Notices by Catherynne M. Valente (catvalente@wandering.shop)

I deeply resent that society is falling apart except for all the parts where WE still have to obey the rules & pay our taxes & pretend things are normal enough to function day in & day out.

Just couldn’t vote to survive, could you, America?

Shall we talk about the Civil Rights Act? Because that was 1964.

The current President turned 18 in 1964.

We talk about people being alive now who lived through Jim Crow.

The people who LOVED Jim Crow, or just grew up thinking it normal, are also still alive.
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Women couldn’t have their own credit until 1974. Marital rape became illegal nationwide in 1994.

We are ONE generation into women having a CHANCE at life & it’s proved so intolerable America would rather end itself than allow such a thing to continue.

Can you imagine the absolute SEETHING uproar if literally any woman, no matter how conservative, hauled her 4 year old into the Oval Office with her for a meeting, talked over the President, then let her kid tell the President to shut up and go away?

This isn’t misinformation, it’s pure lying.

Elon broke into a shit ton of databases he should have zero clearance for because few people do.

Now he’s lying about what’s in there, & hardly anyone can contradict him BECAUSE NORMAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DON’T BREAK INTO DATABASES

We are now forecast to get 34 inches of snow in the next 7 days.

To be clear: there are 8 inches already on the ground.

I’m gonna bet no school Mon Thurs & Fri. All Wednesdays are half days.

The next week is mid winter break.

I’d throw myself out a window if it wouldn’t just be a short drop into soft powder.

I love how Joe Biden trips over a word and the media goes full-court screaming but Trump can illegally turn off every federal program at once and they’re like oh well what y’all doing for Valentine’s Day this year?

The sin of empathy.

Jesus fucking Christ these psychopaths.

And still half the country thinks this is great, while they walk in and out of fucking church.

How’s those eggs? Expensive?

They can sieg heil right in front of us and not only will the media make anime eyes and bend themselves in knots to say it was just that his heart was so full of love, but half the country would happily shoot us in the head for even questioning it.

My 6yr old is just starting to grasp the concept of death

They sat with me on the porch & we talked a while. I said no one knows what happens after so we make our time count

They thought about it for a long time and said:

“I think when we die we all turn into beautiful mist. And when it’s misty in the morning that’s everyone we love.

My son is very sick today…+ my cat Lord Byron is in a bad way

He’s an older gentleman & I’m so worried. He spent the weekend hiding & when I found him his ear was the size of a clementine & he smelled SO bad.

I’m scared tbh. On the way to the vet. Neither heart nor head nor wallet can afford this

Never have I felt so vindicated, or so shitty about being vindicated, as I do whenever I recall being loudly booed at an SF convention ten years ago for saying “Elon Musk is not Tony Stark, he’s not your friend, & he’s not out to save anyone or anything.”

The Lion in Winter is my favorite Christmas movie apart form Hogfather and I don’t want to debate either one.

Love them or gfy.

Actual (I swear) conversation on rewatch:

“Mama you know I think maybe R2 is actually the main character? You see him first! The whole 1st part is Jawas kidnapping R2, not Luke! He saves them from the trash & flies the ship & trains with Yoda & always knows stuff. I think R2 is the hero” #starwars

Further adventures in my 6yr old's first genuine Star Wars viewing...

"Luke, I am your father!"

Child made a FULL Beaker face.

"No. He is LYING. Mom he's lying right? I KNOW YOU KNOW."

"It is your destiny..."

Bastian POINTEDLY slurped milk through a straw & quite calmly scoffed:

"Pfft. It's not."

This is being reported…but no one is really sitting with how weird it truly is.

Think of every awful GOP monster you can.

Now.

Which of their MOTHERS is part of any of this? Let alone sitting in on govt meetings? Can you even name their moms?

This isn’t even normal for the guys who aren’t normal!

I really do not give one diaphanous ghost of a fuck that Biden pardoned his son.

America just showed that it will actively punish politicians sticking to the norms & upholding morality while rewarding the most outlandish corruption.

Trump’s going to pardon himself & the media will barely notice.

In 2010, I thought Scott Pilgrim was super clever but pretty misogynist & ipso facto a little lame

Watching it in 2024…gotta be honest it feels cutting edge progressive. No one calls Knives or RF a used-up whore for any of the exes! RF fights for herself! Cera isn’t a hypertateman! The bar is SO LOW!

Oh, you absolute pieces of shit

Yeah, it was definitely because Kamala was a bad candidate & not because the media refused to say anything positive about Biden’s economy until it was too late to save our future but not too late to suck up to their favorite boy.

Biden’s still President, by the way.

Hey, fun story!

I live on a small island in Maine. Post-election, a writer-friend & I decided to start a little islander group to share emotional support, info & resources. She posted about the 1st meeting on NextDoor.

Easy peasy.

There was nothing in the ad beyond "hey, things might get tough, let's get through this together."

IMMEDIATELY, MAGAs sailed in to scream, mock, & threaten us. For a support group.