Emma del Valle

@perfectthoughts.bsky.social

Writer (Strip Law, Pringus & Bench), crane operator (disgraced). Used to be merman_melville, now I’m something worse.

Voices on airport PA systems used to be more authoritative. I don’t want to hear “Thi- calling um… Mart J-Jason? Um. Jasón? Mark… Jason??” echoing through a terminal. Be more confident, airport workers. You are gatekeepers to the skies!

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

I'm listening to a lot of self help books and one of them's about discovering your internal personalities, like the inner critic, the inner child or whatever. I haven't done the exercises because I know I've got some weird little guys in here. I don't want to meet all these fuckin Gollums

I know I shouldn't get mad at the no interiority guy. There's other things I gotta be doing. I can't get derailed by the zero self-reflection guy. I can't imagine slapping his bald head and it makes a sound like a bongo

I’ve decided to buy one of those cars that cruella de ville drives. Catch me driving the kind of car that has a front hood that looks like a wedge of cheese. I’m gonna die in a fender bender because the body of my car is made of fuckin cast iron skillet

Read through my tweets from the first trump presidency and it was like watching a horror movie a second time. I already know all the jump scares but now I can spot the foreshadowing. also there's a damn clown in it!!

Me: I punish myself internally way more than a lot of people who definitely should be doing that even harder and more debilitatingly than me Brain: Punish yourself more to pick up the slack, and insodoing redeem yourself Me: And then I can stop the punishments? Brain: Ha. As a matter of fact, no.

That post yesterday that was like “Kamala Harris never signed up to be responsible for voters” is still ricocheting around the inside of my skull. Maybe humans were never meant to communicate with each other at this scale

Caffeine hits you in the dick with a sledgehammer if you haven’t had it in a long time. I had one cup of coffee and I feel like my heart is trying to Kill Bill one inch punch its way out. This is one of two things I understand the Mormon church’s stance on (#2 is that angels are Italian)