Calisto, like the moon

They/He 🏳️‍⚧️| fandom sideblog | Mid twenties | 🇧🇷 | *All* TERFS can go fuck right off | Minors dni!!!!

[justalilfandomguy]

Ok I guess we're doing the fucked up version now

[vintagerpg]

Michael Newton’s Monsters, Mysteries and Man was a bit of a mystery for me for many years. I remembered it from my local library (it was at the Main, which I didn’t go to as much as the closer, smaller Branch). I had gotten it out before a trip to my grandparents' house and I distinctly remember reading it in bed there in almost one sitting. I remembered that it had a garish monster head on the cover and that the title reminded me of Richard Cavendish’s Man, Myth and Magic series, but that was all I could remember. Searching, for years, on the internet, turned up zilch.

And then, sometimes, I find that magic combination of words on the right site and boom, there it is, the thing I was looking for all those years. The site in question was Archive.org, so hey, you can read it too. The dust jacket is magnificent, isn’t it?

The text was a bit less noteworthy all these years later. It’s a general survey of crytpids — Yeti, Sasquatch, surviving dinosaurs, sea and lake monsters, Kraken, Nessie, UFOs — and the efforts to find and study them. Two more chapters cover vampires and werewolves, but they are half-hearted because there’s no meaningful chance that they are real. And that’s what Newton wants. He’s the opposite of skeptical Daniel Cohen; the whole book is arranged around finding the small holes of doubt in the skeptic’s argument and filling them to brimming with the hope of the believer. Considering not much has changed on any of these fronts in my lifetime, I don’t expect they ever will. Sorry Mike.

Still, that cover art is an all-timer.

[starvulture]

Collecting these rn

[orangeblossombitch]

Long live the Intifada!

available on my INPRNT

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.

[gendercensus]

The 2026 Gender Census is now open!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

[gendercensus]

🎉 1,000!!! 🥳

And it's only been about 3 hours, and I haven't even done the mailing list email yet!

[justalilfandomguy]

No but it was so Zac Oyama of him to drop the "my character was mostly based off of Zoolander" bomb in the last like 15 seconds of the last adventuring party of the season

[justalilfandomguy]

That last episode was absolutely batshit crazy, but I think it's really sweet how Brennan made up a wholeass mad story about werebats that has absolutely nothing to do with any part of the rest of the plot just so Mitch could keep Vesper alive while keeping her ability to age, live during daytime and pursue her zoology career.

[justalilfandomguy]

It has come to my atention that werebats are very much a canon thing in World of Dakness (which is actually very badass) and that just makes it all more fun. Like of fucking course Brennan Lee Mulligan would stick to the rulebook canon while also perfectly matching his friends' freak

[justalilfandomguy]

That last episode was absolutely batshit crazy, but I think it's really sweet how Brennan made up a wholeass mad story about werebats that has absolutely nothing to do with any part of the rest of the plot just so Mitch could keep Vesper alive while keeping her ability to age, live during daytime and pursue her zoology career.

[15lehna]

Dr Clown

[mail-me-a-snail]

he's free now

[faronisbadatgames]

I'm really good at this game i think

[unexplained-occurrences]

Strong contender for greatest ghost of all time

[grummygh0st]

more shameless self-rec, don’t mind me :P

[jazzw4ve]

*thunder crackling*

THOU ART LISTENING TO

*fireball explosion*

102.3

*bubbling cauldron*

REAL WIZARDS FM

*shimmering mana crystal*

WHERE WE PLAYETH NOTHING BUT CHANTS, CHANTS, AND MORE CHANTS

*wololo*

THIS ART NOT THINE ELDER MATRIARCH'S STATION

*Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing*

[palisadewasp]

Visit Original Link

sorry this is so bad i just. needed

[squeakitties]

following weird horny furries who are into shit like pooltoys and transformation and stuff is enrichment. the vitamins and minerals of posting

[squeakitties]

[twinkenjoyer-deactivated2023083]

once you get over your ass and realise you will never get some people and that’s ok you are basically immune to right wing fearmongering. otherkin? none of my fucking business

[stevishabitat]

[mandate-transgenderism]

I must not fall victim to disgust. Disgust is the heart-killer. Disgust is the little-death that brings total apathy. I will face my disgust. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the disgust has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

[gay-cripply-scientist]

[soncee]

Water tribe siblings !!!