The way people are coming out of their homes in whatever they could pull on--or not even bothering to pull anything on--to document every movement of these fuckers must make them feel hunted. I hope they can't sleep. I hope they have nightmares about whistles. Y'all are amazing, Minnesota!

The truth is, poverty is an unforgivable crime. My child is dying before my eyes because of poverty If I had enough money,I could have saved his life I see the world saving the lives of animals while my child, who is supposed to be human, will die without anyone saving www.muslimgiving.org/mohmed0

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵

Honestly, apart from some basics (is it comprehensible, am I enjoying it), I find that the goals of different genres are so diverse that ranking genres by 'value' to be a bit of a fool's errand

It's hilarious from a character analysis pov. You CANNOT pull off a good romance unless you put in the work regarding interpersonal dynamics, psychology, social issues etc Like FOLKS, just bc the characters don't end up miserable or dying doesn't mean the book doesn't have depth! STEP UP YR READING

Yup anything that has sex in it and is written by a woman is “romance”, and anything without sex in it written by a woman is “YA”. 🙄

THANK YOU!! Especially in times like Now, shitting on genres and invalidation works cause they either show sex or are written by and for women, is fannimg the flames of normalizing censorship. Instead we should read,write, discuss, get better at writing and support each other.

THIS!!!! This this this this!!!! 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

I'm sorry but the last senctence is gold in this context 🤌✨️

In addition to all the photographers documenting what it looks like in Minneapolis, shout-out to photo editor Alan Taylor, who has incredible talent and skill in curating a perfect collection of shots that capture a theme or moment. Stellar visual work by all here.

Got some of the funniest news of my life: my 76yo father is going to read Morning Glory Milking Farm because I told him how people keep figuratively kicking me for saying it's good and he said "well you're smart about books so I'm getting it from the library right now."

sharing a gift link for anyone who needs it because MAN that last paragraph is gonna get you through tomorrow defector.com/fascists-are...

There are so many horrifying and touching photos, but this one (Stephen Maturen / Getty) feels like it tells an entire trilogy worth of stories. I hope this one and the lady with the broiler pan chest armor end up in museums.

Like now when someone’s in peril on 911 I’m like “yeah okay, that main character might die too, cool, whatever, who cares, nothing matters” It’s like my brain is trying to protect me or something but it just means my enjoyment of the show is sort of evaporated

Hollywood continually seems “caught by surprise” by things that have been extremely obvious for an embarrassingly long time, like “women like to watch hot guys make out” and “Black people have money”

Alien has a deliberate pace: there’s time to introduce the entire scifi world and explain how the crew travels long distances, it shows everyone’s respective job on the ship and how they go about work and interact, it has long leisurely shots, and then the Alien shit happens and it’s still two hours

In order to create and maintain actual community, you've got to be deeply invested in Working On Your Own Shit

the best ships I've experienced are like non-canon ships from shows that ended 5-10 years ago no weirdos arguing about "it won't go canon tho!", noone asking the cast/crew about it, and there's multiple 50k fics from 2011

Told my husband I wanted him to write me a fic for my birthday this year but I think he thought I was joking But he's been trying to get me to name a fic "Dickstorm" since 2021 so I told him he has to write it if he wants it LMAO

Did you knowing I'm actually gold medal treat hunter?? 💛Chip

Nobody wants to hear that the secret to an enduring writing career is: "Write another book." 😆

Something lovely for the weekend! Minoan cups made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete 📷 by me #Archaeology

I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but crying is okay and normal and you’re allowed to do it.

Repeating this louder for the guys. Having emotions other than anger is actually normal and doesn't make you less manly.

This is a powerful, beautifully written post on difference, loss, and grief (passed on with a trigger warning on the subject of stillborn births, for those who find that difficult).

From someone I love: "my parnter is about to be homeless and I need dental care." linktr.ee/SupportingAera I vouch without reservation.

Every time I talk about this I have to close my DMs. It's shitty to relegate romance novels to "just porn" when marginalized authors are constantly having their work inaccurately slotted into "less prestigious" categories in order to undermine the validity of their writing. 1/7

Azine needs food, water, meds, wipes (been without running water 4 months). Please help as you're able. PP: [email protected]

Azine needs food. I've asked for help for her countless times. Recently we've received very little, perhaps because her issues are too horrible to think upon. But the pains of hunger & cold are things most folks can identify with, I think. Help me help her eat. PP: [email protected]

I think it's interesting that Morning Glory Milking Farm, a romance novel about 2 semi-willing sex workers who fall in love with each other while hoping to get out of the sex work industry, is deemed "just porn, not romance" solely because it shows the MCs doing their jobs. 1/5

Big fan of characters who are incredibly down bad but instead of expressing it like a normal person they just repress it until it comes out in increasingly questionable ways

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Alright let’s start calling our house reps and senators to tell them to support this. Even if they don’t listen this time, you call them anyway. If you don’t feel like doing it right now set a reminder in your phone for tomorrow. If you can’t call, send a fax (visit your local library!) or email.

Thank you so much, I'm self-taught! though I do have a degree in architecture from university of virginia that I'm not using 😅

Further proof that payment processors are fucking with adult content because I keep getting more and more patreon members falsely marked by their bank as fraudulent payments 😭 If I messaged you via patreon about this, I do so because patreon itself doesn't notify you and you must contact your bank!

I'm an illustrator and Patreon is my job 🔞🌿 I love drawing a few beloved boys being tender with each other. Here are crops you can find uncensored there and some are the last of my publicly-posted nsfw art. 🌙 www.patreon.com/c/tendermiasma #bg3 #halsin #clover

"Go away, human, dis not concern you"

How do you tune (or modulate) an instrument in ancient Babylonia? Fragmentary instructions have survived that tell you how to go from one mode to another on a 9-stringed musical instrument called a sammû

Only people who've never been incarcerated by psychiatry think it's the solution. Only them. The doctors, the family members. That's what they tell themselves. People who go through it, maybe they're even grateful it stabilized them, mostly agree that it is a terribly inhumane experience.

All the toxic parts of romantasy fandom — the bad behavior at cons, the stalking, the threats — are also happening in many other fandoms as well. They are not unique. Comics, movies, video games — this shit is everywhere. Romantasy isn’t uniquely bad even in the ways it’s actually bad.

Do you think they’re only reading romantasy? Or do you think they’re also seeing every new hideous executive order or seeing their family members snatched up to be disappeared, health care cut and hospitals shuttering? Hmm, wonder why epic good-vs-evil stories are hitting right now. IT’S A MYSTERY.

These readers are coming of age after a worldwide pandemic, with fascism ascendant and climate crises accelerating, as new revelations of evil burst into the news multiple times a day. Let the kids have a goddamn fun book, for fuck’s sake. They are not the problem.

As an author of sapphic romances, I know firsthand the feeling that fictional sapphic couples don’t get the same level of readerly enthusiasm as m/f or m/m couples. It sucks and it’s sexist and damn do I wish I had a solution for it. I’d have solved it yesterday if I could.

Second-wave academic feminist critics (Modleski and Radway specifically) called romance novels literal “narcotics” and described them as numbing, anesthetic, addictive, and infantilizing.

What’s more, it’s the oldest, most predictable kind of romance criticism. George Eliot was writing this exact piece in 1856: georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/101

Many people are posting close-reads of the gay hockey romance show and book series, and calling out solid critique right now. Romance deserves good-faith criticism. “You are all mindless fanatics with no critical thinking skills who do not appreciate true art” is the worst-faith criticism.

If a link to one AI-prompt scandal from a romantasy author is enough to disqualify the whole genre as non-literary and anti-art, why isn’t all sff similarly invalidated by the SFWA scandal from like yesterday, where a major author copped to using AI text in a book?

Camped out here on Two Things Can Be True Hill: 1. The romance genre has a history deeply entwined with white supremacy, ableism, and the most reductive kind of stereotypes. Like every genre. 2. Painting all romantasy readers as “zombies” is also a reductive stereotype, and misogynist to boot.

I thought I did this thread in January but apparently it was late December...

one of my favorites www.akimbocomics.com?p=924