Suffering does not necessarily make your art better, but as long as you're suffering, you may as well get some art out of it.

Of all the things for my brain to want, writing the love interest POV for the part of the book where his communication is Very Bad (for solid reasons, but) is certainly one of them. I am not sure if I blame the migraine or the conversation about romance tropes on @celialake.bsky.social's Discord.

... how many sentences in the monster romance contain the word "teeth", let me count the ways .... #WIPSnips Here, lemme just grab this sentence: He sneered at me, showing his blunt, squared teeth as if he had the capacity to bite; it almost made me want to laugh at him.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · 3d ago

The #WIPSnips word for September 10th is "teeth" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Last post of a thread worth reading.

Crip Dyke@cripdyke.bsky.social · 4d ago

You cannot let your culture teach you lines which care may not cross, or that much of your own heart's capacity to care will be cut away. Every denial of care is a wound to your heart, & I pray that you learn, quickly, what more you may do to reclaim our capacity for care. The alternative is hell.

I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean

Got complimented on my t-shirt while picking up meds (it says "The CDC says I don't exist"), the gist of the sentiment being, "The shirt is great, the reason for the shirt is terrible, but the shirt is great." First time I've had someone seem to understand what the shirt was about.

Wales I never knew How much it hurt To carry This body Before the call That told me I couldn't put it down; There was a mistake In the scheduling. The crushing weight Of bereavement Is the closest I have ever been To death. And yet A clerical error Can be fixed Where malice Cannot.

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 6d ago

“My whole life has been on pause as I work on getting this sorted and at the last possible moment it feels like it's been wrenched away without warning."

it is Labor Day, and you know what that means

It is rather awkward to be doing MyBookFinalDraftFinalFINALNoReallyThisOne.doc edits on a book currently at an agent. I'm in the awkward "you can ping if you haven't heard back" period, do I do that? Do I do that and mention that revisions to land the themes harder have made it a better length?

This Shabbat during Elul, I am pondering a lesson on spiritual bankruptcy by @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social youtu.be/w23oFfL2q4Q?...

Spiritual Poverty

YouTube video by Farming While Beige

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My favourite editing comment thing from @kiyanicoll.bsky.social on the thing in editing: "Boy does that have resonance in middle Egyptian." (This is for the treat coming out for my birthday later in the month. Look, I share a birthday with Bilbo and Frodo, I like giving a gift on it.)

Commentary on the history of sewer socialism, which appears to be the political position that I more or less default to, and now I know that!

Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · last wk.

Mamdani is operating in the tradition of the “sewer socialist” Milwaukee mayors who got Milwaukee through the Great Depression, survived McCarthyism, and left lasting robust, quality infrastructure… and were mocked or ignored by the press.

Das ist das Schönste am Aufleveln. 🤗

Gender goals honestly.

Hal Duncan@halduncan.com · 2w ago

of course "fairy" originated in referring to the Fair Folk as "the Fair Folk" out of supremely euphemistic politeness lest you *piss them the fuck off* so I kinda think we should reclaim it as an unslur, make the cishets terrified to call us anything else JUST IN CASE

Okay, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna talk about the process of designing a monster for my monster book. There are a lot of threads here, but I'm going to hit a bunch of stuff relevant to the "subaltern art tends towards engaging with monsters" thread from a few days ago as part of it.

Kiya Nicoll@kiyanicoll.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't want to derail this too far into the personal, but I have been thinking a lot about this in the context of the novel I'm trying to sell at the moment, because I built monsters, and they mean things complicatedly. And also not all of the monsters are monster-shaped. Some are just people.

In reversal, Seth Moulton thrown under bus by trans people

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hard to believe that "centrism-for-centrism's sake" and "look, not everyone gets to be full citizens" weren't more compelling pitches to the Democratic base.

a Black family dancing to korn with their astronaut relative who just got back from the moon is, quite frankly, the best thing the internet has ever produced

I literally have a work on submission at the moment that's about a character social climbing to a top hat. Like, I'm not exaggerating that that's what it's about, it's in the *title*.

Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author@natania.bsky.social · 2w ago

Apropos to a WorldCon convo: I’d say that the most fashion inaccurate issue I see in historical fantasies or genre fantasy is a lack of hats. Not wearing hats is a very new thing. Hats were essential wear outdoors for a looooooong time. And we have collectively erased them.

Queer grocery worker chat was wide-ranging because we both had time, and touched on childrearing, movie recs and corporate malfeasance, which departments at the grocery store have a soundproof freezer to scream in, and how weird it is that my mother doesn't seem to have noticed I'm transitioning.

brain, i understand that you'd rather do Preferred Activity, but right now we have to do Task. if we finish task we can do Preferred Activity WITHOUT feeling weighed down by the need to do Task. do you see how that works ah it's biting me my brain is biting me

Speaking of polycule things, and on my mind as Pittsburgh friends are griping about pre-8pm sunsets:

Rail enthusiast wife Daria@dariaphoebe.com · 3y ago

Or as my former partner’s former partner said: “what do we want?” “Atlantic time for Boston!” “When do we want it?” “An hour ago!”

Upon reflection I am going to hold forth on my Hot Literary Take of the day, which is: All subaltern art has something of a draw towards engaging with the concept of monstrousness. "The monstrous other" is necessarily defined by hegemony, and the non-fantastical Others respond.

I am beginning to suspect that testosterone may have made me less Gourmet Mosquito Food, because I was standing next to someone who was getting bitten last night, as opposed to that someone standing next to me while I tanked the bugs. Yet another petty annoyance alleviated by transition!

This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf

it's the only relationship he mentions in his book too! He refuses to talk about who he has dated, his sexuality, etc EXCEPT that he dated Miss Piggy

lighthouse prince@historiancole.bsky.social · 4mo ago

tim curry keeping up the bit twenty years after the fact by writing in his memoir that he and miss piggy had an affair during the filming of muppet treasure island is just so good and funny

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

He's finally going to the one place capitalism can't reach him.

Tim Curry Says SPACE!

Alt: Tim Curry Says SPACE!

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Today is a day where I was told I was up on my tetanus shots! ... I have had a large bowl of soup about it. (Everything is fundamentally fine now but also, argh.)

Bragging rights on #Outlier with a merely okay score? I found a Rarity-65 word worth 88 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 795 points · 10 rare words. Only 19 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 4 finds no one else found today. playoutlier.com/s/D3V8PD

OUTLIER · Day 98

lilairen scored 795 on Day 98. Can you beat them?

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