Jules of Nature
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Show & Tell
Sweet Seals For You, Always
YOU ARE THE REASON
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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trying on a metaphor
Andulka
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Stranger Things
Cosimo Galluzzi
if i look back, i am lost
AnasAbdin
styofa doing anything
Keni
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My Dog's Experience with Radiation
I know this isn’t my usual fare as a queer author, but when we decided that Katie would need radiation therapy to treat the remaining cancer on her nose, it was so hard to find firsthand experiences of what it was like. It’s hard to make an educated decision on how best to treat your pet when most of the posts are other people asking for experiences and randos fearmongering or spreading…
HAPPY PRIDE MONTH
How many indie, self-pub, and small press queer books are you reading this month!!!?!
100!!!
1,000 ✨🎉🏳️🌈 !!
🗣️ A MILLION
Tag some authors here on tumblr (or share some of your favorite reads!) I'll start with a few!!
@aritany @ashen-crest @mayakern @effiecalvin
@nothwell @sweetfirebird
@nothwell historical fiction extraordinaire
@ashen-crest cozy fantasy for the win
@crossroadart-seabear selkie comics and gorgeous art
@ninawolv3rina feral vampire on a ship, and pathetic fella with Issues meets Bard with Issues
@tesscarletta sensual plant fantasy world with bodyguards and princes
@authorkarajorgensen whoops you died let's fix that and be gay
@authormicahflowers haven't read but damn those covers are pretty
@franklyn-newt trans starship captain in Dudes Rock
@magicariot magical trans girls
@kay-claire full moon problem; imo werewolves are not a problem
@ladzwriting dark fantasy; need to hurry up and read fealty of monsters
@robinjomargaret monster fucking and aro ace in all it's forms
@wolfehorror has a ton of horror books and put together an anthology with @marsadler
@hedonsgaybookshelf haunt that man
@tjalexandernyc more historical fiction for the win
May 2026 Wrap-Up Post
May is finally over. This month feels like a transition into [hopefully] significantly less chaos. We finished Katie’s radiation treatments, she’s healing up, and Edgar is being his peppy self again, so everything is on the up and up. Can you tell I am so hesitant to say this for fear of jinxing it? Here are the goals I had for May: Write more of “An Unexpected Christmas” Brainstorm more…
the village children keep following my knight around like he’s a storybook hero and unfortunately this is encouraging him
there's an old anne rice interview circulating on twitter rn that i remember reading ages ago where she makes a pretty salient point about how submissive men who have bdsm fantasies etc will go to a sex worker and basically order the ala carte version of their fantasy to be performed in real life but women don't really have that same option and certainly not at the same point of availability so they read her horny books instead. and honestly that argument has been in the back of my mind every time people get on their high horses about the popularity of booktok romantasy novels or heated rivalry or whatever the "women are horny and we're upset about that" cultural property du jour is ever since. women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.
The only issue I genuinely ever take with the romantasy tropes is that often they seem to be utterly nonconsensual on the part of the woman, as she is simply accepting (often with a lot of internal monologue about how she’s scared/concerned/upset about) the man treating her in whatever way his fantasy runs, which usually seems to be very dominance-based.
In this world where women are already subjected to the sexual whims of their male partners and their own desires are often ignored or belittled, I very decidedly don’t wish to read about that exact same thing happening to the FMC. Now, if the FMC is living her best life whilst being subjected to these tropes and shadow-daddy MMCs, then good for her!
I just really wish that the FMC’s pleasure and desires would be centered, rather than just assumed to be submissive and then executed as such without first asking.
So yeah, am I asking to see the kink negotiation scene? Hell yeah, I am.
Nope. Because in a book like that, the BOOK ITSELF IS HAPPENING WITHIN THE KINK SCENE. The kink is non-diagetic! It's like saying "I don't like when movies have music that comes from nowhere, I wish they would show us where the musicians are, how do you have an orchestra pit when the heroine is running around the moors in the fog and the rain??" The kink negotiation scene isn't happening between the characters, it's happening implicitly between the reader and the author, and your power to withdraw consent is perpetual and ongoing -- all you have to do is close the book and walk away. You're allowed to do that, and I encourage you to do it.
But for things happening between the characters, if the FMC is scared-AND-horny or whatever, that's what the fantasy is supposed to be and you as the reader are expected to do some basic suspension of disbelief in order to engage with the idea that (just like in a kink scene!) this is not real, this is just for pretend, everyone is safe and no one is actually getting hurt. On account if it is fiction.
Now, if you're not into that, that's perfectly fine, I am not saying you have to be into reading things that you don't like. If you want to see some kink negotiation, that's cool. Sometimes, there are books that are about diagetic kink, and they do include those negotiation scenes. But for non-diagetic kink (aka the thing you're "taking issue" with), I don't think that it's fair to say that it's wrong for those books to be written that way. A woman's desires ARE being centered -- either the author's own desires or what the author is envisioning the reader will desire. If you're not into it--again, that's perfectly fine, it's just not the right book for you or the right genre for you. Read something else.
You missed the point of the first post, @atinymekanie, so let's read it together again:
women, especially straight women, have so few outlets for their sexual desires, especially if they have a partner who doesn't share them, and i will never understand why "someone ELSE'S private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable and therefore they should not be allowed to engage with it, even if i am in no way being affected by it or even aware of it at all" is such a popular party line among allegedly progressive young people.
"yes but the only issue i take with romantasy tropes [...]" literally is just "someone else's private sexual fantasy makes me uncomfortable" in different clothing. Do you see what I'm saying? You're doing the same thing. "Yes but when it comes to the thing *I* don't like, people shouldn't do it that way." Not everyone is doing it that way! Read different books!
sending "?" to represent myself tilting my head like a dog
sending "!" to represent myself perking up my ears in excitement like a dog
On Writing Medical Conditions in Historicals
A week or two ago, I put out some feelers about what my readers would like me to write about, and someone suggested writing about medical conditions in a historical context. This is something I’ve dealt with my entire writing career since my first book features an amputee main character and my latest series follows an autistic main character, and after eleven books, I have a bit of a process for…
We gotta do something about ecoableism, guys, I can't keep seeing people confidently assure everyone that their ideal world is one where disabled people with specific needs don't get to be alive.
The most insidious thing about eugenics is that society is so ableist the majority of people do actually think eugenics would work and disabled people are better off dead, they just tack on an assumption that while yes eugenics works it's still bad because disabled people dying for being disabled is morally wrong. But they never actually think it's scientifically or medically wrong. We're just civilized enough we've decided to politely pretend the science isn't right because social justice.
It's like how a bunch of celebs were big on body positivity and fat liberation...until Ozempic dropped and it turns out no, none of them ever believed any of that! They just pretended to bcs up until now healthy, long term weight loss was impossible so they had no choice but to cope by learning to love themselves no matter how they looked...but now that it's here we can go back to the truth! Being fat is ugly and gross and unhealthy and you should starve yourself and take experimental meds right now so you can be skinny which is what ALL humans are clearly supposed to be!! Yeah that body positivity stuff was fun, but come on. We know you actually just wanna be skinny and think being fat is a fate worse than death.
That's what it feels like to me. Every single time. Honestly in a lot of other areas too, one of the big issues with the left is that they really do seem to think that Republicans are right about how things work and should work but we just pretend otherwise because it's the right thing to do and it reduces suffering. Which seems fine, but you cannot be an effective leftist like this. You do actually have to deconstruct your beliefs and biases and world systems, you can't go around like "well yeah we aren't gonna kill disabled people that's eugenics and it's wrong" when you clearly don't actually think it's wrong. You think eugenics would work but implementing it would be uncivilized, and it shows. You have to actually understand that racism and ableism and all other forms of bigotry are not just cruel, but entirely incorrect.
Idk if this makes sense but yeah. We gotta do something about this.
This is what Into the Woods meant when it said nice is different than good.
This is also how you get people being like "I'm not an ableist! I love disabled people!" after making a joke about Trump wearing diapers or not being able to walk down a ramp. They don't think ableism is wrong, they just think it's right but impolite, so only okay aimed at those who deserve to be insulted.
Absolutely part of why shit sucks so much rn.
Ngl I'm glad I figured out how to word this, bcs trying to articulate it as "you don't actually think bigotry is wrong you just think the target should be someone else" always felt incomplete! I now know what I meant was "you don't think bigotry is wrong you just think it's impolite and that's different" that's what I needed. You just think bigotry is being mean to a marginalized person who, crucially, has done nothing to deserve it. The second they do tho? Anything is fair game.
Yeesh. What a rancid ass way to view the world.
Kara has Gender Feelings
Recently, I have been having big gender feelings again. As you may or may not know, I’m nonbinary, and I use they/them pronouns. I’m fairly out about being nonbinary, but it comes with the annoying side effect of being absolutely invisible to non-trans people (and to some trans people as well). Binary trans people, especially trans POC, are often more visible than nonbinary people. They are…
Kara has Gender Feelings
Recently, I have been having big gender feelings again. As you may or may not know, I’m nonbinary, and I use they/them pronouns. I’m fairly out about being nonbinary, but it comes with the annoying side effect of being absolutely invisible to non-trans people (and to some trans people as well). Binary trans people, especially trans POC, are often more visible than nonbinary people. They are…
everyone loves Predynastic Egyptian Terracotta Bowl with Human Feet. shout-out to a real one
It looks like it would be so excited to run over when you needed a bowl
Got distracted. Saw a cool bug
I'm sorry how fucken old do u hafta be to be *predynastic EGYPTIAN*
Vincent Price in a turtleneck
everyone loves to hate terfs until they realise that it actually entails rejecting bioessentialism entirely and then suddenly you’re “taking things too seriously” and you “don’t have a sense of humour” like i’m sorry but saying protect the dolls doesn’t make you immune to terfism it has seeped into every corner of mainstream feminism and unless you’re actively searching it out and checking your own biases you will always be at risk of sharing a space with terfs
“Only women can—” nope. “But all men—” nah. “The divine femininity of—” gonna stop you right there. “Everyone born ama—” if you finish that sentence I’ll kill you. “Men don’t experience—” you’re wrong. “Gender isn’t real but sex is imm—” *loud incorrect buzzer*
It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.
I don’t have the energy to engage directly with the post involved (because yikes) so I’m going to make my own post clarifying something:
It’s histamine, not histamines.
I know it might be confusing because there are different types of antihistamines, but that plural refers to how the drugs interact with the receptors in the body, not the chemical itself.
Different antihistamines target different receptors in the body to address specific issues. So, for example, Zyrtec targets h1 receptors which primarily mediate allergic reactions related to the respiratory system, while h2 blockers, like Pepcid, target the receptors in the GI tract. When combined, people are finding they can help alleviate PMDD which is great.
There is not, however a different histamine that affects your sinuses and another that affects your gut. It’s all just one chemical, but it can be picked up by different pathways in the body, hence why we have h1 and h2 blockers. (We also have h3 and h4 receptors and probably more I’m forgetting about right now that can be targeted by different medications. Neat!)
Similar to how the body has different histamine receptors, MCAS is not exclusively a histamine issue. It can be the main issue for many people, but it is rarely the sole issue.
There are hundreds of chemical compounds contained in a single mast cell and when those cells degranulate, it’s the equivalent of taking a Molotov cocktail to the immune system. Histamine is merely one of them.
Telling someone with MCAS they must have something else because eating low histamine isn’t helping them, is not only arrogant, it is shockingly ignorant and frankly fucking insulting.
People with this disorder know more than you.
And hey, maybe you’ll find out you also have this disorder and that histamine is often just the tip of a terrifyingly under researched iceberg. I hope for your sake you don’t. I’m so sincere about that.
If you think Remmick's behavior in Sinners towards Sammie was in any way queer or motivated by sexual attraction, boy do I got a book you'll love!!
Join your fellow centuries of believers as you learn the racist history of white people (yes, the women too!) taking advantage of their enslaved Black victims' bodies in any way they saw fit, because they had a psychosexual obsession with the power they held over them! I'm sorry, I mean the "enemies to lovers obsessed vampire trope"!
That title is kinda creepy to me.
So is eating Black people both literally and figuratively, my dear
we were tagged in the replies here. just wanna say this book is incredible. we’ve got the audiobook at QLL (& hope to add the ebook in the future)
it is also an award winner! 2014 Lambda for LGBTQ Studies
Introducing Myself
If you already follow me and have for a while, you already know who I am, but semi recently, I’ve gained quite a few new followers online and a bunch of new readers. It just feels like a good time to reintroduce myself. Hi, dear readers. My name is Kara Jorgensen, my pronouns are they/them, and I am a queer indie author who writes queer historical-paranormal romance books set [mostly] in the…
