Magic Johnson was the grand marshal of the Rose Parade today, and as someone who remembers his November 1991 HIV announcement: if you had told anybody that day that he would be alive and healthy 34+ years later, I don't think they would have believed you. Medicine and research—they work.

12) Querelle (1982) Okay, kids, come and get your ✨️flawed gay protagonist ✨️! Querelle may be a murderer, a thief and a gambler, but deep down, he's also a slut.

"Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains": Two albums I have never, ever gotten tired of (and presumably never will)

🌵💍Did you know that there's a tiny little Christmas/New Years prequel one-shot in the Renoverse about how Lucius and Pete got together? Well, there is! And there's a podfic! And frankly, both are adorable.

Amy Poehler is in Mean Girls for just over two minutes total.

The three main symptoms of Covid right now are… Sore throat Sinus congestion Runny nose AKA “a bad cold” or “awful allergies.” Please test and recognize that as we gain immunity and the virus evolves you may not experience a fever etc. LONG COVID, meanwhile, is 1/3.

I need Season 3 so that I can see Ed and Stede do exactly this

asking is never easy, but i'm struggling to afford groceries, meds, a handful of upcoming doctor's appointments, and my account is uncomfortably low at the moment 😓 if anyone is able to contribute, every little bit would be a huge help to this queer trans person rn 🫂🫶 ko-fi.com/patcheschance

Goodness knows if I'm even going to finish this in time, but since I'm in my Reno Cure feelings today, here's a little #WIPWednesday from 1975, featuring two character who have not appeared in the story before

and uh, and... death, you know... i'm used to death 😥 but, um... but not, um... your death 🥺 uh so, anyway, i uh... made this for you 😰 it looks like a thumb, but... it's a finger 😟 i whittled it 😞 it's dumb 😣 you don't have to wear it 😖

Absolutely nobody asked, but: Stede insists that their anniversary is July 5, the day they hooked up in the blue hotel room and confessed their feelings. Ed says it's July 28, the day Ed got on the train. They argue about this for years, and not always in particularly good faith.

I'm not saying "White Christmas AU", I'm just saying hear me out: Jack and Ed are Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, a pair of star performers in the fifties, former Naval buddies. Jack saved Ed's life back in WW2, and uses that fact to guilt Ed into doing all kinds of wild stuff.

macavity the mystery cat, for a patron

Spotify took $75,000 in ICE/DHS money to run their vile ads. YouTube has taken $3 MILLION, and Instagram/Facebook took at least $3.5 million. They're all running the same ads. They're all culpable. It's just that YouTube and Insta's parent companies are better at focusing the heat on Spotify alone.

Post a non religious image you think of as holy

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

Posted #OFMD podfic of @rottensoldier.bsky.social “nice day for a…” very late yesterday. Got distracted by visitors! 1986 story set 35 years into Ed and Stede’s relationship. Music engineered by @happydaiz.bsky.social you need a sweet little treat: on.soundcloud.com/flRWoRLBvZ2N...

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

!!! Blushing at my own words

Today’s audio installment of “From Reno with Love” by @rottensoldier.bsky.social is read by @fullofhope137.bsky.social “La Dolce Vita”, three chapters. It will post today, Sunday & next Thursday! links to listening on the archive! Music by @happydaiz.bsky.social archiveofourown.org/works/741224...

I don't want to make light of a very serious situation, but if you start a statement with "I am a _BLANK_ and I'm here to say...", the next words out of your mouth really ought to create a rhyming couplet

If you're craving a quick hit of pure fluff, @kninjaknitter.bsky.social and @happydaiz.bsky.social did a great job putting together this 16-minute podfic of one of my Reno oneshots; an established-relationship vignette of sappy domestic Gentlebeard doing their sappy domestic thing in the early 1970s

The Swede's name is Jim. When he joined the crew. he was told they already had a Jim, and he would have to pick something else. While he was trying to decide, Frenchie offhandedly called him "The Swede" and it stuck.

It's Halloween, and somewhere out there, Lucius and Pete are dressed as Casual Princess Diana and the Princess Diana Beanie Baby

It's Halloween, and somewhere out there, Jim and Oluwande are dressed like Tybalt and Mercutio in Baz Luhrmann's 1996 Romeo + Juliet

It's Halloween, and somewhere out there, Lucius and Black Pete are dressed like Lucille and Buster Bluth on the cover of Balboa Bay Window magazine.

I think of you, often. Hope you're thinking of me as well.

Another year, another urge to publish the Reno Cure Whumptober Special, a series of vignettes illustrating when and how each character in The Reno Cure dies.

I remain blown away by all the hard work and creativity that @kninjaknitter.bsky.social and @happydaiz.bsky.social have poured into the podfic of The Reno Cure... listening to it has been such a lovely experience. And the OG fic just crossed over 10k hits on ao3!

i love hit television show our flag means death

The Take Me scene between Ed and Stede in Ed's radio booth is probably the best thing I've written, and the way it turned out in the podfic is genuinely beautiful. I love it. Check it out.

Listening to the podfic of my own fanfic:

needed to doodle something fun today so i #PutEdInThis #ofmd #art

One of the through-lines I'm proudest of in my extended Reno Cure universe is how Stede chronologically blossoms into a huge bitch.

BOYS GO TO JUPITER: Endlessly clever, funny, imaginative, with the best soundtrack of the year. In its Sims-esque CG animation, evokes a vivid sense of languor, of waiting around for anything to happen, as the gig economy looms over Florida’s suburban sprawl and life drifts by, warm and sweet.

Even if trains weren’t objectively better than air travel, I would still want more trains built just to drive the airlines out of business

Chapter 1 of the road trip fic I've been threatening to write forever is here! Enjoy! Or don't! I'm just happy to be here. "May, June, July, I Count the Time" Ed/Stede, 8 chapters (probably), rated E for eventual smut archiveofourown.org/works/696445...

Stede in this, PLEASE

The Sleepwalker and his Nightmare

Someone should write about how fucked up it is that there's so much more public fretting over indie romance books and amateur fanfic than the enormous amount of wildly popular cop/military propaganda that the government actually has a hand in shaping

My second favorite episode of OFMD season 3 is the one where the ship is raided by Spanish Jackie's brother Mack (Demi Adejuyigbe) who has a score to settle with Jackie, and it's up to The Swede to outsmart their captor.

Y'all are reading this, right!?!?