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Christ in the Cracker Barrel Parking Lot

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 10d

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.

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Aug 26

I wrote about God and Cracker Barrel johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/christ-in-...

A reading from the Book of Americans.

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Lis M @radiancelis.bsky.social · 13d

This whole piece is so good, but this part just punched me in the feels. Way too familiar. 🫠

I believe I will fail. My belief in inevitable failure disappoints me-this belief is surely one of those self-fulfilling prophecies-this belief is indicative of my big problem—my big problem is that I'm too aware-I'm aware that I'm too aware
—my awareness of my hyper-awareness only inflames my symptoms, which means I'm only going to get worse as time-Stop it. Cut that out!
Snip it with brain-scissors.

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Publick Universal Frenemy 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ in HTX @quijotescx.bsky.social · 13d

I mean, go read the whole thing, but this part in particular hit me like a sack of bricks

Excerpt: "In the horror movie trope, the child draws an entity only they can see. The drawing is scary to us because it implies something unseen. But to the haunted child, the act may very well be soothing. It’s why the monster in the movie is at its scariest in Act I, before it discloses that it’s an actor in a costume, or that it was meticulously rendered on a computer. When things take on a shape, they can be understood."

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mountain loin @grovewalker.bsky.social · 13d

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

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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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WOLFGIRL REWILDING PROGRAM SUBJECT @possumskull.didelphis.org · 13d

oof

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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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Hershel Deercliff @deercliff.itch.io · 13d

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.

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 13d

this came about because I love the em dash and wanted to make something with it that AI couldn't lol

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 13d

❤️❤️ in keeping with the "horror movie trope" in the piece, it was weirdly easy to write 😅

A Very Beckett @texavery.bsky.social · 13d

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 💗

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 13d

it's an honor just to be nominated as Swedish

Gwenn @gwenng.bsky.social · 14d

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!

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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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24/7 Dadson Posting Chu @problemantic.bsky.social · 14d

damn this hit me like a ton of bricks

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 13d

"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:

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 14d

I love @jpbrammer.bsky.social’s writing on so many levels, but I especially recommend it to fellow teachers. Just, read this

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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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🪸𝔏𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔩🪽 @skytospeak.bsky.social · 14d

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.

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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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Chandra Steele @chandrasteele.bsky.social · 14d

“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

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oxwald @oxhorns.bsky.social · 14d

Feeling very seen by this piece on anxiety and lines! (My version of the brain-scissors is a fire extinguisher btw)

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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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roboticegg @roboticegg.bsky.social · 14d

ohhh this fucked me up today (complimentary). thank you JP.

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 14d

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

An incomplete yet substantive ranking

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Karl @karldasllama.bsky.social · 26d

The most pleasant push notification I've gotten in days.
@jpbrammer.bsky.social

Push notification from JP Brammer's Substack with the text "I have zero respect, none whatsoever, for..."

Expanded notification, "I have zero respect, none whatsoever, for airline safety videos that don't depict some rascal for getting in trouble for attempting to smoke in the cabin..."

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26d

Yaaaaaayyy my essay on Meers Restaurant was part of this package! A silver medal! It's real I bit into it www.eater.com/press-room/9...

A screenshot of the headline "Eater Wins Silver Medal From the Society of American Travel Writers"

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 26d

WOW this frame!!! coral really makes it sing

FTT @firsttimetrek.bsky.social · 27d

@jpbrammer.bsky.social thought you might like to see... hung it today!!!

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Sep 5

At the very top of Part II of course

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · Sep 5

“The Not Deer is a recently-invented cryptid, a creature of TikTok, and a chilling reminder that we’re forgetting how to read and write.” I enjoyed this.

JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Sep 4

At long last I have published my Cryptid Tier List johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cryptid-ti...

Cryptid Tier List

An incomplete yet substantive ranking

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Sep 4

At long last I have published my Cryptid Tier List johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cryptid-ti...

Cryptid Tier List