according to wikipedia this film grossed $4,969 at the box office so i guess it was a pretty niche project.

weirdly i identified with her a lot: it captured something about the fluidity of what i remember from being 23 or 24, the way that there can be a lot of excitement and possibility even as it's also very unsatisfying and kind of a structurally unreliable life moment.

I think it's the dropdown menu next to "edit profile" on your profile page?

it's interesting how copresence can feel so real without corporeality or physical proximity. i think attunement can have so many different mediums.

the conventions came from somewhere after all…

I loved the part where staff and patients did theater performances together, in which at least symbolically, the staff/patient distinction was abolished. It's strange to project oneself back into this historical moment given the force of deinstitutionalization's subsequent critique of these places.

I also took today off. For the same reason as you. And now the day came and I'm not sure how to find the tiny glimpse of euphoria I thought I would find.

ok tbh I had heard rumors about this but hadn't actually listened to it until today so umm… it is something!

@rebelgrrlraechel.bsky.social hi I just saw you’re on Bluesky and I just wanted to tell you how much I loved your book! I lived in Cleveland Heights for a little while too (as a transient outsider with a toddler) and it was really good existentially to see how it seemed to you as a social space.

rust belt femmes is one of my favorite ever books. it’s beautiful. it’s kind of everything.

whoa

cf gothy music like this tom waits song:

If we are to die tonight
Is there moonlight up ahead
And if we are to die tonight
Another rose will bloom
For a faded rose
Will I be the one that you save
I love when it showers
But no one puts flowers
On a flower's grave

tbh i don't really believe in anything supernatural, but nevertheless, the thought crossed my mind that if i were dead, i would like it if someone still played or sang songs to me.

what bands?

I feel like happiness in a society like ours has a lot of material preconditions, and it’s tough no matter how one thinks of it subjectively to feel happy when the situation is precarious. IDK this is kind of my experience of it :/