Minneapolis-bound at the end of June, then Toronto end of July beginning of August

Portals #1 drops in October and will open to submissions on June 22nd! It will be co-edited by the incredible Angel Leal and Jess Cho, who are looking for horror fiction/poetry by trans authors. All proceeds from sales of this installment will go to Trans Lifeline. 🏳️‍⚧️ (3/8)

Logging onto Roblox to say goodnight to my sons

I am extremely pleased to have this essay, on how American fiction has grappled with COVID, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social. This is a subject I care deeply about and had been wanting to write about at length for a long time. Please give it a read.

i‘ve let the dust settle on my review of this so let me shake it out rq: i am still thinking about Sharp House and Pennsylvania Furnace, i am thinking about them and crying a little bit. also, arms body legs flesh skin bone sinew, ykwim? favorite anthology that also doubles as a playlist

A literacy crisis means people are struggling to UNDERSTAND what they are reading, not that people can't necessarily read.

it doesn't matter if your protagonist has no clear goals if they're really, really horny

phone tips for preppers: Kiwix and CoMaps. Both totally free. Kiwix is an app that lets you download large data repositories for offline reading, like for example all of wikipedia. You can install it on a phone or computer, basically any OS. CoMaps is free, private offline maps/GPS.

Yorkshire doing astral projection to get away after nobody laughed at his joke.

“listen to your body” and “make enough money to live” are conflicting imperatives under the T&C of the current OS afaik

1/2 Our last submission window for our special Solarpunk Horror issue will be open from July 1-14, and our the issue will be published the first Tuesday in November. #solarpunk #horror #SolarpunkMagazine

BLOGGER WHO HAS NEVER HELD A REAL JOB: you bitches sound just like human reources

when they bitch about the HR lady it’s only because they think that’s some kind of marxist synthesis of ‘mommy’ and ‘boss’

I was only on HRT for three weeks or so, not enough for anything physical to change, before I was suddenly able to look in the mirror for the first time in 20 years.

Any time a Spanish speaking government does right by its poorest the New York Times summons the ghost of United Fruit

Please know this about the American academy:

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

the rigamarole i put myself through because of my total and complete disdain for what convenience hath wrought

That’s stupid thing to say. I was clearly mad from the start of this thread. I didn’t suddenly get mad when your dumb ass showed up.

There is a guy in my building that just keeps dying, over and over and over again.

since both my parents are experiencing midlife gender crises i've decided to fully embrace my cisgender assumption. i'm no longer butthurt that these queers think i'm an invasive species. i'm a bi man with a boyfriend who used to only date bi women and closeted lesbians. i'm basically gay gianmarco

MY MOM STARTED USING THEY/HE PRONOUNS AND I ACCIDENTALLY SAVED THEM IN MY BURNER PHONE AS "DAD"

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

Headlines I wish I had written.

the Knicks won. fully just saw some rats celebrating in a bar’s outdoor patio with humans in Brooklyn

artist rendition

it was Oh my god Wemby what are you doing o’clock

“Frog,” asked Toad, “was that a true story?” “Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t,” said Frog.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

Also like not only do y'all do this shit, but you put it on my timeline and ruin everyone's day doing it. I don't need to know what Asmongold is up to, he's a shithead. I don't need you reacting to some misogynist that you'd screenshot, he's a shithead. Stop putting shitheads on everyone's feeds

apropos of nothing, I feel like a lot of you spend all day being mad at everything. Even when justified, you can't be living like that. It's super easy to get sucked into the misery engine of always being pissed and looking for new enemies to get furious at, you gotta focus on joy more

my blood quantum isn't doing so hot

i accidentally found your letter (single art)

Happy pride youtu.be/VviOgmkTPoc?...

‘I Love Boosters’ is the collective action movie we need right now baltimorebeat.com/i-love-boost...

Important news: My wife, who worked in Detroiters’ art department, has located the original Karn on the Cobb file in her archive.

Feeling that "define the relationship" pressure? @sesmith.lol is here to tell you to do the opposite: Treat every relationship as something you build thoughtfully, together, not as a box to fit yourselves into. www.scarleteen.com/read/relat...

Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Daily Wire

Which leads to what are the relationships between what we fear and desire, and how does how we engage signify these importances? www.beestungmag.com

This issue aims to interrogate the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic through flash fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and art. Pleasure does not exist in a vacuum.

future traumatic stress disorder

bdsm aftercare but it's just wordlessly microwaving a fiesta cheese blend quesadilla for your sub

here we go

For those of you who aren't Marylanders or didn't see this happen online, we really did have zebras on the loose here for awhile. So, of course, I had to put them into a story. Huge thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for selecting this story!

Journalists aren’t some special class of people, but their role is unique. It’s supposed to be non-engaged with any party on the ground. Just documenting. When they get injured or arrested, it illustrates the intensity of violence being deployed by the state against everyone else.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing folks with perfectly smooth brains that they should post every thought and opinion they have on social media, preferably in all caps.

man. marjane satrapi was a legend