Brandon O'Brien @therisingtithes@wandering.shop

I have a lot of questions about *why* 21 Bridges is a movie that exists in the present zeitgeist, or at least why its first trailer is what it is.

But Chadwick Boseman looks damn fresh in it, and it does indeed look hype, so I'm still gonna wanna watch it.

I feel the most awkward thing about poverty is that little things like wanting to replace the shoes on your feet after they get too worn suddenly triggers a cascade of debates about what can or cannot be paid for right now, which suddenly includes more than just those shoes.

"My liege and my comrades are frozen in time... well, as good a time as any to get my narration out of the way, dear viewer--"

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I really just… crawled out of bed for one meal, plotted an essay on an index card, and crawled back into bed.

I say that like it’s a lack of progress. It is actually a lot of progress.

I say that like it’s self-deprecating. It’s actually maddeningly encouraging.

We can collaborate in the business of allaying our terrors and achieving our ideals without being dismissive, because ultimately other folks want to be a part of the radical construction of something they may not be afraid of. At the least, we can build that thing amicably.

We can aim to collate one series of assumptions about political leanings and another about political desires without thinking the other is ignorant or seeks to obfuscate. We can put one subset of hopes and another subset of fears in one pool without calling the other distracting.

Dear Social Media,
folks on different axes of marginalization will often process the same anxieties they have about their world in different ways, & sometimes we can unify those conversations into one that emphasizes justice & compassion without assuming each other’s intentions.

Also, given the complicated racial politics of the production of the series itself, the Maggie b-story is mad dramatically complicated to say the least

(I make that sound like an inappropriate boundary for... any secondary character in any version of Charmed and it isn't, but dan...)

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey Galvin
me eh see yuh dere padna
weeeeeeeeey
wey dawg
wey

The above isn’t an “I’m glad to not be watching GoT” tweet, you can and should like what you like, but at this point yuh boi just perplexed from afar, is all

Tonight, like the week before it, twitter’s trending topics is just hashtag-game-of-thrones and nine of its characters’ names, and I’m here like, “so, are they all dead? Or are they all king? How does this game work?”

I've written more poems this month trying to navigate my own rage than I would have if I told myself it was Poetry Month.

You ever have one of those dreams where you’re talking to someone about some real shit that just happened, and then you wake up and you’re not sure if you were talking in the dream or talking out loud?

Tonight's tunes, because if you close your eyes to the video, doesn't this sound like a very dread soca?

https://youtu.be/bdJgYz_Uge8

Every frame of Hobbs & Shaw looks wild af and I’m into it.

Braincrack:

the fact that Endgame & War of the Spark both precede Worldcon makes me want badly to see a panel on annihilation narratives in spec fic, what they can do well, what they do dangerously, & what we can actually hope to gain from them thematically when done right.

It’s probably going to be really weird if the one confirmed death in War of the Spark ruins me more than anything that happens in Endgame, isn’t it?

(But he was SO FUN TO BE WITH 😭😭😭)

And just a little bit more making-it-through energy, courtesy @fran_wilde@twitter.com:

"... the tug knows to keep sounding,
the bridge plants its sturdy feet deep..."

https://firesidefiction.com/the-unseen