THE SKULL COLLECTOR

It takes one cross-country plane, a train, a ferry, then another hour or so by car to reach the writer Lindy West. I had read plenty about how remote her home is, but only by sitting shotgun with West in her girlfriend’s maroon Hyundai Elantra did I understand just how far she was from even a gas station. When I had asked, weeks before my arrival, if I could take an Uber to her house on Bainbridge Island, Washington, from Seattle’s Amtrak station, she laughed at me.

is this how people from LA or NYC feel when fic writers try to describe their cities

"One Piece?! We wish! These products have tons of pieces!"

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Fighter pilot + fighter pilot instructor, then commercial pilot; and seminary student turned shepherd. (He obv left the seminary before taking vows. 😂)

watching queen charlotte for the first time bc i am chomping at the bit for tomorrow, and... why is lord danbury a caricature? i know the people behind bridgerton seem to have a problem with colorism but like. this is. wild. like full on minstrel-esque treatment

Tumblr screenshot of a post by torturelabyrinth: Anyone who is just now in 2026 finding out that there is a large community of women out there who enjoy reading and writing about men having gay sex is so disconnected from my social reality that I struggle to even understand how they exist

Rainbow stretching over Seattle skyline with skittles raining from it as the face of Marshawn Lynch smiles on high upon an ecstatic Seahawk fan below

Skittle Rainbow Stretches Over Seattle as Curse Finally Broken, Beast Mode Avenged: tinyurl.com/yc5atmkm

“I wasn’t completely sure I wanted to throw any of my support behind the Seahawks even after they crushed the 49ers in the NFC Championship. But now that the Seahawks are beating the Patriots by 12 points, I’m ready to boldly hedge my bets and support both teams.”

I guess I am a bit of a chaos bisexual but it’s in less of an Ilya Rozanov way and more of a “Beaker from the Muppets” way

illustration of lowly worm dressed in black bloc and preparing to throw a molotov with his foot

even a worm will turn

hot (banal) take: if your yogurt cup has fruit on the bottom, the bottom should be flat

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact

5yo just told my dad, "You can grab it. You have hands."

so yes i'm doing an OUTSTANDING job as a parent

me, a beautiful idiot: wow the caulk on this shower is failing in such weird ways

some miscreant, 15 years ago: hehehe

oh, you just mortared the shower window in? was caulk a bridge too far?

my favorite thing about my house is finding all the crap things the previous owners did/paid someone to do

A still from The Shining with adapted lyrics from “Last Resort”: “Cut my wife into pieces / this is a ghost resort”

“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?”

1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore.

2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions.

3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.

my toxic trait is that I think beetle kill blue pine is gorgeous

moana 2 is fun, nothing incredible, but oh my gosh can you feel the lack of lmm, esp when the characters rap

God, I Cannot Wait to Overcomplicate This Spreadsheet Power on your PCs, my gentle users, because I just found a fresh Excel file to overcomplicate. Hoo boy, I can’t wait to rework every cell of “Compa...

"No one asked, but I’m going to add a Pivot Table. Don’t know what that is? It’s just an advanced feature I learned from one of my many yellowed manuals that will make looking at this list feel like lifting Russian nesting dolls."

LA Times crossword showing the clue "Kindle file format" with the answer MOBI marked as incorrect

hey @latimes.com, I didn't overwork myself at amazon publishing for four years for you to do me so dirty like this

nobody who thinks police shootings are justified because the cops got really scared would ever accept that as an excuse for their food delivery being twenty minutes late

every once in a while I head on over to r/conservatives to see what they're thinking about current events

don't do that today

Hannibal. Absolute stunner.

tfw you do something you're excited about and then everyone craps on it 😊😊😊

if you're an nba player in the middle of a game, i think what you really need to do is take a long, hard look at the basketball. every game has got one. figure out who has it, and what you need to do to get hold of it. put it through the basket and you could score yourself two points, maybe more

every seat in the entire world should have a"can a bitch get a fucking break" button and if enough bitches press it they should be able to give a bitch a fucking break

this one really resonated with me

Watch out, she's already moved on to pig blood!

"I was doing something joyful for me and he got in my way."

is this bc we keep reading 5yo old books

lmao "i disagree with him" dude he broke US law and is violating international law and i'm super jazzed to hear you disagree with him and will give him a stern talking to