DEVilry 😈

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a good soup makes you feel like everything's right in the world. to be clear though, it's not. the soup lies.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

We also gotta get out of the panopticon mindset and start reading and dancing to music again and stop video-ing each other doing anything slightly weird and taking pictures of strangers on the subway like volunteer cops. Documenting an uninteresting life nonstop instead of living interesting life.

Do y’all wanna see a dead body?

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan.”

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8260: Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.

Fuck this guy

bog is life

Big update at the link (www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...), but here's the tl;dr:

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

fucking device

The Man Who Shot Liberty Bibberty

There’s only one thing that can unite America and that’s executing the executive who gave the green light to the liberty biberty ads on live TV

Oh we're doing Romance novel discourse again?

we fucked up bigtime when the internet slipped from the utopian promise of being able to connect with ANYone into the hellscape of being connected to EVERYone

probably my favorite ever massachusetts memory is being drunk in boston with my then partner, and another drunk woman approaching me, screaming and hollering that i should not marry the guy from boston. she was right btw

this is an instructive situation - if you hadn’t clocked taylor lorenz as a grifter and a hack long ago, you need to hone your moron radar

I have just this moment realized that folks are now regularly using "EA" to refer to effective altruism, which clears up a lot of confusion I've recently had about what the hell is going on at the company that makes The Sims.

as a reader of historical romances i have to say the thing where she makes him give up his elaborate revenge plot to prove his love?? baffling. unrealistic. girl this is a group project now

truly no one’s doing it like Derek. get in while the gettin’s good

On Earth 2, we can't believe how good the new HBO Animorphs show looks. "They nailed the morphing," people enthuse. The nonbinary actor playing Ax's human morph is cutting it up on the Las Culturistas podcast. The actress playing Rachel has handcuffed herself to a data center

Sapphic Bertie Wooster can still happen if people want it bad enough

Waiting on that fucking autumn to hit

RIP to a legend. thanks for the most confusingly sensual song in the history of children’s media.

Some people are so universally beloved that I think we shouldn’t be told when they die. Let us figure it out eventually but never receive confirmation. We should always be able to idly speculate that somehow there’s a chance they *could* still be alive

Help help I am being purthued by

They could replace the actual faculty at actual Harvard Business School with AI and that would be fine. Nothing of value to humanity lost.

like 10 years ago I used to make my Hinge dates really mad when I said I’d never seen any evidence that Elon Musk was particularly smart

One Night Only should've had like a guerilla army of bisexuals or something that you just kinda see having their own subplot on the fringes of the movie. They keep plotting schemes but repeatedly get distracted by sucking and fucking. Could’ve been funny

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

Bri has had an unbelievably devastating few years; she deserves whatever help and grace we can offer

Morticia and Gomez Addams