yes I've been hiding in the basement during long intervals of holiday overwhelm why do you ask.

Ruba's exams are close, she need to pay for the remainder if the semester and to look after her elderly parents. Every donation helps. chuffed.org/project/1536...

you want to check this post out because WE CAN'T WAIT for you to read House, Body, Bird it's weird in the BEST WAY 💀🖤

None of it is really fair, born into the atmosphere breathing gold or stealing when you're hungry. Everyone you come upon, holds a picture in their mind ask them and they might just show you something. youtu.be/uNMHG7fbCB4

Bluntly folks are being Liberal qanon and it’s creepy. the rush for salaciousness isn’t witnessing its projective identification gone amuk Focusing on victims and being super careful and verified is the only way to do this But that doesn’t bring the catharsis folks want

well we've got a crew from Athens, GA here and so it's time for a R.E.M soundtrack and no regrets. Happy holidays y'all.

Another contribution in, and I now need $1,500! Thanks so much to my most recent donor and to everyone who’s helped my #MutualAid in any way. If willing and able: PayPal: @MatthewStefon Venmo: @Matt-Stefon

ah yes the annual letter wishing us "signs of the kingdom." IYKYK.

I don't know man. People say My Dearest is inspired by Gone With The Wind (problematic, I am aware) but I'm getting some very specific Dorothy Dunnett beats here. #kdrama 1/2

You will be visited by three spirits. One of them has notes on your novel.

before I started to understand this, I struggled every time I tried to write something, because I was afraid of feeling and being wrong. Now 'feeling wrong' feels like the beginning of something interesting and exciting. Not there yet, let's find out where 'there' is shall we?

The act of writing is *thinking*. If you do not allow yourself to think thoughts that feel wrong, you will never get a feel for what feels *right*.

“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?” “Well…”

All sorts of weird folklore gets rolled out on Christmas Eve. Animals speak, house hobs demand apple brandy. It's the one night when the winged dogs that climb and perch in churches can change positions. Magics and strangeness always seems thick today. – Nancy Appleyard #VOH

I wrote about the ways propaganda takes root, how attacks against trans people in the US and UK reflect different mythologies of protection, and why combating disinformation at the local level might be a more effective way to dismantle these frameworks than abstract online arguments with strangers.

I could not be more proud of our press, our authors, our designer Alban Fischer, our printer Bookmobile and distributor Itasca—truly among the very best to work with, all of them. Jennifer is our first author to return for a second title with us, and what a gift. ❤️🙏🎉🎉🎉

FFer Read of the Day: "The Pelican in its Piety" by @slharris.bsky.social in @reckoningmag.bsky.social reckoning.press/the-pelican-...

Endangered sunflower starfish in the Salish Sea, by Willem Weertman, UW researcher.

I think the most I can do for a year in review 2025 is to say, I published what seemed to me an unlikely poetry chapbook (though I loved it) and it's been supported by kind people in ways that make me grateful. 1/2 bottlecap.press/products/dog...

I’m just about done tearing down the research institute that I spent the last two years building, and I can absolutely confirm that the investor/venture class gets to just walk away from financial commitments that they don’t feel like dealing with anymore.

Ahmed just can't make a bsky account at all and has very bad Internet. He desperately needs to maintain an online presence because he has urgent needs for food, clothes and shelter. chuffed.org/project/1426...

“You have been asleep since November,” said Frog. “Well then,” said Toad, “a little more sleep will not hurt me.”

"I have known that flutter that is not flight, but memory aching toward the thing it once trusted, not hope, but the body refusing to be all quiet." -- Joemario Umana at @strangehorizons.bsky.social today. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

i don’t think i’ll ever get over how we’re sending people to torture prison camps in el salvador STILL and those in charge of CBS want us to pretend it’s an old story that’s been resolved. people are still being tortured!

Someone just called me a "trouper" and I absolutely preened, so this is my public reminder to myself that I want to get better at being a difficult and visibly emotional person.

Oh nothing, just thinking about how much this photo has taught me about myself. 😅

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rickey Laurentiis / @upittpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/12-o...

Lina is struggling to care for her family, including her severely injured husband who's at risk of amputation, her mother-in-law with bone cancer, & a 1 yo baby, under Israel's genocide, which has left them homeless & starving in winter. Please help them survive (just 365 dollars raised):

The back stacks of Houghton Library were filled with boxes of un/barely cataloged c19th pamphlets. Many of boxes have something written on them thematically like "spirit mediums." The message here is the coolest things that wont be digitized, IME, are unknown to the archivists too!

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

“No reading or writing in the lost heart. eat the lost heart in the midst of sociality— microwave it Trans sociality is lost sociality” Sewing more of Anya Johanna DeNiro’s FROM THE YEW for subscribers! Order yours here: www.ethelzine.com/shop/from-th...

I watched Wake Up Dead Man and yeah it‘s good and actually realistic portrayal of a younger priest and some of the dynamics of the Church but also kinda clear that Johnson processed growing up Evangelical and not Catholic

happy solstice, y'all.

This is pretty cool. It's nice to see some new writers in the issue and people actively thinking about the situations we're in via fiction.

important

had some cupping done yesterday b/c of a holiday upper back emergency. the bodyworker was like "sorry, I'm going to have to leave some bruises to get these muscles loosened up" & she wasn't kidding -- but I feel better.

one of the things being a romance reader has taught me is that purity culture (all sex is bad) and porn culture (all sex is salacious/emotionally hollow) are just two sides of the same coin, and it's really not worth fighting with either group of people.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

These white boys need to have their asses beat.

we are at like $340/$400 can we get this done today? i feel like we can!! xoxo

The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is now accepting applications for our summer 2026 residencies. To learn more and apply by February 1st, 2026, visit the link below. www.sundresspublications.com/safta/reside...

"Learn that a kiss is the fourth basic necessity. Seek that kiss like a deer seeks a flash of light. Linger on its sparkling eyes, its leaping body, its restless feet." --Kinshuk Gupta at @poetrydaily.bsky.social poems.com/poem/Sweet-c...

'I never imagined asking strangers for mercy to keep my children alive. I am a father of three with no home or work. We sleep in the cold, chased by hunger, and one child will not survive without daily medicine. I ask only for food, warmth, and a chance at life.💔'

I have done the thing that I should have done a month ago. Here all in one place is my award-eligible writing from the last year! I'll add a post for each story below, but here is the list in all its unvarnished glory in case you would like to go in blind.

Please help—in hospital for long-time condition, and rent and bills and job shit all hitting the end-of-year fan. Honestly, I maybe need double what I’m asking. But help me get as close to $2200 as I can as soon as possible—you’d save more than just Christmas. #FundFriday #MutualAid

It's your birthday, Duane.

re: lrt -- there is also part of being an experienced witch that involves stomping around your locality looking disheveled. A certain amount of accepting that yes, you have anxiety and some depression, because you are PAYING ATTENTION, but what you don't have (because you're a witch) is despair.

The older I get, the better I understand the whole maiden-mother-crone thing, because past a certain age you do simply become the experienced witch.

You can't tell if someone needs aid or is handicapped simply by looking at them. Maybe just don't judge others.