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An upsetting thing about my life is that I’ll never be able to roast my exes as well as my dad can. “It felt like talking to a skateboard” and “I always wondered if he was just quiet or a coward...now we know” and “we liked him for the same reasons you did, which no one knows”
I just want to announce that for the first time in my life, I canceled a free 7-day trial subscription before the week was out. So yes, anyone can turn their whole fucking life around.
The face of a man who I learned, after incurring great cost and shedding many tears, has been faking an injury in order to be picked up and carried up the stairs to his favorite side of his favorite bed.
Beloved celebrity who is routinely treated terribly on Twitter but ignores it all until austerely & randomly selecting one fucking idiot who thought they were a bitch they could sleep on and dragging them to Hell is the best Twitter.
One of my absolute favorite things in the world is how when a baby or small child is really tired, we earnestly say, “They had a big day,” because they like, went on a swing, briefly saw a squirrel and heard a leaf crunch. As a culture, we 100% agree to the day size assessment ❤️
Woke up to the memory of a time in college when a very proper, VERY English friend was trying to recall the name of a character in a children’s show. “The green one, you know?Disagreeable, quite shouty? Lives in the rubbish.” She meant Oscar the Grouch.
I once had a guy take a condom off during sex. When I saw and tried to get him off me, he raped me so violently I bled enough for it to soak through and down my tights to my shoes when I left. Take your grains of salt and choke on them, Sullivan.
"Unlimited Paid Time Off" is Silicon Valley's version of the Marshmallow Test on its workers, testing their will and devotion. A truly worker-centric model of care for personal lives of employees would be "# Of Days Mandatory Paid Time Off."
What if the problem isn't stimulants but the mandate for productivity
What if the problem isn't benzos but the mandate to stay calm in actual chaos
What if the problem isn't opioids but the mandate to work like a machine that can't suffer to keep you and your loved ones alive
I have not been this nervous submitting an essay since applying early admission to NYU 20 years ago. Wish me and Keith luck that Brian might do us the honor, and pursue adopting him yourself because he deserves the best and that might be you and not me! It’s Brian’s life!
There's no other way to put it - Brian is sad.
It's been 5 months since he has been looking for a forever home and with every day that passes, we can see the light in his eye dim little by little.
We know his people are out there somewhere. We hope they find him today.
Black voters don't exist to save white voters from themselves, it is time to more actively punish our white voting family and friends who make so close a race possible.
Do you have a favorite celebrity who is sexy/has definitely done sex but still has decidedly virgin energy? Mine are David Byrne and Keanu Reeves. I’m deeply disinterested in replies protesting my picks (boring! Not the game’s premise!) but show me your fave famous virgin vibe
Please stop using clinical and diagnostic language to describe other people’s personalities. Not all vanity is narcissism, not all immaturity is histrionic, not all perceived failures to contribute equally to a relationship are borderline.
Garth Brooks has been one of the most vocal and generous supporters of progressive causes for his entire career, he constantly maxes out his campaign contributions and then gives bajillions to lefty shit. I’ll not have him besmirched here.
She is always doing freak bitch shit on her Instagram, she was slutting it up so iconically in 2010 there were 5 major contenders for who her kid’s dad was AND SHE HAS STILL NEVER TOLD and basically said that fathers are a health hazard to children’s self-esteem. Would die for.
I live in vacation home hotbed for NYC’s rich who fled. So far I have witnessed them verbally abuse grocery store workers, haggle w/ their NYC maids, and one offered me $300 for this when I was offering spritzes to cashiers & which I’ve always stocked cause I’m immunocompromised
"Alana, nothing good ever came out of the state of Arkansas and then chose to go back." - My mom, a born and bred Arkansan, on a guy she never even met but that I was pretty torn up about.
Hello, I wrote about how I used to get paid to consensually watch men jerk off for a major part of my income and why I was NOT what the likes of Louis CK would be "cured" by:
Emerging and established writers: Don't ever let anyone (writer or otherwise) tell you that writing marketing emails, web copy, e-commerce descriptions, social media posts, or brand blogs is "beneath" you or anyone else. We're all out here trying to live, don't be ghouls.
If Heaven is real, it is these two illiterate ginger cats coming to bear one another good tidings and butcher the spelling of each other’s (and their own) names in the process, on loop, into eternity
I woke up and thought I’d shit the bed AND developed Covid symptoms in one night because I couldn’t smell said shit when in reality I had simply fallen asleep eating a chocolate frosted Pop-Tart and rolled all over it, a memoir.
If you were in your early 20s between 2008 and 2013 and confused about why you're so unhappy: Yes it was the Great Recession, but ALSO all of our best dance party music (LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Passion Pit, Daft Punk) was about the pain of loss and the inevitability of death.
The really beautiful thing is, my parents are always absolutely 100% in "if you like him, we like him" mode and they welcome then with open arms and take them on int'l family vacations then the MINUTE it goes south and I'm ready to spar, they have WORDS
Made tiny friend on the road, transported him safely off the road he was crossing, going to lay down and let the earth eat me because it doesn’t get better than this
I spent 35 years completely oblivious to even the most basic plot of Pride & Prejudice beyond “there’s a feisty girl and a rude fellow in the rain” and today I said “fuck it” and I’m watching the 2005 movie and NO ONE TOLD ME THERE ARE FIVE SISTERS, I LIVE FOR PILES OF SISTERS
So ethical non-monogamy is a real and frequently misunderstood relational dynamic. Also a thing is that all guys I match with who reveal that that's their deal have LOST THEIR SHIT when I say I'm game but want to confirm boundaries with their primary partner first for my comfort.
Guess how many big media dudes DMed me to say this was great but wouldn't RT or fave it? Well, I made 11th hour additions to my book about how men conceive of women's accomplishments and they're all named in Chapter 6!
If a justice system must rely heavily on testimony from a morally bankrupt billionaire sadist rapist in order to convict OTHER rich rapists because victims & witnesses corroborating testimony is insufficiently valuable then Jeff's neck is the least broken part of the whole thing.
I wrote about how
#SESTA
will absolutely decimate access to safety info, community, and safe working conditions that I myself used to get out of danger during sex work and the hypocrisy of celebs who endorse it
Everyone who has ever actually read a real tampon box knows that there is nothing that could make them more scary than the real and extremely disturbing warning on them to be hyper vigilant lest you get toxic shock syndrome and DIE HORRIBLY WITHIN MINUTES.
got as far as the "It's a hard knock life" scene rewatching Annie for the first time in 20 years and like, who among us would not become a malevolent alcoholic grifter if we were the sole care provider for 15+ kids under 12? justice for comrade hannigan.
Friends and enemies alike: I don’t work for the US Treasury or the Federal Reserve! I don’t decide what goes on the currency, stop emailing my little wife!
When covid hit LA hard in April, my best friend Eva started walking around w/ duffel bags of sandwiches and water for the unhoused in her area and If you know her, OF COURSE she did. Some pals joined up now they serve 15K meals and 10K hygiene kits a month. They contain this:
This filmed at my high school the summer me + several nerds had to do PE summer school to make room for a Speech & Debate class period. Production painted our lockers red overnight in a low-budge spray that destroyed my favorite Quicksilver shorts and Vans. They’re the villains.
Who is the villain in
#BringItOn
? "The villain is your own behavior. The villain is your own ethical moral compass. Like, how are you going to behave in a situation? Are you going to choose well or chose poorly"
Look I’m excited about the Geri/Mel B sex too, but the most intimate act in Spice Girls history was on Victoria’s charming moving-to-LA press tour in ‘07 when asked a celeb she hated. Not missing a beat, she said she’d like to cut Eddie Murphy’s dick off for mistreating Mel B.
After 5 hours in the ER, I was bid adieu with, “remember that it’s normal that when you wake up tomorrow, it’s going to hurt A LOT WORSE. Also, expect nightmares.” I can’t tell you how in love I am with seat belts, air bags, and all of you supportive baby angels!
Hey friends, if I’m not answering texts, it’s cause this happened and I’m in the hospital. Thank you to my seatbelt and airbags for saving my life and to the nice man who cut it off me because it had trapped me inside and thanks to my sun roof, which I crawled out through! Yay!