and he spent the whole time in the back seat nodding his head and mumbling positive things like, "yup, nice, you turned the right way" and "very good. very good" as my mom stream-of-conscious yapped the entire half-hour drive)

he's been treating me like a son in ways i never got to experience growing up. (the same man that made me cry during my first attempt to drive stick in a parking lot 20 years ago let me drive his truck last month. i drove him and ma, both reasonably and pleasantly drunk, home from a charity dinner,

today was baklava

i didn't come here to fuck around

also, thank you past me for his meticulous note-keeping so that i had old rep counts and weight notes to reference half a year later

got to the last word of the book and immediately began to sob. 10/10 @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social is out here creating amazing, brutal novels

mmmmm they're at it again

we avoid "talking politics" around her when possible and try to stay vague when anything *does* come up, but apparently she's picked up the vibe regardless

bonus sweaty boy pic during my trip up eagle falls

ten and a half months of lettin' the t cook, baby

i'd still swipe left on them btw there's just something very fun about being able to make fun of shitty cis dudes from the position of *another* dude. it's a new position for me socially

people were riled UP. an hour straight of public comments, all of us universally against the data center and clear about our intentions to fight the fight all the way through