Daniel Southwell
@dpsouthwell.bsky.social
Reader, writer, dad, quesadilla enthusiast, lapsed trail runner, analog boy
So I was roasting this article this morning, but it got me thinking: what if un-siloing the humanities is the real cure for male loneliness?
July 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
So I was roasting this article this morning, but it got me thinking: what if un-siloing the humanities is the real cure for male loneliness?
Other writers: My partner isn't a very helpful critique partner because they're just so darn encouraging and not critical enough
My partner:
My partner:
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June 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Other writers: My partner isn't a very helpful critique partner because they're just so darn encouraging and not critical enough
My partner:
My partner:
Give your kids a disposable film camera and tell them to go nuts
June 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Give your kids a disposable film camera and tell them to go nuts
Decided to risk my career today
June 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Decided to risk my career today
I'm listening to the Twilight audiobook so I can understand my wife's culture and when I jokingly suggested I rewrite it in the style of Cormac McCarthy, she encouraged me, but when I showed her this, she said, and I quote, "Why is it so bad?"
May 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I'm listening to the Twilight audiobook so I can understand my wife's culture and when I jokingly suggested I rewrite it in the style of Cormac McCarthy, she encouraged me, but when I showed her this, she said, and I quote, "Why is it so bad?"
Every day I am more convinced that everything would be better if the Y2K crash HAD happened
April 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Every day I am more convinced that everything would be better if the Y2K crash HAD happened
Wrote myself a new bio just for @tacobellquarterly.org, but I think I'm going to start using it for everything.
April 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Wrote myself a new bio just for @tacobellquarterly.org, but I think I'm going to start using it for everything.
Writing mood today
April 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Writing mood today
It's a great day because I added a little sketch AND a story draft card to the board, and finished a row of each
March 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's a great day because I added a little sketch AND a story draft card to the board, and finished a row of each
But fucking Gene Hackman in that movie. I think he really shaped my ideas about what a character in a story can be and do. The defiance. The unstated layers. The way you love him and are also a little scared of him. He made me love realism before I knew what that was
February 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
But fucking Gene Hackman in that movie. I think he really shaped my ideas about what a character in a story can be and do. The defiance. The unstated layers. The way you love him and are also a little scared of him. He made me love realism before I knew what that was
So all that's got me thinking about how strange it is that so much of our lives play out in ethereal space. Or, really, in one or two specific physical spaces - phones and computers
(My granddad made this end table, by the way. He taught himself caning in his 70s)
(My granddad made this end table, by the way. He taught himself caning in his 70s)
February 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
So all that's got me thinking about how strange it is that so much of our lives play out in ethereal space. Or, really, in one or two specific physical spaces - phones and computers
(My granddad made this end table, by the way. He taught himself caning in his 70s)
(My granddad made this end table, by the way. He taught himself caning in his 70s)
But the best part was when my 7-year-old added his own take on the sun/moon/mountains theme
February 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
But the best part was when my 7-year-old added his own take on the sun/moon/mountains theme
I've also been cross-stitching a lot more
February 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I've also been cross-stitching a lot more
And then I've been doing my first chunk of work in a notebook whenever possible, staying unplugged and keeping my world small and controlled
February 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
And then I've been doing my first chunk of work in a notebook whenever possible, staying unplugged and keeping my world small and controlled
I've been drawing the same thing - some variation on sun and mountains, every morning. I think the repetitive meditation on the same thing has been part of the joy of it
February 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I've been drawing the same thing - some variation on sun and mountains, every morning. I think the repetitive meditation on the same thing has been part of the joy of it
And ever since I've been starting my day with a little sketch. I am NOT a visual artist and I'm not trying to be. But it's been so nice to embrace physical, spacial art every day
February 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
And ever since I've been starting my day with a little sketch. I am NOT a visual artist and I'm not trying to be. But it's been so nice to embrace physical, spacial art every day
So I was at our little local art supplies store and on a whim I bought a little tiny sketchpad (little local stores are one of the other things that will save us, btw)
February 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So I was at our little local art supplies store and on a whim I bought a little tiny sketchpad (little local stores are one of the other things that will save us, btw)
So I decided I wanted to watch more classic movies this year. So far, the once I've managed is One the Waterfront (1954). Main takeaway: everyone in the cast is doing that early broad, representational acting except Brando, who feels like the only one anticipating what film acting will become
February 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
So I decided I wanted to watch more classic movies this year. So far, the once I've managed is One the Waterfront (1954). Main takeaway: everyone in the cast is doing that early broad, representational acting except Brando, who feels like the only one anticipating what film acting will become
I wrote this at the beginning of the year, obviously, but I've been going back to it more than I expected, as writing feels harder and more pointless.
February 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I wrote this at the beginning of the year, obviously, but I've been going back to it more than I expected, as writing feels harder and more pointless.