Jude and Nemoira from On Sundays She Picked Flowers by @fluoresensitive! Jude made Nemoira that cute blouse and she made it with LOVE!!

If you've followed me for a while you might remember that I did the art for the hardcover version of the book in 2022 (!!! such an exciting and fun project to work on) This was one of the early concepts that we didn't end up using, but I found the sketch and decided to finish it for fun <3 If you still haven't read On Sundays go read it right now! You can buy it here

Um! The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Just Over My Head by James Baldwin, Motherthing by Ainsle Hogarth andddddd O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker?

hi yah yah! immaculate taste as always. here are some recs:

Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms

Vanessa Onwuemezi, Dark Neighbourhood

Jac Jemc, The Grip of It

Mairead Case, Tiny

Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

I know you read a lot so I tried to find some you maaaay not have read, but some more popular others are My Soul to Keep, Piranesi, The Deep, and Jane: A Murder.

(hands folded like at a job interview) what are your interests what are you into, do u like video games, which ones? Disco Elysium? Sims mayhaps?

Ahhh well interests... I like birds and creatures general, so I birdwatch but also creature watch. I like thinking about writing... doing it... ehh we're trying hejdjdj

Games wise I'm not really a #gamer but recently have mainly been playing the binding of isaac (it hasn't aged well), diavolo no daibouken (a jojo fan game I basically only play for the midi soundtrack) and I love fighting games but specifically King of Fighters (although I need a new controller to play it u_u). Also need to redownload touhou at some point.

Ling....can the gworls have a cantopop playlist? We wanna hear!!

Ask and ye shall receive!

So, per my request, syntaxblk added my name to the blocklist (and with the most detailed entry, no less!). As usual with this crowd, there are many funny aspects, but I wanted to draw up a few notes

1.) These people aren’t leftists. They have no coherent economic analysis. Their politics are an aestheticized jumble of “social justice” causes, and as such, they are laser-focused on speech acts, to the exclusion of all else. The only things they are capable of talking about or criticizing are the ways other people speak online: who is or isn’t “allowed” to speak on a topic, what words they are or aren’t “allowed” to use (see: “say her name”)—and that’s it. When it comes to the real world, they’ve got nothing.

2.) They are also hopelessly identitarian, and this stems from their adoption of afropessimist philosophy. You find similar “radical pessimist” notions in TERFism, third worldism, and certain strains of anarchism. The “oppressor class” is evil, which is why they oppress; white people are colonizers because white people are bad, not because colonization is profitable. This is an anti-materialist position that cannot create an effective politics. It’s a disease of powerlessness. It’s contemptible where it’s not just sad.

3.) #oh wow here we go calling black people psyops

William O’Neal was an FBI informant who infiltrated the Black Panthers in Chicago. He provided the FBI with detailed information about Fred Hampton’s apartment, and then slipped secobarbital into Hampton’s drink so that he would not wake up before the feds could assassinate him. William O’Neal was also a Black man. Identity isn’t a defense like you think it is.

Speak...say what you must....

[winds up to swing at the hornet's nest] I mean it's not anything we haven't said before but that post absolutely reminds me of the STAUNCH ao3 stans who say their dark/dead dove works are properly handling dark topics with care/sensitivity when the reality of it all is that you wrote that shit with one hand and it fucking shows. like we can REALLY tell.

so those hoes condescending to us and saying we're all just a bunch of triggered teenagers is laughable because they love to act high and mighty but who has the better reading comprehension here. it's not them.

Making claims of someone posting csem in order for you to justify your aggressive transmisogynist smear campaign is like. I don't want to say its a new low but it's disturbing and fucked up for sure

Happy birthday deah!!! Inventor of movies!!!!!

thank you yah yah inventor of horror novels 🫡❤️

Happy birthday!!! I am ... Surrounded by scorpios, ukw I live!!

thank you bestie 💜💜 omg I was just saying this we are DEEP on here its wild

the people must know ... what are chris's favorite albums of the year?

UMMM! if were talking new releases only idk. lemme think

renaissance - beyonce

preacher's daughter - ethel cain

crash - charli xcx

traumazine - megan thee stallion

laurel hell - mitski

amor hardcore - isabella lovestory

nymph - shygirl

un verano sin ti - bad bunny

flip that - loona

Hiiiii what are we reading this month? What are our eyes doing? (Also you were right about Things Have Gotten Worse... I liked the short story itself but the other two in the collection were Very Weak, boo!)

helloooo! so some current reads include

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

and I'm aiming to start

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky

Cripping Intersex by Celeste Orr

And here is my newsletter where I round up my 5-star reads from April! :D

How about you?

I'm tired of people being weird in your askbox, what are you reading rn, what's the vibes, what are our eyes and minds enjoying

Unfortunately I've not been reading for a while due to... being busy with life however I'm in the middle of the beast warrior and I need to finish it... its so good.

In terms of other media I recently watched Moonlight for the first time and its such a good movie. I definitely had this idea that it would be trauma porny but it wasn't at all a sad movie just a somewhat bittersweet one. I've also started Delicious in Dungeon which is p fun.

More importantly I'm mostly looking at birds...

The Loki lover to lesbian pipeline, whooaaaaa

..it's true tho, I do love that man.

AKASKDJFKGK no bc half my lesbian mutuals i met thru a loki server and most of us. were not. lesbians at that time. LOL

I can't do anything in fluorescent lights. It just somehow turns me into a caricature of the typical office worker. Just a lump sitting in one place doing a repetitive task with no emotions. Maybe it's a hangover from when I'd be working in an office. I used to hate my life then, and it was surrounded by fluorescent lights. The windows in those places, if there were any, would always be shut to reduce glare and regulate temperature. It would always smell of synthetic roses or lemons from the air freshner spray. There was no life except the dying succulent on someone's desk and the encompassing aura of greed and envy.

The absolutely stupidest social norm on here is “e-begging and panhandling are essentially the same thing and therefore they need to be treated the same way.” Like, I generally give whatever cash I have on-hand to panhandlers, because actually sitting out in the street with a carboard sign demonstrates a level of obvious need. I agree that it’s best to either give money or pass by (although I always try to make eye contact and say “sorry” if I don’t have any cash), rather than interrogating or heckling them.

None of this applies to e-begging. It is so so so trivially easy to make shit up about your situation in order to get money from credulous people on the internet. I almost never give money to e-beggars, because the barrier for entry to bad actors is non-existent. 

But the grifters want to confuse you on the issue, and so they pretend that saying “do you actually have a sick pet or are you using stock photos of a sick cat from Google” is the same thing as harassing a homeless person on the street. Very stupid.