A Never-Ending Tea Party

Author, autist, apostate. Trans man, queer, and proud. Thrives in an environment of G-rated villainy. // An elegant, but slightly disgruntled, person drinking tea. // Internet oddity + friendly neighbourhood vampire. // Professional of pain.

[earlgraytay]

about the earl:

Hi! I’m earlgraytay. You can call me Malcolm, Mal, Earl, Gray-- whatever. I’m a writer, a Twitch streamer, and a proud queer. He/him pronouns, please.

You can buy my queer fic on Amazon and Smashwords-- want a hopeful queer retelling of Kafka’s Metamorphosis? How about a trans lady airship captain who hunts angels and fights restrictive Victorian gender roles, or a grumpy enby veterinarian who has to heal @historieofbeafts-style goat-unicorns? 

You can follow my Twitch streams on twitch.tv/earlgraytay. This post will be updated as I figure out a good stream schedule, but RN I stream on Mondays and Fridays (though I’m not very consistent). 

I write fanfic sometimes - I’m on AO3 as scribblingTiresias- but it’s mostly one-shots, with a few ambitious weird longfics that are never updated.

Thanks for reading! Hope to have more here soon.

[luxiomahariel]

i just discovered this gorgeous progress flag design by FlailingSpade and was inspired to build upon it

the colorblind and photosensitive friendly color scheme comes from the star of david progress flag by dykeboytism

both of these flags will be placed under the read more just in case either link ends up not working

id like to think of this as the sunrise progress flag : >

[luxiomahariel]

pixeled it :3

[ace-aussie-asshole]

THEY PUT SEX MAGIC BACK IN THE FLAG (and a secret third thing??)!!!!

[luxiomahariel]

secret third thing is killing me thank you lmao 💀

i forgot that not everyone is aware that before he passed, gilbert baker added a lavender stripe to the top of his flag that represents diversity

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[theprofessional-amateur]

I love a good Very Specific Resource. Here are the links to my posts about resources carefully crafted to share a specific bit of history (updated as needed)

How Fast Was the Mail - Interactive map that giving mail delivery info in the US 1882-1908, also general railroad network information

Streaming Music from Around the World - No algorithms, lots of options, amazing music nerds helping you discover more music.

Professor Shoelace - everything you ever needed to know about shoelaces

Commercial Pattern Archive - over 50,000 scanned sewing patterns dating back to the 1850s

Public Domain Image Archive - thousands of images from various repositories no longer under copyright

Medieval Murder Maps - interactive maps of murder and accidents in medieval London, York, and Oxford

Travel in Times - plan travel routes in England and Wales in various centuries

The Quilt Index - a digital repository of quilts, makers, and their stories

Louis Armstrong Archives - Some highlights from the archives and how to access the full collection from home!

RSN Stitch Bank - hundreds of sewing and embroidery stitches, their uses, their structure, how to make them, and history!

Archive of 80s mixtapes - a whole lot of tapes from the 80s and also tapes of background music from Kmart in the 80s and 90s

Feast Afrique - What started as an exploration and celebration of West African culinary heritage has since expanded to include history, language, culture, and customs of West Africa and the African diaspora.

Letterform Archive - Thousands of high quality images celebrating graphic design, calligraphy, and typography. The beauty of letters!

Historic Menu Collection - Over 17,000 historic menus, 1.3 million historic dishes transcribed. Historic popularity and price range, map it, and more.

Palestinian Embroidery - Digital archives dedicated to the preservation of Palestinian embroidery. Over 1,000+ free patterns

Black Craftseople Digital Archive - enhancing knowledge of Black crafts people (both free and enslaved) and the objects they produced.

Georgian Lady's Magazine Embroidery Patterns - Free embroidery patterns from 1770-1819

The Dutch Textile Trade Project - History and trade of textiles in the 17th and 18th centuries. Fabric types, images, data on trade.

Estonian Knitting - Bog knits! History! Techniques!

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[henryclervals]

Masterpost of Free Gothic Literature & Theory

Classics Vathek by William Beckford Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Woman in White  & The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin The Vampyre; a Tale by John Polidori Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Short Stories and Poems An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Pre-Gothic Beowulf The Divine Comedy  by Dante Alighieri A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Paradise Lost by John Milton Macbeth by William Shakespeare Oedipus, King of Thebes by Sophocles The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Gothic-Adjacent Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Brontë Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens The Idiot & Demons (The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Historical Theory and Background The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Demonology and Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Inman and Newton On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle by Frederick Wright

Academic Theory Introduction: Replicating Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture by Will Abberley Viewpoint: Transatlantic Scholarship on Victorian Literature and Culture by Isobel Armstrong Theories of Space and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Isobel Armstrong The Higher Spaces of the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel by Mark Blacklock The Shipwrecked salvation, metaphor of penance in the Catalan gothic by Marta Nuet Blanch Marching towards Destruction: the Crowd in Urban Gothic by Christophe Chambost Women, Power and Conflict: The Gothic heroine and “Chocolate-box Gothic” by Avril Horner Psychos’ Haunting Memories: A(n) (Un)common Literary Heritage by Maria Antónia Lima ‘Thrilled with Chilly Horror’: A Formulaic Pattern in Gothic Fiction by Aguirre Manuel The terms “Gothic” and “Neogothic” in the context of Literary History by O. V. Razumovskaja  The Female Vampires and the Uncanny Childhood by Gabriele Scalessa Curating Gothic Nightmares by Heather Tilley Elizabeth Bowen, Modernism, and the Spectre of Anglo-Ireland by James F. Wurtz Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works by Sarah J. Young Intermediality and polymorphism of narratives in the Gothic tradition by Ihina Zoia

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Obsessed with the concept of dinosaurs as hunting dogs

[taciturn-nerd]

"I'm so sick of sports movies that follow the conventions that make it a sports movie!" says Ino Bettranyone, the director and producer of an upcoming film about your favorite historical baseball player.

"I mean, what's with those helmets that batters wear? It's so unfashionable. Those have got to go. And those pants are so restrictive. I'm going to show that the protagonist is a rebel and an independent thinker by having them wear cut-off jeans and run to third base instead of going to first. They'll also have waist-length free-flowing hair that they never tie up when the run."

"What? No, of course I didn't read up anything about sports history or the rules of baseball."

(Yes, this is satire about how the makers of period dramas sometime completely dismiss the social constraints and conventions of that era that make period dramas interesting, and you know, true to the time period.)

[achillesinhighheels]

They hate it when u dont abide by the same imaginary rules that they force themselves to live under

[chryza]

TikTok is a fundamentally evil app however the reason i use it is because you occasionally stumble across gems like the Chinese power transformer manufacturer who posts kawaii edits of their power transformers

[earlgraytay]

New level of gender (TM) unlocked: I get both the "Macho Hoo Rah Fourth Of July" and "Wouldn't You Like To Be Soft Butch And Frolick In A Garden" Duluth Trading Company ads.

[earlgraytay]

New level of gender (TM) unlocked: I get both the "Macho Hoo Rah Fourth Of July" and "Wouldn't You Like To Be Soft Butch And Frolick In A Garden" Duluth Trading Company ads.

[graveyardrabbit]

I really love those posts of people showing their stuffed animals various things and locations, gonna start doing that

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my giant ground sloth the Feather River and the Feather River Fish Hatchery fish ladder

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my cat the location of the last stagecoach hold-up in San Mateo County

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my sockeye salmon The Gates Of Hell

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my humpback whale Methuselah the coast redwood

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my banana slug the grave of Emperor Norton

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my tiger the geographic center of California

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my elephant seal a spirit photograph

[graveyardrabbit]

showing my javalina the 1906 earthquake fence

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[nattousan]

ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE 

[earlgraytay]

I am very glad that we live in the era where a schism in the Catholic Church is a thing to laugh at on social media and not the prelude to a century or more of bloody religious warfare.

[king-of-men]

Posts that will be reblogged in 2126 with the caption "aged like finest memetic biopropwar milk".

[earlgraytay]

Hey. We don't do doomer bullshit here.

It's hard work to make the future better, but the first step is that we have to stop joking that the future is going to be even worse and more dystopian. You cannot constantly tell yourself, and other people, that the future is going to suck, without it doing bad things to your head. It's the societal equivalent of a suicide joke.

The world we have today, even with all its problems, even in the worst shitholes you can imagine, is so much better than the world was in 1500 that it's kind of unreal. It took a lot of people's hard work and sacrifice to get us here. It takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice to maintain it. It's going to take a lot of hard work and sacrifice to improve it.

When you make your cynical little jokes about how ~oh noes we're backsliding~, you trivialize all that work and discourage other people from doing it. It's not helpful, and it's not funny. It's incredibly juvenile and tedious.

Help make things better, or shut the fuck up.

[asparklethatisblue]

children of any species are very good at being annoying and very cute while doing that

a sphinx child based on this post

[wholesomepostarchive]

7/4/2026