Kai's Cove

Erin • 34yo • she/her • Canadian eh • Queer and lesbian + I love my trans siblings 💕 • Check out my wip at @TheHeartwoodInside an Iron Age Irish queer historical fantasy series • commissioned header art by @Sergle

[theheartwoodinside]

Hello! This is a blog for my historical fantasy trilogy work in progress. I post writing excerpts, lore, original art, character sketch info, and reblog aesthetic photography and art, writing memes tagged with character stuff, and archeological, historical, Gaeilge/Irish language and cultural references. Check out the featured tags to find excerpts and stuff organized by character!

The world is first century BCE, Iron Age Ireland. Fey both live together and apart from humans, such as the elusive sidhe (pron. "shee") of the forests and wild places of Inis Fáil (pron. "inish fall"), or the sii at the helm of sprawling Solarii Empire.

Four souls are on a collision course that will split the foundations of their worlds. The unlikely ties between them bend and break everything they thought they knew. Reviving an ancient resonance with the ancestors from the distant dawn of civilization illuminates a path forward for a new future. A better one, when their worlds need it most.

The story explores our links both tenuous and unbreakable to our past and our land. Curiosity and bravery in the face of fear are powerful, double-edged tools. Authenticity to yourself is radical and powerful, and the characters explore what it means to be themselves with either your whole world supporting you, or your whole world ripping you apart to remold into something not-You. Gender and attraction - the architecture of the heart, and what it wants - don't always fit the Solarii binary, but has room to be explored in sidhe culture.

Currently +60k into book 1 of 3. All books are outlined and I'm so pumped to keep writing! I won't be publishing whole chapters of the story online, but I do post excerpts. I'm also open to interested betareaders through BetaBooks.

Message my main blog at @kaiscove or submit asks here! Always ready to infodump on lore and characters so don't be shy ♡

[kaiscove]

Heyyyy shameless self-promo here with my new writing sideblog~☆

Follow for updates as I keep writing book 1 of 3 and post lore, art, history, and writing memes ✨

[bruntalism]

[testosteronetwunk]

@laeffy

[alexr-fightgames]

cc @randomitemdrop

[randomitemdrop]

Item: jimono

[mossymage]

have this silly sleepy gege i drew in 5 minutes

[forestchangling]

Incredibly relatable.

[only-cat-memes]

[shanehollanderss]

many people know loons from heated rivalry, but now laser loon is the symbol of the resistance here

[grison-in-space]

This one I found on Reddit is my current favorite. Get 'em, bird.

[zmpl]

this is a message to all babytrans. you may come across a subreddit or maybe even a 4chan board that is made up entirely of the most miserable trans people you’ve ever met. they have their own lingo borrowed straight from incel communities. but instead of being an incel where cishet men tell each other that women will never want to fuck them because of 2 mm of browbone, it’s trans women telling each other that they will never be a woman because of 2 mm of browbone. it’s trans men calling other trans men pooners for having a round face instead of a chiseled gigachad jawline. but they swear it’s not a toxic community because they’re all hiding under several layers of irony, so you can never really tell if someone is being serious. and it’s very important that you never visit these forums, even out of morbid curiosity

[zmpl]

since this post is making rounds i feel like resharing this for no reason in particular

[swordfright]

you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

[hacash]

You’ll all sleep a lot better when you realise that actually most people, rather than being purity in human form or evil incarnate, are in fact just some guy.

[jayalaw]

He was some teacher that didn’t like teaching

[knight-watch]

reading/writing fanfiction about your otp be like:

[unbfacts]

Long before the introduction of color film, a Russian chemist and photographer named Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky used an innovative technique. He took three individual black and white photos, each through a colored filter (red, green, and blue), to create fully colored, high-quality pictures. The photo of this woman, taken by him, is around 107 years old!

[redladydeath]

No wait I looked this guy up and this shit’s amazing

It’s so incredibly humanizing to see people from the very distant past in such authentic color

And like. look at these landscape shots!! They’re so vivid!! Even aside from the historical value, these are just legitimately beautiful photographs

[historyisntboring]

His wikipedia page explains the three-color photography principle quite well, and it’s full of really good illustrations, including a photo of Tolstoy…

…and Prokudin-Gorsky himself, working on his photos with an assistant!

[grungekitty-77]

Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.

It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.

Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.

Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.

Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)

Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!

You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!

If you want it in a simple phrase:

You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.

[grungekitty-77]

Fun fact, that was literally what inspired me to make this post!

[chutzpahchesed]

someone hacked Elmo’s account (yes, Sesame Street Elmo) on twitter

[chutzpahchesed]

[stele3]

Elmo Hacked – Calls Trump ‘CHILD F*****’ in Profane Epstein Posts: ‘RELEASE THE FILES!’

The account for beloved Muppet Elmo was hacked briefly on Sunday, and sent a series of vile, anti-Semitic messages about Trump, Netanyahu, a

[chutzpahchesed]

I appreciate there being an article, because this was so horrible that it would be easy to think it was fake (it was not, sadly).

I also want to share this because it’s important commentary - she is vocally opposed to the government and the war, she is consistently critical of the harm being done, and she’s right in this assessment. no matter what, you can’t inflame something that doesn’t already exist, that isn’t already there. this is centuries’ old, generations upon generations worth of hatred and bigotry. it has always cycled back around under various guises, and it has always come to the conclusion that Jews should be wholly eliminated. there is no excuse for it, and the reasoning for it is always the fault of those who spread and enact it, not its Jewish victims.

[chutzpahchesed]

I want to laugh too, but this twitter user is an avowed Nazi, they don’t really mean this as a joke.

yet it was shared as a joke to this IG account

further normalizing it

can we…get one day…?

😭

[chutzpahchesed]

Hacker Impersonating Elmo Made Antisemitic X Posts - The New York Tim…

Hacker Impersonating Elmo Made Antisemitic X Posts - The New York Tim…

A hacker shared a string of racist and antisemitic posts from the X account of Elmo, the fuzzy red monster from “Sesame Street,” the owner and producer of the children’s show said on Sunday.

The posts, on a verified account with more than 600,000 followers, contained racial slurs, antisemitic language and commentary about President Trump and the so-called Epstein files, the remaining investigative documents of the sex-trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. The posts were removed shortly after they were published on Sunday afternoon.

“Elmo’s X account was compromised today by an unknown hacker who posted disgusting messages, including antisemitic and racist posts,” a spokeswoman for Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind “Sesame Street,” said in a brief statement. “We are working to restore full control of the account.”

Elmo, the perpetually 3-and-a-half-year-old beloved Muppet character on “Sesame Street,” often teaches his young audience life lessons like kindness and patience.

Elmo’s account had not posted any new messages as of midnight. X could not immediately be contacted for comment.

Law enforcement officials and advocacy organizations have described a recent surge in hate speech in the United States, especially antisemitism. Experts say antisemitism has risen sharply since Hamas led an attack on Israel in 2023, killing more than 1,000 people. The Israeli military has killed more than 58,000 people in Gaza since then, according to Gaza’s health ministry, in its bid to destroy the militant group.

The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish advocacy group, recorded 9,354 antisemitic incidents across the United States in 2024, the highest number on record and a 344 percent increase over the previous five years. These included online incidents where individuals or groups were harassed on social media or via direct messages, although the organization said it did not attempt to assess the total amount of antisemitism online.

“Elevated antisemitism has become a persistent reality for American Jewish communities,” the organization said in its report about the 2024 incidents.

In early June, a man threw Molotov cocktails at a Jewish group calling for the release of hostages in Gaza. One of the victims later died of her wounds. Prosecutors charged a man with first degree murder and a hate crime, among other offenses.

The previous month, two employees of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were fatally shot outside an event at the Capital Jewish Museum. A man was later charged with crimes that included first-degree murder.

And in April, a man set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion on the first night of Passover, forcing Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, to flee with his family.

[moran-with-a-g]

Yeah ok this? This is scary. I don't like this one bit.

[entomologist-of-abraham]

I know I'm beating a dead horse at this point, but normalization through humor and comedy is a massive problem. Jews know this all too well with people making Holocaust jokes to us in the first instance they meet us. Dismissing the Elmo hack through humor minimizes the continuation and normalization of antisemitic hate.

[bokkerijder-deactivated20240624]

pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

[eightdoctor]

im stacking extension cords on each other like theyre tinker toys. constructing a tower of babel in the name of the god of electricity. there'll be at least 100 outlets when ive hooked these boys up nice and good. ill never run out again

[eightdoctor]

nothing more satisfiying than this. really sates that primal urge to Plug Things In. but you know i think we can take this even further

[eightdoctor]

ooooooouhg oooooofg.....whops........oupsies

[dosimoss]

hahah

[elierlick]

Lesbians dressed as clowns disrupted a "gender-critical" panel last month at University College London. Participants were surprised when trans and cis dykes from The Dyke Project obstructed the proceedings while in cheerful clown attire. Julie Bindel, one of the panelists, has been a major voice against trans, bisexual, and SWer rights. The protesters chanted, “you’re not feminists, you’re all clowns!” while interrupting her. More of these protests, please! Read the full story on Dazed.

[nateconnolly]

At 0:19 you can see them fully assault a protester. Not "just" escorting them out the building, but shoving them onto the ground hard

[nateconnolly]

Per the Dazed article, these protesters did the smart thing: rather than all begin shouting at once, the protesters took action in different groups. While the first group raised a banner, the remaining three groups pretended not to be protesters. Then, once the event organizers had removed the first group and begun the presentation over again, the second group of people (the ones in the video) began their disruption. Then the event organizers got everything in order and the third group of protesters interrupted them all over again. There was four groups in total!

The tactic has two benefits: first, they were able to make chaos a lot longer than they would've if they'd all protested all at once. But also, they got the TERFs to stop trusting each other. The protesters created an air of paranoia amongst the bigots and I hope it fucking haunts them until they're in the ground

[butchfagminotaur]

people are so entrenched in the fucked up idea of victim/perpetrator as a discrete dichotomy that they let it bleed into their discussions on societal oppression in a way that makes them both factually incorrect as hell and infantilizing and dehumanizing as fuck

a common example i see is white people saying stuff like “ohh the indigenous peoples were all so harmonious and peaceful until the evil white people arrived” and like… that’s just blatantly wrong?? much like groups of people around the world there was plenty of fighting and things like that and infantilizing indigenous people by taking about them like harmless toddlers is actually really shitty and racist behaviour

you’ll also see it in the way white people with guilt about being culturally christian talk about every other religion as if they’ve never done anything bad ever and christianity is the only religion that has ever harmed anyone (again this is factually incorrect and infantilizing)

but the core issue is that these people can’t seem to reconcile this because they have this idea that being a “victim” means someone is 100% morally pure and innocent always and forever and being a “perpetrator” means someone who is 100% cartoonishly evil 24/7

[isitcasualnow]

Also to be clear if you put the new Harry Potter show on my dashboard I will be unfollowing and probably blocking you. JK Rowling is responsible for the death and pain of too many trans people to count in my country and I cannot tolerate her new way of trying to gain cultural and financial power in any way shape or form.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I don't even want to see critiques of it. I don't want to see hatewatch reviews about how bad or dumb or racist or transphobic parts of it are like people did for the fantastic beasts movies of the hogwarts video game. You are part of the problem. Do not feed the machine. Let it die. You do not need to consume media you don't like just to show off to everyone else how much you don't like it. It's especially heinous if you say something like "I'm donating the cost of a movie ticket or a month's streaming subscription to a trans charity," because that doesn't balance the scales, it doesn't negate the evil, it just shows you are willing to support both sides, making you a spineless coward.

Just fucking ignore it and understand that it's going to be recationary on purpose. It's going to be full of bait. Warner Bros is counting on there being a ton of controversy to boost the numbers because there's no such thing as bad publicity.

DO NOT ENGAGE. Let it come and go, and maybe the numbers will be bad enough that it gets canceled before it gets to book 7. Probably not, though. This is a tentpole for WB, they're putting all their eggs in this basket, it's not gonna bomb like Morbius. They're gonna push it through to the end no matter what, so just do your part by not playing along.

[goddamnlethamlet]

don’t even pirate it. let it die in obscurity.

[a-list-of-moods]

Death of the author only applies when the author is actually dead and not actively still out there using all the money she gets from royalties to do some of the most evil shit you've ever heard of

[stealingpotatoes]

i wish i could text my cat to check on him when I'm out but his whole illiterate thing really gets in the way