Linda J. Lee

@lindajeanlee.bsky.social

Folklorist, educator, instructional designer. Over-educated cat lady who nevertheless persists. She/her. #AskAFolklorist

Romancelandia is a fractious community with more grudges and feuds than most people could dream. And during @romancingthevote.com everyone sort of agrees to put down the weapons and do This Thing together for a greater cause, because community is bigger than who we want to hang out with.

Micaiah Johnson@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Very nervous about tomorrow’s blog on Patreon so have some out of context quotes from it as a treat 💜

Indigo background, white text. Text reads: "There are cats you will never want to pet.
Feed them anyway.
"
patreon.com/micaiahjohnson

I, too, want to be in a place in my life where I can decline to have a conversation if the vibes in the general environment are not to my taste. That’s a bit of a power move.

ELIZABETH: Should we… expose Wickham? JANE: I don’t know about it. What do you think? ELIZABETH: Well, I guess we shouldn’t be the ones to do it since it’s Darcy’s account and not our story to tell. AND we have this precise discussion about abusers to this very day!!!! JANE!!! AUSTEN!!!!

He ends with “I will only add, God bless you,” and I imagine that between that comma and “God bless you” was a vast wasteland of time where Darcy must have agonized over whether or not he should unravel more of his feelings before ultimately resigning himself to Elizabeth’s rejection and despair.

My mom just called to tell me that she went to a museum about the Underground Railroad, where one of the exhibits talked about the locals having horns that they would blow to warn people when the slave catchers were in town “It’s just like your whistles!”

all right fam it's time for "Give Us This Day Our Daily Thread," in which your favorite internet lesbian breaks down what's new and hot in the world of Schism Watch 2026 please hydrate, stretch, and get a snack, we have a LOT to go over today

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last mo.

like forty of you tagged me in this, which brought me great joy, and I promise you a thread later tonight that is going to make you all SCREECH. you won’t believe the shit these guys are saying

It's really worth remembering, as news moves of Bessent calling Zelenskyy a "special-needs child," that we really did make a lot of progress against disability slurs. By 2019 Special Olympics had shifted the "end the word" campaign because it was so successful.

Perry: The return of the r-word

"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.

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