what i'm reading:
negative space by b.r. yeager
Jill seemed bummed. Like she was about to throw up. I don’t even know why he brought her. Chicks never got that stuff. I zoomed closer on my phone, and the dangling bodies looked almost like they were stuffed with cotton. Their crotches wet and dark, coffee-colored sludge dribbling from their pant legs. They swayed in the breeze. Almost like art. Trevor, Tad, Chris and Jason. Gone forever. “It’s beautiful,” Tyler said, sucking on purple-grey leaves.
i haven't read a Goosebumps book since elementary school, maybe, but i remember an atmosphere of irreversibility. once the horror started, it would change the children in the books permanently, if they even survived. and a lot of the time they didn't.
negative space is like a grown-up Welcome to Dead House. b.r. yeager has remapped r.l. stine's blunt mechanisms of suger-rush tweendom onto the comparatively delicate years of late adolescence.
what i'm listening to:
I AM MUSIC - playboi carti
the 2010s sucked for me so i generally turned away from pop culture. now i'm Old, my tastes are more developed, and i can approach pop music with less baggage. the working question for me now with music is, "does this fuck?" and i think playboi carti fucks.
what i'm watching:
what is werewolf cybernetics by Auryn
this is a brilliantly pithy talk from the directory of Rukus. Auryn makes up for the brevity by expertly weaving an associative web with cinematic flourishes. they blaze tangential trails that make unexpected connections. there's not a conclusion or an ethic to draw here, but another signpost for a critical-theoretical Furry metalanguage, another important example being Patrician Taxxon's oft-cited on the ethics of boinking animal people.
something i liked:
a birthday present for myself
https://merch.audacityteam.org/products/audacity-dialogue-tee
i make money using audacity so it's only fair i should rep them.
something i hated:
labubu is satan dot com
my conspiracy theory is that every statement vis a vis labubu is made only by a paid crisis actor. there is simply no way to have an opinion on labubu. if you're going to astroturf a moral panic at least make it less obvious.
a picture:
the cat cafe carceral system
i went to a cat cafe for my birthday. this cat was on timeout for biting.