lady luck is tired of my shit

I... okay, hold on. I've got a copy-paste response for this...

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Hi, I'm Joy Demorra, international bestselling author and general disaster.

This is my book. Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites is the first book in the Hunger Pangs series, a queer, polyamorous, paranormal, gaslamp slow-burn romance featuring vampires, werewolves, and various other creatures that go bump in the night.

It started out life as a Tumblr shit post and became an international bestseller within several hours of pre-orders going up. No one was more surprised than me.

It features Nathan, a deaf, disabled werewolf newly returned from war, and Vlad, a neurodivergent mad scientist vampire trying to unionize the workforce of the island in between tripping over all his various ongoing projects. (free healthcare, free schooling, y’know, small hobbies)

The other main character is Ursula, an all-powerful [REDACTED] working to save the world from imminent ecological disaster. The main romance arc of book one focuses on Vlad x Nathan, with Ursula forming her own relationships with them alluded to in the next book.

No love triangles here. Just three highly competent bisexuals sharing the same brain cell the closer they are to each other.

The world is set in a pseudo-regency meets fake Victorian Gaslamp Fantasy world, complete with gothic castles, enchanted forests, and just a smidge of industrial coal dust.

One of my favorite reviews ever described it as "the queer, goth love child of Terry Pratchett meets Jane Austen," so if that sounds interesting to you, you can check out my links below.

Buy the (high heat) Flirting With Fangs Edition Here.

Buy the (medium heat) Fluff and Fangs Edition Here.

Why are there two versions, and what's the difference between them? Glad you asked! You can also find content tags on my website at www.joydemorra.com if you want to find out more.

I'd put them on the book itself, but Amazon would pitch a fit.

So, yeah. I wrote a book. I'm writing several more. I'm just recovering from almost dying in the same year I published the book. Because that was also a thing. Anyway. ✨Book✨

#OP should write a book — good news!

Like clockwork, lmao.

#finally got round to getting this on audible and it's so fucking good

Twice in one month! New record!

So my sister wants to start sewing more, because

a. She’s 5′ 11″ and can never find pants long enough for her legs or shirts long enough for her arms.

b. She hates synthetic fibers as much as I do and it’s difficult to find natural fiber clothes that aren’t made of cotton

c. She’s a biologist and would physically fistfight microplastics if given half a chance

So her gift from mom and dad for her birthday was a sewing machine. Not a super expensive one but a good solid serviceable one.

And recently she asked “So where do I GET wool or linen and thread that isn’t polyester” and mom was like ‘go ask your sister’

And I, of course, crashed into the group text like “GET A PEN I HAVE WEBSITES FOR U” and honestly I’m thrilled about this

“Where did u get all this”

“Bets, u know I’m a 15th degree blackbelt of buying shit on the internet”

“oh yeah tru”

hermesmuse

Op can may we inquire about the website list

Linen; https://www.graylinelinen.com/

cotton and Silk thread; https://redrockthreads.com/

Linen thread and wool fabric; https://burnleyandtrowbridge.com/ (they’ve got wool stuffs and worsted wool fabric for $15 a yard! I just got three yards of navy worsted wool I’m making a constellation winter skirt from)

More linen thread and wool; https://wmboothdraper.com/ (just ordered wool broadcloth to make a coat)

Silk fabric (THE best place to get silk lining fabrics and raw silk fabric):https://www.dharmatrading.com/

A varying assortment of wool and silk and cotton and even some leather, use coupon code spring2020 for 50% off your full order, worked yesterday when I bought some stuff there; https://metrotextilesnyc.com/

Wool. You want wool coating for under $20 a yard? Sure you do. It’s here. Not a huge variety of colors, most are black or brown, but hey https://www.fashionfabricsclub.com/Catalog?refinementIds=4096748&Keyword=wool&pageSize=16

wingedtyger

I don’t know a lot about sewing, but I want to make or have my mom make some linen pants & shirts for when I’m watering, because it gets to 105 here and we have mosquitos so I need to be covered. What type of linen do I buy? Also, linen pajama shorts, yes/no?

(I’ve been wearing my renfaire pants which are a linen mix, I think. But the frikking mosquitos that hide in the tomatoes get my arms)

Medium weight is what I’d go with.

And linen pajama shorts is a HARD yes.

beggars-opera

Renaissance Fabrics is good for all sorts of things

Mood doesn’t specialize in natural fabrics but they do have basically every fabric ever made so

the-merry-otter

For wools, I cannot recommend Woolsome enough! They’re a bit more expensive then the above links, but they have a spectacular range of colours and weights, as well as diamond pattern and herringbone weaves. They also have a range of linens, though not as extensive.

Historical fabrics for re-enactors

justgarb

Tiedtohistory.com has sheer voile linen

The Linen Lab has a variety of weaves, weights, and colors available

Period Fabric has a variety of wools, but switch to the full website if you’re on mobile

if you’re asking AI for relationship advice, you’ve already lost. lost what? the argument, your sanity, the relationship, the house in the divorce. loser behavior.

kinktendo-shamecube-is-dead

asking AI for advice on anything is already so stupid but asking a computer for advice on human relationships is another low

roycelewis

99-year-old Maybelle Blair, who played in the AAGPBL in 1948 for the Peoria Redwings, throws out the first pitch at the inaugural WPBL game between the Los Angeles Queens and the New York Heights on August 1st, 2026

synjectivism

"the majority of religions oppress women" and so do the majority of societies! perhaps these things are related somewhat

synjectivism

the vast majority (although not all!) critiques of "religion" as a concept when you boil them down are really just "humans seeking to oppress others will use social constructs to do so."

& most people do not critically engage with the western construct of "religion" itself! people just take for granted this post-euro-enlightenment model of what religion means. which is where you get, at the worst, people criticizing "religion" who clearly genuinely do not know anything about any religion other than christianity (whatever kind they were raised with) & some vague half-facts about judaism and islam.

its also like. at the same time as (people living as) women have historically experienced religion as a tool of patriarchal control, it has equally been a feminized sphere of life. just in the western eurasian world, from the ancient mediterranean societies to medieval saints and nuns, people living as women have found personal existential autonomy and direction from their spiritual traditions, and cis men have viewed them negatively because of it. plato complained about how all the shrines in Athens were set up by women, but this was also a means for women to exist in the public sphere, to find meaning in their personal concerns and feelings and perception of the world, to connect with not just other women but also men and others who were similarly touched by these traditions. in late 19th-century southern Italy, facing the imperialist violence of the Risorgimento and brigandage wars, peasant women organized their communities in explicitly socialist and explicitly Catholic ways (from here):

A wave of popular unrest washed over Sicily at the close of the nineteenth century. In town after town, peasants mobilized labor strikes, occupied fields and piazzas, and looted government offices. While the island had a long history of revolt, this marked a new era of social protest. For the first time, women led the social movement and infused the struggle with their own mixture of socialism and spiritualism. The activity began in the autumn of 1892, in the towns surrounding Palermo, in the northwestern part of the island. In Monreale, women and children filled the central piazza shouting “Down with the municipal government! Long live the union!” After attacking and looting the offices of the city council, they marched toward Palermo crying “We are hungry!” waving banners with slogans connecting socialism to scripture. In Villafrati, Caterina Costanzo led a group of women wielding clubs to the fields where they threatened workers who had not joined the community in a general strike against the repressive local government. In Balestrate, thousands of women dressed in traditional clothes and also armed with clubs marched through the streets, demanding an end to government corruption. [...] In Piana dei Greci, thirty-six women were arrested after they occupied and then destroyed the municipal offices, throwing the furniture into the streets. [...] They celebrated the founding of the group as they would a religious festival, with music and food, and wove their political and spiritual ideologies together in their speeches. In the words of one woman, “We want everybody to work as we work. There should no longer be either rich or poor. All should have bread for themselves and their children. We should all be equal. . . . Jesus was a true socialist and he wanted precisely what we ask for, but the priests don’t discuss this.” [...]

the extreme patriarchy of the Catholic church still existed, and was still immensely harmful to many people. but existing alongside it was the lived Catholicism of peasant women whose fire for socialism was lit by their belief in God and Jesus and Mary. in all cases these people living as women could be depicted by as superstitious and irrational and driven by emotion and bodily sensation, not the proper logical rule-driven faith of the patriarchal state. which is another example of hyperobjectivity!

i'm ranting here but my point is that as in all things Its More Complicated Than That & it frustrates me to see people act like religion being used oppressively is 1) something unique to religion rather than a natural consequence of oppression and spiritual/existential traditions both existing in human cultures, or 2) brought up in a way that ignores the long history of oppressed people finding personal relief and collective vision and motivation for radical social change in religion. be nuanced about religion damn you

synjectivism

#yes thank u.#people be like we have to abolish religion because it gives people an excuse to abuse other people well do you wanna abolish society as well#also#another result of understanding subjectivity as valuable is understanding that#misogyny as a religious belief and misogyny as a secular belief sum up to the same#it's not more justified when your misogyny is grounded in your religious belief. things you believe to be objective can also be misogyny#it's not like “well their misogyny is objective in their religion#so there's no other way to solve this and we have to abolish the religion“#no!!#(disregarding the fact that misogyny grounded in secular belief in the objectivity of something is also a thing)#the misogyny has to be resolved even if it is based in something objective#because misogyny based in subjective and objective belief is the same#misogyny bad.#sorry this isn't explained well but i just had to pump this out before going back to reading#but like tldr you can't just call misogynistic religious belief subjective and abolish religion to discredit it

YES!!

take eugenics. while obviously one can find religious influences in eugenics, ultimately it is a sinister and harmful ideology that is also emerging from positivist science. there have been, and are, plenty of atheist eugenicists. plenty of people justify misogyny and patriarchy through appeals to biology.

& they are of course still wrong (because misogyny is both objectively and subjectively deeply flawed) and eugenicists arguments also heavily involve subjective interpretation, they just heavily downplay if not deny that their subjectivity is subjective. religious misogyny also denies its subjectivity is subjective but relies more on subjective knowledge than objective knowledge. & as described above - religious misogyny does this to women's and queer spirituality!!!! this is hyperobjectivity in a different format than typical positivist hyperobjectivity. in a hierarchical, dominance-based system there always has to be a loser, and in hyperobjectivity, the subjectivity that we cannot ever fully deny gets projected onto whoever has the least power.

by focusing so much on "religion" as the root cause of social problems, it actually obscures how people's and communities' worldviews can be shaped in ways that support oppressive social systems and even relationship dynamics. the reason hyperobjectivity is used by such systems is because this mode of meaning-making allows you to have final say over what is and isn't possible in other people's minds, and that restricts their ability to resist harm and injustice. historically the attempts to mandate atheist in a leftist context have involved massive systemic injustices and the perpetuation of these dynamics, just in a different context. meanwhile, in leftist contexts more dedicated to challenging patriarchy and the state, actively producing socialist theology is often massively helpful with getting working-class and rural people more class-conscious and invested in revolution.

like just on a pragmatic level, you can go on about how any example of religion/spirituality being used for socialist ends is just people "eking out a place for themselves" and its an exception that proves the rule etc. but practically you are going to be alienating many working class people by acting that way, and making them feel dismissed and condescended to and disrespected by leftists. its the same with approaches to female separatist, anti-sex work approaches feminism: you alienate a lot of the women and queer people who need to be radicalized against patriarchy the most. that spirituality has been involved in a number of mass protests and uprising throughout history (see also: the Civil Rights Movement in the US & Thomas Müntzer's role in the German Peasants' War) should suggest its role in revolution is a lot more than "sometimes the poor delusional religious proletariat manages to do something slightly radical with religion, but that doesn't change anything!"

if you think all religion is inherently unjust, you really should take your issues up with human culture as a whole. we're a messy ass species and there is no magic solution to our propensity to use culture to control each other. we just have to dedicate ourselves to doing better and believe that it is possible.

existennialmemes

Don't chase your dreams!

Humans are Persistence Predators

Follow your dreams at a sustainable pace, until they get tired and lie down!

vague-humanoid

@positively--speculative

frawgs

putting ketchup on fries is too permanent for me … i have to dip . i control the sauce

catbatart

The organizer of a rally in support of mass deportations on Monday said the rally is about enforcing existing laws, not promoting violence.

LONG POST BUT IMPORTANT, SO FORGIVE ME I've been meaning to make this post for awhile, but I've been so demoralized just thinking about it so I kept putting it off. This Saturday, August 1st, Greg. Fucking. Bovino. of overseeing Minneapolis immigration murders and shitty nazi cosplay fame, is coming to Fishers, IN- MY CITY. He's going to be a keynote speaker at Save Heritage Indiana's "Mass Deportation Rally" (Along with Micah Beckwith, our Lt Gov and pedophile-befriending pastor.) "The event begins at 7 p.m. on Aug. 1. Poynter said for security reasons, attendees will not learn the exact location until shortly beforehand," and I have heard (unverified) that they've actually been struggling to find a venue to host them. These sensitive manbaby fucks KNOW what they're doing is unpopular. (*Additional note- apparently seats are invite-only and $50 a head, OR you can pay $500 to have dinner with Bovino. 🙃)

THAT BEING SAID- several local groups, including local Indivisible groups, Food Not Bombs, Indy Resistance, Somos Latinos, and several more are hosting a HOOSIER HOSPITALITY MARCH.

The point is to bring people together in support of our immigrant neighbors and show strength in numbers. It's from 3-6pm on the same day (this Saturday.) The route takes the march by the Al Huda Mosque where people are encouraged to bring non-perishables for their food pantry, and ends in a vigil for those taken and murdered by ICE and DHS.

I REALLY want people to attend.

I plan on showing up with my D&D group and some wagons filled with whistle kits, gatorade, and snacks to make sure people stay hydrated.

If you live within, like, a 2 hour drive of central Indiana, PLEASE consider bringing some friends and attending. I so badly want the march to overwhelm my city.

If you can't attend but want to help or contribute in some way, feel free to donate via my ko-fi. I will be using donations to fund snacks, waterbottles, first aid kits, etc. to bring to the march. Anything in addition will be donated to the mosque!

ICE is opening an office about 15 minutes away from me. Since learning about it, this image has been lurking in my mind and I had to get it

The image above is PWYW, so you can donate through there and get a high res of this image to do with as you please in exchange!

Anyway, thanks for listening. Please consider spreading the word.

catbatart

For those wondering how this went-

The Hoosier Hospitality March was amazing. People CAME. OUT. WELL over 1,000 marchers! Folks were organizing carpools from over an hour away. We were prepared for inclement weather, but the rain held off until after the march, which was awesome. Amazing vibes all around!

2. Okay, so what about the Mass Deportation Rally? You know, the whole reason the march was organized?

Well, they sure as hell didn't end up holding their hate-rally in Fishers, that's for damn sure. ALLEGEDLY they couldn't find a venue here that would take them.

Near the end of the march, there was a "leaked" email that the rally was going to be held in Greenfield. Less than 30 minutes afterward, there were already rumors going around that this was a deliberate leak to throw people off. Turns out that it was, in fact, a fake leak and the actual anti-immigration rally was in Clinton County (northwest of Fishers.)

But SPEAKING OF LEAKS

3. Whether in Greenfield or Clinton County, there are plenty of wide open fields on private property throughout rural Indiana. And honestly, it doesn't really matter where it was held, because massive thunderstorms and a tornado warning rolled through central IN anyway. So while the location itself was initially undetermined, photos of the event went out almost immediately.

And these, my friends, are very real.

These pics were EVERYWHERE the day of and day after the event and now I'm struggling to find them. I had to dig up screenshots from text chains with friends and fam. Some photos have DEFINITELY been scrubbed and lots of videos posted by 'proud patriots' have since been removed (including the livestream of the event meant to show off the meeting.)

I cannot stress this enough- folks paid $50 per head for a rented pole tent, folding chairs, and dressing in church clothes to walk through sopping wet mud-fields while a fart-sniffing lawn gnome screamed slurs at them.

My spouse said "hmm...it's giving Dashcon." So we have dubbed Bovino's Splash-Time Hatestravaganza as...

Fashcon 2026

Anyway, a quick and dirty update for you. There's articles floating around on the events so definitely check those out!

Thank y'all for the signal boost. And for those who donated to my Ko-Fi, we were able to get tons of waters, gatorades, and snacks for the marchers and their kiddos. We all really appreciate it!

patronsaintofweepingmothers

2009

doyoulovethewayzeylily

dragongirlsnout

2000-2002 Saturn SL1

miss-wizard

its shorts actualy

st-hedge

what a beautiful, beautiful phrase

this cavefish has a concept of the passage of time that no other living animal could fathom

bluttto

“Everyone has the same 24h” yeah right buddy say that to cavefish

almost all animals have set activity and rest patterns and this guy does whatever whenever