“I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive.”

— Laurie Anderson explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick  (via 89words)

"autogynephilia/AGP” started out as junk science, but now that the theory’s been disproved, it’s become pseudoscience. this post (& references therein) compiles all the evidence in one place!

this is a no-paywall link to Medium. it's also freely available on Substack: https://juliaserano.substack.com/p/autogynephilia-junk-science-and-pseudoscience

please share widely & give it lots of "likes" & "claps"!

making a collection

i am like. SO HUNGRY for fiction written by trans people that’s just that little bit fucked up and juicy and gripping but i can’t find any fucking recs because all the lists are like “150 books with trans stories!” and 145 of them are the same copy pasted young adult romance/anti-romance shit with 14 year old protagonists and the other 5 is shit i’ve already read

“You Don’t Know Anything.” And Other Writing Advice From Toni Morrison

well if there's one thing i have to say about oppenheimer it's that it reminded me of my brief obsession with schrodinger & everett & many worlds theory & that i wanted to write a poem about it once a time. so i did that.

You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

game companies should be fucking EMBARRASSED about being inaccessible. it should be mortifying to ship a game with shit captions or no UI scaling options or no option to disable flashing / strobing effects. games lauding their character customization should be laughingstocks for not including hearing aids or congenital disorders or prosthetic limbs. EA should be publicly fucking humiliated for the sims series being 23 goddamn years old and include cats and dogs and horses and werewolves and zombies and mermaids and star wars and not FUCKING WHEELCHAIRS.

not this coming on my feed when i just started reading dungeon meshi 😭

mango season ••• regie cabico • alaiganuza • olivia gatwood • andrew tyutnev • bong perez • sarah kay • kate cruz • david mungoshi

here's James Baldwin summing up Palestine in 1979

Cannot stop thinking about Anne magill paintings. Maybe my new favorite painter. She just captures this ..,,,,,, dreamy feeling...,,, a certain tenderness..... a fleeting moment of contentedness..... like nothing else I’ve seen

‘Was It Divine?’ by me / Interview with the Vampire

Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the horror film by Harry M. Benshoff

if you are a fan of the poem "what resembles the grave but isn't," you might be interested to know that the poet, anne boyer, resigned her position at the new york times magazine today, and her letter is worth reading in its entirety.

Fool, no one is listening to sailors' yarns about pirates and wizards to learn about fucking topography. Put that damn map away and let's try this again.

Amina al-Sirafi pausing the narrative to argue with her amanuensis. I love this book.

btw did you guys see how the hannah arendt prize committee tried to revoke masha gessen's prize after gessen, a jewish journalist, wrote an essay about how zionists and zionist-sympathizing gentiles, particularly in germany, wield accusations of antisemitism to shut down anti-zionist jews... an essay in which they specifically quoted hannah arendt several times