my high lifetime road trip count coming through for me here! (I counted stayed a while if I stayed there a week or more, and visited if I was there overnight.)

Gender thunderdome@syzygetic.bsky.social · 16h ago

Damn almost none of the middle shit, huh? For "stayed a while" i went with places I've stayed for like a week to a few months, and "visited" means like less than a week at a time no matter how many times it's been.

Come on girls this season we're going full Obelix. To be Gaul is goated actually. Put on your big pants and suck on that magic potion.

Blue Heron Farm@blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 3d ago

Absolutely not.

I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.

something interesting in the Cleves/Walden debacle is the pervasive assumption that comics are a) necessarily an inferior, derivative form that can't be credited with the diligence of research or scholarship, and b) so vastly popular and lucrative that "real writing" must be protected from them

lrt: I have rarely been so pissed off online as seeing the way people were posting about Walden's book. just absolutely unfounded, and this post covers why really really thoroughly

out it goes: my long post about Rachel Hope Cleves's claim that Tillie Walden plagiarised her book. It's long because Cleves's claim is much, much more bizarre than it looked on first reading. I'm not going to bury the lede here. Cleves's claim does not hold up. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

thene@thene.bsky.social · 3w ago

i am working on a very, very long blog post that could really have fit into a skeet: When someone posts that "this website/journal article/etc proves my dramatic claim!!!" and then does not link to the website, journal article, etc, it is because it does not in fact prove their dramatic claim.

my partner @ootron.bsky.social commissioned the AMAZING UNPARALELLED @dancynrew.bsky.social to design an ex libris stamp for my birthday! it is so delicate and beautiful and perfect, i had to take some pictures 🩷🩷 ft. the lovely hardcover paz also got me lol. anyway annie is a wizard!!!

"Today is August 4, 2026." Can't find my copy of The Martian Chronicles to take a photo of the actual published story, but it remains a collection well worth reading 76 years later: bookshop.org/a/862/9781668094853 #books #writing

Isabel J. Kim@isabel.kim · 3w ago

happy there will come soft rains day to all those who partake

nonfiction by genre gradient (graphic novels/ttrpgs, history -> art/queer theory -> art, poetry/plays -> the classics corner -> textbooks) fiction is arranged roughly by genre but mostly by where it fits.

Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · 4w ago

Enough of the horrors and doom scrolling. Let's talk about something fun. How do you arrange your books?

Billy Bat sound effects thread! Brendon (@lettererbrendo.bsky.social) and I adore the way Urasawa draws sound effects, and are so excited to adapt the Billy Bat sound effects into English. For years, we'd talked about the quirks they have and how to replicate them. Here's a thread of comparisons!

You KNOW the group chat watched Descendants 5 and then everybody changed their display names to smee

I always keep an inhaler in my purse. Yesterday I decided to put it in my pocket for the day because of the smoke, and realized it expired in 2021. I called the doctor for a new one and the nurse on the phone said “I need to check mine, because I do the same thing!” So now I’m reminding you all too.

Sea otter magic from the weekend

never expected dems to do any "get fucked, man" but probably something worth seeing is who can keep it to a basic "condolences to family and loved ones" and who feels the need to throw in some country club solidarity buddy buddy shit on top of that

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · last mo.

What I’ll remember most about Senator Graham was his sense of humor and how he deployed it to move his policy positions forward. Though we did not often agree, Senator Graham was never disagreeable.

oh this is SO exciting (and good for the sport!)

Jackie Wong | Rocker Skating@rockerskating.com · 2mo ago

Synchro 9 will be a medal sport at the 2030 Winter Olympics

important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day

lrt read akuheki with me...

blog post alert!!!!! it's 11:30pm. here finally is part 2 of my akuheki posts, in which i discuss the main character who wants to die, who wants to live, who wants to die, who wants to live, i mention birds (again?) and i work myself up into tears notebookdotca.tumblr.com/post/8206304...

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Hi again! This is part 2 of 3 posts I have planned discussing iimo's 4 volume BL Akuheki. The first post, which mostly discussed my process of close-reading and note taking, can be found here....

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i often forget to crosspost things here but i wrote up the first chunk of my thoughts on this year's eisner noms! lot of good stuff and I haven't even gotten to the albums yet www.tumblr.com/burins/82090...

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spirit: stallion of the cimarron is like, imagine if, in the middle of being the indigenous environmentally conscious metaphor against the us militaristic industrial metaphor, you also wingman’d a horse

things are hard but comic books will heal you

yayy zine time I'm a guest writer for the Your Heartbeat, My Signal #superbat fanbook and preorders just opened!! the art and fic in this book is SO good I'm in phenomenal company. you can pickup a copy through July 8 here! superbatfanbook.bigcartel.com

Three events in reverse chronological order that made me think about gendered violence

iron son, earth father (2016) samothes and the smallest smiles (2016) We Called for Confidence Alive (2017) #friendsatthetable / #marielda

We popping the biggest bottles when Maelgywn gets out of the gauntlet tonight!

I volunteer with BIJAN, and if you've ever thought about donating to the bond fund, please do so now -- the coffers are really, really low and it's heartbreaking to have to turn people away when a couple thousand dollars could get them free.

BIJAN (Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network)@beyondbondbos.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The BIJAN bond funds are dangerously depleted due to ICE’s stepped up violence in our communities.

They let me play toys again….

Friends at the Table@friends-table.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Also check out this incredible cover art by @dancynrew.bsky.social!!!

the internet should be the place we come to confess cutting all the sleeves off our t-shirts because we were left unsupervised, not the place we come to learn our lives and planet are being destroyed because rich guys are getting their gender affirming care from six data centers.

You Miss 100% Of The Shots You Don't Take. Aim For The Moon And If You Miss You'll Land Among The Stars. Never Let Your Dreams Stay Dreams.

Van Camp's Chunk Style Wahoo@rolameny.bsky.social · 6mo ago

for the first time i understand people who decorate photocards. every time i look at alexander siddig ds9 teddies.jpeg i feel a great peace wash over me. if i could have alexander siddig ds9 teddies.jpeg in my pocket at all times adorned perhaps with care bear stickers i would never feel upset again

Ahhh they played time to say goodbye for Kaori during the post podium celebrations! Her reaction! 😭 😭 😭 www.instagram.com/stories/team... #worldfigure #figureskating