i knew the beatles were infected by parasites, and that's okay
― sarahell, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
Charli XCX Is Probably Not the Future of Pop, and That’s Okay
― jaymc, Sunday, 15 September 2019 06:35 (five years ago) link
otherwise this stone would seem defacedbeneath the translucent cascade of the shouldersand would not glisten like a wild beast's fur:
would not, from all the borders of itself,burst like a star: for here there is no placethat does not see you. You must hack your life.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 15 September 2019 08:11 (five years ago) link
Confession: I tell myself "that's OK" pretty much about everything, all the time.
― sock fingering, baby (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 September 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
Going to sew some of these into frames for the new house
― beware the ídes of mairt (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
that would actually be a really good art project tbh
― sarahell, Thursday, 4 March 2021 07:13 (three years ago) link
also an idea for one of those ransom note font "big hug" blankets with the blond woman on the porch that were all over fb a month or so ago
― sarahell, Thursday, 4 March 2021 07:14 (three years ago) link
The horror
― beware the ídes of mairt (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 March 2021 09:53 (three years ago) link
Mr. Kurtz, he dead, and that's okay.
― sarahell, Thursday, 4 March 2021 13:33 (three years ago) link
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it, and here’s why.
― Bruno Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 4 March 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold, and that's okay.
― wake me up before you cuomo (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 March 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
We Want Our Friends Back! (But Which Ones?)The pandemic shrank many social circles to a skeleton crew. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
― sarahell, Saturday, 27 March 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRn2VQWNkgA
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 March 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
Netflix Released Its July Titles And If I Cancel Plans It's Totally Unrelatedhttps://www.buzzfeed.com/natalieoganesyan/new-on-netflix-july-2021
I'm not sure this is a formula as such but it's a prime example of the kind of posing-as-social-media-discourse that grinds my gears. It reads like some needy teenager trying to fit in.
― Alba, Thursday, 24 June 2021 12:14 (three years ago) link
That person has been writing for Buzzfeed for one week, and appears to actually be a teenager
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 24 June 2021 12:21 (three years ago) link
wait, no, 21. which counts as a teenager for Americans I guess.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 24 June 2021 12:23 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I don't mean to dunk on her. I'm assuming the headlines are produced by some crack A-B testing team at Buzzfeed, though I guess the writer might contribute them all the same.
― Alba, Thursday, 24 June 2021 12:28 (three years ago) link
https://www.wired.com/story/the-coelacanth-may-live-for-a-century-thats-not-great-news/
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 June 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
OK, I clicked just to find out what the fuck it meant:People Are Sharing Things That Should Be Illegal, And There Are No Lies Detected
― Alba, Saturday, 26 June 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link
Here's Why That's Okay!https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/22/i-live-democratic-bubble-heres-why-thats-okay/
― jaymc, Thursday, 22 July 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
the singularity
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 22 July 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
a "Democratic bubble" is just "a city"
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:57 (three years ago) link
Under the Dome
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 23 July 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
If you like to gambleI tell you I'm your manYou win some, lose someAnd here's why that's okay
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 24 July 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
New headline scourge "is a vibe"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tokyo-olympics-condoms-unboxing_n_610a75f2e4b0e882ab65579aDiver Tom Daley Unboxing Condoms In The Olympic Village To Lil Nas X Is A Vibe
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kris-jenner-kim-kardashian-instagram_n_5e0613f5e4b0b2520d14bc3bKris Jenner Attempting (And Failing) To Livestream Kim Kardashian Is A Vibe
https://www.golfdigest.com/story/harry-higgs-screaming-fore-wells-fargo-championshipHarry Higgs screaming 'FORE!!!' at the top of his lungs is a vibe and a half
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 18:41 (three years ago) link
ilx posts that haunt yr thoughts
The mystery of the balances is thereThe Masonic secret lies thereThe church forbids its angels entry thereThe gypsies camp thereBlood is exchanged thereMothers weep thereIt is night thereAnd that's okay― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, March 7, 2016 1:41 AM (five years ago)
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, March 7, 2016 1:41 AM (five years ago)
― sarahell, Monday, 9 August 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
Inventing a browser add-on that makes the news feel more reassuring pic.twitter.com/sl2Zsx8MEc— Brooks Otterlake (@i_zzzzzz) September 10, 2021
― ✖, Friday, 10 September 2021 23:54 (three years ago) link
lol!
― sarahell, Saturday, 11 September 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
i just find this headline very weird
https://i.postimg.cc/JnnTKwCM/image.png
― ✖, Sunday, 13 February 2022 01:05 (two years ago) link
Honestly, I enjoyed the Oscars. https://t.co/dNK63IMN0v— Michael Blackmon (@blackmon) March 28, 2022
― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 13:44 (two years ago) link
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/long-term-relationships-marriage_n_61e09027e4b04d030c353473
After 9 Years Together, My Partner And I Still Aren’t Married — And That’s OK
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/03/29/mitski-the-anthem-concert-review/
Pulling your ear one way is Mitski’s cathartic rebellion against expectations.
Tugging it in the other direction is her voice lurking under the surface, suggesting that maybe she doesn’t quite know what she wants to be either — and that’s okay.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:05 (two years ago) link
The eyes are not here There are no eyes here, and here's why In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms In this last of meeting places We grope together And avoid speechand that's okay
― sarahell, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 19:52 (two years ago) link
You're eyes without a faceAnd that's okay
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 31 March 2022 21:00 (two years ago) link
Márgarét, áre you gríevingOver Goldengrove unleaving?Leáves like the things of man, youWith your fresh thoughts care for, can you?Ah! ás the heart grows olderIt will come to such sights colderBy and by, nor spare a sighThough worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;And that's ókay, and here's why.
― Lily Dale, Thursday, 31 March 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
Musicians Are Begging Fans to Mask Up at Concerts. Here’s Why.
I can't wait to find out
― jmm, Thursday, 31 March 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
Their fans are ugly
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Thursday, 31 March 2022 21:35 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/9hSVoSmaLC— David Adler (@davidrkadler) April 18, 2022
― Piedie Gimbel, Monday, 18 April 2022 09:30 (two years ago) link
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/05/she-invented-adulting-her-life-fell-apart?utm_source=pocket-newtab
She Invented Adulting. Her Life Fell Apart. She Wants You to Know That’s Okay.
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:23 (two years ago) link
Isn't there a Bible story that goes like that?
― jmm, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
haunting my thoughts rn
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.I do not think that they will sing to me, and that's okay.― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, March 1, 2016 5:53 AM (six years ago)
I do not think that they will sing to me, and that's okay.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, March 1, 2016 5:53 AM (six years ago)
― sarahell, Tuesday, 6 December 2022 04:11 (one year ago) link
The Coachella Lineup Still Hasn't Come Out Yet and It's Fine, I'm Fine
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 January 2023 20:26 (one year ago) link
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/white-middle-class-yoga-teacher-problem/
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
haha! i thought the same thing when i read the yoga teacher headlinethe new thing is "I'm the problem, it's me" (and here's why)
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 20:57 (one year ago) link
free hairshirt with diploma
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
i hear that headline in Jello Biafra's voice ... and that's okay
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 February 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
These Two Vast And Trunkless Legs Of Stone Have The Perfect Inscription
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 4 March 2016 03:57 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
this was so perfect that every time we talk poetry on ilx i think of it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 01:55 (eight months ago) link
All I have is a voiceTo undo the folded lie,The romantic lie in the brainOf the sensual man-in-the-streetAnd the lie of AuthorityWhose buildings grope the sky:There is no such thing as the StateAnd no one exists alone;Hunger allows no choiceTo the citizen or the police;7 mistakes you're probably makingwhen you don't love one another
― symsymsym, Monday, 8 January 2024 05:01 (eight months ago) link
https://fatgirlflow.com/i-cant-wipe-my-own-ass-and-im-ok-with-it/
― hogarth brooks (unregistered), Friday, 19 January 2024 01:53 (eight months ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/september-11-attacks-saudi-arabia-lawsuit/678430/
Saudi Arabia did 9/11… and here’s why that’s fine
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 20 May 2024 23:46 (four months ago) link