This is probably the most accurate description. Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.

Ingrid from Fire Emblem 3 houses

The first 10 years of January have truly been exhausting

The most interesting thing about reading Danmei novels is the prevalence of omniscient third person perspective which is something that I rarely see in modern English fiction.

Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and pulling observers out, in one case unconscious, merely for watching what they are doing. The country should be alarmed they won't stop with us - but know that while this is traumatizing to any good person you know

'Not being weird about sex work and sex workers' should not be an impossible bar for media to clear, and yet, I can count on one hand how much media I've seen that clears it

Sometimes you see people who are "fans" of a villain character being mad at... the story for making the villain character be the villain and you're left going ?????????? This character was twirling his mustache since you met him, what did you expect???

Here are the brands and sizes recalled 👇🏻 this is a serious recall. please check your fridge if you buy these brands.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Lesbians really have been writing about gay men forever, huh. (Kept getting books by Mary Renault recommended to me and was a little fascinated to find out about a lesbian from the first half of the 20th century who primarily wrote about gay men.

First day of school office printer problems

Sometimes I see something that sounds amazing AND also hits all my massive 'nope, this is exactly the sort of thing I can't handle' and I'm immensely frustrated by my own limitations

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

ICE just murdered a woman here in Minneapolis. A legal observer. Shot her multiple times while she drove away as ordered. She was a US citizen. Absolute, unequivocal, cold-blooded murder by Trump’s gestapo. Abolish ICE, jail for everyone in charge. This is the lowest bar we accept now.

Thinking about how the Locked Tomb books are kinda the perfect balance for my personal tastes: - Cleverly plotted and rewards paying attention - Lots of silly jokes - Engaging prose - Lesbians who are messy and mean - Lots of Gender (TM) - Relationships that don't fit neat labels

Everyone in my family took turns being sick over the holidays and my parents were hit really hard (was kinda scary, really)... so when I caught a literal bog standard common cold they're all very, VERY concerned

Been reading my way through the Ballad of Sword and Wine and it's very amusing that the writer cares as much about the logistics of moving silver and city drainage maintenance as boys kissing. I love a book that takes its logistics management seriously

I think everyone needs this in their lives: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c323...

Colds suck because they're not THAT bad, but bad enough to make you kinda uselessly bored the whole day. So annoying, lol

I'm thinking of doing some charity commissions for Venezuela (with people showing their donations in exchange for art), but I've never done this sort of thing solo before. Does anyone who has have any tips?

The two sexiest fictional tropes in my book are 'evil, flirty twinks' and 'roguish, fuckboi butches' and honestly someday I'm going to have to write a "het" romance where those are the two leads and it's really going to seem like I want to say something about gender, but no, I just find this hot

Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave. People care.

⚠️ The Vice President of Venezuela has spoken by phone to a Venezuelan television news channel. She confirmed that Venezuelan President Maduro’s whereabouts are unknown, demanded proof of life for Maduro from Trump, and called the people of Venezuela to the streets.

....What the ever loving fuck D:

I decided to read an antiquity inspired romance novel as my airplane book on the way back from Rome and I'm going to give it a rec because I was smiling all the way through www.goodreads.com/book/show/41...

EVERYONE GET MORE INSANE ABOUT YOUR OWN OCS NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm a little sad that Heated Rivalry is the best queer Russian rep I'm prolly going to get. Like seeing my language and the complicated feelings one can have towards a birth country that's pretty fucked up was neat, but there were almost no specific cultural touchstones

recent-ish knights-errant sketches, the maiden, Oswald, and Na’ilah (2021, 2024)

Since creators are revealed for the Songxuexiao gift exchange, here's the are I made for villainousfriend!

"Fuck canon" has its virtues as an interpretive stance, but you've gotta know what the canon is before you can fuck it.

The next few days are going to be hard. The fear is palpable. So please, if you’re at all wondering: I wish you could see how much the world needs you. Right now, all that matters is getting to morning. * thetrevorproject.org/get-help/ * pflag.org/resource/support-hotlines/ * translifeline.org/

Just noting, this is a particular matter of interest for Japanese people who naturalized because doing so literally meant they renounced their Japanese citizenship, since Japan also has the incredibly stupid law that technically does not allow dual citizenship.

The Three Houses 🦅🦁🦌 #FireEmblemThreeHouses #FE3H #FE風花雪月

Man,I dreamed an entire prestige gay horror drama tonight. I even have the lyrics to the opening tune which kinda has a country ballad vibe and the lyrics are "Sleep with one eye open at the corner of the grave." Also, in the dream, this drama was an adaptation of a novel

Okay, quick little Chris character sheet as I work out his expressions. Not sure I 100% nailed the vibe I want, but oh well

Me, reading my outline: Okay, now how do I make this more obviously rancid while both characters are on their best behavior 🤔

Kinda want to make a "pilot" comic of my silly "toxic not-quite-romance" idea (because I'm much less in my head about drawing smut than writing it) to get it out of my system, and now I'm curious about people's feelings about approaches for this sort of thing.

The worst part about the last few days before you leave for a long trip is that you can't actually buy anything in bulk so you're left mostly eating out because cooking is just going to lead to food waste :|

The Songxuexiao gift exchange is always my favorite part of December. I received ridiculously charming art (archiveofourown.org/works/75690141) and just, am on cloud nine today and excited to check out every other fill people have done 😍

Realizing that the new prestige gay hockey show seemed oddly familiar because I had, in fact, a couple years ago, read the book as one of my airplane reads and somehow completely forgotten all the details except for one of the characters having a real estate thing (of all details)

Every time I'm like "oh, this seems like a very normal human being whose behavior is super relatable,' in fiction, it turns out everyone else is going "this character is autistic coded" and hmmm, I wonder what might be going on there, hmmmmmmmm

Recalling how a formative fic back in my college days had been, of all things, a *Sherlock* fanfic where Sherlock and Watson were butch lesbians in the first half of the 20th century and dealing with the butch4butch stigma of the time

I'm always really startled by my lack of attraction to traditionally masculine men because like, in fiction I'm so free for all. And then I see an actually chiseled, shirtless buff guy and I'm like 'oh, right, this is not my cup of tea.'

Remembered the one set of anime panels

Let's have a talk about all the damn spambots and scams on #AO3 shall we? This isn't a complaint against AO3 - the archive volunteers are fantastic for helping work these things out. It's a warning and reassurance to other writers, and a reminder for readers whilst we're here. Lets take a look! 1/18

Had a thought for a toxic romance-adjacent story. Probably not going to write this one, but figured I'd put the thought out there since it's a bit of a brain worm.

Anyone have a recommendation for a solid 'turn your brain off' queer romance novel? I don't want anything particularly weighty or dense, since I'm looking for something to play in the background while I draw or am dozing on an airplane and it won't have my full attention.

Had a random story idea: Guy who grew up in a doomsday cult believing that he was the antichrist, who has escaped said cult but still is terrified of accomplishing anything or anything resembling leadership positions because he still believes that he is uniquely capable of ending the world

same and I love this tumblr post about DA2

Apparently the reason I've been having issues with my drains is that my upstairs neighbors apparently think putting *coffee grounds* down the drain is a good idea. Good fucking gosh