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Momo

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i've applied for like 70 research jobs and gotten no interviews

September 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

happy birthday to me

a horrifying special effects movie creature plaintively drinking an iced coffee backstage

August 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM

Momo

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You could describe the kid hesitating at the top of the diving board for a little too long; that's fine, it communicates an image. But DFW wants you to FEEL how long that scared kid is up there in the sun: he forces the reader to read granular descriptions of everything the kid is seeing.

Overhead here means sight and smell. The smells are intimate, newly clear. The smell bleach’s special flower, but out of it other things rise to you like a weed’s seeded snow. You smell deep yellow popcorn. Sweet tan oil like hot coconut. Either hot dogs or corn dogs. A thin cruel hint of very dar Pepsi in paper cups. And the special smell of tons of water coming off tons of skin, rising like steam off a new bath. Animal heat. From overhead it is more real than anything.

Look at it. You can see the whole complicated thing, blue and white and brown and white, soaked in a water spangle of deepening red. Everybody. This is what people call a view. And you knew that from below you wouldn’t look nearly so high overhead. You see now how high overhead you are. You knew from down there no one could tell.

He says it behind you, his eyes on your ankles, the solid bald man, Hey kid. They want to know. Do your plans up here involve the whole day or what exactly is the story. Hey kid are you okay.

There’s been time this whole time. You cant kill time with your heart. Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

Hey kid he says Hey kid are you okay.

Metal flowers bloom on your tongue. No more time for thinking. Now that there is time you don’t have time.

Hey.

Slowly now, out across everything, there’s a watching that spreads like hit water’s rings. Watch it spread out from the ladder. Your sighted sister and her thin white pack, pointing. Your mother looks to the shallows where you used to be, then makes a visor of her hand. The whale stirs and jiggles. the guard looks up, the girl around his leg looks up, he reaches for his horn.

July 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

Good writing effectively communicates something to the reader, but GREAT writing evokes emotion in the reader. Think about DFW's description of a thirteen-year-old hesitating at the top of a diving board in "Forever Overhead."

The ladder is full beneath you. Stacked up, everyone a few rungs apart. The ladder is fed by a solid line that stretches back and curves into the dark of the tower’s canted shadow. People’s arms are crossed in the line. Those on the ladder’s feet hurt and they are all looking up. It is a machine that moves only forward.

Climb up onto the tower’s tongue. The board turns out to be long. As long as the time you stand there. Time slows. It thickens around you as your heart gets more and more beats out of every second, every movement in the system of the pool below.

The board is long. From where you stand it seems to stretch off into nothing. It’s going to send you someplace which its own length keeps you from seeing, which seems wrong to submit to without even thinking.

Looked at another way, the same board is just a long thin flat thing covered with a rough white plastic stuff. The white surface is very rough and is freckled and lined with a pale watered red that is nevertheless still red and not yet pink — drops of old pool water that are catching the light of the late sun over sharp mountains. the rough white stuff of the board is wet. And cold. Your feet are hurt from the thin rungs and have a great ability to feel. They feel your weight. There are handrails running above the beginning of the board. They are not like the ladder’s handrails just were. The are thick and set very low, so you almost have to bend over to hold on to them. They are just for show, no one holds them. Holding on takes time and alters the rhythm of the machine.

It is a long cold rough white plastic or fiberglass board, veined with the sad near-pink color of bad candy.

But at the end of the white board, the edge, where you’ll come own with your weight to make it send you off, there are two areas of darkness. Two flat shadows in the board light. Two vague black ovals. The end of the board has two dirty spots.

They are from all the people who’ve gone before you. Your feet as you stand here are tender and dented, hurt by the rough wet surface, and you see that the two dark spots are from people’s skin. They are skin abraded from feet by the violence of the disappearance of people with real weight. More people than you could count without losing track. The weight and abrasion of their disappearance leaves little bits of soft tender feet behind, bits and shards and curls of skin that dirty and darken and tan as they lie tiny and smeared in the sun at the end of the board. They pile up and get smeared and mixed together. They darken in two circles.

No time is passing outside you at all. It is amazing. The late ballet below is slow motion, the overbroad movements of mimes in blue jelly. If you wanted you could really stay here forever, vibrating inside so fast you float motionless in time, like a bee over something sweet.

But they should clean the board. Anybody who thought about it for even a second would see that they should clean the end of the board of people’s skin, of two black collections of what’s left of before, spots that from back here looks like eyes, like blind and cross-eyed eyes.

Where you are now is still and quiet. wind radio shouting splashing not here. No time and no real sound but your blood squeaking in your head.

July 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

some idiot who barely passed daddy's ivy league mba program: can't you just predict this using thermodynamics?

biologists, knowing that the cellular environment is fucked-up bullshit full of unknown objects with unknown functions:

July 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

big time

June 16, 2025 at 3:56 AM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

and when i say snakeskin--

Photo by @_subtxt_ on Twitter. A painted mural of Sephiroth's Magic the Gathering card art on the side of a tall vertical building. Taken on a cloudless sunny day. The mural itself is already several stories high and not finished yet!

June 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

downloaded pikmin 1 and 2 last night

That one meme of Spongebob characters playing basketball with Patrick triumphantly walking away from the hoop with his arms outstretched

May 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

seeing rina sawayama in new music friday but it's just a remix of her song with paris hilton

A screenshot of Sephiroth (left) and Cloud (right) from Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Taken by rikuka_tw on Twitter. Both men are staring judgmentally into the camera.

May 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

A final image from Saturday: Black Butler S1 cosplayers in 2025!!!

Three Black Butler cosplayers at Anime Boston 2025. They're cosplaying outfits from Season 1! From left to right: Mey-Rin, Ciel Phantomhive, and Sebastian Michaelis.

May 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

Saturday afternoon and evening: a Terra and Aqua from Kingdom Hearts; an Eddie with an electric guitar from Stranger Things (they were BLASTING Kate Bush, which prompted me to turn around!); Kazu_Ortiz as Barret Wallace with a working (!!!!) spinning gun arm; and a commune Viktor from Arcane!

Aqua and Terra cosplayers from Kingdom Hearts at Anime Boston 2025. On the left is Aqua; on the right is Terra.

An Eddie from Stranger Things cosplayer jamming on an electric guitar in the Anime Boston 2025 dealer's room. At their feet is a speaker with a demobat plush!

Kazu_Ortiz as Barret Wallace from Final Fantasy VII in the Anime Boston 2025 dealer's room. He has a yellow flower in his lapel. The spinning gatling gun on his arm actually spun and lit up!

A commune Viktor from Arcane at Anime Boston 2025. They are wearing a matching purple KN95 and even have his staff!

May 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

Caitlyn, Sephiroth, and Chobits cosplayers from Saturday!

(Also featured: a manga about my life called "Yuri is my job.")

A Caitlyn cosplayer from Arcane, rifle and all, at Anime Boston 2025!

A Sephiroth cosplayer from the Anime Boston 2025 dealer's room. They are holding a Dunkie's because this is Boston, kehd.

A Hideki and Chii from Chobits in the Anime Boston 2025 dealer's room! Hideki is on the left; Chii, in a pink lolita dress, is on the right. They are holding hands :)

May 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

Saturday I was a little more lucid and prioritized photographing some cosplayers. Louis from BEASTARS; Curly and Anya from Mouthwashing; Phantom Cosplay as Cloud Strife; and the indomitable @robotlyra.bsky.social in Lupin III cosplay!

A Beastars cosplayer at Anime Boston 2025! This one is in a partial fursuit as Louis the red deer in his maroon suit.

Two Mouthwashing cosplayers on the Anime Boston 2025 Artist's Alley. On the left is Curly, in a mask that resembles his botched, bandaged face from the game; on the right is Anya. Both are wearing their blue Pony Express spacesuits.

Phantom Cosplay as Cloud Strife at Anime Boston 2025.

My bestie robotlyra in Lupin III cosplay (yellow tie, blue shirt, red blazer) at Anime Boston 2025.

May 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

Just a few images from Friday: Costa del Sol Aerith, Yuffie, and Tifa; an excellent 90s vaporwave esque fursuit; and, of course, SICKOS

Three Final Fantasy VII cosplayers, each doing the Costa del Sol outfits from Rebirth! From left to right: Aerith, Yuffie, and Tifa.

A fursuiter at Anime Boston 2025. Their fursuit is white, teal, and neon pink with black accents.

A guy cosplaying the SICKOS "Yes, haha, YES!" meme.

May 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

anime boston 2025 was a total dream. 🧬🧫✨ starting a thread of all my pictures from this weekend!

An image of an electronic scheduling board at Anime Boston 2025. The second panel listed is mine: "Weird Biology in FFVII."

A selfie of me next to the scheduling board at Anime Boston 2025. I'm right next to the listing for "Weird Biology in FFVII."

An image of the Hynes Convention Center entrance with the Anime Boston 2025 banner up!

A Sephiroth clone in Remake sitting on a bench. A cat is in its lap, and the clone is smiling under its hood :)

May 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

Guy at Anime Boston 2025 cosplaying the sickos "YES HAHAHA YES" meme

May 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM

Momo

@envysnest.bsky.social

like i literally had a possible explanation for this fucking scene (hybrid, nonsexual gene systems do exist, i was jumpscared by "wheatgerm-canine" in a paper recently) but it didnt fit w the narrative of the panel so i cut it lol. it was also likely just pitch-black humor showing how shitty hojo is