We are star stuff.

Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry featured in “A Writer’s Diary”

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

Uncle, how to get to the beautiful country? by Xiaoyu Wang

The Three-Body Problem — Liu Cixin, 2006

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

Reblogging because it’s a damn potato and I want to encourage people to assume potatoes are magical.

I am not unaware of the negatives of Biden's presidency, and I am not trying to elide or forgive them. I'm reblogging posts about the Biden administration because I think it's really important that potential voters in the US realize that there is, in fact, a very big difference between the two parties, and voting for Biden is not just damage control--it actually does good. It's okay, you can actually feel a little excited about making meaningful progress, and not just hold your nose.

He's been very unflashy. He's not a great leader, he's not charismatic and he knows it, but he's an adroit politician and administrator, and he's been getting things done. Letting Trump win at this point would be tantamount to throwing the entire country on the bonfire. It's not a choice between bad and bad, it's a choice between meaningful, if imperfect, progress and fucking doom.

Things that he’s gotten done and what impact they have made or will make. I don’t like all of them, but there are a lot I am really, really glad he’s managed (and impressed).

Now, imagine what could happen if we had a unified House, Senate, and White House. If you think of all the bills that have stalled because the Speakers wouldn’t even bring them to a vote…

And if that’s not enough, Justices Thomas and Alito are the oldest currently in office. Wouldn’t it be great to NOT have the guy who names justices be the one who put on the people who overturned Roe vs Wade, if those two should retire?

Ultimately when given a choice between poor options for the US Presidency, it's as simple as this: which party do you want nominating people for the Supreme Court , which is a lifelong post and whose decisions will affect everyone for decades if not generations?

If only for that reason, it's crucial to vote. Whatever else you think of the nominee. Whether you respect or despise Joe Biden, there's no question he's going to nominate far, far, far better options for the Supreme Court than anyone the Republican Party throws up.

wise words

Star girl ⋆⭒˚.⋆

This fuckin movie that my dad made me watch at like age six:

Specifically, the (in-retrospect-comically-goofy) angel of death puppet that came to life from a marble statue and stole the Baron’s soul (??) from out of his mouth—the soul in question looked like a big glowing marble.

For *years* after watching that scene I had vivid nightmares about that skeleton figure sitting outside my bedroom door, waiting to grab my soul out of my mouth if I opened it to scream.

behold:

pls reblog for sample size etc

Hey.

Hey guys.

Psssst.

See this lil cutie smiling with me?

That’s Dar, my son. He’s six, and he was born with a super rare genetic disorder that gave him a bunch of severe health challenges—weak lungs among them.

By getting your updated Covid boosters when they become available, you’re helping lower the chances of kids like Dar ending up in the hospital hooked up to ventilators, fighting for their little lives with everything they’ve got. When you get vaccinated against communicable disease, you’re practicing community care for families like ours!

Let’s bump that top poll number.