[movingdayreview-blog]

If I Could Make This Post Have a Smell I Would Make It Smell Like Laundry Detergent

By Jonathan Rooke

Alright all you Moving Date readers, today I’m talking at you about some of the most mystical places on Emperor Zurg’s green Earth. These are spots where dreams become reality (in fact, I think the fun half of Shakespeare’s Midsummer’s Night-Dream [you know, the part with the donkey sex?] took place in one of these), where your soul becomes untethered and achieves momentary nirvana away from your beautiful, hot, beautiful bod, where the sins of your forefathers are erased and reconciliation between all humans is achieved, and where sometimes they have arcade games (the cool ones in which you race motorcycles but you get to actually sit on a motorcycle). So bring your dirty skirts and stained shirts you lil’ messes, because we’re going to the laundromat.

[read more on movingdayreview.com]

[carabellasands]

Portrait I made of Rachel Bell Hugging A Goat And Crying while I watched She’s All That

[wearepioneerspress]

This would be such a good alternate cover for Rachel’s new chapbook.

[watchoutforintellect]

I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.

Virginia Woolf - from A Passionate Apprentice (via watchoutforintellect)

[booklust]

I did. I got a Nook.

[winesoakedwool]

Beware all ye unwashed plebs

I have received word from the editor of @movingdayreview that she is unearthing a Lost Review of mine. Previously believed to be too edgy, too dangerously incoherent, and way too #real to be released, this Monday it’s coming at you…hard. Is it still ahead of it’s time? Absolutely. Is the world ready for it? Maybe some of us are. Do I remember writing it? Not really. Brace yrselves.

[flavorcountry]

Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.

[simpleescapism]

Holy shit this is a serious contender for the best post I’ve ever seen on tumblr.

[housingworksbookstore]

Thursday, July 9 at 7pm / FREE How many different ways can I say SAVE THE DATE! This is going to be the best mid-summer-night’s eve of your life. The launch of Karolina Waclawiak’s The Invaders, with meganeabbott, jamiatt, Kathleen Alcott, Iman Saleh, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah. 

[housingworksbookstore]

This book and these people are so awesome, so wonderful, so ferocious, so amazing. Come hang out on Thursday, yes!

[housingworksbookstore]

It’s this! It’s tonight! It’s happening! Let’s go let’s go let’s go!

[movingdayreview-blog]

From Watchmen to Squirrel Girl: It’s Time to Give Comic Books Another Look

by Matthew Schrepfer

The thing about superhero comics is that they’re mostly pretty bad. Atrocious dialogue, nonsensical plotting, thinly sketched, blatant-power-fantasy characters, absurdly high levels of necessary background knowledge, all the diversity of a Young Republicans club at a private college, and sexism appalling even by the low standards of contemporary American culture. The other thing about superhero comics is that they can be good.

[keeping reading on movingdayreview.com]

[inkweenie]

when i showed up to an ampersand lit mag™ meeting as a wee baby freshmen and the upperclassmen asked me what i was into i was like well i’m into joyce carol oats on twitter i guess, and now i have this tattoo and jco-the-twitter-account is subscribed to the tweets of a book website i made and haven’t updated in months.

[inkweenie]

[newyorker]

Is Reading the New Therapy?

“In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks.”

Ceridwen Dovey writes on the many forms of bibliotherapy.

Illustration by Sarah Mazzetti

[catapultbooks]

A very important photo series

(via Public Library Portraits of California’s Homeless | )

[queer-zines-deactivated20240829]

Cutlines Press and Alchemist’s Closet Spring Giveaway! Cutlines Press and The Alchemist’s Closet are giving away a bunch of awesome stuff to celebrate our wonderful followers and the launch of Cutlines Press, a new small press for queer and trans authors writing sci-fi, experimental fiction, poetry, occult/spirituality works, and more. You can win this huge grab bag of merch from several awesome sellers and creators:

-All That’s Left #0 Zine-On-Tape, a non-linear collection of queer dystopian cyborg smut stories from Metropolarity Distro -Handsome Boy Pilot, a queer outer-space collage zine from Cutlines Press -The Cold Spring Tape Mix,  a CD album of electronic music and spoken word by queer author Gregory William -Buttons, postcards, and BATS: BFFs zine by artist Vanessa Capshaw -Pixel Saturn iron-on patch and Pixel Saturn notebook by Galactic Castle -Sci-fi buttons and sticker from Metropolarity Distro -A plum-colored screenprinted  Alchemical Androgyny patch -Up the Witchpunx, a trans witchpunk zine by GG Irkalla -Celestial incense from The Herb Import Co. -Assorted zines, buttons, patches, and extras! We will make it really special for you!

Rules: 1. You must be following Alchemist’s Closet and Cutlines Press. 2. Reblog to let us know you are entering. (Reblogging is not required, as per Tumblr’s rules; You can also enter by mailing us a card with your name and address.) 3. No giveaway blogs, please. Ask box must be open, and you must live in the US and be over 18. 5. This giveaway isn’t associated with Tumblr (and it isn’t administered, sponsored, or endorsed by Tumblr). 6. Please do not tag this post as “giveaway” in reblogs! 

Anyway, have fun! Reblog as many times as you want! Contest closes and winner chosen on June 1.

[queer-zines-deactivated20240829]

I might extend this giveaway because we spent lots of money and time on putting it together and it still hasn’t topped 100 notes! I may have been overly cautious in not tagging it ‘giveaway’ etc. in order to avoid incurring the wrath of tumblr staff. Suggestions are welcome.

[penguinrandomhouse]

Joan Didion is the new face of Céline, and now we demand that every high fashion brand adopt a lauded giant of literature as spokesperson. 

[ofliterarynature]

just in case anyone’s looking for a cute Christmas sweater, teefury has this really awesome Harry Potter one as part of their “Ugly Sweater Weather” collection for $25. (I’m also really tempted by the classic Rudolph one)

[anjauhren-illustration]

[movingdayreview-blog]

by anjauhren-illustration:

Spread from one of my sketchbooks.

It’s part of my first zine which can be purchased in my etsy shop.

[millionsmillions]

You should read the book that you hear two booksellers arguing about at the registers while you’re browsing in a bookstore. You should read the book that you see someone on the train reading and trying to hide that they’re laughing. You should read the book that you see someone on the train reading and trying to hide that they’re crying. You should read the book that you find left behind in the airplane seat pocket, on a park bench, on the bus, at a restaurant, or in a hotel room. You should read the book that you see someone reading for hours in a coffee shop — there when you got there and still there when you left — that made you envious because you were working instead of absorbed in a book.

Janet Potter, ”28 Books You Should Read If You Want To” (via bookishleaves)

[literatureismyutopia]