Bookwyrm

Ev They/Them 24 The fires last embers whisper hymns of the old gods gently in your ear

[muffinworry]

Hey don't cry, okay? We just found Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a species thought to be extinct for the past 60 years.

[evrengreywrites]

They aren’t incapable of love,

They just didn’t have it when I needed it

And it hurts seeing others receive that love

Knowing that they are capable,

Knowing that I will never know it

[lake-erie]

Frog and cranberries it must be fall.

[oolongearlgrey]

Frog and cranberries it must be fall.

[lake-erie]

Frog and cranberries it must be fall.

[frogsandcranberriesitmustbefall]

Frogs and cranberries it must be fall.

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

Hello?

[frogandcranberriesitmustbefall]

Frog and cranberries it must be fall.

[evrengreywrites]

I’ve been gone a while but why is every third post an advertisement

[holy0ak6-deactivated20240421]

[squeeblr]

via bree newsome bass on twitter: 

“The widely circulated timeline created by @Zerflin does a great job in showing how recently slavery & segregation occurred & that they lasted longer than the modern era. 

“I'd like to offer this timeline as another way of viewing the same period of history to show the constancy of both Black resistance in US & efforts of the white power structure to maintain racial caste since 1619.”

https://twitter.com/breenewsome/status/986427881680228354

[whitepeopletwitter]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS REAL

[intosnarkness]

To my younger (American) followers:

Even if the polls are ridiculous you still have to vote Even if the experts say it’s over you still have to vote Even if the newscasters have called your state you still have to vote

Elections are decided by the people who show up on election day. All the polls in the world don’t mater if you don’t go into the booth and make a choice. All the experts can be (and frequently are) wrong if you don’t go into the booth and make a choice. News media tend to call stats at 5% of votes tallied. If your polls are still open, you can still change things.

Don’t let a strong summer showing in the media dissuade you. You still have to show up in November. It does matter. If people see their candidate winning and decide that they don’t have to show up and be heard, there is a chance the other side will rally. You have to participate. No matter what.

[dnd-apothecary]

Voting this year is more challenging than ever, which means it’s more important than ever.

If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try so hard to discourage you from voting. 

If you’re eligible and registered to vote in this election, please do so. Vote down the whole ballot. Vote in your local elections too, that’s where the MOST change is made, and your vote has the MOST impact. This makes things get better, going all the way to the top. 

Show up. Stay Safe. VOTE.

[paulnewoman]

Gay USA (1977) dir. Arthur J. Bressan Jr.

[ledbythreads]

The text is from a poem by Black Lesbian poet Pat Parker (pictured) . My copy is from Naming The Waves Contemporary Lesbian Poetry - ed Christian McEwan 1988.

[zibaldoni-elzapoppin]

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

is this this the whosier guy y’all always talking about ? ngl this is a vibe

[evrengreywrites]

The guitarist is Borja Catanesi

[i-m-snek]

Kirby is so adorable in such a dorky way and I just love him

[maxximoffed]

Marvel Comics #1000: We’re Calling Him Ben

[sulemania]

I feel this is an important addition. He saves so many people on a regular basis that this just keeps happening. And he feels so much for his uncle that the answer is always the same.

[drek-odradek-deactivated2022031]

…. This hits different when you realise he’s canonically Jewish

[marvel-and-dc-geek]

Can you please elaborate ? I’m curious as to what it means

[drek-odradek-deactivated2022031]

You can read a pretty good summary of it here, but as (most likely) Ashkenazi Jews, PP probably follows the minhag (custom) that says “that by naming a newborn child after a deceased loved one, the soul lives on through the child.” (Quoted from the site linked above.) And given how his Uncle Ben died, it just makes it all the more sadder tbh.

[ohmylegz]

*stares collective in black confusion*

[ophelie-trichereau]

Inktobern°10.

“Leopard gecko”

Original painting.

12,5*19 cm.

Available in my Instagram acount.

https://www.instagram.com/ophelietrichereau

[tailsandco]

I'm gonna make a pizza with dinosaur nuggets and pineapples and send it to you for your birthday. And when you take your first bite into it you will find it all was a lie. It was all cucumber in disguise.

honestly im thinkin abt it and a pizza with dino nuggets sounds like it slaps mb we SHOULD make one

[evrengreywrites]

THIS SOUNDS LIKE THEE BEST SHIT

[voguewoozi]

yeah, its all fine and cool to say “fuck columbus” or whatever, but like. dude’s been dead for hundreds of years now. do things that actively help native lives in the present. learn about native lands and cultures. learn to appreciate but not appropriate. help us maintain what little we actually have when the government inevitably tries to take it from us.

[voguewoozi]

here’s a link to the pueblo relief fund which directly helps my people, and the people of the 19 pueblos of new mexico! a lot of people forget about us bc we’re a relatively small population but we need help too 💗 please donate today if you can

[xicamatl-deactivated20201127]

I have to tell you about the Abuela on my street.

She is nearly 70 years old, with wonderfully brown gnarled, wrinkled hands and eyes that are creased from smiling. She hand-makes all of her own clothes and sews dolls for my little sister. Abuela is very lonely… her husband already passed and her kids live far away. She misses her grandkids. Abuela comes around our place for the company almost every other day.

So this morning, my little sister and I went to visit the Abuela to return the kindness of her vegetables with some homemade soup.

It’s a funny joke we have, that if you can make a perfect posole you are wife material. I was joking around with my friend beforehand to see if I was worthy of marriage, and my little sister thinks me failing is the best thing in life, so of course she wants to ask Abuela when we arrive.

We’re wearing masks and gloves and can’t give her the big hug like we want to, but Abuela is always happy to see us. We bring the pot of soup to her table. My little sis, the little shit that she is, immediately asks, “Abuela, is Reina ready to be a wife yet?”

And Abuela immediately shifts her entire mood. Her face literally becomes this:

Abuela’s look pierces through my heart.

“Who are you trying to impress? A man or a woman?” she asks, deadly serious. We have broached the topic of marriage. It is her domain now.

And I, Rei, gay as the fourth of July, cannot believe that either Abuela clocked me instantly or that she could possibly have a fascinating past of her own. 

I thought about lying, but my little sister was there and I don’t like to lie in front of her. So I was honest and said I was trying to impress a woman.

Without a response, Abuela carefully tries the posole. The room is silent.

“For a man, it’s good,” she says after a moment. “But, you’ll need to work harder to impress a woman.”

All I can do is politely nod. I have so many questions.

Now Abuela is tired. She wants to eat and relax in peace, so she waves us away. We make sure she’s settled, and then my sister and I go home.

I can’t believe my 70 year old Abuela said BI RIGHTS

[spookybuttons-deactivated202101]

this is the funniest fucking thing ever

not only did the grandma say bi rights but like

she had two separate scales of food judgement for men and women AT THE READY and there’s something inherently hilarious in “FOR MEN IT’S FINE, FOR WOMEN DO BETTER”