Literally SebStan's boot

Aspiring storyteller. BIONICLE enthusiast. an adult. he/him. GAAAY.

[bodacious-energizedprotodermis]

FUCK TERFS

Just blocked a follower who is proudly a TERF so just in case yall got confused FUCK YOU.

Also if I have reblogged anything that is TERF-friendly that I overlooked pls feel free to let me know!

[veliseraptor]

that ‘pakige?’ post but me, a couple hours after posting a fic, like ‘comints?’

[kitten-kin]

[leahazel]

F5 F5 F5

[kitten-kin]

… F5 F5 F5 F5F5F5F5F5

[paleolithic-art]

Frieze of the Small Horses, Axial Gallery, Lascaux cave

Magdalenian, 15,500 ybp

[copperbadge]

I know myself well enough to know I would not be very good at fanbiding and that would mainly frustrate me, so while I love fan binding and admire those who do it, I've never dabbled.

I have never regretted that decision more than I did waking up from the dream I recently had, where I excitedly bought a rare copy of the novel that Goncharov (1973) was based on, opened it up, and found that it was a hollowed out "book safe" for keeping valuables in.

[greaseonmymouth]

@copperbadge were you looking for the Goncharov novel ?

I tracked down a copy of this invaluable classic and somehow got my hands on a near pristine copy secondhand from the 4th printing. It’s lost the dustjacket, alas, but that means I got it for like £5 and not the £4200 a first edition printing in fine condition goes for.

(Who’s the author? *looks at smudge on spine* uhhhh Mkkhill Montanann)

It looks right at home in my bookcase 🥰

Under the cut: a look inside at what the book holds:

Just kidding.

It holds only the air of regret and disappointment.

[copperbadge]

OMG HAHAHA AMAZING! What a find! Truly a vintage treasure. I am dying, it looks fantastic.

[maureen2musings]

California’s wildflower superbloom

ryanresatka

[fishdogma]

Hey, I saw the ask that you answered that "Yor is far more stronger physically than Twilight". Lol, I love your drawings 🤣🤣

It got me thinking.... in your spy x cats universe, would cat Yor still be that strong too?

Like maybe, cat Yor brought back a boar, and Twilight cat be like O.o??!

And cat Yor just sheepishly said: I thought now that there's 3 mouth to feed, we need more meat? Maybe this big mouse will be enough?

Twilight cat be like: but that's a boar??!!! O_o??!!

Idk, just random thoughts that came to me 🤣🤣

Anyway, I hope you can get the rest that you so much deserved 🥰🥰

Have a nice day

She is a badass in every universe 😤

[weirdlandtv]

Cartoon by John O'Brien for NEW YORKER magazine, 1991.

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[agarthanguide]

Link to the article

We regret to inform you that the sunshine and friendship app is actually a children killing app.

[1five1two]

[closet-keys]

I don't know how to address this properly because I feel like every time I write about it I get the same misunderstandings from every direction.

the thing happening right now (at the very least in the US and UK) is that trans youth are actively and systemically losing access to healthcare. this has been gradually escalating since the start of the pandemic, and more young people lose healthcare every single year.

when I talk about this I tend to get two responses

"why do trans adults want to expand these experimental treatments to children who can't consent"

"providers offering care to trans adults is a step in the right direction, even if they aren't offering it to trans youth. the perfect is the enemy of the good. we can't fight our allies."

do you see how both the overtly transphobic version and the nominally "pro-trans" version replicate the same misinformation?

this is not a question of "should we expand access to trans youth?" trans youth have had access to medical transition care for a long time. what is happening is the care they already had access to is being made inaccessible and then criminalized systematically.

am I making sense? places refusing to offer care to trans youth are not "a step in the right direction" because that implies that the trend is expanding access that "begins" with trans adults and innately will gradually encompass young people. that is not the case. this is not a hypothetical thing that we can all have different theoretical opinions on. what is happening is the systematic revoking of healthcare.

the further this progresses, the more healthcare is restricted for more demographics. that's how this works. healthcare is being restricted across the board as part of the broader eugenics project. abortion is being restricted. vaccines are becoming more expensive. insurance companies are denying more treatments to disabled people. anti-fatness is surging. ableism is surging. there are active campaigns to get people to mistrust the very idea of healthcare in favor of "wellness" grifts. no one wears N-95 masks. this is the trend. it's been the trend.

I don't know how to communicate that we are not at an early step in a progressive trajectory, we are mid-stage in a eugenic order. please understand what I'm saying.

[makingqueerhistory]

Magnus Hirschfeld — Making Queer History

Content warning for Nazis, Holocaust, eugenics It only makes sense to follow the story of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft with the sto

Magnus Hirschfeld was a gay Jewish man born in Germany in 1868. As one of the founders of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, he lived and worked through the rise of Adolf Hitler. A fierce advocate for queer rights and reproductive rights, he is well-remembered in queer history as one of the pillars of the queer community. Using science and knowledge as weapons, he fought for a better world, and, in many ways, shaped the queer community’s current reality.

[petersolarz]

New Galaxies TM194 © Peter Solarz

[dduane]

Today's the day to say this, it seems

Dingbats have come after our buddy John Scalzi, over the last twenty-four hours, giving him grief for not being AI-friendly.* (eyeroll) So John has had to spell out his feelings about this in more depth.

The same dingbats have also confused him with our old friend Charles Stross (which is deeply funny in all kinds of different ways, but never mind that). So Charlie, too, has had to spell out his feelings about this.

So why not join in? Here's my take, expressed some while back, and a little amplified to reflect the day's business.

Our AI policy

None of the works on the Ebooks Direct website, whether literary or artistic, are or ever will be produced using AI technologies. Just so yo

TL:DR; Leaving aside all other considerations for the moment, I will not use technologies trained with material stolen from my colleagues. "Lie down with pigs, get up with mud," the saying has it. "Lie down with thieves..."? Fill in the blanks for yourselves. ...Me? I refuse to handle stolen goods. Period.

And—not naming some of the colleagues, but some of you will know who I mean—this excerpt (in which I also speak for @petermorwood, because I know damn well what he'd say):

We do not use, and will not use, ChatGPT, Claude, or any similar tool. Ever. ...Not even "just for research." Not even "just for outlining." Not even "just for brainstorming." You need a brain to brainstorm. "Generative" "AI" has none. As by-choice "brain-only writers", we decline collaboration with the non-brained.

And that's that.

(sigh) Meanwhile: look here! Books written by the honestly, organically brained. And on sale, too!

Our Summer Reading Sale

Details about our summer sale are here.

(Please do consider a purchase... or reblogging this for the sake of the gossip, if nothing else.)

*They actually called him their new favorite Bad Word, a "decel"! Like deceleration is a bad idea when you're heading head-first at better-than-escape-velocity toward what has a 50-50 chance of being a very big rock. (eyeroll) Jeeeeez but "what are they teaching them at these schools."

[kcggggg]

I collaborated with the Human Artistry Project to make this strip alongside other web cartoonists to make the point that “Stealing isn’t Innovation” when it comes to A.I. usage. It seems to be doing numbers on instagram and elsewhere, so you may also read it here, tumblr.

May the discourse that ensues be long and unhelpful.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

at the start of every month everyone reblogs some insane poetry that’s like “august has arrived and again I swallow my bones in the burning sun” and every time I’m like damn that makes no sense. but kind of true.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

omg guys happy bone swallowing august

[nighthaunting]

thought too hard about MRI machines today and had this come to me in a vision

[beesmygod]

mri accident is literally one of my biggest anxiety freakouts. i dont care about being in the tiny loud tube, im so scared of a secret piece of metal i dont know about in my body will tear through me like a knife through butter. what if i ate a quarter in my sleep

[neutral-wizard]

Quarters George who eats a $10 roll of quarters every night is shredded into a fine mist my the MRI

[its-grape-juice-i-swear]

TIME TO POST ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE IMAGES!!!!

Back when I worked at the hospital, I had to take MRI training and it was my favorite thing every time. It was only like 10 minutes long and went a little something like this:

Hey. The MRI is basically a really big magnet and by basically I mean it is and we literally never turn it off. It's like really big. Really really big and powerful and The Magnet is always on. We don't turn it off Ever, for any reason. We mean it bro, The Magnet is literally always on. It's crazy strong and will definitely kill you. So don't bring any metal into the MRI room, man. You will fuck up the machine (because The Magnet is always on) and then you will die (again, because The Magnet is always on). Here's some fun questions for you to test your understanding!

1) The ______ is always on.

2) The Magnet is ______ on.

3) How often is The Magnet on?

4) The Magnet is always __.

5) The Magnet is always on. T/F

6) The Magnet is usually on but we know to turn it off for you because you're a very special boy :) T/F

7) My weak fleshy body can survive the wrath of The Magnet. T/F

8) Look at this 500 lbs steel hospital bed, which The Magnet has crumpled into an origami crane. Imagine if that was you.

9) Is The Magnet ever off?

10) Sometimes we turn The Magnet off. T/F

Thank you for taking MRI training. We hope you learned that The Magnet is always on, because it is. It's on Right Now and it will be on every time you come to the MRI. Have fun and remember: The Magnet is always on!

I love you MRI training. The Magnet is always on.

[bodacious-energizedprotodermis]

@fishdogma thought of you