Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

Who needs sleep when there are BIPOC vampires to enjoy? 👀

New review up! Lee Lai's Cannon is one of the absolute best comics I've read this year. Very topical, too.

Needed this today.

FUNeral Home is now LIVE on kickstarter! 💀⚰️ Our epic fun time oneshot of sapphic assassin shenanigans from myself, @cerealpancake.bsky.social @longtalljodie.com and Kiela Sibal!! Hope to see you at the FUNeral 🥹♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/cer...

Literally watching this right now 🦖🦕💚💙

New review up! Very chuffed about this one. It has a pseudonymous work by Lorraine Hansberry! Anda messy butch on butch story that will delight fans of Sal Jiang's Black and White 🤭

The Yossi Milo Gallery in NYC has a beautiful exhibition on through 08/22 of J. Carino‘s most recent paintings.

ICYMI: The winners of this year's @graphicmedicine.bsky.social awards: Long Form: The Jellyfish by @boum.bsky.social Short Form: Sunflowers by @keezyyoung.bsky.social Educational: Breathe by @redgoldsparks.bsky.social and @sarahpeitzmeier.bsky.social Coverage: www.comicsbeat.com/here-come-th...

Ok, since this IS apparently a thing now, allow me to list/thread just a few places where people can read speculative poetry - for free!

[ butchfemme carmilla ] “Let us look again for a moment; it is the last time, perhaps, I shall see the moonlight with you.”

New review! Low fantasy lesbian goes on a questing Bildungsroman after getting cursed. I grew up reading Amar Chitra Katha and very old school Spider-Man. The color work in this was such a delightful trip down nostalgia lane, though the panels are bigger w/ more room to breathe than in those series

Cutting Medicaid means costs are shifted to providers. When patients lose coverage, they turn to ERs for care they can’t afford. Hospitals eat the cost, pass it on to insurers, and your premiums go up. Medicaid cuts mean a worse health care system for EVERYONE.

On chpt 2 of @sophiegilbert.bsky.social’s book and recalling Bethann Hardison’s “Invisible Beauty”. There’s a chilling moment on the shift to girls from behind the Iron Curtain. Showed, not told, how intersecting vulnerabilities left them more exploitable than adult models with literal agencies.

This is so well deserved. Their work is profoundly unsettling and also well written and rooted in compassion even as it excavates pain. A rare combination.

I’ve been reading these lately. I keep them nearby on my shelves because they are examples of an artist using their craft to tell their story, and their history. Poetry, illustration, manga, comedy and even architectural design. These books remind me why art matters, why craft and intention matter.

Monster Manor Book Fair is on now - don't miss out! Get 118 DRM-free eBooks for $25, and directly support queer and trans creators. #BookSale #DiscountedBooks #LGBTQIA

I loved this book by James Albon so much. It takes elements from some of the best rom coms and remixes them with thoughtful, beautiful art and a sweet sapphic love story about how people in love create languages of their own 💙❤️💛

Home sick today. 1 like=1 obscure Yuri review from the Okazu archives.

Your stories and art are worth telling and sharing. They don’t have to be groundbreaking or revolutionary. They just need to be YOURS.

Dubravka Ugresic, the Yugoslav-Croatian writer who lived in exile because of her anti-war and anti-nationalist views, passed in 2023. The posthumously translated A Muzzle for Witches is her final work, returning to many of her themes. My review: anenduringromantic.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/t...

ALANNA THE LIONESS Book #1 comes out today, and I cannot express how blessed I feel to be on this team. @sambeckdraws.bsky.social is a damn rockstar, being her collaborator is such a thrill! Josh Reed's letters are perfection! Andrea Miller's design of the book is what dreams are made of!

Liquid by Mariam Rahmani was my favorite “clearly written by an MFA” book, because of its addressing, immediately, the uncomfortable aspects of power, class, loss, history and burnout in academia, as well as the importance of connection. It tries to push away even as it seeks to be witnessed.

Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls is one of few books that I would describe as a tour de force. It is layers on layers on layers grappling with inherited histories, stories, lies and responsibilities where complex matrilineal pain is tied to national myths in a moving, intricately illustrated way.

In her first-ever English-language interview, Green Yuri creator Sumiko Arai talks about WLW stories, the inspiration for her characters, and what's on her music playlist.

While it is very easy to see the Met Gala as a form of unnecessary excess or make jokes about the Hunger Games, the event directly funds public arts and provides resources for a preservation of history that comes with its own unique challenges, never mind fashion being undervalued as an art form

Speaking of Poison Ivy, here’s an old but good piece I did of some fun comic reads featuring her:) lesbrary.com/times-dc-did...

So excited to finally get my copy of Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death signed by @amychu.bsky.social. Also bought the latest Saga volume 💚💙 Please support you local comic stores today - I also got a lovely San Junipero comic preview and some neat horror ones from IDW for #FreeComicBookDay #FCBD

My latest review is for @hayleykrischer.bsky.social newest book “You Belong To Me”, aka a YA lesbian thriller set in the beauty industry with themes of identity and belonging. I especially liked how the issue of identity formation and idealizing your SO during your teen years was portrayed!

Just got my copy of @miraongchua.com newest release! Very excited. The bookmarks are so cute 🤍💚🖤

#1C000LEST 42: Hole - Celebrity Skin Difficult to think of a pop/rock star done more comprehensively dirty than Courtney Love, who had to be better than the boys to make it at all, only to be punished when she matched them in petty self-destructiveness as well as talent.

This! I’ve been stymied over my review of Liquid for the last month trying to figure out how to explain this and locate it properly in context. Reminds me what happened with Crimson Peak and Jennifer’s Body, to some extent.

I think it's worth comparing the adaptation of her book to the current trend of Ghibli image generation. Turning something into a Studio Ghibli production takes more than anime aesthetics and a sepia filter. Here's a breakdown: gabrielburrow.com/2025/04/02/m...

Choosing to view this list as an absolutely brutal burn of Ayn Rand

It's Women's History Month! All March, we're highlighting women who've taken valuable steps for technology, privacy, security, and free expression for us all. We encourage you to learn more, get inspired by their accomplishments, and tell us about women in tech that you admire.

sometimes a 5/10 game can change your life in ways a 10/10 game never will

There are so many good comics and graphic novels on here too!!!

Comic artists and readers! Who are your favorite comic artists and inspirations for paneling? I’m doing research for a new project and looking to spice up my own layouts 👀

This tower of books is every physical copy of a work of fiction by a trans, non-binary or otherwise gender non-conforming author. These are all SFFH and nearly fill one standard bookshelf, and I'm still only scratching the surface of trans literature

Watching a friend play that Love and Deepspace gacha hell game and I nearly spat out my smoothie when I saw what the squirrel was named. Never thought I’d see an antiplatelet drug mentioned in an otome. As a squirrel’s name, of all things.

Happy Valentines to me!

The road to fascism is paved with the bodies of the marginalized people who were ignored after being told they were overreacting.

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology. www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

we are watching JOHANNE SACREBLU, a Mexican trans woman’s response to EMILIA PÉREZ featuring an all-Mexican cast playing broad French stereotypes as a croissant and baguette heiress face off “France” is peopled with mimes and twisty moustaches and every character has a Ratatouille secreted on them

Would love to understand why every Democrat is not out there every second of the day explaining in plain English that Donald Trump has declared war on cancer patients.

I so love that people are still finding Road Out of Winter by @alisonstine.bsky.social. And this @autostraddle.bsky.social roundup also highlighting @simkern.bsky.social @sentencebender.bsky.social and @charliejane.bsky.social is fantastic. www.autostraddle.com/queer-climat...

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

An essay on zines and free speech, and new list of 200+ US zine fests with application dates. Zines! #comics #art #diy #tableau #dataviz saraharveypatrick.substack.com/p/the-revolu...

Genuinely, if there is queer media that is maintained digitally, whether it's fanfics or articles or streaming only media, back it up now. There are a billion warning signs that there's gonna be a brutal culling of it in the near future and this is the only way to keep that flame lit, folks.