[monstrous-femme]

as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.

[yellbug]

currently reading modelland which is tyra banks' YA novel from 2011. this book is so strikingly weird in its visuals. it feels like shaun tan's the arrival and the uglies series had a baby and the baby was bad but there was something fascinating about the baby that made you want to read it. it is also very hard to follow because it feels like it was dictated. i do think tyra actually wrote it instead of having some ghostwriter editor do it because no one else would write like this and it's genuinely magnetic. i keep doing other things and then going god i can't wait to go back to reading modelland.

what the fuck is going on with the smizes. they're like... spontaneously generated orbs that are released into the dystopia's water so it like incentivizes everyone to waste water and swim in sewage for the chance to have one because it bestows a magic power that means you can become a famous fashion model. and then when you find a smize it like expands like a ponyo spell in your hands and turns into glasses that make you beautiful??

another wrinkle is that the world of modelland has nations. one of them is france, but the first guy from that nation who we meet is a homunculus with a giant human hand for a head. he's the only one like that so far so i don't know. another nation has ONLY people with albinism, which is really confusing because they explicitly point out that their whole nation-state has a ton of life-threatening health complications because of it

unfortunately i have a lot further to go before i know all the secrets of modelland

No, we never know when ManAttack will happen.

[girlikeahole]

a good job from a girl with big prouds of you

[dogsplayingpoker]

i want to see wii sports textured like catz n dogz and catz n dogz textured like wii sports

[mcaelius]

its normal rome to me. just a glimpse into how ancient my mind has become

[dogsplayingpoker]

incredibly awkward grandma coworker couldn't decide if it would be bad to mention that i'm a lesbian in front of patrons at the front desk today so she instead invented the euphemism "i know you're a fan of pride week"

[innerchildabortionclinic]

❔

[dogsplayingpoker]

and you know when we were doing the percy jackson themed kids library event and the kids had me pull my secret olympian parent after they all did and i was the only one that got poseidon that they all fucking lost it

[dogsplayingpoker]

i really do not understand why some of us feel the need to pretend that anyone like. honestly ever is using the t slur to refer to transmascs or is calling transmascs by this slur when being transphobic towards them. what is the goal here

[lilbabyratgirl]

Liberal adding "I just feel so bad for them" at the end of the most dehumanizing statement about homeless people so everyone knows they hate them in a very woke and compassionate way

[lilbabyratgirl]

How to hate the oppressed classes in an Obama-honoring way

[gingehh]

reverse solipsism: everyone else has a vibrant interior life but I'm just a passive observer

[dogsplayingpoker]

sorry like. can we talk about this

[dogsplayingpoker]

and is this "sewing needle you just set down" in the room with us right now?

[mobiused]

[dogsplayingpoker]

i've never seen this phrasing before in my life this is so funny

[dogsplayingpoker]

[dogsplayingpoker]

i am very hypocritical about biological family because i feel very strongly that a blood relation means less than nothing if you have no actual relationship with a person and my mom is constantly reacting like i'm a serial killer when i couldn't give a shit about whatever is going on in the lives of basically all of my extended family members. the one's i loved + was close to at all have now all died so if my response is anything other than "why are you telling me about this?" its because they're a cute child or one of the 2 cousins i am distant from but like as people or i am trying to be nice. but i am the opposite with all of the relatives i've never been able to meet and i'm actively bitter towards the relatives that are like responsible for the ex-communication where applicable. and i think that aside from the inherited forever-identity crisis vis a vis race culture etc within my family it is because of this childish core abandonment thing and this wonder of like maybe that would have been the grandma that loved me. maybe those were the cousins i could have been lifelong friends with, etc. and because of that in many ways i hold those blood ties much closer even though i will very likely never meet any of these people maybe its a not-meeting-your-heroes type scenario. i can't even confirm if some of them are dead or alive like my dad's bio mom. in that way she can't disappoint me