Randal Hendrickson
@hendrickson.bsky.social
Political Theory PhD, history of ideas sort, MS in Library and Info Science. Working out some stuff at "The Vapors.” Would love you to have a look.
https://thevapors.substack.com/
https://thevapors.substack.com/
I dress like the foremost authority on the question: “What if I could date a mermaid?”
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I dress like the foremost authority on the question: “What if I could date a mermaid?”
🏴☠️💀🏴☠️
Announcement?
As I explore old typewriters, I thought to involve you (?).
If you feel alright with my having an address, DM me a theme, question, or etc. I’ll draw from my janky toolkit, write you a little something, date it, identify the typewriter, and send.
Announcement?
As I explore old typewriters, I thought to involve you (?).
If you feel alright with my having an address, DM me a theme, question, or etc. I’ll draw from my janky toolkit, write you a little something, date it, identify the typewriter, and send.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
🏴☠️💀🏴☠️
Announcement?
As I explore old typewriters, I thought to involve you (?).
If you feel alright with my having an address, DM me a theme, question, or etc. I’ll draw from my janky toolkit, write you a little something, date it, identify the typewriter, and send.
Announcement?
As I explore old typewriters, I thought to involve you (?).
If you feel alright with my having an address, DM me a theme, question, or etc. I’ll draw from my janky toolkit, write you a little something, date it, identify the typewriter, and send.
Got a day going. A visit to my dude to zap a blank ditch that’s been troubling me. And then off to see these guys a few blocks down the road. Fun.
If you escape a kind of paralysis and manage to get out and about, cool shit happens, and nice people worth knowing emerge. Big if. But, you know..
If you escape a kind of paralysis and manage to get out and about, cool shit happens, and nice people worth knowing emerge. Big if. But, you know..
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Got a day going. A visit to my dude to zap a blank ditch that’s been troubling me. And then off to see these guys a few blocks down the road. Fun.
If you escape a kind of paralysis and manage to get out and about, cool shit happens, and nice people worth knowing emerge. Big if. But, you know..
If you escape a kind of paralysis and manage to get out and about, cool shit happens, and nice people worth knowing emerge. Big if. But, you know..
Mr. Rogers, Cap Coleman, and sailor guy with kitty. My spirit guides this winter.
October 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Mr. Rogers, Cap Coleman, and sailor guy with kitty. My spirit guides this winter.
I weeded my library to one essential book. But I’ve been reading for a very long time.
October 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I weeded my library to one essential book. But I’ve been reading for a very long time.
Rolling around with “don’t fuck with me” songs like this bad boy (so good), but doing shit like this. youtu.be/LU2Bt9cB6KY?...
October 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Rolling around with “don’t fuck with me” songs like this bad boy (so good), but doing shit like this. youtu.be/LU2Bt9cB6KY?...
More front work today. Recent troubling tattoo news has me grateful that, after all this time, I never accidentally got a Nazi tattoo.
My advice. Never choose a piece from a Nazi flash sheet. Also, why is there a Nazi flash sheet at your shop?
My advice. Never choose a piece from a Nazi flash sheet. Also, why is there a Nazi flash sheet at your shop?
October 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
More front work today. Recent troubling tattoo news has me grateful that, after all this time, I never accidentally got a Nazi tattoo.
My advice. Never choose a piece from a Nazi flash sheet. Also, why is there a Nazi flash sheet at your shop?
My advice. Never choose a piece from a Nazi flash sheet. Also, why is there a Nazi flash sheet at your shop?
I sat to write some post-funeral thoughts, but found myself stabbing goblins all day. These are from my first foray into goblin territory. I like the dagger handle we’ve developed along the way. Might become a tattooer. Or artist or whatever. But I already said novelist. Hmm.
October 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I sat to write some post-funeral thoughts, but found myself stabbing goblins all day. These are from my first foray into goblin territory. I like the dagger handle we’ve developed along the way. Might become a tattooer. Or artist or whatever. But I already said novelist. Hmm.
My recollection of Kant’s death mask.
October 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My recollection of Kant’s death mask.
My cute little skull doodles have become something entirely new, and it is driven home for me that every beginning does not begin in wonder.
October 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
My cute little skull doodles have become something entirely new, and it is driven home for me that every beginning does not begin in wonder.
I won “Best Pose” at the funeral. With thanks to my coaches and to my family, who had to live without me while I trained.
October 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I won “Best Pose” at the funeral. With thanks to my coaches and to my family, who had to live without me while I trained.
Wearing my dead bestie’s Dirtbombs shirt for catastrophic luck.
My Boétie has been gone for some thirteen years now. Little dumbass, they don’t make em like Steve, but he didn’t know that.
My Boétie has been gone for some thirteen years now. Little dumbass, they don’t make em like Steve, but he didn’t know that.
October 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Wearing my dead bestie’s Dirtbombs shirt for catastrophic luck.
My Boétie has been gone for some thirteen years now. Little dumbass, they don’t make em like Steve, but he didn’t know that.
My Boétie has been gone for some thirteen years now. Little dumbass, they don’t make em like Steve, but he didn’t know that.
I don’t know how many who follow me on here are tattoo types. But this is a piece done by Topper, who runs Homestead Tattoo in Philly.
He’s as good as they get in the American traditional game, and everyone at the shop is first rate.
He’s as good as they get in the American traditional game, and everyone at the shop is first rate.
September 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I don’t know how many who follow me on here are tattoo types. But this is a piece done by Topper, who runs Homestead Tattoo in Philly.
He’s as good as they get in the American traditional game, and everyone at the shop is first rate.
He’s as good as they get in the American traditional game, and everyone at the shop is first rate.
I worry that the serial killer frames the kids like are too compelling on me. I’m going to stick with “intellectual” or “architect” or whatever. With thanks to Warby Parker for the disturbing evidence.
September 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I worry that the serial killer frames the kids like are too compelling on me. I’m going to stick with “intellectual” or “architect” or whatever. With thanks to Warby Parker for the disturbing evidence.
I do adorable shit like this on the regular, to keep my wife’s contempt at a simmer. Always have. It’s pretty misleading at the beginning of a relationship. I’m a fucking nightmare.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I do adorable shit like this on the regular, to keep my wife’s contempt at a simmer. Always have. It’s pretty misleading at the beginning of a relationship. I’m a fucking nightmare.
My first tatty. The day I turn 18. “Haha. Fuck off, I’m headed to Skin & Bone in Dallas with eighty bucks.” That got me two feathers from a headdress and a pretty stupid tattoo. Ink fell out almost immediately, and I did no aftercare and much scratching. I won’t cover it.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
My first tatty. The day I turn 18. “Haha. Fuck off, I’m headed to Skin & Bone in Dallas with eighty bucks.” That got me two feathers from a headdress and a pretty stupid tattoo. Ink fell out almost immediately, and I did no aftercare and much scratching. I won’t cover it.
Operation See You Fellow Badasses in Valhalla / Let’s Decorate the Dad Bod Because I’m Sad continues apace with the addition of roses.
September 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Operation See You Fellow Badasses in Valhalla / Let’s Decorate the Dad Bod Because I’m Sad continues apace with the addition of roses.
This book is fucking with me. There was a guy in the Austrian empire on the edge of WWI who was as good at observing human beings as I am. At least I’m a better writer. But fuck. Heavy.
September 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This book is fucking with me. There was a guy in the Austrian empire on the edge of WWI who was as good at observing human beings as I am. At least I’m a better writer. But fuck. Heavy.
Pigs are healing. Less squealy. Check out my disgusting OnlyFans for more.
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Pigs are healing. Less squealy. Check out my disgusting OnlyFans for more.
Scribe: “So what, finally, does a monkey look like, brother?”
Medieval ADHD motherfucker:
Medieval ADHD motherfucker:
September 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Scribe: “So what, finally, does a monkey look like, brother?”
Medieval ADHD motherfucker:
Medieval ADHD motherfucker:
Reddit. You guys know about this? I downloaded this dark internet app to my phone. I found it on Apple’s dark internet App Store, which I learned about in an alley degrading myself for crack.
September 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Reddit. You guys know about this? I downloaded this dark internet app to my phone. I found it on Apple’s dark internet App Store, which I learned about in an alley degrading myself for crack.
This is wonderful. Nancy needs to be the story, certainly always *a* story. Nancy makes something up in effort to be that story. Nancy replies to Nancy, encouraging Nancy in her effort to Nancy so hard.
Always check your account when trying to keep the shit you made up going.
Always check your account when trying to keep the shit you made up going.
September 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is wonderful. Nancy needs to be the story, certainly always *a* story. Nancy makes something up in effort to be that story. Nancy replies to Nancy, encouraging Nancy in her effort to Nancy so hard.
Always check your account when trying to keep the shit you made up going.
Always check your account when trying to keep the shit you made up going.
You can follow me on IG for more intellectual content. Tree of knowledge shit, long eighteenth-century witticisms that suck, and tips on completing the system of German Idealism (along with relevant warnings about risks of autoerotic asphyxiation), &c.
September 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
You can follow me on IG for more intellectual content. Tree of knowledge shit, long eighteenth-century witticisms that suck, and tips on completing the system of German Idealism (along with relevant warnings about risks of autoerotic asphyxiation), &c.
Me: I’ll go to the function. It will make me feel bad. But how can I make it difficult to walk and wear the right boots? No missed opportunity for pain.
Me: I understand. Ink, then press these into boots. Let them pulse.
Me: I hate you. Love, me.
Me: Yeah, man. Fuck us.
Me: I understand. Ink, then press these into boots. Let them pulse.
Me: I hate you. Love, me.
Me: Yeah, man. Fuck us.
September 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Me: I’ll go to the function. It will make me feel bad. But how can I make it difficult to walk and wear the right boots? No missed opportunity for pain.
Me: I understand. Ink, then press these into boots. Let them pulse.
Me: I hate you. Love, me.
Me: Yeah, man. Fuck us.
Me: I understand. Ink, then press these into boots. Let them pulse.
Me: I hate you. Love, me.
Me: Yeah, man. Fuck us.
Wading into fall with a look I’m calling “Hey, man. What’s wrong with your dad?”
September 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Wading into fall with a look I’m calling “Hey, man. What’s wrong with your dad?”