Harper L. Carnes

@harperlcarnes.bsky.social

Gray-ace & aegosexual lesbian. Coffee addict. Dog, lizard, tarantula, fish, & bunny mom. #Actuallyautistic. Writer of monsters. Survivor of worse. Finding healing through stories. Author of dark romance, horrormance, & romantasy. 🔞 www.harperlcarnes.com

The point of legislated dehumanization is never just the law itself but the creation of a climate in which institutions become more timid and companies more cautious. Erasure of a people under capitalism arrives first as a thousand risk calculations.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 4w ago

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul LGBTQnation GLAAD finds Hollywood continues reducing the number of LGBTQ+ characters; even worse, GLAAD found ZERO trans characters in 225 films last year and ZERO LGBTQ+ ones in animated and family films. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/holl...

CW: SA Thinking back to that time I tried opening up to an ex friend about when I was an 8 year old child and touched inappropriately by a 6 year old. Their response was to tell me I’m gross and it was my responsibility to stop it because I was older. While the ex who SAed me called it hot.

Summer Solstice captured from Stonehenge yesterday. At first light, the sun climbed up behind the Heel Stone and threaded itself straight through the center of Stonehenge exactly where the builders aimed it nearly 5,000 years ago. Ethereal Earth on FB

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The entire Microsoft 365 lineup runs so unreliably, slows down my computer processes, and frustrates our clients by asking them to log in even when they don't need to. But at least it's also an expensive subscription with poor integrations that also occasionally deletes saved folders for no reason.

After Barbie Execs: Toys! More toy movies! Not more women directors & leads. TOYS After Kpop Demon Hunters Execs: Singers! More movies with singers! Not women of color directing & starring. SINGERS After Backrooms Execs: Reddit stories! More Reddit stories! Not young people with new ideas. REDDIT

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Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2mo ago

Hollywood agencies are searching Reddit for short stories and ideas that could be turned into movies following the success of 'Backrooms' (via THR)

Sure, Microsoft may be closing more game studios because they don't know how to run a company. But at least we can expect them to add more AI no one wants to their operating systems that don't work so we can better use their Office suite that runs like hot garbage.

So, readers who don't read prologues or epigraphs, who only read dialogue, who only read under the 2nd full moon of the year on a Tuesday... Listen, the book you picked up? The author wrote all those words. The words ARE the book. Only reading some words is a great way to not read the whole book.