Seeing folks excited about the #He-Man movie, and I do remember how excited I was for She-Ra (both as a kid renting it repeatedly from Blockbuster and as an adult fangirling on the queer reboot) but I can't see #MastersOfTheUniverse ads w/o remembering Roger died in April w/ $0 support from Mattel.

It's real! Too many people to thank, but I'm feeling so very grateful for the years of conversation, learning, and generosity that made this book possible. More about the book below --

Personally, I want to see more disabled people being disabled and not being shamed for it, left behind, or pitied. I want them to have complexity alongside/instead of just wanting a cure, and for their lives to be deemed just as vlauable as their nondisabled peers!! ❤️‍🔥

Colorado just legalised ‘balcony solar’ for apartments and renters These systems can be mounted on apartment balconies, patios and walls, opening rooftop-style solar access to millions of renters and multi-family households. buff.ly/ArwMR52 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Chinese researchers sprayed cyanobacteria onto desert sand and turned it into stable soil in just 10 months. Cyanobacteria oozes sticky sugars that glue loose grains of sand into a crust that’s tough enough to cut wind erosion and trap water. buff.ly/koBHJr5 #ShareGoodNewsToo

I remain convinced that one of the best parts of being an adult is the ability to say, at 3am, "I wish I had a quesadilla," and then make a quesadilla.

Wow, 70 of the people I follow are still following him. I didn't know blocking =/= unfollowing! Bsky, why the heck would I want to keep following someone I've blocked??

DID YOU KNOW? 🚨 Dystopian media often tells us that #disabled people’s lives matter less, and calls this pragmatism. “For the good of the many” often requires that disabled characters die and/or be left behind. That's one reason why we're #CrippingDystopia in the disability in dystopia anthology!

We are finally going to discover that skilled writers matter, and it's only going to cost us absolutely everything.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

I did a whole ass disabled tour and didn't post about it at all here, but ins seven weeks we sold between a third and a half of the print run, hit the indie bestseller list nationally one week, every room felt like a disabled family reunion grief ritual. I had a blast & got a concussion. Link below

💯 If we're going to try to clock something as an AI tell, we need to be responsible and do some research before we start sending long-used rhetorical and poetic devices to the gallows 😅

Want to be a part of this sapphic anthology? Read the submissions guide here, and pay close attention! www.scyllapublishing.com/anthology We are ESPECIALLY looking for myths/goddesses/monsters outside of the most popular and well-known Greek and Roman pantheons ❤️‍🔥

Saw someone express disbelief that people who vote for the Hugos actually did the reading and I'm like my sibling in Christ these are nerds and reading is their actual hyperfocus, they'll complete the whole assignment with weeks to spare

"[C]orporations only exist because states allow them to. Which means that every power a corporation has was given to it by the state. Hawaii just took one of those powers off the list—starting next year, corporations in Hawaii can no longer spend money on state + local elections." #ShareGoodNewsToo

A study establishes that "social ties" — a fancy way of saying being nice to other, even those you don't know — has benefits. A teacher asked her students to test the thesis in real life. n.pr/4tJ4PyN

Reading for the Hugos? The Voter Packet is NOW OUT and it's BEEFY. It has all of the finalists in Best Novelette, Best Short Story, Best Graphic Story or Comic, Best Related Work, & Best Poem. & most of the other works (incl some NetGalley links for free reading) file770.com/whats-in-the...

I love @dimension20.dropout.tv and this season really inspired me to write this piece. Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social and the ever supportive editor @cxorlando.bsky.social for giving my work a home!

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Y'all, I am so unbelievably excited for this series to continue. If you haven't read her first book, It's All in Your Head, I cannot recommend it enough! The best disability and chronic illness representation I've ever seen in romance, by an author who truly gets it. 🎉

Has anyone else thought of this gorgeous bit of writing multiple times a day since 2021? What does your garden need today?

The cruelty of this makes me shake with rage. SSI payments are already criminally low and outdated to an excruciating degree! The needless suffering this will cause! Plus the workload this would shove onto the staff of SSA (cut by 7K thanks to DOGE) makes it all far less "efficient." #Disability

When you finally work up the courage to ask for help with the thing that's giving you panic attacks and there is LITERALLY a deep booming roll of thunder.

What a mood.

One of my fav series in recent years. The worldbuilding is top notch, nuanced and revealed with such finesse it's almost hard to track. The later books have been pretty dark for me—Brides worked for a "gothic novel" prompt in the Read Harder Challenge—but I still love them. So poignant. #BookSky

“Mattel gave $5,000.”

I think it makes so much sense that as the world seems to turn shittier with each passing day, we simultaneously see the rise of horror literature and cozy literature. It’s just two kinds of people, finding their ways to deal with all the mess.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Time between receiving a super rare Becky Chambers newsletter and racing to my fav indie bookstore website to pre-order As You Wake, Break the Shell: 15 mins. That's gotta be my new record. Queer characters, disability & chronic illness themes, bio-printing meds?? OH STARS, YES PLEASE! #BookSky

Alt: drawing of a mermaid in a wheelchair with a seat looking like a clamshell. The footrest is elongated and curved to accommodate for the mermaid's tail. Her head and tail are encased in water bubbles, she is smiling and waving at the viewer.

Having a terrible day? Try looking at these very BOOPABLE SNOOTS. Your day will still be terrible but at least there will be floofy boopable baby capybaras in it.

Can't really stress enough how invasive digital exploitation, the erosion of critical thought via AI, and what my colleague calls "the polycrisis"--environment, housing, health, war, genocide--is making our students sick. They are stuck in survival mode. It's like post-illness malaise, but constant.

Few things tire me on social media more than folks who post with a "I, for one, intend to be walking away from Omelas very soon" energy.

Embarrassment, ironically. I always underestimate the number of R's.

HELLO HUMAN DO YOU HAVE A MIGRAINE WHAT IF I SIT ON YOUR HEAD WOULD THAT HELP I THINK IT WOULD HELP LET ME HEAL YOU WITH MY BUTT

"Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room." Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things (my fav book back in 2021)

There is a lot of bullshit in this world but there are also some truly authentic, heart forward people doing amazing things for community and I feel so lucky to be a part of their work.

100% medicinal bloomscroll.

A little more about Azalea: she's a delightful, bright and sensitive soul who would love to be able to just go to school, draw, play Magic and go about her life. But she has parents who are small-minded, deeply phobic nightmares to live with. Right now, she's still dependent on them.

I am profoundly exhausted. Being disabled in America is grueling. As if taking care of all these different conditions and medicines and appointments and chronic pain and trauma around ALL of it wasn't hard enough, the bureaucracy is cruel, just unfathomable to anyone who hasn't been through it.

I truly wish we lived in a timeline where mask vending machines like these had become utterly ubiquitous. With a wide range of colors, sizes, styles. With mask chains and other accessories, too. I wish masks were as common and easy to use as seatbelts!

Ditto.

We’re not talking enough about how the disabled are being hurt by this administration. Thanks to this administration giving Ohio the right to cut Medicaid, I lost my insurance. Then I had to leave the state just to survive, let alone function.

I really needed to see this thing I just saw on Tumblr: Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written Write it badly or it'll never be written

Oooh, one of my favorite books on disability is on sale for $2.56 for the next 6 days at Libro FM! If you ever plan to write disabled characters, please, please read this masterpiece by @amandaleduc.bsky.social, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space. #BookSky #Disability

everything wants to be loved that is the lesson of springtime

What I mean by "I'm a mood reader." I'm liking Nghi Vo's edgy dark fantasy, a queer Gatsby retelling. But it's a lot for my nervous system, so I checked out a supremely cozy Brambly Hedge compilation from the library. All while dipping in / out of nonfiction on fawn responses. Plus 15 more! #BookSky