[buggyhuman]

I love how the German people all come together against our common enemy: Friedrich Merz

[pangur-and-grim]

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

[pangur-and-grim]

if you'd like to show support, here are some upcoming queer books:

When Life Gives You Corpses is a brilliant YA about a cursed praying mantis who falls for a young witch. Yield Under Great Persuasion is a raunchy, but surprisingly sweet story about two men repairing their relationship. Fabulous Bodies is a horror story about a queer rockstar rising from the dead.

This is Where the Future Bleeds is a fantasy set in a vividly imagined land, where two women (who happen to kiss) are the key to healing the broken sky. You're No Better is a story about a teen struggling in the shadow of his murderous parent. Oil on Canvas is about a woman who finds disturbing paintings in the home of her dead mother.

and then here's a list of 26 queer books by Black authors set to publish this year, and a 10 upcoming books by trans authors. if you want to fight back against queer censorship, use your wallet! or (if that's not an option) you can contact your local library and ask them to stock a copy.

[penelopepennington]

In addition: looking for indie publishers and queer bookshops is a great way to find and support queer authors and stories of so many infinite varieties! (The following suggestions are based on my UK-centric knowledge)

(Some) Queer Presses:

Lurid Editions are "a publishing project committed to intentional and conscientious acts of archival repair". They are "attentive to how marginalised histories are forgotten and remembered, [and] hungry to rediscover overlooked queer books". They've just received funding from Arts Council England to engage queer readers in a project to contribute to the archive!

Cipher Press "We’re really keen on the idea that queer and minority stories are for everybody, and we want to make our books – and the stories they tell - accessible to all" (what an amazing mission statement!)

Anamot Press "Anamot [Անամոթ] means shameless in Armenian. ⁣⁣Anamot Press publishes poetry and prose on intersecting experiences of gender, sexuality, race, migration, class, belonging and loss - with no shame."

(Some) Queer Bookshops

Queer Lit Oh man, I remember when this was just a tiny little shop, and now they're the biggest LGBT+ bookshop in Europe! They do amazing work in donating books about being trans to schools and parliament! They have a pay-it-forward board that will make you sob with its notes of love and support. (You can tell I wish I still lived nearby)

Lighthouse For Scottish friends - "a queer-owned and woman led independent community bookshop. We are an unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space"

Gay's The Word The OG Queer bookshop in the UK. One day I will make my pilgrimage!!

This really is just a tiny snapshot of all the amazing work of celebration and resistance that's being done for Queer literature at the moment. We live in frightening times, but I promise there is still lots of love and joy and hope out there in spaces like these. Support them in whatever way you can!!

[beltsquid]

Currently Neon Hemlock, a queer indie press that specializes in speculative fiction, is running a Kickstarter Campaign for their seventh novella series.

[sarascamander]

I just love how they cast Hunith. She looked like the most gentle, kindest, sweetest, most wholesome and softest person I've ever seen in my life. I mean LOOK AT HER. She's absolutely beautiful and her eyes is so full of love it look like she was made from it.

She is the only person on earth I can believe who gave birth to Merlin. Emotional, kind hearted and cutie pie Merlin. When Ballinor said that he saw Hunith in Merlin, her kindness, he's not even kidding. It's so transparent there for all to see. He is his mother's son through and through. (I know, I know, Merlin is also a sassy little shit but before destiny fucked him up he's also practically bleeding with empathy).

And THEM!! God Hunith looked at and treated Merlin like he's the most precious thing on earth. I love them so freaking much and it's a CRIME that we only get two episode of Hunith. She's so underrated and she raised the sweetest boy ever and remained so resilient and kind even after how hard it might be for her with Merlin's magic.

[s-t-a-r-c-o]

im reading discworld and im on the third book and i only just realized they arent arranged like this

[sator-the-wanderer]

I raise it to

[ennsp]

hopefully passed my last dutch test yesterday, planned my weekly schedule for next semester, and somehow managed to not only prepare some content for my voluntary assoc. work but also asked my prof if he'll supervise my bachelors thesis! I have earned myself the biggest treat ever and might spend the entire saturday just doing fuck all >:-)

[welkingunther]

[persephinae]

hey you guys want to see this mansion in Ohio that sits on over 7.69 acres and is basically their own chateaux / mini palace for $3.9 million dollarie doos

(more pics under readmore)

FUCKING HOA FEE WHEEZE

indoor olympic sized pool

an actual old world crusty library

a gentlemen's lodge room or some shit

FOUR dining rooms

kitchen:

the entrance way/lobby i guess??

that's fucking crazy

[beaft]

i am not a psychiatrist but i do find it really weird how autism checklists are so often focused on "outward" signs of autism rather than what is going on internally. i don't know how to explain it but "do you make eye contact with other people" feels like a much less relevant question than "how does it feel when you have to make eye contact with other people?"

[beaft]

while i'm here, the other one that always pisses me off is "do you interpret idioms literally, for example 'bull in a china shop'?"

well, no, obviously. i know what "bull in a china shop" means because that is a popular phrase with a clearly defined meaning. and if i hadn't heard it before, then i would still not interpret it literally, because it has the cadence of an idiom and i would probably be able to work out from context what it meant. what is the point of this question

[beaft]

third and final complaint: "are you good at noticing subtext?"

i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."

and he laid a hand on my shoulder and was like, look dude i'm gonna be straight up here. i am subtle with you constantly and you simply do not notice <3

[beaft]

@luckyybones hope you don't mind me screenshotting but you are actually so correct

[spiribia]

what’s sad is that the first person to fry an ant with a magnifying glass was probably just trying to look

[spookumsandmonsters]

just mulder being mulder (part 1)

[iliothermia]

i wish everyone following me made enough money to not feel like they were being boiled alive and had the time and energy to clean their room at their own leisure

[arretoskore]

Ok this is it, I have to get something of my chest. Because of this goddamned Odyssey film I keep reading everywhere that Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate the Odyssey and because of this she has a unique take on the text.... NO NO NO THIS IS NOT TRUE she's the first ENGLISH woman to translate the Odyssey but women have been translating and publishing their translation since the 1700s !!!! In French and Italian and I'm sure other languages too!!

I'm so mad because students in Italy have been studying on Rosa Calzecchi Onesti's translation for decades!! Her translation is so well regarded it keeps being used in academia to this day and it's from the 60s!!! There have been dozens of other translations since then but we keep using that one !!!

(and also many other women published their translations both before and after her)

The irresistible urge of english/american ppl to make universal statements out of their experience

[ennsp]

the nonbinary bertha von suttner 200 € bank note redesign proposals are killing me 😭

[ennsp]

[ennsp]

the nonbinary bertha von suttner 200 € bank note redesign proposals are killing me 😭

[greater-than-the-sword]

My toxic trait is that if I find a product I like I want to keep using the same product forever. It's not even brand loyalty. It's called stop changing and discontinuing everything.

[not100bees]

[inkatesbush]

they're saying spending 2 hours in the word doc changing words slightly to be more specific and evocative and moving endless commas around is one of the most noble and respected things that you can do