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he/him. invert, tf@g, jew

a tuxedo cat looking unbearably cute
a meme of a baby elephant captioned: "Elephants weigh 200lbs at birth, making them the biggest babies on earth / except for barbershoppers mad about GQ's victory"
an injured juvenile pigeon sitting on a sidewalk
Screenshot from Sefaria website, showing a banner that reads: Enhance Your Learning Experience Try our AI-powered Library Assistant to deepen your understanding and discover new texts.
a box of shortbread and a bottle of Irn Bru being held up in front of a TV that's playing the Scotland-Haiti match
Escape from New York
two photos of the top of my head. The bald spot is smaller in the second one
It's the same pattern when somebody you love dies. The pain never goes; it just gets progressively more spaced out. In the beginning it is there every second of every day, as if the air is made up of their absence. And then after a while it is not every second, it is just every minute, and then every hour and eventually just on anniversaries or when you hear a particular accent or a particular phrase or song. The sadness never goes away, it just gets so spaced out that you can carry on living as though it has. It's all the same. It's all just time.
A page from a novel, the paragraph redacted for spoilers except for one sentence: (Max, Max—he can't help but think as he approaches—a poor name, a dog's name.)
It's been rather a tough five years, if I'm being totally honest. I loved my job and my friends during my two years in a visiting position in Iowa, but the long-distance marriage was so hard. The past three years, despite continuing to write and teach and participate in conferences, my academic ambitions have been circling the drain, and I guess 2026 is the year I finally pull the flush. I still have publishing and adjuncting plans for the fall, but I've given up applying for academic positions. Instead, I'm getting my certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and planning to move into full-time TESOL (something I've been doing for a couple years now anyway). I still believe in higher education with all my heart, but the system of academia is fundamentally evil. It is designed to exploit workers and extract their labor and passion, and it doesn't even reward them with the absolute basics of job security and benefits. When I say I'm a failed academic, I don't mean I failed – I mean that academia failed me.
Screenshot of a playlist of the Smiths music videos Text: Multiple students have now said "is that Charlie Kirk" about morissey thumbnails
poem for my dead friend I keep seeing things you'd love and with the gut-punch I think: how unfair that you've stopped but the world goes on then on the inhale I think: as long as we speak of you you're a piece of our world and you, too, go on
me, a bespectacled white guy in a blue fish shirt, in a pretty green forest
Persona by Aoife Josie Clements
tags experimental; rock; abstract; bug music; deep sea fissure funk; noise rock; leeds
A beautiful little torbie cat sitting on a cat tree in a majestic pose
despite rising at 6:30, queuing for over 2 hours at my local record shop, and trying multiple additional stores over the course of the day, I was unable to obtain the special Peter Gabriel 12" for Record Store Day please respect my privacy at this challenging time 🙏
a google search for "math rock" "Did you mean: 80s King Crimson"
2112 by Rush
April Clark (@autogynefiles at the other place) quote tweeting Pop Crave's "Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility" tweet with the comment "Why? So you can kill me?"
classic Good Place meme Eleanor says "it's a math rock band" Chidi says "you mean a prog band" Eleanor retorts "No! You're not getting it and my thing is different, so shut up"
The "shut up, it's fucking red" guy but recaptioned as "shut up, it's fucking prog"
The Talking Heads live album The Name of This Band is Talking Heads on cassette
The Plastic Priest by Nicole Cushing
"Female", an individual who naturally has, had, will, or would have, but for 11 a developmental or genetic anomaly or historical accident, the reproductive system that 12 at some point produces, transports, and utilizes eggs for fertilization;
Titane un film de Julia Ducournau
A sweet tuxedo cat (with an extra stripe where he was shaved for an ultrasound), cuddled up with me in my robe
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
my black and white cat, curled up in a ball on his chair, with an eye slyly open and peeking out
The American Astronaut
Letterboxd review of Garden State (2004) a fun game you can play with movies that came out when you were in your teens is to imagine watching it with a Youth today. how many times would you have to (1) pause the movie to explain something and (2) apologize for something about that era? the excuses-to-enjoyment ratio of this movie is such that I would NOT care to watch it with a Youth today
Flaming Ears
the Peter Gabriel compilation cassette Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats
from my Letterboxd Year in Review Most Watched Theme: Horror, the undead and monster classics Most Watched Nanogenre: Eerie, Blood, Horrifying
Welcome to the first full moon update of 2026! Saturday, 3 January is the Wolf Moon, and Peter Gabriel releases the first new song from his forthcoming album o\i. Been Undone was written and produced by Peter Gabriel and recorded at Real World Studios, Bath and The Beehive in London. This is the Dark-Side Mix by Tchad Blake.
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert
some very chocolatey pepperminty homemade cookies
my little torbie cat being extremely cute as I pet her
Tweet by @PaperFury "how do you read so many books??" i am simply trying to avoid reality what are you doing
Spotify Wrapped [I know sorry] My Top Genres 1. Canterbury Scene 2. Broadway 3. Alternative Hip Hop 4. Post-Punk 5. Pop
The New Eve is Rising by the New Eves
Data from Star Trek
Knives Out, KPop Demon Hunters, Rebuilding, Die My Love
the top of my head with less of a bald spot
me on a train
woman: thank you for changing my life bottle of lactaid: I'm literally just lactaid
BRIMFUL OF ASHA ON THE FOR TY FIVE
HE TRIED TO KILL ME WITH A FOR KLIFT
BLESS YOUS For Giacomo
[in Mamdani sign style] CARAVAN For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
Stills from the Twilight baseball scene in the background, with a Tumblr post from user tchaikovskaya that says "baseball? that game from twilight?"
Videodrome
Passion by Peter Gabriel
a square cake, viewed from above, covered in white frosting with a maple-cider drizzle and a sprinkling of cinnamon
what I think is that the near total lack of homoeroticism is symptomatic of what's wrong with this adaptation. del toro professes to count james whale's frankenstein & bride of frankenstein among his favorite films, but (unlike those queer masterpieces) he and his film are ultimately stuck in an oedipal interpretation. the profound queerness and anti-oedipal possibilities of the text completely elude him – or maybe it's that he won't let himself explore them. desire here is not vivid, nor even repressed in interesting ways; rather, it is displaced, antiseptic, told rather than shown, dissipated into sterile cgi imagery and tired father/son tedium. guillermo, please, for all our sakes, let yourself want to fuck the monster
all 3 volumes of The Book of Dust trilogy by Philip Pullman: La Belle Sauvage, The Secret Commonwealth, and The Rose Field
In the Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music by S. Alexander Reed
Skinamarink
letterboxd page for Skinamarink, featuring the observation "You've reviewed this film four times"