And the fantastic podfic! 🎧❤️🕷

Not *precisely* this but I do have a "Blackbeard | Edward Teach Has a Fear of Spiders"! Edward Teach is Trying to Love Spiders: archiveofourown.org/works/56393605

It’s your 75th anniversary, Charlie Brown! 💛⁠ ⁠ 🎉 Today marks the official 75th anniversary of Peanuts! On October 2, 1950, the first Peanuts comic strip, shown here, was published in seven newspapers nationwide. Charles M. Schulz was 27 years old.

there are simply no words to describe the grief of this happening on yom kippur.

and we're live!!! Pre-orders will be open until the end of the month; shipping will hopefully take place end of November/beginning of December. #ofmd #ofmdart #gentlebeard gbcalendar.bigcartel.com

A reminder that if you're not able to fast on Yom Kippur for any reason -- and mental health is a health reason -- it's regarded as a MITZVAH to eat. Resources and more here:

september 30th vs. october 1st

And then she became such a great voice for biodiversity, climate protection, and species protection (and told such fierce stories about facing down the men who belittled her). May her memory be a blessing and a guide.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

September 30th vs October 1st! Did I do this right?

september 30th // october 1st

greetings and happy halloween month from the haunted pumpkin patch x ko-fi.com/samikelsh/shop #spookyseason #cuteart #artshop

September 30th // October 1st

September 30th // October 1st

#uspoli Look I know we all hate Hegseth anyway and we all know this already but it still feels important to affirmatively declare that fat does not mean lazy, incapable, unfit, or failure.

september 30th // october 1st

September 30 October 1

Today's #TakeTwoTuesday is also a transparent excuse to reshare the art @rocketlollyart.bsky.social did for it because I think we could all benefit from seeing Them again 💐👑💜 Among the Wildflowers: archiveofourown.org/works/47162383

How about a few short things for #TakeTwoTuesday? Transformations (G rated, 1.2k) inspired my butterfly tattoo: archiveofourown.org/works/57687892 Bind Me To You (T rated, 2k): my first foray into microfics, before the bug boys! archiveofourown.org/works/46858693 And my innkeeper drabbles below:

I want to add, "your own lane," for me, doesn't mean American rugged individualism, it just means put on your own oxygen mask first. The person I want to see in the world is community-minded, doesn't budge for facists, and protects the most vulnerable among us. AS A CREW 🏴‍☠️✊🌈

Timeline cleanser 🐈

ye olde karaoke What do you think they're singing? It's more like screaming. #OurFlagMeansDeath #ofmd

Last I checked no one was accusing ICE agents of killing Christian children for their blood as an essential ingredient in Passover matzah.

One thing I want to emphasize that gets lost in how bad things feel. By and large the masses are on our side, everywhere. Think back to the No Kings protest. Places redder then my blood took part. Think back to how Reps from similar places got themselves booed out of town.

3 year anniversary of s2 beginning filming! #ofmd

"Watch the flow!" (Did a little editing to this older piece! Made it a little less cursed. ;)) #ofmd #OurFlagMeansDeath

$30k confirmed donations to @theyoungcenter.bsky.social !! Well done #OFMD fandom!!! #ywmlp

happy bi day to those who celebrate!!

As this fascist administration leans harder into anti-neurodivergence eugenics, thinking about how so much of the underlying social fears of autism and ADHD come from excluding people like us from scientific study/description of our own experiences. The framing is on how we appear to others ALWAYS

#PirateReadningClub has come to an end & it is time to find out who read the most books, who won the drawing, and who gets a special badge! 👀

Lobelia Sackville-Baggins and her son Lotho arrive at Bag End early (the sale goes into effect at midnight). ‘Ours at last!’ She insists on taking an inventory of the furniture. Frodo does not offer her tea.

This #TakeTwoTuesday has plenty of sweet treats for a shanah tovah u'metukah 🍏🍯❤️ Delicacies and Delights: archiveofourown.org/works/55251037

I use this graph a lot.

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

When baby gets a hold of your Roach dolls🙄😭 #OurFlagMeansDeath

My son is autistic, largely nonverbal. He reads a lot, is smitten with all things Lego. He excels in school. He finds his ways to communicate. There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad. It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.

“IT’S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS!!” “Edward! You're making a spectacle of yourself at the grocery store!” “Just feeling fuckin’ festive, babe. Live a little.” #LegoEdandStede (Originally posted on the birdsite October 2024)

Tikhleh shanah ve-killeloteha! Let the old year begone — with all its curses! Let the New Year begin — with all its blessings. Shana Tovah.

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

Yes. In my experience, kids have zero trouble with LGBTQ concepts, but are deeply confused by stuff like opposition to marriage equality. It’s bigotry that’s hard to explain

I think about this working at the bar every time a man orders a “cape cod” instead of asking for a vodka cranberry. Etc. If you pay attention, so many cishet men will do Olympic gymnastics to avoid being associated with anything they think might sound feminine. It’s hilarious and tragic

Got a fic for a different sci-fi show coming later today, but I couldn't ignore my beloved X Files, so here's a frame by frame recreation of its iconic opening 👽🏴‍☠️ #OFMDTVAU

While I’m out here posting serotonin boosters, this is such an all-timer for me ❤️❤️ #RhysDarbyFaction

🎶 For the times, they are a-changin’ 🎶 #OurFlagMeansDeath #OFMD

how about, instead of yet another news cycle about yet another centrist dem peddling "concern" about trans girls in sports, we just all gave like $5 or $10 to the CSE's trans youth emergency project:

Librarians aren't meant to cut off access to anyone for any reason. If a 10 year old wants to come in and check out IT fine. Not my job to say it isn't for them. Kids are usually good about what they can or can't handle in stories. If it's too much for them they stop.

Very disappointed in @bsky.app for choosing to silence artists, self moderation is the way. People can block and move on if they don't like what they see. Censorship is never the way. It's a double edged sword and it WILL be used to hurt creatives.