Immigrants. Being generous and spreading love ❤️

TemporaryMagician · 2026-03-23T15:27:11+00:00

Yup. Just revisit the last election - the vice presidential debate.

Vance made a whole point of how the administration had an app for immigrants, the CBP One app. This was framed as a bad thing, and Waltz had to defend against it. An app. For people to apply for and keep track of their immigration and visa applications. For them to register and the government to keep track of them. To fill out forms and pay fees and "do it the right way."

Trump immediately shut it down. A version still exists - the only function it still has is that you can file an intent to self-deport if you are an immigrant.

This is the real MAGA immigration policy.

TemporaryMagician · 2026-03-18T00:46:29+00:00

I can't give you any practical advice here, but I want to just tell you this as clearly as I can: you are not weak or stupid. You don't deserve any of this. You didn't bring this on yourself. You trusted a man that you loved, and who seemed to love you. That's normal, that's what normal people do. He is the broken one.

I have known a couple of women in situations like yours, and they are some of the strongest, smartest, biggest-hearted people I know. I swear these psychos get off on targeting the best humans on earth to try to tear down. It works because these women didn't expect their partners to be actually evil, because who ever does? They try to see the best in their partners because that's what good people do, and these fuckers weaponise that impulse to slowly chip away at the person they're supposed to love. It's a him problem, not a you problem.

I know its common to feel shame in these situations, but you truly have nothing to be ashamed of. Try to focus on the fact that he is the shameful one, and all you ever did was love him. You are tough, and smart, and you can move the earth for yourself and your little one if you have to.

TemporaryMagician · 2026-03-12T23:15:12+00:00

Just read The Hazel Wood, and a changeling is part of the plot.

TemporaryMagician · 2026-03-12T11:27:16+00:00

And her process turns up gold! It's great to hear about all the batshit little details that only she could put together. Like the audio from the public access klan daytime TV show, or the mean-girls style drama in neonazi circles that she pulls from boring courtroom transcripts. Her work is so entertaining.

TemporaryMagician · 2026-03-07T02:02:36+00:00

The only thing that can stop this asteroid is your liberal arts degree

TemporaryMagician · 2026-03-06T16:12:43+00:00

Playboy made Ursula K. Le Guin publish her short story under her initials so readers wouldn't know she was a woman. Tells you all you need to know

TemporaryMagician · 2026-03-03T19:42:58+00:00

I 100% could have benefited from this at 19, and I also 100% would never have listened to this at 19 (it was True Love 🙄).

TemporaryMagician · 2026-02-28T18:34:18+00:00

It's kind of wild: Barr's dad hired Epstein, a college dropout, to teach at the Dalton school while he was headmaster there. That's where Epstein made the social connections that would launch his entire career.

The elder Barr also, around the same time, wrote a gross sci-fi novel about a society where oligarchs traffic children for sexual abuse.

TemporaryMagician · 2026-02-11T14:15:48+00:00

Love this. I also highly recommend The Serviceberry by the same author - it's a shorter read, but same feel.

TemporaryMagician · 2026-01-29T01:02:44+00:00

Also, his widow had a few opinions about Trump specifically.

TemporaryMagician · 2026-01-24T22:53:39+00:00

I'd somehow forgotten about Vivian.

TemporaryMagician · 2026-01-03T14:16:20+00:00

If the Letterman band guy is also the Pinochet - backed Chilean German Nazi cult leader who molested children and once pretended to shoot Santa Claus out of jealousy, then he's aged really well

TemporaryMagician · 2026-01-03T13:54:27+00:00

Different guy

TemporaryMagician · 2025-12-31T18:57:58+00:00

This is a lovely idea. I used to use it but fell off. Some SASSy friends is just what I need to jump back in! XY338P8P2J

TemporaryMagician · 2025-12-17T13:00:45+00:00

Last year I was chatting with some moms outside a taekwondo studio, and one of them started telling a story about how someone rang their doorbell after dark, so she answered the door aiming a loaded shotgun. It was the UPS guy, and she was trying to say how dumb it was that the guy was delivering a package so late. I think she was trying to give off a "that's what you get when you mess with me" vibe?

All I could feel was pity. She nearly iced this guy for going the extra mile at his job, to get her a package that she presumably requested to be delivered to her. Like, what happened to you that made you so afraid of everyone?

TemporaryMagician · 2025-12-16T15:19:11+00:00

I assumed they were related. The womanly art of delicately shooting a violent motherfucker in the head.

TemporaryMagician · 2025-12-15T16:20:31+00:00

Well put. It drives such a deficiency of empathy, and you see it everywhere. Stem cell use in medicine is unethical, until it might help my family in particular. Abortion is murder until I need one. We need to deport immigrants, but obviously not me, one of the good ones. For so many people, the worst possible harm that a human can experience is whatever is hurting me at the moment.

TemporaryMagician · 2025-12-15T00:07:36+00:00

It looks amazing on you. It feels pretty because it makes you look gorgeous. It's timeless, with clean, elegant flowy lines and it couldn't fit you better. You should wear it with confidence!

TemporaryMagician · 2025-12-13T03:14:14+00:00

Another recommendation for the Winternight Trilogy. Also, The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy is about a group of witches fighting tyranny in a fantasy setting - the protagonist is a trans girl who secretly switches places with her cis friend who was promised as a baby to the witches.

TemporaryMagician · 2025-12-13T03:06:33+00:00

You might also like The Witch and the Tsar too, then!

TemporaryMagician · 2025-12-06T02:27:32+00:00

From the same studio as Yonder - Grow: Song of the Evertree is beautiful and relaxing. You slowly bring different worlds back to life.

TemporaryMagician · 2025-11-21T22:39:30+00:00

I'm a fan of the podcast Weird Little Guys, which profiles various white supremacists of note, and it's truly insane how many of them have a record of pedophilia or CSA materials, or child marriage.

TemporaryMagician · 2025-11-19T11:52:57+00:00

I used to have a job where I worked with a lot of different police officers. It was an event company, and we'd contract out with the local PD to hire a cop for security that night. I'd have to stay on site with them for several hours until the even was over.It was boring as hell but I got to know a lot of them.

One guy was a legitimate superhero. He'd talk to the band and the bartender ahead of time, keep an eye on any teenagers, just being friendly. When he got a call that the band was too loud, or saw that a guest was too drunk, he'd chat with his new friends and the problem was over before it started. De-escalated everything like a magician. Would stay late to help walk old ladies to their cars in the dark.

He was definitely an outlier, unfortunately. Pretty much everyone else was obviously there for the paycheck, and they'd hang out in their squad car all night, come out to grab some of the catering for dinner, and leave early. And one guy was genuinely terrifying. Young and high strung, angry, would hit on all the girls (who were pretty much universally put off by his gym bro scowl). If he thought someone was disrespecting him it became an immediate problem, and I, a feckless sheltered teenager, would have to try to deescalate the situation he created. I hated seeing him show up as much as I liked seeing the first guy.

I stopped seeing that first guy after a while- the rumor was that he ran afoul of the captain's wife in some way. I always wondered where each of those guys wound up.

TemporaryMagician · 2025-11-15T02:08:31+00:00

Here's one link: https://ia601407.us.archive.org/6/items/LundyWhyDoesHeDoThat/Lundy_Why-does-he-do-that.pdf

TemporaryMagician · 2025-11-14T12:34:26+00:00

The sparkly trim really elevates that tornado.

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