffolding of my life rests on art that i would describe as mid if pressed. often bothered by assertions that texts aren’t good and thus aren’t worth engaging with for anyone, however
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Liz Toohey-Wiese, 2024.
"A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/YK border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequences of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previously built logging and mining roads.
“Forced into a great and difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up north. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through."
More here.
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Christopher Burk (American, b. 1978, based Columbus, OH, USA) - Parking Lot Nocturne II, Paintings: Gouache on Paper, Private Collection
Source: christopherburk.com
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#to be very frank i think this article is trying to paint the book in the worst possible light overall as a ‘hook’ and this is making it fail#to effectively engage with what the book is actually trying to be#like it’s about the individual somatic effects of trauma and thus is not failing by not being an exploration of the systemic roots of trauma#if you want that book then the author’s rec for judith herman’s ‘trauma and recovery’ is spot on#also would appreciate more depth in pretty much every section bc i know for ex that the situation around van der kolk’s being removed from#his job is extremely murky and i wasn’t able to draw any conclusions after reading everything i could find about it in the past#which then makes me question other parts i don’t know as much about. will be looking into the citation stuff for sure#also sorry but lmao at treating EFT as something totally outlandish but finishing with a huge round of applause for CBT. CBT the modality#that famously teaches you to cope with problems on an individualist level so idk how all this ties together?#glad i read this + have plenty of stuff i’m curious to look into further but atm a bit peeved that this may be the one piece of info about#the book that people ever look into#reading#that which resembles the grave but isn’t
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ornithophobia, 2024, oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm
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Caught the defect
the more time i spend working with dogs, the less i “like” them (in the sense of “OMG PUPPY WANT TO PET”) but the more i respect them. which is i think a value-neutral statement, but it’s been an interesting development to observe because i didn’t experience the same thing with horses since all of my time spent around them from day 1 has been in a learning/working environment. this post sponsored by how i was just walking down the street and someone’s husky on an extendable lead unexpectedly lunged out at me from between two parked cars, apparently causing me to look visibly pissed enough that the owner started profusely apologizing lol
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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)
Tuin te Arles