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1 yr anniversary of this post.
I have had much of the kumbaya aggressively beaten out of me over the past several years but if it’s any comfort whatsoever, I can at least say that every single time I thought nothing good would happen again I was wrong, and I’ve never looked back and thought “so glad I spent my time panicking!”
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
1 yr anniversary of this post.
😭😭❤️
@jpbrammer.bsky.social I just need you to know that I vomited and cried from stress and general feelings of failure while writing on a deadline today and I remembered this and you may have actually saved my life
tho I am absolutely an idiot, I am alive, (dumbly)
tho I am absolutely an idiot, I am alive, (dumbly)
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
😭😭❤️
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JP does not miss
October 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
JP does not miss
I browsed Margaret Thatcher's latest estate sale in pursuit of haunted objects johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/shopping-m...
Shopping Margaret Thatcher's Estate Sale
A curated selection of haunted objects for your viewing pleasure
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October 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I browsed Margaret Thatcher's latest estate sale in pursuit of haunted objects johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/shopping-m...
I’m sorry I’m incredibly nosy and would love to hear what recent thing happened with Twitter/X can someone fill me in
October 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I’m sorry I’m incredibly nosy and would love to hear what recent thing happened with Twitter/X can someone fill me in
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“Yellow lights are blinking and our democracy is issuing troubling metallic belches from its mechanical guts and the most recent technological innovation of my noble race is a Magic 8 Ball that’s making people forget how to read (some people claim to be dating it).” @jpbrammer.bsky.social
‘Dynamite’ by Taio Cruz, an Exegesis
Exploring an apocalyptic text after a non-Rapture
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
“Yellow lights are blinking and our democracy is issuing troubling metallic belches from its mechanical guts and the most recent technological innovation of my noble race is a Magic 8 Ball that’s making people forget how to read (some people claim to be dating it).” @jpbrammer.bsky.social
I wrote about the rapture that didn't happen, why we fantasize about the end of the world, and make the case for "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz being one of our great apocalyptic texts johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/dynamite-b...
‘Dynamite’ by Taio Cruz, an Exegesis
Exploring an apocalyptic text after a non-Rapture
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I wrote about the rapture that didn't happen, why we fantasize about the end of the world, and make the case for "Dynamite" by Taio Cruz being one of our great apocalyptic texts johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/dynamite-b...
I wasn't aware that the TikTok Christian Rapture stuff last week stemmed from someone who claimed to have been visited by Jesus in a Kroger parking lot. I think I'm rededicating myself to the American Revelations in Parking Lots beat.
I wrote about God and Cracker Barrel johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/christ-in-...
Christ in the Cracker Barrel Parking Lot
A reading from the Book of Americans.
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I wasn't aware that the TikTok Christian Rapture stuff last week stemmed from someone who claimed to have been visited by Jesus in a Kroger parking lot. I think I'm rededicating myself to the American Revelations in Parking Lots beat.
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This whole piece is so good, but this part just punched me in the feels. Way too familiar. 🫠
September 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This whole piece is so good, but this part just punched me in the feels. Way too familiar. 🫠
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I mean, go read the whole thing, but this part in particular hit me like a sack of bricks
September 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I mean, go read the whole thing, but this part in particular hit me like a sack of bricks
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sent this to my sis, she said she does not know how to describe how reading it made her feel but that she wanted to go lie down
I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line
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Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
sent this to my sis, she said she does not know how to describe how reading it made her feel but that she wanted to go lie down
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oof
I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line
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Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
oof
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Granted i was already not in a great mood before i read this, but reading it did almost make me burst out crying in public. 10/10.
I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line
line———
Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Granted i was already not in a great mood before i read this, but reading it did almost make me burst out crying in public. 10/10.
this came about because I love the em dash and wanted to make something with it that AI couldn't lol
I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line
line———
Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
this came about because I love the em dash and wanted to make something with it that AI couldn't lol
❤️❤️ in keeping with the "horror movie trope" in the piece, it was weirdly easy to write 😅
I think this may be my favorite thing you’ve written. I keep coming back to it and rereading chunks of it to understand my own upbringing better (also raised Catholic, awkward socially, had magical thinking anxiety rituals, etc). It really resonates; it must have been difficult to write. Thank you 💗
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
❤️❤️ in keeping with the "horror movie trope" in the piece, it was weirdly easy to write 😅
it's an honor just to be nominated as Swedish
J.P. Brammer, whose name my Swedish autocorrect keeps trying to change to Bränner, might be our best contemporary essayist. He is definitely my favorite, and this piece is superb!
I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line
September 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
it's an honor just to be nominated as Swedish
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damn this hit me like a ton of bricks
I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line
line———
Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
damn this hit me like a ton of bricks
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"Ritual plays a major role in the life of an anxious person. The poor creature is ruled by a fate obvious only to themselves."
Will be thinking about this for a long time:
Will be thinking about this for a long time:
I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line
line———
Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"Ritual plays a major role in the life of an anxious person. The poor creature is ruled by a fate obvious only to themselves."
Will be thinking about this for a long time:
Will be thinking about this for a long time:
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I love @jpbrammer.bsky.social’s writing on so many levels, but I especially recommend it to fellow teachers. Just, read this
I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line
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Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I love @jpbrammer.bsky.social’s writing on so many levels, but I especially recommend it to fellow teachers. Just, read this
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as a fellow anxious/traumatized-from-a-young-age-calling-home-sick-every-day-who-also-loved-to-draw-on-copious-amounts-of-computer-paper-queer-child, this article was a fantastic and validating read.
I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line
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Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
as a fellow anxious/traumatized-from-a-young-age-calling-home-sick-every-day-who-also-loved-to-draw-on-copious-amounts-of-computer-paper-queer-child, this article was a fantastic and validating read.
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“Such are the rantings and ravings of the conspiracy theorist holding a cardboard sign in my amygdala.”
@jpbrammer.bsky.social going for the jugular in one sharp line
@jpbrammer.bsky.social going for the jugular in one sharp line
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Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“Such are the rantings and ravings of the conspiracy theorist holding a cardboard sign in my amygdala.”
@jpbrammer.bsky.social going for the jugular in one sharp line
@jpbrammer.bsky.social going for the jugular in one sharp line
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Feeling very seen by this piece on anxiety and lines! (My version of the brain-scissors is a fire extinguisher btw)
I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line
line———
Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Feeling very seen by this piece on anxiety and lines! (My version of the brain-scissors is a fire extinguisher btw)
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ohhh this fucked me up today (complimentary). thank you JP.
I wrote about living with the chronic, debilitating anxiety that made me a "problem child" as kid, about trying to understand what anxiety is an adult, and how I discovered that it might be like prayer johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/line
line———
Anxiety as script, shape, and destiny
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
ohhh this fucked me up today (complimentary). thank you JP.