Ars Imaginatio

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Neighbourhood callithumpian 🥁🍳 Ragin' Pagan 🌜🌕🌛 Reliquary for the intolerable 🐚 Lock and load. I lean in real quick ✊🏻 Long live public funding 🫱🏻‍🫲🏾🫂 You have not been reading as carefully as you should have. they/ them

Reposting b/c 👌🏻🎯, and to add; don't patronise individuals by assuming we all need "easier words." A lot of us don't. Let us all take the time we need to understand what's in front of us. Be patient. If we love you and you love us and you give us the tools we need to succeed, know that we're trying.

sudo apt install boop -f@itsoasus.com · 3d ago

I make this post as an autistic person. Instead of attempting to advocate for disabled people by demanding that books be written with easier words, we should be encouraging them to challenge their limits. Being disabled doesn't mean you can't do something, it just means you need more time.

Don’t know who wrote this — it was posted on Instagram by “Warpaint Journal” in April 2025 — but it’s making the rounds today and is pretty great. I dream of this too ❤️

Most people don't dream of being fancy-rich.
I dream of being rich enough to say, "Treat's on me," without thinking twice. Rich enough to have a home that feels like a hug, a fridge stocked like a five-year-old with adult money, and a tray of chocolates waiting for someone to grab. Rich enough to quietly help a friend before they even have to ask. To send a care package when someone's too tired to reach out. To buy all the pencils from a kid on the street so they can go home early. For me, the real money dream isn't about luxury - it's about having enough to give, enough to comfort, enough to turn ordinary moments into something extraordinary.

A shout out to my partner, who may not have a bsky, but reads incredibly slowly and who I catch sometimes comparing themselves to my ridiculously quick reading speed. You get to enjoy things at a reasonable pace, my love. The first-time joy of a story lasts longer for you 🩵 never change.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 6d ago

Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!

A depressing read. If I'm ever publishing, I'm self—publishing so I don't have to deal with publishers or their approach to this. Makes me beyond sceptical about ever paying for a Masters' if these are the precedents. Seems an easy way to steal enrolment fees. substack.com/@verakurian/...

Vera Kurian (@verakurian)

Updated and now insanely long. I am not happy with what I am seeing in the book news. We need better solutions. I don’t know what exactly those solutions would be, but I don’t think Pangram is it. Can...

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I'm 3yrs deep into consistent therapy to undo all the ways I was becoming my parents. I'm still full of punitive rage. So when Eda drops this banger, I think about the fact that I've destroyed what I was to get better while they continue to lie to themselves. The validation is unmatched.

Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite? To know the flaws and love them too... that is rare and pure and perfect. Patrick Rothfuss

It's winter, and mountains are beautiful, but I don't want mountains. I want wild Pacific storms rolling in. I want driftwood fires, a surfboard, shells and seaglass with threadable holes. I want vibrant pigface, whale song and a lighthouse view. I want to see the Southern Cross from my skylight.

GNU SAM Neill. As well as being a great actor, I will always appreciate his lockdown videos of him on his farm, somewhere in New Zealand, speaking very gently to his ducks and pigs.