K. Locke

writer | dreamer | secret | spy

[leviathan]

now i’m the villain in your history

[huffylemon]

Let’s go shitheads we can do this

[the-final-sentence]

A girl.

Kiersten White, from The Excalibur Curse (via the-final-sentence)

[renamonkalou]

The end of the day | Anna Melnikova

[bookwormingparty]

[feminist-space]

"Customers need to know that just 'cause you hit one-click buy, it's not magic. These are real people being affected. We want you all to stand in solidarity with these workers. They come from y'all community, they're your neighbors.

The first thing we're fighting for is job security. They hire and fire people all the time. There's people that are homeless and people in shelters working there that we help.

We're fighting to make everybody a shareholder again, which they stopped in 2018, and bringing back the monthly bonuses for productivity and attendance. They stopped that in 2018, as well. Bring back hazard pay.

They think the pandemic is over. People are still working, catching covid, still being sick. And, also, providing a better quality of life: a pension, free college...everything a union can provide, we want to provide."

-Chris Smalls, Amazon Labor Union

[books-and-cookies]

golden hour

[digsdigsdigs]

this thread is more affirming than 95% of "self care" materials

[funnytwittertweets]

[drownedinmoonlight]

Curved sticks laid around a river boulder. Took longer to find the sticks than to make the work. Woody creek, Colorado. 16 September 2006. © Andy Goldsworthy

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

i like how we invented our own use for the tag system. “these are for finding similar posts” nah these are messages i wrote with the invisible ink pen i got from the book fair that i leave for my friends

[impracticality-deactivated20230]

I would be unstoppable if not for the problems

[headspace-hotel]

writing can’t be that hard. all it is is just putting words in front of each other, right?

[headspace-hotel]

update: the wrong words are in front of each other. This is the worst thing ever to happen.

[sottopressione1]

[brightwanderer]

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

[linseymiller]

the story of sal, who has done nothing wrong ever in their life, is on sale this month

[linseymiller]

The sale ends this week! ⚔🖤⚔

[bibliogato]

One of my absolute favorites, which was a little ahead of its time, so if you want to join the cult of “SAL IS THE ABSOLUTE BEST CINNAMON ROLL WITH KNIVES” please read.

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

Do not cite the deep canon to me, witch. I was there when it was collectively ignored.