It's Black Speculative Fiction month! All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own. 1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a... 2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

My partner and I (2/4th of SNW) are both trans and attempting to leave the US (I’m also an Arab immigrant). It’s extremely expensive, so please consider buying our game/leaving it a review so that we have some sort of income when we inevitably have to make the jump and start over. Thank you.

It gets even "better". I'm sorry?? What??

You couldn't submit Frankenstein, IT, Carmilla, The Only Good Indians, Books of Blood, The Jaunt, The Raft, Off Season, A Game in Yellow, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, Dracula, or The Haunting of Hill House under these rules.

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Keep an eye out folks

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We went from stupid teenagers to elderly real suddenly.

Paraphrasing: Real estate agent said, in his experience, older condos sell better than pre-sale condos. "New inventory tends to sit on the market." OH. ODD. You mean tiny spaces they've been building with speculators in mind who are trying to disrupt the hotel industry aren't HOMES PEOPLE WANT?

Reminder that my cat has a completely empty skull:

This is the epitome and probably most wasteful example in our lifetimes of "this meeting could've been an email."

Fellas, is it gay to have rules of engagement?

“Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'. - Terry Pratchett, The Truth

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

Drew lil' Lilith because I love her.

#oneshotpodcast Cosmic Century Knights ep 4 #spoilers - "this is a jrpg" - this is also 100% a fantasy palace cdrama - I still laugh every time James says maximum effort because I'm trash - love that you can put off levelling up until it's the most dramatically appropriate - hell yeah TRON time

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

You know this girl can go SO FAST

Currently $245.82/1280. I've all sorts of commission offers available for all budgets! (plus my usual general rates)

Your beloved has brought you a plate of eels. This is good news! Right? RIGHT? Well...in premodern England eel was a common enough meal that it sometimes got used to disguise poison. What's that, you ask? Is it it time for a thread about murder-by-eels? Yes. Yes it is. 1/5 🗃️🧪

Defenestrate billionaires

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

errant

Ready to face your own inner demons? READ THREAD CAREFULLY BEFORE FILLING OUT FORM #commissionoffer #silenthill

YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

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Autumn is here ! 🍁🍂 #pokemon

A crow wrote this

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

Nobody says they give gender affirming care to cis people. That's part of the problem: it's a euphemism for trans healthcare to avoid saying "trans". Cis people just get "healthcare" and the medical system reifies their gender as natural and normal by bypassing "gender-affirming" as a label.

high key i hate the term "gender affirming care"

What we saw in Vienna is a city where housing is treated as a human right rather than a means to make profit. In Tuesday’s Homelessness and Housing Committee, @councilordunphy.bsky.social, @councilorgreen.bsky.social, and I shared some of our takeaways from the trip.

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

whomst amongst us tbh cats of yore

Teachers: A "tremendous advocate for students, families, staff, and the community" School board: An "integral part of our school community" ICE trash: "Should be a wake-up call ... How this illegal alien was hired ... is beyond comprehension and should alarm the parents of that school district"

daily conversation

She says kitty swears at me.

“If it were really that bad you would be in the hospital”. Maybe that’s true for a non disabled person, but when you’re chronically ill you can’t run to the ER every time things are bad. You would live there. There’s also very little they can do to help. Suffering becomes a constant companion.

They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter

To all freelance peers who are struggling to make ends meet this year: it's not you. It's been getting tougher and tougher to get any gigs and many private clients struggle to pay their own bills. Whatever it takes for us to get through this, please don't doubt your skills and value as a creative ❤️

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

Pervert sex

PUT AWAY YOUR SPIKES, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE ENNUI. AND YOU WILL WIN.

Im so horny for the post office...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

My contribution to The Loneliness Discourse is that we see D&D, Warhammer, etc, going mainstream because they‘re Third Space Provider Games so we should all talk more about such things to save America.

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

Nothing pleases me more like a kudzu-covered telephone pole on a foggy day