in my latest attempt at radical acne acceptance i’ve just been repeating such phrases as “i am grateful to have skin. my skin envelopes and protects me. i am lucky to have skin. i am lucky to have been born with skin.” to myself
upon seeing tyson i at first thought noel and crystal were doing roleplay and i was excited to see which demented mind had requested it
Dreamboat Branny 🦢@bransonreese.bsky.social · last wk.
tween/teen self would’ve gotten so much mileage out of this panel
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just read tillie walden’s ‘charity & sylvia’ and am very bummed out that a historian who walden very clearly has a lot of admiration and gratitude for is smearing her name and belittling her work! it sucks!
at some point there was a young french (?) artist doing a retelling of the little mermaid with lovely art, and i surely will never find them again thanks to search being broken everywhere :) 👍🏼
huge personal news: i finally reached the part that’s excerpted on the back of the book
surgical light in one panel to chandelier in the next. beautiful.
Dreamboat Branny 🦢@bransonreese.bsky.social · 10mo ago
does anyone happen to recall a recent-ish webcomic that opens with a mysterious blast that perfectly slices through a building (a research lab/office?) and some of the people inside of it…? i read some of it a while ago and have no memory where i came across it…
sometimes my job feels very impactful and meaningful and sometimes i find myself typing “returned hoot owl hoot with one owl missing” into a patron’s account notes
have reached a particular kind of tired where my dishwasher suddenly started sounding like a really good ambient track
had a completely baffling & frustrating patron interaction that lasted for several hours on-and-off today, followed a little while later by a woman coming in and saying “mm, there’s just something about libraries. such calming spaces. :)”
[realtor trying to be politically correct] and if you step through here you’ll notice the en-suite bathroom has their and theirs sinks!
cool thing about pb&j is that some of the worst men in my life have given me pb&j preparation tips so every time i make one i go through a short series of flashbacks
me: damn why does my throat hurt my water bottle hard at work brewing up its ninth super-bacteria and 15th mold strain: that sucks dude. is it allergy season or something?
constantly reflecting on the fact that i, for years, misremembered gander as a group word for geese and though “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” meant what’s good for one is good for all
love to go out and have a drink and then come home to my tiny dumbass dog. like wow how blessed am i that a small creature lives in my house and sometimes likes to hang out with me
my favorite hobby is spending hours attempting to triangulate a doctor in my area who takes my insurance while also meeting various other criteria, before finally giving up and scheduling a random appointment with the energy of someone making an online impulse purchase
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[being told i have some rare pathogen typically found in dogs] so you’re saying i’ve got that dog in me haha hell yeah brother up top
misread this as saying “it’s *not* hard to wrap my brain around” and within the space of a millisecond fully accepted “amelia earhart transitioned” as a plausible theory
months ago i walked into a break room one morning to see a coworker (who i’d exchanged maybe 3 words with up to that point) squeezing some mustard into a cup, and for reasons unknown i physically could not stop myself from saying, in a weird voice, “little soup for breakfast?”
was operating under the illusion that i could perhaps “‘white-passing’ mode” my way through this summer for ~safety~ but about three days into true spring i’ve already begun to acquire a tan 👍🏼
of all the fantastical things that happen on lost, the single one that completely beggars belief is people swimming around all the time in jeans
just found out that shiny pokémon are literally just shiny/ different colored and nothing else. after all these years of hearing about people going to great lengths to acquire them…. i need space no one talk to me
i bet being in a (film) montage feels so good. i wish montages were real
scrolling around before bed and suddenly realized the reason i’ve started mad men like five times without ever getting past a few episodes is that i turn it on every single time expecting it to be Doctor Gregory House But For Advertising and then remember that’s only like 5% of the show
at some point i became convinced that a person listening through a stethoscope can hear whatever song is stuck in your head, and as i’ve yet to un-convince myself of this i just make sure i listen to a nice song before i head into work with the med students 🙂↕️
my latest thing is saying “bug found in rug” instead of “fork found in kitchen” which i’m sure will catch on
accidentally unlocked a new, very specific fetish at work yesterday
![page from a book about hypnosis in dentistry with the heading hypnodontics — hypno-anesthesia. “Massage lower jaw lightly on outside of face for a moment or two then proceed, ‘As I massage your lower jaw you will find that your jaw muscles are becoming rigid and more rigid all the time; just like a steel vise. This will be only temporary. Now your jaw is locked like a steel vise, so much so, that you cannot close your mouth or move your jaw. [all caps] You may try but you’ll find that the more you try the more rigid will it become. Stop trying.’”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzikitvkwpqrzs22jio7xesj/bafkreibjkr57z5wzgxaivwpejk5pncx3o7ohyonot3qrgmylvoqybt3ate)