went to a bookstore today. they had cats. and a typewriter where people could write whatever and tape it to the walls. really got to me
people are just people and i love us so much
[ID: Photos of pieces of paper with typed text on them. Image 1: “I hope you get the happiness you deserve and then some. life is too beautiful to not enjoy and be happy. :)” Image 2: “this is the sign you were waiting for…the one that confirms that thing you’ve been wondering about so go create it. 2 2 2 2020″ Image 3: “Love yourselves and each other. Kris and Wayne 8/18/21″ Image 4: “I wish I remembered the names of all the cats I’ve ever met”
Image 5: Multiple overlapping pieces of paper. “heaven is a bookstore full of cats”, “…is thing is really cool to typoe on. thank”, “Wes and Anna’s honeymoon trip. November 2021″ Image 6: Multiple overlapping notes. “hello my name is emilia / i love ariana grande / thank you”, “dressed as a banana / dressed as a banana! EaAaaAaaA - Harold Styles, Love on Tour / October 2, 2021″ Image 7: “U think you’re better than me just because you know how to use a typewriter??? ok boomer / boomer I mean / okay I guess u got me on this one” The first “boomer” is illegible because it shows double and is overlapped with multiple X-letters. Image 8: “it is my birthday / I am 20 / 10/01/01 / my mom is visiting”
Image 9: “don’t worry. times are hard. and scary. but we too, shall prevail. together. be gentler with yourself.” Image 10: Multiple notes. “This bookstore is full of sweet and soft kitties. EN 6.19.21″, “The feline bookstore typewriter is fun to use / will come back again” Image 11: Multiple notes. “Don’t take life too seriously. No one makes it out alive.”, “earth it is zombie daycare ddy bears are cute so is mouse I don’t know what I [cut off by another paper on top of it] —king about so I am going” Image 12: “hi I’m clara / I’m 19″ Image 13: “Legit question for rural Americans how do I kill the 30-50 feral hogs that run into my yard within 3-5 minutes while my small kids play?” Image 14: Written in all caps. “Your mom / -You” Image 15: “owen and derek are nerds” Image 16: “love”
Image 17: “December 3 / hello, Patty n Erica. we’re here! We are happy :3 / It is a nice day XD / We’re getting BOBA! 8D / bai bai” Image 18: Multiple notes. Majority of the image shows a longer text that is mostly cut off on the left so it can’t be read in full. On the side of it reads: “hello people that [illegible]” Underneath is part of another note, reading in all caps: “Sisters I am coming for you / hehehe / I can see you”
Image 19: Multiple notes. On the top is a note with the beginning of it cut off, but a part of it is shown: “This typewriter is crazy with the s key. We have seen two cute cats so far with many to come. We hope for many more amazing trips with all four of us. Hopefully those trips will include cats as well. I wish I had a typewriter at home because this is super fun except that you cannot backspace.” Other two notes read: “hello my name is cole” & “November 5th 2021 / Got hot chocolate today / it was very nice / Love you.”
extracting the stone of madness, alejandra pizarnik / the carpal tunnel of love, fall out boy / the beer, kimya dawson / rip 2 my youth, the neighbourhood / dialogue between an ai and a poet, @demasc / birds hover the trampled fields, richard siken / questions for ada, ijeoma umebinyuo / flowers on the grave, the maine / portrait of fryderyk in shifting light by richard siken
[id:1: “All I want is silence, for myself and for the selves I used to be” 2: “Got postcards from my former selves saying, “How you been?“” 3: “First I cried for him, then I cried for me / Haunted by the ghost of the girl I used to be” 4: “R.I.P. to my youth / And you could call this the funeral” 5: “me, you, anyone, me again. nobody is the same person they were five seconds ago / that sounds painful / people kill their old selves all the time. sometimes the old ones are mourned, but there’s no funeral” 6: “Take a body, dump it, drive. Take a body, maybe your own, and dump it gently. All your dead, unfinished shelves and dump them gently” 7: “Mother, / I have pasts inside me / I did not bury properly.” 8: “And flowers on the grave / Of the child that I used to be” 9: “How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before its some kind of murder?” /end id]
Just a heads up that I went through the main site and fixed a ton of accessibility issues as well as fixed a bunch of dead links. Apologies to any keyboard or screen reader users who may have been having trouble navigating things lately.
I’ve set up an automated test harness across the entire site that will catch this stuff before it goes live next time.
