Geneva Langeland

Was that Melvin? What a tremendous force in the Ypsi community ❤️

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

I'd been in a long, slow slide out of Reformed Christianity, but what clinched it was hearing a friend agonize over whether she could marry her boyfriend, even if he wasn't Christian. I found myself thinking "man, if religion were the only thing blocking my love story, I'd bin it in a heartbeat."

Just finished "Wild, Dark Shore" and got hit by a crashing wave of climate grief. This planet is such a mind-bogglingly beautiful place, and we can't manage to stop hurting it. What gifts we've squandered.

As someone who now has a tenuous and largely indifferent relationship to their womanhood, I'm happy to pass my lady credentials to someone who wants to give them a try. There's plenty of room for you here 🏳️‍⚧️♥️

happy international women’s day to all the women and cis women out there! 🥰

Cats: bathing in sunshine puddles since time immemorial 😻

Ooh, messaging now!

"This is the only acceptable form of victim blaming" I murmur as I smooch her precious lil noggin.

I'll second this Becky Chambers recommendation with my whole chest. She writes rich, vibrant sci-fi worlds built around care and mutual understanding across differences.

As a queer bendy person, it's been interesting unpacking hypermobility/ its genetic connections for (ostensibly) straight relatives:

"Is that why a PT said my kneecaps are unusually loose?" (sister)

"Is that why my thumb does this?" (aunt whose thumb is now lodged against her palm for stability)

From a patreon supporter, THANK YOU for drawing and guarding ethical boundaries.

move slow and repair things

God, can you imagine Gideon's shit-eating grin on screen? Some costume designers making an absolutely kick-ass bone corset for Harrow??

Can add myself as another data point in the hypermobile-and-queer camp, along with at least three friends who immediately come to mind.

Illustration of two black cats sitting on grass wearing oversized knitted sweaters under a pastel sky. The text above them says: “We will survive this.”

A wide-eyed tortoiseshell cat on a bedspread

Clio reporting for cute-duty (I'd crouched down for a picture of her snoozing face, but my knee popped so loudly that she startled awake 🤣)

Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

People are complex, complicated, & bring not just themselves but their whole past & the experiences of those they love & among whom they live & those who went before them to every moment of their lives.

But both the Trump regime & Netanyahu's government only ever see flat characters, not people.

They do not care to understand that the hundreds of millions of people in the Middle East—with their hundreds of millions of social networks, dreams, desires, & fears—have agency. Have whole cultures, centuries-long histories, shared traumas & joys that inform their decisions. That they're people.

In college, I got mildly obsessed with how our campus greenhouse's titan arum would pop up a single leaf that looked like a whole-ass branching tree. Blew my little biology major mind!

That's true, sometimes my DNF is really a "I won't forget the time we spent together, but let's not do this right now. Maybe later?"

It took until my mid-30s, but I've finally given myself permission to DNF even if I can tell a book is good, but I'm not in the mood for it right then.

My 2.5yo niece only sees me every few months, but apparently she randomly set a place at the dinner table for me tonight 😭😭😭

This could fix me

I was at the Arizona version just last week!

Go ahead, fall wholeheartedly for that damn fine book

There is far too much pressure to live your best life these days. Leave me alone and let me live my most middling life in peace, with the colourful miscellany of highs and lows that naturally entails.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech