Alex @checkervest@mastodon.social
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."
75% sky pictures, 25% flotsam
she/her
There was a really nice sunset last night
https://mastodon.social/media/VpAmgxAkabn0m0MrE3k
The small children next door just figured out their mom can’t hear them out here and they went from tentatively saying “what the hell” and glancing nervously at the house to screaming “WHAT THE HELL” as they bounce on the trampoline
@noelle
There once was a Prof
At Purdue whose #limericks
Looked like #haiku. He
Said with a laugh, "I
Cut them in half, for it's so
Much more fun with two."
when you're astral projecting and are unsure if you missed your stop
Where is that page that would generate suggested mastodon follows? Searching for this is a dead freaking end
I have also been reunited with The Fishboi, good luck to anyone who tries to steal him out of my yard because he is the actual heaviest thing in the world
https://mastodon.social/media/qjGrunUja-iC4FkzZrk
Time to relearn how to play piano I guess!
I wasn’t able to take it with me when I moved because dad had claimed it as a desk, but now we’re reunited and it feels good
Exciting new development at my house today
https://mastodon.social/media/Pk8oH1cn8GrN_BMUJl4
The orchid mantis is a big weird lanky bug, which is relatable, but she also rocks high-femme fashion while being a terrifying predator with swords for arms, which is aspirational.
My officemate is blooming
https://mastodon.social/media/CExKiz5BU3aIFnmdbo4
Do you ever get a line stuck in your head from an otherwise-forgettable movie? Every single time it's foggy outside I think about one character's horrifying/heartbreaking delivery of a single line in The Others. I haven't seen that movie in years and probably won't watch it any time in the foreseeable future but I think about that line all the time
There's a thick, horror movie-esque fog outside the office today
well shit. another of my editors (that's FOUR now) have had to step down.
i love them all, i really do, but now instead of gaining the FIVE we need from the applications we've received, we're actually only up ONE.
if any women-identified folks would like experience being an editor for a fucking awesome lit mag, fill out the application!
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Coworker came in to get his check and to say goodbye and I jumped up and vigorously and earnestly shook his hand like a clerk in a Victorian novel
So, um. This is happening.
https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Voltron-21311
(Yes, it separates into the lions. Yes, they're individually poseable.)
"An Indigenous opera singer is bringing back his community's traditions and songs...
The classically-trained tenor used wax cylinder recordings of his ancestors singing in the early 1900s, which had been locked away in the national archive for decades.
Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — translated as "Songs of the River People" — is sung entirely in Wolastoqey, a language fewer than 100 people speak."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/polaris-prize-indigenous-1.4722297
I will fight all human beings to protect Terry Crews.
...bless
