To be honest I’ve always found the Rupi Kaur hate manufactured and incredibly tired. There are countless writers out there doing a worse job. Sorry if that’s upsetting to the people who have made hating her their whole personality.

Like if your biggest problem is that a Brown woman who does not come from generational wealth is making art you dislike, you don’t have real problems, sorry.

yesssss I guess I will have to read Zomromcom a little faster (at this point, it's going to be a holiday read 😅)

I don't really care about James Bond, but seeing this discourse is interesting as I'd always imagined Bond/007 as a codename/mantle taken up by many agents over the years. Weird to me that the consensus is that it's just a guy.

tried a "kitkat classic" texture was good and it tasted okay, but i feel like i got tricked into eating dark chocolate

tl;dr "trashy people eat this food, which makes this food trashy, and if I then eat that food, I will become trashy myself" is a social opinion (a shitty one), not a scientific opinion, but people will never stop trying to use nutritional terminology to legitimize their shitty social opinions

There's this strain of well-meaning thought I see sometimes on social media like "You shouldn't shame people for [x]! Some people are poor!" But like...you actually shouldn't shame people at all?

My favorite superhero is Zephyr/Faith Herbert (Valiant Comics)! She has a cool power, joyful energy, and is a fat icon.

women love it when you remember we're people 🤷

Private schools are bad for students. If your parents are well off enough to send you to one, but not connected enough to help you through university you're fucked because your school teachers softballed you due to your parents being the employer but profs won't give a shit.

And eventually you get a sense of how there are layers of safety and there are degrees of coming out. Coming out to someone at work: "I'm queer." Coming out to someone in queer spaces: "I'm [broad identity label.]" Coming out to someone with the same ID label(s) as you: "I'm [micro-identity label.]"

Currently picking up Zomromcom again (had wanted to read it in spooky season but life) and again am reminded that I like @oliviawrites.bsky.social's books because they let me have my wish fulfillment of being kinda messy, eating weird stuff and annoying someone hot until they fall in love with me.

This illustrates my problem with smartphones. When you buy a car, the company provides you with keys or a key fob. Purchasing a smartphone is a whole other transaction. It isn't "convenient." it is inserting a separate step in a fairly simple transaction to add value for a middleman.

Are you really a witch if you’re not anti capitalist and pro body liberation? Cause that’s a requirement for this coven 🧙🏻‍♀️ #dietculture #fatfashion #plussizetshirt

Some male leaders love the theatre of "delivering negative feedback," whereas I've never met a woman leader who does. A certain type of man loves thinking that "being direct" is a license to be cruel so he can be his fantasy of "the hard man", when direct is just...direct. Direct can be good too.

I definitely mean both the art-buying thing and the eating thing, but I also mean it when I say stuff like "let's hang out" so I definitely accept I'm not typical. 🤷‍♀️

Definitely an all-time great comic panel

I brought Lindor balls to work as my emotional support chocolate for the week and they were gone by 10am I can't believe I would do this to me

I'm not offended easily. Birth rate talk pisses me off. Humanity is in NO danger of extinction because of the birth rate. Capitalism, climate change, nuclear proliferation, and humans' addiction to killing each other? THAT should be the concern.

I just think it's interesting that there's a certain type of guy that implicitly trusts AI output but will question a woman to death for saying she likes coffee over tea.

An excellent breakdown of why MAGA/MAHA are so into controlling what people eat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5UB...

Everyone deserves the amount of tasty, nutritious food that they want for their body. Yes, that includes treats. No, their size has nothing to do with it. It's a basic bodily autonomy issue. No one should be too poor to eat the food they want.

I'm going to start watching baseball for the recipes

he's right

寒くなったね… miffy(・ｘ・)

ICYMI

Fandom as we know it exists today because of female Star Trek fans. It’s just so frustrating to have women’s roles in sci-fi history denied, because it extends well beyond fandom and creates the perception that women haven’t contributed as much to society at large as men, which is violent erasure

When natalism is brought up and framed purely in economic terms, it feels a bit like conceding that the fascist worldview is correct but you're just not personally rich enough to follow it. Many of us don't *want* kids, regardless of finances, and that should be addressed in these discussions too.

To people I don't know that well, I'd say some would put me at like a 6 on account of me just being That Bitch a lot of the time (i.e., I'm loud, direct, take up space, I know what I'm talking about and I'm enthusiastic). Friends would probably tone it down to a 2. (But not 0.)

who pays for dinner on the first date is sometimes a very complicated question for lesbians but honestly it just depends on who paid for the plane tickets

Favorite underrated game music? One for me is "Born to be free" from Metal Black. And to go with this theme for an opening level, it really gives that sense of being the final hope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12u...

It's funny because all this time I was waiting for Top Landing, not knowing it had a cool night-time version older sibling Also, please enjoy the demo music from the mighty Zuntata which absolutely gives "land a plane at night in the 80s" youtu.be/-HzU0g6e8Pg

I'm picking away at @oliviawrites.bsky.social's Zomromcom for spooky season and what an influence it's had on my life so far I.e., tonight I was eating a burrito and wondering how many zombies I could kill with it 🤔

We need a new way for people to make money by offering goods and services that isn't based on rendering people's lives into data for systems of surveillance and control

“So you’re saying we should bully companies that use AI?” “Yes absolutely.”

Personally it's any fandom that has annoying undecipherable lingo or metagaming that makes them come across as hostile to outsiders (fighting games, Pokemon) But, uh, I'm an otome fan and I'm not saying we're perfect either 😅

Falling block puzzle games that depend on chain reactions to succeed. They're cute; they're colorful; and I peace out after a few rounds because I can't/don't want to get the hang of it.

Every fatphobe is either going to somehow drop that view or is a fascist in waiting.

Let me reiterate: that shit ain't real. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

It's not a crime for books to be, like, 2.5/5. Mediocre books aren't the worst books of all time and if you think they are you watch too many bookish influencers.

Y'all don't read enough contemporary poetry!

As a romance reader: Not enough fat MCs (who do not have a diet arc of any kind) Not enough trans FMCs, especially in M/F pairings Not enough FMCs over 35 (I'm saying there's not enough not that there's none, so don't tell me about this one book you know of *but* if you wrote it, it's ok to rec it)

This seems good, and also they're running out of G.rev games! So I'm taking that to mean we might be one step closer to getting Border Down on Switch That would be complete my personal trifecta of "it'll never happen, not on this console" (the other two being Metal Black and Elevator Action Returns)

I can't get over that one guy: "Well I actually have to use ChatGPT like at gunpoint basically because women post all these things that are important to them that I don't know what they are and fuck that amirite" Also, why does everyone in the article just...trust the outputs?

Some writers that made me: LM Montgomery Dorothy Parker Sylvia Plath Virginia Woolf Amelia Lanyer Ann M. Martin Judy Blume Murasaki Shikibu

clowncore style and cake and/or pie for breakfast whenever i want

Absolutely formative. This is so deeply burrowed into my brain that I can tell what it is in the first second and I will sometimes just say "When I was darkness at that time" to myself for no reason

The Hudson Bee wishes to thank everyone who has passed through in the last few days, basked in his hat wearing glory & helped to share him around the world, thus adding a spot of bee shaped happiness to all who have witnessed him🫡