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After a short delay, hot of the press we have the Queersar Not An Award for Excellent In Queer SFF & SFF with Queers 2023! This list might, more than any other so far, reflects the key kaupapa I've been trying to capture: Quality commercial midlist SFF with real artistic merit & a bunch of queers.

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This morning I slept until I *felt* like getting up, brought food *I* wanted to prepare and eat, read a book uninterrupted, prepared to make a pie, and watched a TV show featuring lots of nakedness. I like kids, but they make doing things that aren't related to them extraordinarily difficult.

OK, just finished third ep of Heated Rivalry, and I love Shane and Ilya and their saga, but WHY DID NO ONE MENTION SCOTT HUNTER. I apologize to everyone in a 10-mile radius who heard my high-pitched noises of shameless glee and/or anguish.

You know what's great? Books.

I am finally, *finally* watching Heated Rivalry, and my reactions to the first two episodes can best be described as "oh my godddddddd" and

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Today is Ona Judge Day. While the United States gears up for its 250th celebration, which inevitably includes the likes of George Washington, Ona Judge made her escape on May 21, 1796. The Washington household attempted her capture several times, but she was never caught. Forever free

I was reading the 5th-grade reading book in 1st grade, so all my teachers assumed I was all-around clever and told me "well, I'm sure YOU can figure it out" when I came asking for help. I now have a crippling fear of asking for help because it means I am Being a Bother and Failing at Being Smart.

I love a man who spent half a billion dollars on a yacht and 55 million dollars on a wedding scolding us about having a spending problem.

This ginger, pear and rye cake is delicious and absolutely perfect warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Pretty easy to make, just be careful when grating the pears or your thumb will pay the Iron Tax. www.rhubarbandlavender.com/recipes/ging...

48 pages into Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (consciously reading AAPI authors this month), and my entire personality on Sunja's behalf is this gif.

This is a cat check point. Relinquish the most recent cat picture on your phone.

When the world gets you down, just remember the wonderful variety of dumplings out there...

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

Dear client, when you get an out-of-office message from your attorney saying they're out until Monday on a personal matter...they're out until Monday on a personal matter. I'm not hiding them under my desk at the office. I'm not giving you their personal cell. I'll let them know you called. BYE.

Just laughing at how it’s possible for a black woman to be so beautiful and talented that she sends a racist into a six day public stroke

TRUTH.

*sighs for ten minutes straight* My hometown, folks.

I don't wanna today and only proceed under protest. blegh. booooooo bah. ugh. [if I were a teen with an appropriate audience I would also add one of those eyerolls where you also half-turn away as you stomp off] "this is so lame." [I'm not a teen, I have a mortgage. We proceed. under protest.]

FINE. (chewing on the spoon was fun)

Dear brain, we made a mistake. It is a fixable mistake--very easily fixable. I am in the process of doing so now. I will suffer no consequences from this mistake other than the notification from my boss that this mistake needs fixing. So the immense waves of self-loathing can stop. Anytime.

I'm willing to test this theory

THIS FUCKER DID *WHAT??* THAT IS A WAR GRAVE!

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

Big mall near us now has security and checkpoints at every entrance to ensure no teenagers roam the mall unattended after the witching hour of...*checks*...3:30pm. Surely unrelated, multiple stores in this mall have closed and remain vacant.

A friend purchased her own house several years ago. Her longtime boyfriend is apparently dragging his feet on a proposal because she won't promise to sell her house and move in with him. "I want it to be *our* house!" Great, YOU move in with HER.

Jonny Cash did not shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die only for you to settle for morgan wallen

Looking at the new promos for IwtV is the only thing so far making me regret quitting cable. I'm going to have to get my weekly dose of Capital-D Drama through tumblr gifs.

I support this, and would like to offer as a secondary but not lesser option, Doug Jones.

My dad routinely would call me down from reading or homework just to say "I think you'll like this movie". Some Like It Hot, Barefoot in the Park, Casablanca, Breakfast at Tiffany's, North by Northwest, The Searchers...he didn't miss.

Last week @dodecahedron.bsky.social made this when I was feeling very bad. I want y'all to have it, too. Has alt text and everything, ready to copy, download, quote, etc. Because it's true! Be excellent to each other.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Men would rather...do...this...than talk to an actual woman about what they find physically/sexually attractive in men.

She speaks the truth!

The graven image thou hast made unto me is raising a lot of questions already answered by the scripture. (Exod. 20:4)

Juniper Hawke (rogue) and Audrun Cadash (Carta dwarf) use every cheat in the book. Sereda Aeducan (dwarf noble) gives up halfway through while she still has pants. Enasal Thorne (elven warden) bides her time and counts her cards...and will probably win and slip out while Hawke and Cadash yell.

People ask why I’m optimistic with how bad things are and it’s the miraculousness of human nature Common people have been toppling authoritarians for centuries. People who have no idea what’s going on are instinctively preparing for crisis and growing softer and kinder as revolutionary energy grows

Just got finished blocking a lot of words for a while. I know what's happening. I want to help, and I will. But being paralyzed by despair does not lend itself to help.

OMG SUMI

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

Delaware/Cecil County folks, can anyone help out?

Damned by @genevievecogman.bsky.social, because I didn't know I needed "The Scarlet Pimpernel with vampires" until suddenly I had it and it was a trilogy.

Someone in a college lit class tried to defend Odysseus, saying that Calypso held him prisoner for seven years. I said "with what powers?" and watched him struggle (this was a Christian college) not to say the very very obvious one in front of the female professor.

Gotta trample out some vintages here.

Apparently today is Raise Your Hand If You'd Be Dead Without Antidepressants Day. ✋🏻