This is an extremely niche Austin post but a former dancer at Pleasures (yes that one, you know the one) is doing an AMA on Reddit right now and apparently that place is haunted by the presence of a former dancer named Krystal and they have an altar for her because she protects them
It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable.
You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
Guy tonight with his homies tried to talk to me and my sister while I am actively not looking at him watching the final four and said at one point “I love how invested you are in this” and I’m thinking about following him and putting a nail in his tire
Today on the way back from my tour driving away from the Panama Canal, I observed a man who could not have been more obviously a dad in THE most stanced up position I’ve ever seen, looking at the boats in the Canal.