Does ethical romantasy mean the authors were paid a living wage and the publishers were outstanding bastions of workers' rights?

Speaker of Spaces

I'd care about Doja if she actually cared for black women

Frolov dresses though

Just saw someone say sperm isn't comparable to eggs because eggs can survive independent of the uterus...is health class illegal????

So Netflix is making a Gundam movie the same way they made a Death Note show?

i simply think that "mainstream romantasy has elements that are deeply emblematic of current social issues," "we shouldn't shame women as a whole for the literature that they read," and "the concerning use of censorship dog whistles and framing literature as unethical is bad" can all exist at once

She's just like you and me but she's homeless, she's homeless

2000s movies when they wanted to show something was supposed to show Mexico

🔊 A POTATO FLEW AROUND MY ROOM

It is funny how they keep fumbling Blade. You don't need a "take" like with other characters. You just need a charismatic actor and a good action director. The plot is: Blade kills a bunch of vampires, but then there is some new type of more powerful vampire, which Blade also kills, the end.

Every time a white boy buys a Drake vinyl, I laugh. Out loud.

If only because of his shitty treatment of Steph, and the fact that Babs was the only thing that stopped him from being a dick to Cass too.

John remains both a favorite actor and just a great person

I’ve gotten a few DMs about it so it must be arriving in people’s hands and inboxes. I was one of many awesome consultants for @darringtonpress.bsky.social’s Daggerheart Hope & Fear expansion. Was honestly a really cool experience.

Baseball career on hold for a ruptured testicle is never going to leave this man

gonna say it again: ChatGPT & other LLMs use em-dashes BECAUSE ACTUAL WRITERS OFTEN USE EM-DASHES AND THESE DEVICES HAVE BEEN TRAINED ON OUR STOLEN WORK!

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

It's not even that this minority is more intelligent or anything like that. It just doesn't make sense to trust a site that elevates the voices of people handing money directly into Muskrats pockets and trusts an AI built with the intention of being a racist UWU anime girlfriend

Bluesky knew the strait of Hormuz, Graham Platner, and AIPAC democrats were all cooked months before the experts did. Meanwhile Twitter was convinced Spencer Pratt would win and the Odyssey would bomb. Which site is the not-real-life echo chamber again?

Every issue of The Atlantic is now a formal apology to conservatives for having ever hired Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Tbh I was meh when I saw the news but having seen the update and realizing it's not a new poster but (probably ai) fix of the hand...it's giving the same ick as ebooks being modernized just to push along the IP with the new version

This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.

He's credited by Japan's cultural historians as having personally saved enormous amounts of folklore from being completely lost, too. Hundreds of yokai legends are only known now because he collected them from remote communities that are themseles often gone.

insane how there isn’t a single industry where being good at your job does anything for you variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Looking for Assistance gathering clean footage for my video essays. Compensated but bear in mind, I am a one person team. I need the following games, in order of priority: Remember Me Transistor Pyre infamous 2 DM Me if interested!

If anyone tells you that math isn't useful as an adult, just know that I was able to hit 2 dudes 20ft apart with a thunderwave spell (a 15ft cube) in D&D because I argued that I could angle it in a way that would hit both of them, because of the hypotenuse. a² + b² = c², BITCHES!!

🗣️ This blog is AI slop from a Palantir employee

i know it's commonplace to say critical thinking skills are in severe decline these days but indulge me--one way this shows up is how people can only interpret disagreement as wholesale rejection of their entire claim and not maybe just a portion of it.

You guys remember the armadillo video that was being reported as a gnome terrorizing Argentina back in 2008?

fellow millennials, let's take a second to appreciate how great it feels to be in the prime marketing demographic catered to by all of the culture. I get now why boomers wanted it to last forever

We’ve beeeeeeen in the Cabin in the Bluesky ☁️🏠⛅️

What’s the issue with DEI if the standard is “just look cool”

I got two days to make up the rest of my rent for July. I could really use the help. Need $618 to cover the remainder. Thanks. 💕💸 PayPal.me/paulbuford03 Cash.me/psbuford3 Thanks!

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

Hiya TTRPG Actual Play performers! I am reaching out on behalf of a friend for more performers of SEA heritage! If that is you, please reach out or drop a reply below! 👀 Reposts are greatly appreciated! ❤️

Also, if you're out there, you see these posts and are all, "But Black Dynamite, *I* host *my* blog/newsletter on Substack!" We know. We're wishing you'd stop. We can't make you. Only you can. "Be that as it may, if I catch you, I will not consider you a Brother or a friend. Now can you dig it?"

RIP

Not sure why the IG algorithm has been giving me so much Romeo + Juliet lately but I don’t mind it.

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"kink is not a reliable source of information on someone's moral standing. it just feels good to think that way" THIS, THIS, THIS, THIS, 1000% *THIS*. LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK, PLEASE. THANK YOU. Source: genderkoolaid.tumblr.com

Oh no, so sad

I am endlessly fascinated by right wingers' obsession with Sparta. I can understand an initial vibes based appeal I guess - like if you opened the first page of a book on timocracy and were twelve. but the thing about history is you can find out what happened to those guys

“This is the ultimate form of evil. And yes, when it comes to the classics, Ms Nyong’o is not different from a random anti-vax MAGA. It doesn’t matter who they would vote for.” This is a direct quote about how Lupita is just as evil as MAGA because she never read Ulysses before the film.

Substack? Bruh bring back thriving suburban shopping malls

And yet I'm more impressed by that streamer that wears the jerseys for all the losing teams

this situation is a good case study of the economic assumptions of free market ideologues. They'll probably point to Taco Bell handling traceability and acting fast on its own without the FDA, ignoring that the source is a company all across the food supply that would rather pay a bribe to kill you