This is how I became a lesbian

About halfway through The Colony by Annika Norlin. 💙📚 I don't remember who or what account recommended this book to me but it's making me miss living in Scandinavia. I miss the freezing creeks and quiet hikes. It's not so hard to find quiet there.

Amazing thread on all the ways no one should ever believe anything DHS attempts to say happened to the *cough* stenography journalism *cough*

I need a burrito

If i had a time machine, I would eliminate baby trump. No hesitation.

The shutdown was an excuse, not a reason, to go after SNAP. SNAP recipients have to re-apply either every 6 months or year. Onerous process, with almost no fraud. There are no shutdown-related requirement for SNAP renewal. But it would predictably result in low-income families going hungry.

Update: about 40% in and honestly? Not lovin it. The pacing is good, though, so I'm still gonna finish reading.

Imagine how different the last 9 years of our lives would've been if putin didn't have a photograph of trump performing a service for clinton. What a joke.

Is it just me? Every novel I've read that was written by a trans woman in the past, say, 2 years, has opened with throwing around a lot of grindr vocab and dick-sucking scenes. As if to get the cis audience's questions out of the way. "This is the vernacular and this is how we fuck."

I have started 3 posts today with "anyway" Anyway, time for bed.

Anyway maybe you can tell that I accidentally read some comments below some posts today and I clearly shouldn't have done that. Back to books.

Anyway here are my politics: Leftists who vote, run for office, protest, and volunteer: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Leftists who call everyone who does the above a "liberal" then sneer at them bc anything short of a revolution (that somebody else will plan obvs) is "useless": 🤮🤮🤮 trust fund kid energy

Sitting at home on your phone complaining that the "liberals" (pejorative) who are protesting ice are too nonviolent when the sum total of your own political involvement includes, well, that, is truly gourmet public masturbation. Really. Five stars. Gooning straight for the big leagues, fellas.

Starting Herculine by Grace Byron now. I'll let y'all know how it goes.

Just finished The Graceview Patient, which I'd pre-ordered bc I loved The Starving Saints so much. TSS was GORGEOUS and if you liked Groff's Matrix, you'll love this one even more. TGP was amazing but also a bit too real for me. Some traumas resurfaced. Read if you're ready to pick your scabs. 💙📚

Ok i need to stop reading the fucking news

I just need to talk about books and think about books and think about maybe one day writing a book and also write and think about other art and draw... 3 more fucking years of this nightmare

I got my copy today (it came with a sticker!) And I know this is silly but I need it to be on goodreads lol so I submitted it to the goodreads librarians. I can't wait for work to be over so I can read! @lilacperil.bsky.social

Anyway my team is going to semi-finals and you best believe I'm going to that game #vamospride 💜💜💜💜💜

Forgot to booksky tag 💙📚

I have reviewed the awful book - Little Birds by Anaïs Nin

Rich people are complaining about their taxes going up and like, can't you just make more money? I swear, rich people these days just don't want to work anymore. They're so lazy and entitled. Like pull yourself up by your gold plated bootstraps, rich people, don't you always say that's so easy?

Somebody help me the fuck out here. What is supposed to be so genius and titillating about Anaïs Nin? Am I just reading it in the wrong time? Was it more interesting in the 70s? 💙📚

Forgot to booksky this 💙📚

Just finished The Antidote by Karen Russell. I've read a few books about the dust bowl, but this is the first one I've actually liked. Highly recommend.

“They came into the building understanding it was a daycare. They did not have a warrant. It is a violation of our rights. It is a violation of these children’s rights. They are terrorizing our community.” Trump’s ICE goons raided a damn daycare.

Intro to Heather. I love: ❤️ Reading lots, but only women and nb authors 🧡 Practicing my French & Norwegian 💛 Playing BG3 💚 Pumpkin spice everything 💙 Travel 💜 Leftist politics that are cognizant of the importance of harm reduction voting And this stuff: 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♍️🍷🏋👩‍👩‍👦‍👦🐦‍⬛🐈‍⬛🍲🎃

I'm glad that NWSL is defending her but I also long for the day when "all players in the NWSL are AFAB" is not the defense. It shouldn't fucking matter.

UPSET

I don't post much anymore and I don't spend as much time on socials anymore because I can't do another 4 year anxiety attack like 2017-2021. But I'm mad about this. And a lot of other things obviously. And I wanted to say it to the crowd.

I am UPSET that people are being TRANSPHOBIC and RACIST at Barbra Banda. She is one of my favorite soccer players and also I hate transphobes. And racists.

Remember when we had the capacity for writing and discussing think pieces about commercials because secret police wasn't disappearing our neighbors? Pepperidge farms remembers

I sraw a person on instagram today say that Trump is just saying batshit stuff all the time and all we do is share it on the internet and I know that's true and I feel like I'm losing my mind

Not defending the dems moving right, but explaining: They are chasing people who vote. People think if they refuse to vote, they'll be chased. But that doesn't happen bc non-voters keep moving goalposts. They like not voting. They like the feeling of moral superiority. So voters get chased.

today i learned dorothy thompson was dragging trumpy tradwives in 19-hundred-and-fucking-41 in Harper's, the same magazine which would 79 years later publish a letter decrying precisely this kind of drag as illiberal cancel culture

Look at all of these cowards just sitting and listening and doing nothing while they're told to break laws and the constitution. Yellow-bellied.

I have this massive lump in my throat because I feel like we're in the middle of an actual real civil war and we're all just in denial about it.

i know hegseth's speech was intended to tell the military they won't get prosecuted for war crimes and beating your wife won't hold up getting promoted to O-4, but bringing in trump fresh from death's door is a really persuasive way to unconsciously tell them the crimes jubilee may not last too long

this shit would be a bit much for news anchors in Pyongyang

Assata Shakur died while her autobio was still in my TBR pile D: Now is as good a time as any to start it.

Also how is it possible that they need to spend so fucking long doing every movement imaginable on the assisted pull up. Sometimes without even using the assistance part. Go hang from a fucking bar and let my weak ass use 90 lbs of assistance thank you Ok 100

If I didn't hate men before, having to wait for the fucking deltoid fly every gd week at the gym did it.

You know what's lit? Being queer. Five stars.

Pomme, my favorite lesbian chanteuse, released a new song today (des excuses, go look it up it's really good), and she made an Instagram story where she's dressed like an old timey French circus person and moving her eyes to the beat. That's my goodnight thought.

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

People will cancel hulu and boycott harry potter but refuse to vote. Capitalism has convinced us that our only real power is our money.

This awful story has been overshadowed by the notoriety surrounding Charlie Kirk’s murder and the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel: Immigration advocates warned that the Trump administration would “disappear” migrants Now 1800 men detained at the so-called Alligator Alcatraz gulag can’t be located

I can't sleep yet. Here are my thoughts in no particular order: My boss probably talks shit about me with his wife. I'm glad Kimmel got his shitty show back. I wish there was a streaming service i could cancel to force the government to find the 1200 missing alligator Alcatraz detainees

I think it's a good thing that EriKa KirK is going to take over Charlie's podcast. Men who can't think critically often learn how, very quickly, when a woman is delivering the message. Suddenly they can see all the things wrong with it. They might even learn something!

The fucking problem is that so many leftists don't vote. They're so intent on not voting that people who need votes to make this happen no longer court said votes. "Dems are corrupt" YES their opinions are based entirely on WHATEVER GETS VOTES. If you want them to listen to you, you have to vote.