Hi friends. I know many of you are tired and busy, but please, at least once in a while, choose to make real art. Write a story you would like to read, make a drawing where you choose every stroke. Make a song that expresses precisely your feelings. Have something to put your heart into.

The organizers of the UN event for healthy indoor air used a canary on all their materials and gave everyone canary pins. Why? Canaries detect dangerous substances in the air of coal mines. We all need to be like canaries and warn about the dangers of unhealthy indoor air due to COVID and climate.

⚠️ ao3 outage tomorrow, which means: ✨ download any fics you're currently reading ✨ freak out a little, still ✨ send love to the writers who write the silly little (and the crazy big) (and the everything inbetween) stories that make life on this rock more bearable, more joyous, etc etc

Nothing makes me feel more like an adult who has her shit together than using a big black umbrella in the rain. Look at me! I remembered an umbrella! It’s a NICE one! It can’t even fit in my purse! I’m a grownup!!!!

It’s raining and dark and cozy in my office and it’s going to take all of my strength to not take a nap right here on my keyboard

I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.

like I'm glad it wasn't Fallon but it's so deeply undignified that we have to be out here riding for Jimmy Kimmel I try to think of it less like "hooray, his important voice has returned to the airwaves" and more like "hooray, the FCC didn't destroy the livelihoods of hundreds of innocent workers"

When I think about giving up precautions I think about having this conversation with my son. At least now I’ll be able to tell him I tried, as imperfect as it is.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

I would always rather be us than them, every fucking day, no matter how angry or scared I get trading our humanity for the feeble hope that proximity to power will protect us is not fucking worth it we all die as we live and their picture of what "success" looks like is truly so fucking bleak

I know the world is terrible. I know that! I'm just so happy about all the wonderful people in my life.

Me looking at my own memes on tumblr

T'Pringle

I skeet for people who still miss Google Reader.

I know every parent/uncle/aunt/ teacher etc says this, but observing a child’s development up close is one of those super common human experiences that is also insanely miraculous and fascinating.

HAPPY EARTH, WIND & FIRE DAY!!!

every year we only get more and more confirmation of how right the OTW was and how important ao3 is, was, and almost certainly will be, to the maintenance of spaces with free expression on the internet

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

I had one of those lovely little times where the fic just pours out of me so fast. So here’s 3k of Larry/Jack from The Gilded Age! It’s not plot heavy so if you like gay historical fiction you might like this even without seeing the show! archiveofourown.org/works/71126656

So much of Star Trek can be traced to the fact that I think so many guy writers just wanna fuck Spock & don't know how to handle it. Even Asimov once wrote a piece about how "Spock is hot because he's smart, but I'm smart so why don't I get ladies" but it reads like a love letter to Spock's hotness.

every time we talk about parental permission in terms of book banning I'm like fuck man. kids have rights too. a 17-year-old should be able to check out books at the library without Mom and Dad stepping in. so should a 10-year-old or 7 or whatever. kids deserve SOME goddamn freedom and privacy

My first novella CINDER HOUSE is nearly here! She's been quietly racking up accolades, including an amazing THREE starred reviews ⭐️⭐️⭐️

The way people threw apocalyptic shitfits about second hand smoke but think you can just go around sucking down and blowing out air in public without a mask like COVID isn't a thing is truly some next level self deception.

Disney just dropped a 40% discount for a bunch of their cruises: something they are generally loathe to do and this is the first time I've seen it publicly promoted by them. Anyway seems like a really good time to tell them you'll be avoiding their products due to the Kimmel situation.

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It’s still Trek Thursday in my heart

The absolute best thing about characters who are usually completely covered is when they’re partially undressed and suddenly I turn into a Victorian swooning over elbows and ankles.

This graphic novel is wonderful and I feel like all you perverts (positive) will adore it as much as I do! Historical fiction! Lots of boobs! Sex toys! A fat main character! Did I mention the boobs!!! Check it out today it’s so good.

Rewatching some X-Files tonight and goddamn they’re both so hot. No wonder I grew up to be a bisexual.

Someone told me they don’t bother masking their child at the grocery store because "they don’t wear one in school anyway" Schools are incinerators that fuel infections out into the community. The elderly, the high-risk, they shop too. Masking in public spaces helps break that chain ⛓️‍💥

I'm one of those people who had an early childhood without the internet and then it exploded when I was in junior high. I have seen some things and been terminally online for over 30 years. I have never seen so many people so desperately sad and mad all at once. It's all so very broken.

I’ve been catching up on The Gilded Age and had to make a meme for them.

so hey, with the entirety of the FBI in a fevered state to find any shred of evidence that THE TRANSES and THE FURRIES caused a political assassination, keep in mind that discord isn't private its backend is available to people that hate you, your servers aren't private, your DMs aren't private

btw despite everything I'm so happy to be part of this fandom, I love y'all, it's been nearly 3 years since I took the pen to draw digital for the first time. 3 years with trek, 3 years of smut and space shenanigans and laugh! Stay gay, stay horny, we're stronger than any censorship 🔥

I think what I appreciate most about Alien: Earth is that they got someone in Noah Hawley just weird enough to make the show feel unsettling rather than scary and it’s someone who is obviously invested in making a good show rather than lore dump.

Look he’s just a passionate kind of guy okay? Let him holler a little.

Got my Covid booster today! If you haven’t yet try to get yours this week! We’re in a surge and rfk jr is doing his best to reduce access. Protect yourself and your community with vaccines and masks!!

5 small joys: Eating a tomato you grew yourself Feeling cold and getting under a warm blanket with a hot water bottle Finishing a good book and knowing there’s another in the series waiting Emails from ao3 The feeling when writing is going well

if you asked me what being a mcspirk shipper feels like, I'd just point to this meme

I know I say this every time I watch tos but I just love the little sassy flip at the bottom of their pants. It’s so good.

Rewatching Amok Time while I clean and I had forgotten how haunting and eerie the music that plays during the “biology” conversation is. It’s intense!

#AmokTime Kirk by Bev Chick, 1988 🩸 #StarTrek #ZineAppreciation #FanArt

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?

so happy star trek invented gay people 58 years ago today <333

How was he SO beautiful??

I wrote a little threesome for Spock/Kirk/La’an! She was definitely thinking about this when she came to find Spock in that bar, don’t you think? archiveofourown.org/works/70839586

more coffee shops should have spirk art