People are always like "how do I explain gay people to my kid" and like that's easy! That's not hard to explain! You know what a kid once asked me out of the blue? "Why are people racist?" I'm white! He wasn't! I was not prepared for that question! XD

So, a hobby I semi-recently got into is English paper piecing, which is a type of quilting where you wrap fabric around pieces of paper. It's a really old type of quilting and historically, people who did it would use old newspapers, letters, packaging - any sort of spare paper they had.

I love that the premise of the first theme park in this video is "take your kids on vacation and tell them to GET A DAMN JOB" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc7u...

This 1984 episode of Jeopardy has everything - the audience DRAMATICALLY GASPING when someone gets an answer wrong, the most amazing 80s glasses, Seth Green in a toilet paper ad... archive.org/details/fran...

Do you think Alex Trebek was just like really good at bar trivia?

I've decided for Christmas I want a pair of really good fabric scissors.

Feel as though people will truly never understand his death. He was killed for being an Indigenous Queer Man with a Transgender Partner. Every single one of those signifiers on axis/intersections/marginalizations is extremely important, but it is in tandem all at once not just because he “Gay”.

It's June which means it's time to update you all on my reading goals! lainahastoomuchsparetime.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/a...

In my head, this author with a really annoying goodreads profile problem will just stumble upon someone mysteriously having fixed it and be shocked and grateful.

Wild to see how populated these lists are compared to ten years ago. So proud of how far queer lit has come, though always, always pushing for more!!

I truly and fully do NOT have time to watch this NEARLY-FOUR-HOUR vid the algorithm just threw me wherein a private investigator pulls apart the evidence that supposedly exonerates Neil Gaiman, but god DAMN, now THAT'S how you make a thumbnail! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FQ8...

Tedious, but relatively painless. Guess I have a caard now. lainasparetime.carrd.co

another platform drops due to AI enshittification. i'd like to say im surprised, but i'm not. get off linktree ASAP. there are alternatives in the comments.

🌸The month is almost over and that means that today I am sharing my favourite #BookBloggers / #Blogging community posts of May! Come say hi to all these fab bloggers and give them some love!♥️ #BloggingCommunity #BlogPosts #BookSky📚💙 twirlingbookprincess.com/2026/05/comm...

Thank you for the mention!

Pet peeve - comic books and graphic novels are not the same and when I want recommendations for comics, I don't want graphic novels!

Lily's mini-fridge died... can you imagine the agony of having to throw away spoiled food when you're already stressed and hungry? Please help this family eat & get a new fridge TODAY. Every contribution counts. gofund.me/2d8b70f4d Venmo: @Lily-Meade-1 Cashapp: $lilymeade lilymeade.com/donate

Air conditioning is unapologetically a good thing because it helps people not die. And one good thing about air conditioning is that it largely needs to run during the day when solar power is at its maximum: it can and should align with clean energy goals.

Also, if you're looking for books to read for Pride, check this list out!

It's June which means it's time to update you all on my reading goals! lainahastoomuchsparetime.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/a...

A Casual Mid-Year Reading Update (2026) If you've been around for a while, you may know that I'm a little weird in how I divide up my reading year. Over the last few years, I've just figured out a way that works best for me, and that way is to split it into January to May, June to October, and…

When the long youtube essay dive into fairy tales goes so hard in the first 8 minutes you gotta pause to google something so you understand the context better. That's the good shit.

No one's around to give me attention :P

Also these are obviously all drugstore. There might be some really nice high end sunscreens. I'll probably never use them, because I am poor lol. I think if they aren't in your budget where you can replace them every couple months it shouldn't be your normal sunscreen because you won't use enough.

THAT'S ENOUGH ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ME. Sunscreen review thread! My biggest (slightly controversial) tip is if you REALLY struggle with spf, go down to 30 and work at reapplying more. Higher spf = heavier, generally, and you're probably better off with a lower spf and reapplying.

Meanwhile I have several chemical sunscreens I could recommend. But I'm allergic to them now.

The person who comes up with a sensory friendly mineral sunscreen will make very specific bank. ...that isn't 40 dollars a tube pls.

my favorite landback story!!! (Also these towers are super beautiful)

New blog post yesterday, in which I complain a bunch lainahastoomuchsparetime.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/t...

Things I’ve Read Recently (204): Featuring comic final issues, and me complaining a lot If you're new around here, Things I've Read Recently is a series of posts I do that are basically mini-reviews of books that I either forgot to review, didn't have enough to say for a full review, or just…

Me, casually talking about my bookshelf: "And, you know, they're double stacked." My mother, eyes wide: "What do you MEAN they're double stacked?????" Reader, that shelf has been double stacked since I bought it XD

My friend Jonathan hasn't emailed me in a while :(

If you wanna know one of my most controversial opinions, it's that I think "reef safe" sunscreen is a scam

...I got up to get a book to read and I slightly cleaned my closet out instead. I mean sure, but I didn't get a book. Also I reaaaally need to get my butt to the new little free library. I have so many books that need to go.

I can't word this perfectly in bite size, but it's pretty clear many people in publishing saw diversity as a burden they've now been permitted to discard, a social media fad they no longer need. 2020 saw so many promises made to writers of color, and the past 5 years saw all of those promises broken

Honestly at this point I'm just blocking anyone who replies to this with a clever little solution that involves "just getting soil".

Someone tell me I'm hungry and I should make dinner.

There is an ice pick trying to drive its way into my right eyeball. Bet it rains today!

Weirdest thing I've done this week is put aloe in my hair. I cannot wait for the scalp sunburn to heal.

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap The Hex Girls! Causing sexual awakenings in young girls/people who still think they're girls/people who don't realize they're girls yet since 1999 www.youtube.com/watch?v=attf...

I really want to impress upon my American followers that an invasion of Canada results in millions dead, the loss of all your oil pipelines, and ultimately, the collapse of the US, not additional Democratic voters. These stepping stones don't move the Overton window here, they just enrage Canadians.

Is anyone good at comp titles? Just describing this thing in genre/category form is a mouthful ("coming-of-age sapphic science fiction YA"). Please do throw a tip my way if you know similar stories that fit the tropes/elements in the image. #writingcommunity #querying #booksky #queerwriters

I'm reading another book I don't really like. Yaaaaaay.

i care about tinglers and my art and erotic art SO MUCH but sometimes folks do not believe me because my sensibilities are very unique, but i say with absolute sincerity and honesty, coming up with SPACE RAPTOR BUTT INVASION felt like an antenna to god. one of the most powerful moments of my life

Funny how two+ years in and we're not hearing about all the massive success stories AI must be responsible for by now

I just folded so much laundry and now my back is killing me. Don't. Don't look in the dryer.

New blog post! It's very weird! lainahastoomuchsparetime.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/r...

Randomizing My TBR (2): This post is kind of a mess Okay, full disclosure, I wrote this post in like. 2024???? and then I never posted it. So I'm gonna do something a little weird and I'm going to show you what I wrote in 2024, update on anything I think is interesting, and then I think I might do…

All the comics I've been reading keep ending. What should I get into?

I read a book when I was a kid where the main character cheated on a book report (not reading the book) and the reason that she got caught was she mispelled the author's name. The author was Beverly Cleary, and she wrote it as Beverly Cleary. EVERY TIME I type Beverly Cleary, I have a typo.