It is the season of finding crude joy in regressive pleasures (drawing Siouxsie)
Jeanne Thornton
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"I need more slut clothes," fretted the nun, referring to her perfectly normal clothes
You guys I like going to diner adjacent places and writing. I keep forgetting this somehow, despite having figured this out literally 25 years ago (c.f. spider house, Mojo's, metro coffee, kerbey lane cafe)
Jeanne Thornton@jeannethornton.bsky.social · 12h agoThe light, the heat I am complete I see the doorway Of a thousand churches The resolution Of all their fruitless searches
The light, the heat I am complete I see the doorway Of a thousand churches The resolution Of all their fruitless searches
This goes for indie publishers as well! Buy books Write reviews (or even just star ratings) Tell people about the stories you've loved or are excited for* *online & in person! Request them through your library Ask your local bookshops to order them Word of mouth makes a huge difference for us.
Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2d ago"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!
#41: by my fave psychoanalytic pioneer power couple, reflecting on the final life stage psychodynamically via a bunch of fascinating interviews with elders in CA. Got me to watch Wild Strawberries for the first time == Worth It. My parents are Getting V Old, and this book helps think about that
www.kickstarter.com/projects/aco... SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE is coming soon to Kickstarter; I strongly suspect this is a game for Some Of U. It is written by my dear friend and Instar copublisher Miracle Jones and it is about bars, Texas, and doing real journalism from the ground up <3
Coming soon: Slime in the Ice Machine: It's Your Inheritance, Kid
Kick open the doors to the greatest bars in the cosmos (and the worst) to unravel surreal mysteries in this PC/Mac/Xbox game.
kickstarter.com
This super ancient Gabrielle Bell panel: load bearing in my emotional world since 2002
Why is there not an anthology of perfect cartoons that authors make in their fanciful free moments. Why isn't that a thing yet
Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 4d agoHappy international cat day from the Toms of Atuan! (Ursula drew this on a postcard; you can also find the drawing in the Book of Cats).
Christopher Nolan: The Odyssey! It's an ancient, mysterious epic poem about a complicated marriage, the vagaries of interpreting the will of the gods, and the sense of lurid, erotic fantasia inherent to a sea voyage through the unknown. But what *I'm* thinking is: what if it *wasn't*?
early pink floyd song: eating crumpets drinking tea with my best friend mary lee wont you come get hiiiiiiiigh with me late pink floyd song: maggie’s so awful makes me flip my lid i really miss my old friend syd
Jeanne Thornton@jeannethornton.bsky.social · 5d agoEarly David Bowie song: In a sleepy nothing town A sex-boy looks at the moon, And bleeds Armageddon Late David Bowie : On Armageddon moon A dead man looks at the town And whispeeeeeers...nothing
Sorry, I love this, but have to be Sour: (1) This is a SMiLE song not a Pet Sounds one (2) The Beach Boys could never sing about a king rising from the deep because they fundamentally do not believe in anything greater than themselves, except sometimes water/the sea itself (and maybe Murry Wilson)
Writing "Don't worry about it" on tax form@gonebabygone.bsky.social · 6d agoEarly Beach Boys song: Little girl that I met on the shore She’s a friend but a little bit more Pet Sounds song: THE KING RISES FROM THE DEEP THE KING RISES FROM THE DEEP THE KING RISES FROM THE DEEP (Cows mooing in an airplane hangar layered over Beethoven’s Ninth)
Early David Bowie song: In a sleepy nothing town A sex-boy looks at the moon, And bleeds Armageddon Late David Bowie : On Armageddon moon A dead man looks at the town And whispeeeeeers...nothing
Nick Pettigrew@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 6d agoEarly Tom Waits song: All the ladies in this bar Are like rhinestone-shaped goodbyes I miss my baby Late Tom Waits somg: Crank up the hog alarm and swig that gasoline We're gonna set fire to Panama with a goose fat machine
How do you know or at least make yourself believe that you are not having a negative effect on the world / alternatively, what is the best animal, on your view, please cite evidence
!! I knew Seth reminded me of someone aaa of course the kid in illusion of Gaia who transforms into a terrifying fish creature!!! (Illusion of Gaia = load bearing sensibility content; there is existential comfort in knowing it has points of Lineage with deltarune)
tobyfox@tobyfox.undertale.com · 6d agoIt's been a little over a month since Chapter 5 released! It should be sending out now! News toby.fangamer.com/newsletters/...
One of the most t-lesbian things about me: I have listened to born in the usa 8000 times in my life (it was the first CD I owned; I chose it bc of FoxTrot :/) and it wasn't until I was in my 30s that it occurred to me that the songs No Surrender and Bobbie Jean were not supposed to be Sung to Women
The also stuck in this airport forever flight crew keeps giving me weird looks, partly because I keep looking over at them and loudly thinking "well well well if it isn't first officer blunt and captain allears"
My flight is insanely delayed, giving me the greatest gift: a liminal day
Baby got a standing ovation <3 thank you for your wishes; I'm so tired; goodnight
Jeanne Thornton@jeannethornton.bsky.social · last wk.Baby's first conference keynote :/// wish her luck
Baby's first conference keynote :/// wish her luck
It is so weird to be on Pacific time. I'm so tired. How do y'all live like this
This strip hits so differently now that I am Older than Calvin's Parents (tm). If my six year old spent a morning trying to sell me real photos of dinosaurs he'd laboriously created with his toys in the yard, I do not think my response would be "diss his efforts!" I would simply etc.
Calvin and Hobbes@calvin-and-hobbes.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen even proof wasn’t enough to convince grownups you were right 🤷♂️ #CalvinandHobbes #NotBelieved
I am exhausted and keep think I'm being lazy but like--I have kind of done an insane amount of shit in the past even fifteen/sixteen days?? New shit has come to light, Dude On Sunday all I have to do is see redwood trees, travel down Pacific coast highway, find place to sleep, and lie And lie
Clarice, can you still hear the sea lions, Clarice. Can you hear the sea lions ork ork orking