Obviously, you can think whatever you want about any book, but to me, Nabokov's two masterworks (Lolita, Pale Fire) are about horrible people possessed of deep delusions of grandeur who aim to get the reader on their side by appearing to be smart. And a lot of people fall for it!

I remember a few years ago thinking concretely, if they ask me to ID my trans students to the institution/government I guess they can just fire me

But this is like...it's both dystopian censorship and also NONSENSE

I just cannot wrap my brain around this reality!

So good!

So good!

I’m excited about that sauce.

Definitely made by AI

God I’m so excited for this

Claire. Claire! CLAIRE OMFGYES YES YES

I’m so happy for you both! What a joy!

when she hits that low note in the amen, holy smokes

GIVE THIS TO US NOW

At the last minute someone else made a salad! A green salad with toasted pumpkin seeds, dried cranberries, and walnuts. So good. I should’ve just made more of my quasi curry, we did really eat everything, but it was fine!

these people shouldn’t be able to go anywhere

Oh boy

Whoo hoo! I I recently recently had a year that involved two permanent crowns, a root canal, and a thousand dollar mouthguard just one after another, and it sucked. So I really feel you!