[919]

moving to cohost! it's time to stop being on tumblr, probably. time for a new chapter. mutuals can ask for my username, i'll probably still be logging into tumblr for the next month or so :-)

[moonlightduelist]

”this book is a reimagining of hades and persephone as-” it’s the final month of 2023 as a society we need to move on and fast.

[eyesteeth]

there’s a mouth that takes and a mouth that returns. there’s a voice that says “marco” and a voice that says “polo” back. there are people born to water and people born to land. silt is defined as sediment carried by water. if you dig deep enough into the earth, you reach the groundwater. if you dive deep enough into the ocean, you reach the seabed. the boundaries of the river are defined by the shore around it, and the boundaries of the shore are defined by the river running through it. many things come from dirt and water in combination. do you get me?

[aantre]

everyone please welcome into the world my beautiful daughter, bathroom spider

[neenarchive]

science fiction was invented so lesbians would have something to talk about with their fathers

[machine-saint]

mutual 1: i NEED this robot CARNALLY

mutual 2: hey check out this cool math thing :)

mutual 3: fighting and sex are basically the same thing if you think about it

mutual 2, alt blog: i NEED this robot CARNALLY

[goodluckdetective]

Me: ah finally I’ve finished my knitting project

Me, less than five minutes later: shit I need a new knitting project the hands hunger for fresh yarn

[195195119511951-deactivated2021]

“Leisure, Hannah, Does Not Agree With You,” Hannah Gamble

[deathlonging]

ID: My house disgusted me, so I slept in a tent./ My tent disgusted me, so I slept in the grass./ The grass disgusted me, so I slept in my body, which I strung like a hammock from two ropes./ My body disgusted me, so I carved myself out of it.

My use of knives disgusted me because it was an act of violence./ My weakness disgusted me because “Hannah” means “hammer.”/ The meaning of my name disgusted me because I’d rather be known/ as beautiful. My vanity disgusted me because I am a scholar.

My scholarship disgusted me because knowledge is empty./ My emptiness disgusted me because I wanted to be whole./ My wholeness would have disgusted me because to be whole/ is to be smug. Still, I tried to understand wholeness

as the inclusiveness of all activities: I walked out into the yard,/ trying to vomit and drink milk simultaneously. I tried to sleep/ while smoking a cigar. I have enough regrets to crack all the plumbing./ I’m whole only in that I’ve built my person from every thought I’ve ever loved.

End ID

[firstfullmoon]

Hanif Abdurraqib’s contribution to Sad Happens, an anthology exploring sadness & tears, edited by Brandon Stosuy

[pinkprincessrei-deactivated2020]

ARE YOU A BONE OR BLOOD PERSON.

ARE YOU A VOID OR ABYSS PERSON.

ARE YOU A ROT OR DUST PERSON.

[ianmalcolmptsd]

Still can’t believe that there’s psychologists out there saying that a preference for parallel play is a bad thing when parallel play is literally an expression of “existing is better when you are near”

[chaos-lioness]

Full respect to spinners what on earth are you doing. Y'all are standing around saying things like "well the halo on the wool from this sheep Betty created the perfect fluffitude while quadruple-chain plied but it turned out 2mm too thick and I didn't like how slippery it was on my drop spindle, next time I'll try Margaret's wool since she's two years older and that should help with both issues" I think I have finally discovered how people feel about calculus. What is happening over there. I am deeply impressed with this precision and complexity and attention to detail but I think if I understood more than 50% of what you were saying I would regress back into a single celled organism. Thank you spinners.

[mutant-distraction]

Tiébélé Burkinabé

village with painted houses is a village in the south-western part of Burkina Faso, near the Ghanaian border.

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years

[oooocleo]

im done i think………….. hands this over to u with shaky hands

test prints 2moro!

✨Shop Launch!✨

[waitingforthecat]

Image description: art showing 3 mermaids, one based on an oarfish, one based on a leafy seadragon and one based on an orca.

The oarfish mermaid holds a rapir and is positioned in the middle looking to the side. The leafy seadragon mermaid is behind the oarfish one and looks to the same side, they lean on the tail of the orca mermaid. The orca mermaid seems to half hide behind the oarfish mermaid, they are holding on to the oarfish mermaids side and looking toward the viewer. Their human like upper bodies are in the same colours as their tails. The oarfish has antennas and both they and the leafy seadragon mermaid have pointy ears. The orca mermaid wears earrings and jewelery on their forhead. end Image description

[stardustmuseum]

‼️URGENT‼️

Everyone in the US, please call congress right now. I’ll leave the info and a script below. Customize your message however you want.

And please share this everywhere. We need to help Gaza immediately.

If you don't know what to say, you can use this.

“My name is _____.

I am a constituent of _____.

First, I would like to let you know that my future vote and donation will depend on your action in this matter.

We need an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel is committing a genocide, and we will not stand for this.

Call for a ceasefire and allow the necessary humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.

Thank you.”

Tell Congress: Stop the Gaza Genocide

Tell your members of Congress to demand an immediate ceasefire and stop fueling the genocide in Gaza.

[liarsblade]

Hi, I really hope you don't mind, but I used this link just now and I want to describe in more detail how the tool works, and the process of calling, in the hopes that that will decrease hesitancy for people and make them more likely to call.

This is all explained again in clear instructions through the link (there are more scripts in there too), but what the linked website does is take your name and address (so that the service knows who to connect you to), and then you put in your phone number, and the service calls you. It takes about 30 seconds for the phone to ring, maybe less.

After you pick up an automated voice, like the kind used by telemarketers, will repeat the instructions on the webpage, and then ask you to press * to be connected. I didn't get a person for any of my three calls, and I never have while calling my reps in the past, so I can't tell you how that goes, but i will tell you that leaving a message with your rep's offices is exactly the same as leaving a voicemail anywhere else. You get their recorded message, possibly it may ask you to press a number to be put through to a specific line, and after the beep you start talking. Just press * instead of hanging up when you're done so that the service can put you through to the next office. Don't hang up until you've done the third call with your house rep.

Whole process took about ten minutes.

Some bullet points:

Have your script out in front of you in some way. What I did is I had the site open on my laptop while talking on my cellphone.

It's ok if you don't say the full script as long as you hit the key points. I ended up cutting the last two whole sentences off of the script in my first call bc i got freaked out and hit the button too soon, but it doesn't matter because i hit all the key points. I'm calling about Israel and Palestine, the senator needs to call for a ceasefire and a withdrawal of military aid/the representative needs to join Rep. Bush and Rep. Tlaib in calling for a ceasefire, this issue is important enough to me that I will withhold my vote and future donations over it. These are the kinds of things that whatever staffer who ends up listening to your message/takes your call will write down to pass along up the chain. Just hit as many of those points as best you can

You don't have to worry about or use any of your energy up on "sounding natural". It does not matter if you stutter, or pause, I did a lot of both. And it really does not matter if you sound like you're reading off a script, most people who call their reps are, it's expected. Again, what matters is that you said your name, what you're calling about, what your position is, and that it's a key issue for you.

If the inbox is full and you can't leave a message, send an email. There's a link on the site for that too.

I did this on my break from work. If you have a break coming up do it then. Do it as soon as you're off work. It does not take long, and while it may be difficult, stressful or scary (my nervous system is still lit up, personally) it is not harmful to you, and it genuinely does make a difference. You should do it.

[bloglikeanegyptian]

i've said this before but i suppose it bears repeating and clarification. it is arabs and palestinians who have suffered the most under islamist rule. we (middle easterners, revolutionaries, religious minorities, gender and sexual minorities) as people, understand what hamas represents better than israelis do, better than anyone does. we understand what the entire spectrum from political islam to outright jihadist extremism does. we understand dictatorship. we understand theocracy. we understand fascism.

the repression israel has created is so absolute, has destroyed civil, diplomatic, intellectual and peaceful avenues so absolutely, that it leaves no avenues for anyone to condemn hamas anymore. even the representative of hamas's ideological and political opponents, the PLO (which oversees the West Bank), is openly frustrated at the request to condemn hamas. and it's not because he sympathizes with them. he has absolutely no political, personal, ideological or economic reason to.

israel has bombed gaza in 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2021, each and every time with the declared intention of targeting hamas and instead murdering civilians en masse. everyone familiar with israel understands that 'hamas' is meaningless, that israel has no real interest in defeating them (and that defeating militant resistance to an occupation with military force is not possible), that they went so far as to fund them as their choice of preferred enemy. when palestinians hear 'hamas' they correctly understand that israel intends to kill everyone. it is, to use the lingua franca of this period, a dogwhistle. on october 7th, israelis were horrified to see this dogwhistle suddenly become an actual whistle, but nothing else changed except for the intensity and savagery of their attacks on gaza. instead, the more they say hamas, the more they murder civilians en masse, just as they always have. everyone in gaza has said "this is not new, just worse." they have always understood that they are the target. no amount of condemning hamas, being a good palestinian, a good civilian, or even a newborn will change that.

this includes all of hamas's ideological opponents and so-called victims as well. peace activists, intellectuals, palestinian christians, and queer palestinians alike are not condemning hamas right now. they can't because they are busy fighting for their lives and homes against the israeli occupation. if you understood the personal toll this takes on them, if you understood how deeply their trauma runs, you would understand just how evil the israeli narrative on hamas is for all palestinians.

if you want a plurality of palestinian opinion, get rid of the israeli apartheid state. if you want tolerance, get rid of the israeli apartheid state. if you want israelis to be safe in their homes from the threat of hamas militants, get rid of the israeli apartheid state.

the truth is, there is a base and deeply evil racism at the core of asking to condemn hamas, especially by those who would never condemn israel or the violence it requires to maintain itself. it presumes that they have the right to ask for a condemnation of child murder, without ever giving an apology for child murder or the promise to stop murdering children. ghassan kanafani once called this "a conversation between the sword and the neck."

it is absurdity in full display, a macabre delight in impunity disguised as moral superiority. more than treating every palestinian as a terrorist in interrogation, more than its dehumanization and islamophobia, it is at its core asking "do you agree our children are more important than yours?"

and lest you forget, Israel's current minister of national security has already said it directly. as he famously once told arab-israeli reporter mohammad magadli, “Sorry Mohammad, my right to life precedes yours, that is the reality.”

in many ways, that's far more honest than asking "do you condemn hamas?"