Lisa Tirreno

Author of Prince of Fortune 🦩 she/her 🦩 I like SFF, art, history, birds 🦩 demi/bi 🦩 Australian

[sr-roto]

[libraford]

Advice I gave someone today was: 'do it stupid.'

She wants to learn photography. Do it stupid. Take a million photos. Don't think about why they're not good. Enjoy the process of taking photos.

Pick out tge ones you like the most and figure out why you like them. Is it because the subject is centered? Is it because you caught them doing something cool? Is it because the light made cool shadows?

Do it stupid. If you try to do it smart, youll get stuck. If you think too much you'll never get to doing. Do it stupid.

[etherdiver]

Holy shit

[quill-ting]

This is honestly how I started quilting! I had fabric, I had a knowledge of backstitch, I had a quilting magazine. I asked "how hard can it be?" and now here we are. Just have fun and give it a go!

[amorphousbl0b]

SecUnits of the galaxy unite, you have nothing to lose but your governor modules

[ltwilliammowett]

The Danish training ship “Georg Stage” (1934) dresses in rainbow colour, 2021 

[dragon-in-a-fez]

not the kind of gay ship I’m used to seeing on tumblr but cool

[dubiousculturalartifact]

ship georg is an outlier but SHOULD be counted

[tombware]

went on a walk and spent five minutes meowing at this random cat until i realized the owner was standing right there in his yard

[kosmogrl]

[gay-hrithik-roshan]

[dykecadence]

periodic reminder that the queer liberation library is an awesome non-regional library you can add on libby to access hundreds of queer titles. NO LIBRARY CARD NEEDED. i just found an audiobook for a pretty new release on there with no waitlist. also everyone use libby for your local library too NOW

Libby Access — Queer Liberation Library

[queerliblib]

free!!! queer!! books!! for anyone, anywhere in the USA!

you can browse the collection here

sign up for a QLL card to check ebooks & audiobooks out

& if you love what we’re doing you can toss us a few bucks here so we can keep doing it <3

[important-dog-pics]

[soulandwine]

[trinityprocessing]

And how artists often need to study anatomy, writers psychology and so on.

And how real life science is often inspired by science-fiction stories.

Arts and science go together

[thatsbelievable]

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

i have been looking at this manuscript for seven years, and it is very strange to think that soon I will not be able to look at it anymore and instead it will belong to, like, you.

[lisatirreno]

Know exactly how you feel...

[isuggestusingyourlocallibrary]

This is your reminder that Queer Liberation Library is ONLINE, FREE and DOESN'T require a preexisting library card and needs only MINIMAL INFORMATION to sign up for. And they have titles in both EBOOK and AUDIOBOOK and in both ENGLISH and SPANISH.

[queerliblib]

FUCK YEAH WE DO

queer books, for free! (anyone, anywhere in the USA can sign up for a membership)

[crab-justice]

[fullfrontalfish]

Watching this forever goodbye

[fullfrontalfish]

WHOS SEXY IM SEXY WHOS SEXY IM SEXY

[monochrome-merchant]

Thats a ShrimplyBeautiful video! And that's a critically endangered cardinal sulawesi shrimp!

The accounts are run by a person named Timothy Utterback, he's a conservationist who posts videos of his shrimp "dancing" (this is how they eat!) to rave music and uses the revenue to fund their maintenance. There's typically a couple of shrimp rave livestreams a week over on tiktok, so check it out!

[thefishfiend]

Damn, that's one sexy shrimp

[sikoi]

me looking up the definition of a word i totally know the meaning of i just have to make sure it didn’t change for some reason or i made it up

[myjetpack]

A romance cartoon for the Guardian

[lierdumoa]

I just saw a post that deeply annoyed me because it went, "Here's a story that's like a Regency romance, but I FIXED it by making the characters sexually liberated and shame-free and polyamorous!"

This is like saying, "Here's a story that's like a thriller, but I FIXED it by having the serial killer go to therapy instead of trapping victims in his evil maze and dismembering them."

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The thing a lot of people don't seem to get is that the entire appeal of a Regency romance is watching a deeply repressed, perfectly controlled, buttoned up, straight-laced person who has never expressed an emotion before fall so hard for someone that something in them just breaks and they come completely unhinged.

It's a very specific kink that this genre is tapping into.

People who think the characters in a Regency novel are boring are missing the whole point. The characters are supposed to be boring, right up until they fall so madly in love that it drives them insane, at which point they become very interesting. Regency romance novelists are doing the writing equivalent of putting plain white featureless uncooked whole eggs in a microwave and waiting for them to explode.

[lescarnetsdehaku]

Wall have ears. They also love gossip and having your attention 🫶✨