the familiar taste of poison

A private hideaway for me to indulge in the things I love, that's all. (Currently that's horror, anime, TWST and danmei more than anything.) | punk-goth | 30s | they/she/xey | auDHD | writer

[titleknown]

Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet

The Trump administration is cynically exploiting calls for stricter AI regulation to pass broad censorship measures at the federal level.

So, in terrible news, Trump's trying to pull some strings to pass this massive internet censorship bill, featuring all the kinds of internet censorship we're terrified of, including mandatory ID for accessing basically any website, specifically to crush state regulation of AI, because apparently this man will always see the moral bottom of the barrel and start digging.

So, if you live in the US and hate censorship and AI you know what to do, contact your congresspeople and tell them do not fucking dare let this through or so help us god...

[kosher-salt]

More direct source of concern

URGENT: We’re one bad D.C. deal away from the era of online government censorship.

Congress and the White House are negotiating your online speech rights away. Tell lawmakers: reject KOSA, NO FAKES, and age-verification man

[rfpreiwaphase]

5calls has NOT updated to reflect this

6/14/2026

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

Call now. Call often. Get your Americans on the horn. 📞 Every time you call, 🐨 will hug you

[incorrecttwsted]

Hey heads up, Microsoft trying to pull a fast one and sneak a setting that's on by default into Windows to train AI on your typing. It's called "Typing Insights" go check and turn it off if it's on. Spread the word.

Thank you for telling me, I've disabled it!!

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

how it feels to message a friend who's having Problems that you can't do anything to help with.

[arretito]

you cannot take this from me

[maxmorkson]

Happy Pride, bite a transphobe today 💙

[incorrecttwsted]

[t-a-r-0-t]

Hey, stop scrolling.

Everyone who is reading this: I’m so glad you’re alive. I’m so proud of you. You are loved. I’m here. Don’t give up, we’re almost there.

Pass it on.

[beardedmrbean]

[mimimar]

the woman who holds the moon

prints available here. my cover for this month's issue of baffling magazine.

[bob-artist]

When an artist shares their work for free online, it can be easy to assume the art is free for everyone else to use too. So you grab it and include it in your own project, and all of a sudden an artist is mad at you, their fans are calling you out, you’re getting threatened with legal action—or even scarier, the artist’s publisher is threatening you with legal action. One-shot comics and minicomics are especially susceptible to this misunderstanding because often they are seen as viral memes instead of art, or treated as public property. But is this really the case? This guide will help you navigate using art you’ve found online. We’ll start with three basic questions: 1. Do I need to ask permission from the artist? 2. Do I need to give credit to the artist? 3. Do I need to pay the artist? After that, we’ll offer some tips on how to approach the artist.

I wrote an article for Cartoonists United! CU has a great collection of resources to help the art community, and I was really excited to contribute.

If you don't know whether it's safe to use a piece of art you found online, if you don't know how to ask permission to use art, and if you are unsure of how to approach artists, read the article!

And if you're an artist who frequently finds your work being used without permission, spread this around so more people know the etiquette around using art online!

Can I Use That Art? A Guide to Approaching Artists and Cartoonists Online

[trickr-treat]

[luna-azzurra]

Some writing advice I will never give up:

Your characters are allowed to be bad people. Your story is allowed to have no moral lesson.yyour ending is allowed to be sad. The villain can win. The good person can do something unforgivable. The lovers can destroy each other. You are allowed to write the thing that no one asked for and everything that everyone told you doesn’t work and you are allowed to not explain yourself.

It’s your story. Burn it down if you want to.

[an0neemouse]

Two things absolutely changed my life as a writer. You ready?

One- as OP said, your characters can be bad people, they can do bad things. There doesn't have to be a reason or a moral. You can make them bad if you want to. No other reason needed.

Two- it doesn't have to be good, it just needs to be written. On my last book i literally wrote the words "dumbest version" on the top of the page because I had seen some advice to do that. It changed everything. I stopped trying to make it perfect, I just tried to make it. Period. Full stop.

And honestly? Defiance is the best writing I've ever done. All because I let my characters be bad and I gave myself the freedom to write it badly.

[madeofklay]

My personal brand of humor is "horrible, useless advice delivered in an authoritative way" and this is the result of it

[kamapon]

Post overblot 🐾

[ace-artemis-fanartist]

Do you feel like ling chan wasn't appreciated enough in before the devil breaks you? She barely said anything and tbh she was only relevant when her new romance was shown with alma. Also do you know if there's any lingxalma blogs

You think so? Then I’ll be devils advocate, and defend her relevance to you. You obviously love her and so do I.

Alright, so first it is important to look at the layout of BtDBY. It is the first of the three books where all six of the Diviners (plus a bunch of the other non-Diviners) have PoVs. It’s a lot of ground to cover. Bray attempts; plot, romantic relationships, friendships, pasts, powers, 1920s American politics etc. 

The first book mainly focuses on Evie, Theta, Memphis, and Sam. The second book was a lot of Ling and Henry.

Also, Ling is the quiet observant friend by nature (I relate, I am too), gaining positive energy by being in the presence of talkative and flamboyant friends like Evie and Henry.

So on to some of the great scenes with/about Ling in BtDBY:

During the Diviners meetings she took notes, and made some great theories on focusing their individual powers to make one strong power.

She was the first one to realize that they created an energy field due to their combined anger.

When the Diviners were upset with Sister Walker and Will and planned to disband she said “we need to learn more together, not for them, but for us”, they were all like “well if Ling says so then yes we should”.

Two of the Diviners (I think it was Theta and Henry, not sure) when in trouble stated that they wished they were Ling, calm and scientifically minded.

Ling freaking out that Henry was outside among the dead, and ordering everyone around.

Basically the whole Ling and Henry friendship. It gives me life.

That time Ling discovered that if she and Memphis sing “Old McDonald had a farm” together they’d be able to repel ghosts in an insane asylum. (My baby is made of pure genius right there)

I’m excited to see how Ling grows and I really love the friendship between all of the Diviners and the diversity and representation. Yes BtDBY wasn’t perfect, and personally I’d have loved the Diviners more if it started off with Ling’s PoV instead of Evie’s, but I adore this series and eagerly await the next book

I don’t know of any lingxalma blogs. I think ao3 has a few fics of them, maybe. Hopefully the Diviners fandom will grow, because it deserves one.

[pixelartjourney]

Quaso au chocolat 🥐🍫

[ganondorf]

i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way