Today they claimed Turn of the Screw is WGL (but also the Deborah Kerr film is better). This place is fascinating

Let's consider the impact this is going to have on underpaid, overworked delivery drivers, WHICH IS ALREADY A RACIALISED PROFESSION because like all the West, Canada is a racist, unequal and exploitative society.

not to call anyone out specifically: many cises responding they didn't know and imo that speaks to how most ppl have done no work interrogating the transphobia they've spent their lives absorbing. would you say that i am a whitewoman or a jewishwoman? i bet you wouldn't, even by accident!

The new Protect Ontario ad that talks about clearing out encampments and building more prisons is bone chilling. This place is a fucking dystopia.

the utter sadism of israeli glee that only knows joy at the humiliation and torment of others nothing redeemable about a society like that

This long piece by @alexnpress.bsky.social for The Key (co-published with LARB) is really good www.thekeymagazine.com/p/hollywood-...

On the Olga Tokarczuk situation.

I'm rereading Timothy Findley's Headhunter (1990) for the first time in a couple decades: an unsettled, hallucinatory & violent Toronto where no one is rational. This passage, about an unfolding epidemic no one will acknowledge, stopped my breath; the *truth* of it, past & future, holy shit

(leftistly) the cold and stark abuse of capital doesn't matter and you're stupid for caring

We saw Silent Friend on Friday. I don't think you can do better than Tony Leung + tree.

My birthday wish is you chuck AI in the creek and write something yourself.

I got so embarrassed this morning when I read a tepid review of a recent book I loved in a newsletter; when the newsletter author had mentioned the book on here, I'd left an effusive comment. Whatever. It's not that I don't trust my own taste; I just dislike coming off as foolish to strangers.

This book rules

am I reacquainting myself with forest canopy research for this call? Yes.

Pack your sunscreen, bug spray, and lube, because you're coming with us to our June issue, the Great Outdoors! Sign up at www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/prosp... to participate. We welcome everyone who wants to share their nature-themed original queer smutty art and stories!

ICYMI: the 3rd part of my novella's out, a dark fantasy where folk hero Kelwas helps a half-feral girl lift a curse that turned her brothers into ravens and reunite with her family while the shadow of Old Gaunt looms over them all Y'all like stories within stories? buttondown.com/crosshatches...

lost my decade-old transit card today :/

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Why, though? Why be a professional writer and say this :/

If you’re using the creepy plagiarism machine to promote your book, I have to assume the creepy plagiarism machine wrote your book. Why wouldn’t I?

This book sits at the intersection of two of my favourites, Millhauser's Edwin Mullhouse and Nabokov's Pale Fire, & I am 100% grooving on it.

my parents forgot to say congratulations until my sister asked why

Well, everyone knows Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach books are about climate change. What this essay presupposes is... maybe they aren't?

Hamlet (c. 1604-1605)

www.gofundme.com/f/fund-bucko... BUCKO IS 87% OF THE WAY THERE! Look at this sweet guy. You want to help him get his leg fixed. And we're getting closer and closer. I know times are tough, so shares are also appreciated.

when the new leaves cast their own light

finished another recent sf novella that ends right after the most interesting narrative development, thereby appearing to address Weighty Issues without ever having to engage in the messiness of consequences

ICYMI over the weekend, the next part of my novella dropped: buttondown.com/crosshatches...

arr/weirdgirllit just keeps giving

Godzilla vs Biollante (1989)

"A seventh-generation weaver, Frey's artworks preserve and reimagine the craft of Maine’s Passamaquoddy tribe." www.architecturaldigest.com/story/jeremy...

The strangest social media posts are the ones that read: "Why are you X person [who is already protesting something they care about so you know their name] also not protesting [insert favorite cause]?" Don't you hear how you sound?

Ironic since he is incapable of treating trans women with any sort of empathy but the moment it was convenient for him he changed the gender of the fancy autocomplete.

Fucking tired of people’s complicity in their own ignorance. Read a book. Care about something. Notice your environment. Anything.

I can't stop thinking about this passage in a Le Guin speech. That it was at a college commencement just makes it even better

And not bookshops owned by Zionist billionaires either (Canada's Indigo)

Augury in Litany: a sex and sorcery RPG, has dropped on both my Patreon and itch. Augury in Litany is a dark erotic cosmic horror fantasy PBTA game. This is 18+. Play an elf twink and get railed by the worst creatures you can imagine. jellyfishlines.itch.io/augury-in-li...

the recent prevalence of "whimsy/whimsical" online is odd and also p annoying

Become unsellable

weird is when tentacle or vine

#Booksky As I look at yet another IBPA article pushing AI like they own stock in it, I’ve decided to move Queen of Swords Press marketing in a bold new direction: “Artisanal queer books by creators who give a crap.” I think it has legs. queenofswordspress.com

Saint-Michel-en-Grève - Menhir de Landebourc'h à #SaintMichelenGrève (#CôtesDArmor) Menhir de Landebourc'h près Lannion, dominant... Suite 👉 https://cartorum.fr/carte-postale/50571/saint-michel-en-greve-saint-michel-en-greve-menhir-de-landebourch

For #WorldTapirDay : #Tapir Pendant Diquis, Costa Rica, c. 700-1400 CE Gold, Length 2 in. www.liveauctioneers.com/item/1167144... #IndigenousArt #CentralAmericanArt

I also feel like it’s amazing how women get blamed for participating in beauty culture. But the moment you bring up online betting men are treated as passive babies with no agency…much to consider here

I can't get over this author's marketing/framing of her new book. She's not The Highwaymen, selling art from the trunks of cars; her (incomplete!) story-collection MS was bought by *PRH*. An excerpt was just published in Yale Review. This is not a case of a scrappy underdog outsider, cmon.

that thread about Lerner is insufferable, and I don't even like the guy's work

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel.

if you're a poet you deserve a free house