Right??? This was from a Very Important Executive, too, made me want to send her a medal

I mean, I figure if you wanna send emails/messages at 3am, knock yourself out, but don't expect them to get read or answered till a human hour 💀

Yep - what happens when you can't reckon with your shadow

I have thoughts I gotta write down sometime about parenting as a series of shadow confrontations 💀 nothing quite like being hauled up in front of your younger self for judgment

YES the very thing 🔥

There was a series of rather horrifying/eye opening blog posts by somebody who spent a bunch of time combing estranged parent forums and estranged children forums and came to the unsurprising conclusion, iirc, that parents in these communities were all about reinforcing each other's deeeeeep denial

DuckDuckGo has an AI widget, ew, but you can turn the bugger off 🤘🤘🤘 not to mention you can set it to filter out AI-generated images from search results! I also appreciate the YouTube widget that filters out the ads.

Just moral support 🫣 but thank you!!

And I'm contemplating deleting this whole thread because I'm embarrassed to be embarrassed and just AUGH

okay, fucken whatever, opening the computer now

please spare a hug for your local flustered weirdo

Man EVERYONE is apparently happily unabashedly spicy, how do I get to this country lol

Doubtless this is good for me

One more facet of the Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known, Not Least To Myself

Ursula Le Guin has this amazing essay about Tolkien that really nails this as what makes Tolkien shine, esp in contrast to Lewis

In Tolkien victory is only possible because people recognize and pity the shadow - dragon slaying only perpetuates evil

You can't conquer the enemy and use his ring

@amazonsyren.bsky.social See above, clearly you should add this skill to your divination portfolio 💅

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thanks Wendy ❤️❤️❤️❤️

To you too!! ❤️❤️❤️

This is, uh, rather pricier than it used to be 🙃 now that they're reading honkin big old fantasy tomes and graphic novels

But they love it, and it is one of a very few household traditions I've managed to establish, and I'm pretty goddamn proud of it

For those new to my feed of chaos since last year: when our kids were little, we wanted to do something special for Chanukah that wouldn't feel like competing with Christmas

And everyone in the house likes to read

SO the tradition became that each kid gets 8 books to be unwrapped a book a night