I’ve been a Taylor fan since 2006, so this is tough: I don’t think this is a good album. It feels like she internalized “more words = art” post-folklore. A 31-track album that boldly asks: what if there are two good songs on the front half?

“Music saved my life… This band is my family.”

I hope every boygenius fan (and really, everyone watching the Grammys) really heard Julien when she said this.

Don’t give up. Don’t fucking give up. You have no idea what your life could be.

At that age where I’m considering starting a Substack. Come be my friend!

substack.com/@hannaheiserma…

I wasn't always 56. For a long time I was 26. This guy wrote Crush --

Beautiful piece. ❤️

“Language is like a vessel. All the knowledge and those worldviews are carried within that language. So to offer or to allow the language to flourish in its natural forms... could be the difference between a culture dying or a culture surviving.”

thetyee.ca/News/2023/08/2…

this is a test balloon for even more vile transphobia later. I don’t even know what to say.

Richard Siken’s tweets mean more to me than anything in the whole world right now

Me when I’m almost finished my thesis and I stumble upon research on something crucial I should have noticed months ago.

Batting away those reviewer comments like

Academics when they realize it’s August.

jokes on david every chord I play pleases the Lord

Excellent essay 💕💕
Warning: Family History May Cause Writer’s Block electricliterature.com/warning-family… via @electriclit

“I would like you to scream so loud that Governor Bill Lee can hear you,” out rocker Julien Baker told the crowd. boygenius traitor joe Lucy Dacus #LGBTQ lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/boygen…

Stabbing attack during a “Philosophy of Gender” course at the University of Waterloo today.

Remember that Right Wing culture war & transphobic propaganda is never just about discourse, debate, or the “potential for violence.”

It’s about *actual* violence.

I hope this is true. All the replies are so funny… because I know Oscar Wilde personally and intimately and he would be DELIGHTED by this, guys.