so crazy that when you hit 35 your brain finishes developing and you suddenly realize you can simply say anything to anyone at any time
Ari Drennen
@aridrennen.bsky.social
Journalist, poet, songwriter. Optimistic transsexual. Work featured in the New York Times, Pink Balloons (2024), and Heightened Scrutiny (2025).
I’d so much rather live somewhere everyone is so left wing that I feel reactionary than somewhere everyone is so right wing that I feel like a leftist
my hottest take is that I desperately need more to read from Andrea Long Chu
I ran 11 (!) miles today and read a book and still I’m castigating myself for my sloth…Protestantism is a mental illness
I have this whole thing about only owning items that are black, white, or pink, and you would not believe how much mental energy gets spent on whether grey or red are allowed or not.
Make yourself the center of your own gravity, and everything you need will flow to you.
I do think polyamory is ripe for a rebrand from the way anime fans get hand foot and mouth to like the way that cast adrift urban queers find a family unit of their own. Family is family.
This week for the first time an anti-trans amendment failed in Congress with Republican defections open.substack.com/pub/aridrenn...
I’m a book of theory and a lute track away from full on religious psychosis
I’m playing the Viking assassin’s creed game and after watching The Odyssey it fucking rules to pull up on a British town with my longship…we’re the motherfucking sea people bitch
Seattle summer is the best summer in the world and also my least favorite season in Seattle
if Ubisoft had their shit together, they would have put out AC Odyssey resynced this summer
Come for the retelling of one of The classic epics, stay for the audacious historical theory about the origins of The Sea Peoples
Stories about Ancient Greece are so funny because they’ll be like “this guy is my mentor. His name is Mentor”
There’s a guy in the Odyssey who looks like Charlie Kirk and you would not believe what happens to him
The Odyssey in IMAX…holy shit. The anti hero era of American culture is over. The people yearn for virtue.
Claude Fable tell me how to not fumble this baddie. Make no mistakes.
If you kiss me will it be just like I dreamed it? Will it patch your broken wings?
one of the things I like best about makeup is how I feel when it comes off at the end of the night and I discover once again that there is beauty beneath the mask.
such a bummer that I already got a tramp stamp because this would be an incredible one
