apropos of hollywood’s big day

really wish people would accept that saying “i just dont like it” is a completely valid reason to not be into something instead of making a thinly veiled misogynist, racist or ableist take and preaching it as gospel.

It’s Long Covid Awareness Day (which I think should be the Ides of March, for reasons that will become clear.) Some of you have heard this before. But I wanted to share my Long Covid story, because I think you should hear it. On my birthday in November 2022, I woke up with Covid.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... To think, how quickly we could solve SO MANY PROBLEMS in both our country and frankly the world at large if we just gave people enough money to cover their basic needs. The only thing stopping us is a few greedy fuckers and a massive disinformation campaign.

I can't raise a red enough flag for the way states are attacking trans people in this moment. It is extremely bad, and escalating quickly (and relatively quietly)

You know, I’m feeling lately like… no one cares about us except us, and it’s funny because I’ve had a lot of cis folks make flippant statements to me in the last couple years that “nothings going to happen obviously 🙄” and I wonder if they even par attn to these developments

The 3 genders

The women at the table next to us at Chili's were just having a vent fest, ragging on their coworker. "She's 35, but she def looks over 50." "She's trying to get with Kevin too, you know she is, but he don't want any of that." "He's hot tho, I get it."

Daylight Suffering Time

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Listening to a podcast, and this ep is from a month ago and they're saying "we loved Heated Rivalry so much but we're already reaching a saturation point with it and getting annoyed, ready to move on." Being in gay fandom spaces, I'm just... I can't imagine moving on from anything that fast lmao.

If you need a quick pick me up, just remember the way Jenna Maroney pronounces “camera”

Oddly comforting to get a couple story rejections rolling in because it's like "yeah, I really am back to it, look at that." I took such a long break from submitting that it is weirdly good to have the reminder that I am Doing the Thing again.

Like, I just would love one day without this shit inserting itself into my life in the most judgmental, derailing ways. I don't care what decisions others make about their looks. But I would like a day off, where I'm not forcibly reminded that so many people are sprinting away from looking like me.

One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*

And I think one of the worst parts of it is how often it's our own moms giving us the worst/most aggressive messaging on this too oof

Once again there is this assertion that disabled/high risk/immunocompromised people live in a vacuum, like we don’t have healthy family members around us or caretakers who desperately need to stay healthy to avoid endangering our health or becoming disabled from their next Covid infection.

I couldn’t get out of bed or eat or drink anything until almost 3 PM how’s everyone else faring on this Tuesday

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

more info from reddit on why ao3 is down:

Okay if fucking Trump outlasts Bruce Campbell I'm fighting god barefoot in a Waffle House parking lot.

one of the neat things about submitting to the fancier lit mags is that by the time they send you a rejection all the cells in your body have been replaced with newer cells, they're not rejecting you but as past version of yourself, how quaint

One thing ppl miss when complaining about ppl saying "well, X person's work has always been bad" is that not everyone is doing it because of some false correlation between art & the morality of the creator. Sometimes it just feels good to finally openly hate that thing ppl used to hunt you for lol.

1. This is despicably evil. 2. This needs to be fought at every level. There is no world in which this cannot be considered cruel and unusual punishment. 3. Those behind this effort need to be exposed and never know a moments peace.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

whenever i feel scared about my writing or get in my head about how others perceive me/the state of censorship i remember this tweet from the closest human i’ll ever have to an “idol”, richard siken & immediately feel like 10x lighter

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

Before you spend your money, don't forget what they did to Melissa Barrera for simply being a good human taking a stance against murder.

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

the first word you learn in Supernatural fandom is Wincest

Great news, authors: The 2026 Unpublished Novel Award is now OPEN for submissions! Four writers will receive a $10,000 grant to support their manuscript on its journey to publication. Learn more here: blcklst.com/programs/202...

Continually such a weird experience for this year and the last to be the ones where I make a bunch of gender-affirming changes in my life. Like, I feel more like myself than ever before after name change, physical presentation changes, getting on t, etc. and there's that joy up against opening the

Of course isn’t just driving. It’s voting. Working. Travelling. Picking up a package. Applying for credit. Applying for a job. Renting a room. Filling prescriptions. Visiting loved ones in the hospital. Not expired either, but legally invalid.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

So... does anyone care about this? That Michael B. Jordan's parents flew to London to see their son and they left the BAFTAs in tears? That he was repulsed? Still don't think an apology was owed? Some of you people are wretched fools.

my ideal living space is the Sunnydale High library i fear

I can’t believe this is coming so soon I’m jumping out of my skin

I just don't see how this wasn't intentional on the BBC's part

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

Since everyone is (sigh) debating if writers benefit from reading books, I dissected a passage shared as “evidence” that non-readers can write great prose: countercraft.substack.com/p/what-not-r...

Omg... someone who needlessly started an argument with me on here two weeks ago just tried to start it up again for some reason?! You know what... this will get me in trouble to say, but I am so tired so...

Also, I'm sorry, but the justification of "it's okay to be a complete ass/incite as much harassment as possible because this is publicly available" is just... never a good reason to me. It's how we've ended up in this modern age of ppl just filming strangers in public for mockery as a common thing.

Glad some people with reach are talking about the snide bent of reporting on fanfic in recent times because every time I've bitched about that on here, it definitely gets ignored lol. I always get the impression my writer mutuals don't give a fuck that this is something near and dear to me tbh.

There's a difference between reporting on the power of cultural spaces and directly linking to fanfics (!!) in a "gawking at animals in a zoo enclosure" way. If fandom's powerful enough to drive cultural conversation, then perhaps discussions of it need to start with a baseline of respect.

if you share a fic with a normie audience you are painting a target on that writer's back. I don't think most people understand how uncool it is

For me, it's less about the "journalists need to stay out of fandom" reaction and more that sweeping staff cuts and deprioritization of culture coverage have made it even harder for journalists to write about fandom in the complex, thorough way it deserves

snow in the morning? posters take warning snow at night? poster’s delight

I don't understand why Pillion hasn't come to Pittsburgh yet why are we not allowed to get the gay biker BDSM movie WHY