michelleweber

It’s called castoreum, and it does not actually come from a butt — it’s merely butt-adjacent.

“As we made our way down the hall from my apartment to the front door of the building, he would drop his nose down to the seam of each door we passed and give it a swift but thorough sniff—Dyngo was still hunting for bombs.”

It’s a literal tautology. A sparkly, sparkly tautology.

Are you leveraging available garment storage space for fruit transport, or are you just happy to see me?

Kelly Faircloth’s review of the year in fat film and TV characters is both a best- and worst-of list, and a personal exploration of the importance and challenges of representation.

“IndiaSpend, a data journalism outlet, pegs the figure at 33 killed in 69 incidents of mob violence between January 2017 and July 2018.”

“Intrusive thoughts are virtually universal among both new mothers and new fathers. ‘If they say they don’t have them, he told me, ‘they’re lying.’”