“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. Friendship was witnessing another’s slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person’s most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.”
I was reading my writing today, and let me tell you, it may not be good, plot is not the best, and characters are a bit stereotypical, but boy do I have fun writing it
This is such a good mindset to have. There is positive energy in this post
Tausig’s crossword is a so-called Schrödinger puzzle, named for the physicist’s hypothetical cat that is at once both alive and dead. In a Schrödinger puzzle, select squares have more than one correct letter answer: They exist in two states at once. “Black Halloween animal,” for example, could be both BAT or CAT, yielding two different but perfectly correct puzzles. Only 10 such puzzles have now been published in Times history.
It’s the theme of Tausig’s puzzle, though, that makes it special. Four entries in Thursday’s crossword can include either an “F” or an “M.” Both are correct; neither is wrong. For example, “Part of a house” can be either ROOF or ROOM. The long “revealer” answer, tying those select entries together and spanning 11 squares smack-dab in the middle of the puzzle, is GENDER FLUID.
This puzzle, with “M”s and “F”s that aren’t fixed, is a masterful blend of subject and structure. “It potentially really evokes what gender fluidity is, which is not moving back and forth between two poles, but actually not being committed to either pole, and potentially existing in many states at different times,” Tausig said.
This is … really cool.
i never really thought of crossword puzzles as an art form, but like… this is art.
a crossword puzzle based on schrodingers’ cat??? a phYSICS CONCEPT??? sign me tf up i love everything about this
This is why voting for a third party is absolute bullshit and y’all stubborn idiots are so hellbent on being rebellious that you get republicans elected and make shit worse for all of us. Hate me for it if you want but it’s true, third party bullshit fucks us over every. Single. Time. I’m sick of this.
voting third party splits the left vote however many ways there are non-republican options. its understandable why a leftist would want to vote for the person who best fits their idealistic vision for the future, because the left is (at least currently) built on idealism, the need to change things for the better. however, to do that you need to understand how this game is played.
you vote for the option most likely to win, which is the democrat that makes it far enough to be on the ballot, and then you keep voting for everything else. and on top of that you work to get to know your neighbors, and your local businesses, and the people who work in retail, and you just talk to as many of them as you can so people feel connected. and you help support each other so that we can, as a GROUP, push for greater social change.
the left needs to get it together and unite without thinking that doing so would take away each groups sense of purpose and their individual ideals and goals.
you want a revolution? you have to create a sense of stability in your community, and for those people to know each other and know that they can reach out to each other, otherwise that little compost heap in your back yard and the garden in your windosil arent going to be enough to keep you fed if you ever do go off the grid.
the reason republicans win? they work as a unified front. theyll argue with each other and “agree to disagree” but actually work together. the left has the tendency to tear itself down for the sake of moral purity, and its killing all of us.
tldr; third party voting is a symptom of a much larger issue and guilting people is a band-aid.
bullshit central 