I know many Illinoisians, that being my home state, so let me help boost. Standing together is what else can be done right now.

I really enjoyed working on this piece on horror, the haunted house, and the politics of housing with @freeblackgirl.bsky.social for @theflytrapmedia.com; what makes it even better is this KILLER illustration from @meowwwls.bsky.social This is the kind of cultural criticism I love doing!

For next week, I already have a cool interview lined up for Wednesday and a couple other cool ideas. Subscribe so you don't miss it. burns-notice.ghost.io

(please alt-text your wonderful art so I can share 👉👈)

#tdih 1961 McComb, Miss., at great risk, 100+ HS students walked out to protest the expulsion of classmates for sit-in & murder of voting rights activist & farmer, Herbert Lee. Marched to City Hall. While the teens prayed, police beat & jailed them. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bu...

Delighted to meet up with Jack Wong during my visit in Halifax. His most recent book: THE MUSIC INSIDE US, with James Howe, with Abrams Books for Young Readers. jackwong.ca/the-music-in... #KidLit #CanKidLit

Just a reminder, it's not too late to join in! Yesterday's poem was only 48 seconds long so easy catch up! And you can just jump in when you can! List in original post!

we must refuse to debate the worth of other people. We must agree that everyone has value at a human level, and that it’s not tied to their health, their job or their bank account. When we start allowing ourselves to debate someone’s worth, we’ve already lost. You are worthy, just as you are.

I will also say as someone who runs an online book group, I would never ask anyone for money. And Romancing the Gothic as a donation-run free education scheme still manages to pay all workshop runners, speakers and round-table participants. If we can, anyone can. Don't fall for it.

I listen at work every week, and this episode had me nodding in agreement with the #GH comments especially.

thank you everyone who still makes art despite everything

Has anyone put a version of this to song yet?

In my Octoberween movie bag

Asheville Blade (@avlblade.bsky.social): patreon.com/AvlBlade And Trans News Network (@transnews.network): transnews.network Are run by working class trans folks and could use the support.

It's now October, so time to share this ~spooky~(?) cover. I believe it's referencing the legend that if a gal looks into a mirror at midnight on Halloween, she'll see an image of her future love. 🪞🎃🦇 ALL-STORY LOVE (STORIES OF THE AMERICAN GIRL), Oct. 18, 1930. Art by Madge Geyer. #pulp #romance

Protect trans kids.

Love Dani telling Bill about Hayley in Thursday's episode. The writers need to correct or clue us into what's really going on with Hayley, because it's so tiresome. (Not as much as Ashley, but still...) #BeyondTheGates

“Oh but now that she’s pregnant, she’ll feel differently”. Seriously, fuck off. A woman is more than allowed to NOT WANT TO BE A MOM. And for lots of woman, pregnancy is hell. So, no, she doesn’t have to “feel differently” all of a sudden. #beyondthegates

CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW: (Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 (Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831 Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336 I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.

Impossible not to smile when watching this.

You heard the birthday girl!!

I try not to post about how I'm hella anxious and panicky, because my life is pretty much okay, and I know other people are really going through it...but I'm really freaking the hell out today. Thankfully, it's my day off, so I can stress out in relative privacy.

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Clear mask recommendations? I swear I saw one that was N95 or elastomeric at one point. Need something for accessibility purposes for someone who is d/Deaf HoH while meeting my own needs! #NEISVoid

Mood:

It's disappointing to me when I find someone who posts interesting/fun/neat stuff on here, but they don't use ALT text, so I won't follow them, usually. I try to always use ALT text in my posts and in what I repost. Please use ALT text!

Never forget that Norman Rockwell, debatably the most famous American artist to ever put brush to canvas, was not afraid to show the ugliness along with the good. Having his work/reputation sanitized and trimmed into marketable nostalgia is about American as it gets.

Bobby was one of just two of the Clinton 12 to have actually graduated from Clinton High School after desegregating it. The school was bombed in 1958. I wrote about the Clinton 12 a few years ago for a series exploring the world after Brown: www.theatlantic.com/education/ar...

Fuck. Cancer. Just fuck it.

I still say "mind the pedestrian." Thanks for the laughs. RIP Patricia Routledge youtu.be/0wZxcdM3KGo?...

RIP Patricia Routledge

Vincent Price and Patricia Routledge, in rehearsal for 1968's "Darling of the Day". Some photos just leave you going "Awwwww." This is one of them.

“It’s not Bucket, it’s Bouquet!” RIP Patricia Routledge 💐

mohammed told me his uncle died a few days ago 😭💔 please share and donate if you can to support him and his family at this time. www.gofundme.com/f/help-moham...

We keep saying this until we’re blue in the face. And it’s especially exhausting now because folks at the center and on the left cannot acknowledge that they have now adopted and enacted what was far right behavior in 2020. Massive pandemic failures and collective capitulation brought us here.

The first OFFICIAL installment of #KissingBooks is back with a cozy fantasy, a monster romance, and one of my all-time favorite horror authors who has never let me down with the smooching. Also, an assortment of links!

Timeline cleanser 🐈

I’m just gonna say it, the way a lot of you throw around terms like brain damaged, psychotic, mentally unstable, moron, etc to describe the actions of horrible people is really disappointing. Check your ableist language.

Here’s a fun one @erinbiba.bsky.social

People like to claim that autistics are bad at communicating and like, my dude, the problem does not lie with us, it lies with the web of manipulation and lies and passive aggression and ulterior agendas that you weave around yourselves instead of just doing what we do, which is saying what we mean.

One of my top 10 soap couple favorites! 💖 #AllMyChildren (Watching this, I say again--what happened to love in the afternoon!?!)

Pretty sure I just spied a copy of Meegan in *Sweet Magnolias* season 4!

Thread.

Great thread 👇 Side note for SF Bay Area people--you can still see some of Broncho Billy's silent Westerns filming locations in Niles (also Charlie Chaplin filmed there) and by taking the volunteer-run Niles Canyon Railway. Some interesting local and movie history!

Need a sexy cowboy romance to keep you company? Check out my Cowboys of California! Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Beauty & The Beast, with a contemporary cowboy twist! 🌵 ebook: amzn.to/4cYLaUd / www.kobo.com/us/en/s... 🌵 print: www.therippedbodice.... #blacksky #booksky #romancesky

Trina and Taggert. Miss their bond. Taggert is still Trina’s dad to me🩵 #GH

12 hours left, please share - today we highlight little girls Remas & Toleen, who were forcibly displaced last week in the devastating ethnic cleansing of the north. They don't have anything left. Step up—help them eat. Give/find their link here. 399/500 chuffed.org/project/hope...