Queen Caterpillar, Lord of the Underground

there is a thing called “horseness”

[depsidase]

[lostonmyroad]

jessica really said “god forbid women do anything” and doomed an entire people to war by installing her twink son as a false prophet by stealing her cult’s 10,000 year old breeding program propaganda

[hyped-up-on-girl-pills]

[tlirsgender]

Some of you think of Cops as kind of a symbolic figure representing "telling you what to do" & you're Posting things like "acab includes fandom discourse" and I thuink the 80% white website needs to remember the reason why we hate cops is because they kill people

[tlirsgender]

We hate cops because they're a weapon for enforcing the state's interests through violence. Like, they kill & imprison people. The antis don't have a Quite Literal boot on your neck please god log off or talk to a Black person or something

[tlirsgender]

To be SO fair like really generous there is something to be said for unlearning the habit of figuratively "policing" other people especially in the context of, like, not being a fucking snitch, "kill the cop in your head" etc etc, but can we not completely lose the plot re: what cops Are

[cyberglittter]

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[psshaw]

Y'know how they say a child writes the best poetry before they learn what poetry is "supposed" to look like? I think a visual artist makes the best visual art before they learn how well it would sell if they made an enamel pin of a possum saying "be gay do crimes"

[voxceleste]

I'm not mad, just disappointed.

There is a likeability crisis in much contemporary queer sff. Authors are unwilling to make their characters look bad, and it compromises the integrity of the story. I don’t think this is the result of individual authors’ incompetence. The state of the publishing industry and the social media ecosystem around genre fiction has refigured the reader as, primarily, a customer, and the customer is always right. If Yamamoto had written a highly entertaining and optimistic crime novel with a cast of highly flawed marginalized people who the reader is expected to root for even as they hurt each other, themselves, and the people around them—if they took seriously the premise of the story they did in fact write—it may have been more difficult to market. It may have received more negative Goodreads reviews from the kind of people who don’t like Wuthering Heights because it’s just a bunch of terrible people treating each other terribly. But oh my god. Who cares. Those people can go read a book that isn’t about people who steal things for a living and send each other to jail.

i wrote 3,100 words about makana yamamoto's hammajang luck, friends at the table's twilight mirage, heat (1995), suspension of emotional disbelief, and the state of queer genre fiction. cheers. (cc @burins)

[burins]

you need to read this (all of it, but the conclusion really hits the nail on the head with not just queer sff but so much of contemporary fiction from books to comics to TV.)

[unleashed-dawn]

Flat baby.

[poughkeepsietapes]

[rexalogy]

i reference this all the time i forget it’s not a meme online but a children’s drawing i saw on the sidewalk once

[horsefigureoftheday]

I wanna try every bad CD-ROM horse game that was released in the 2000s

My favorite thing about them is that they all look like fake games, but they're all so so real and there's at least 60 of them

[violenceunimagined]

[zeroartsblog]

Felt like drawing mgs4 today

[witchdisk]

please god it would be so funny

[witchdisk]

proud owner of a sonos 5500 ultrasound machine

[dovvvvv]

[wuwojiti]

what do we even post now that "if normal, start podcast" is out of date

[hyldoc]

your new podcast, presumably

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

the note was pretty clear about what our options are

[tetrafoursmemorialpersonality]

Happy anniversary to getting the hell out of there!