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when i was at walgreens (at 3 in the morning which explains all of this) the cashier was talking to her coworker about how shed rather be a werewolf than a vampire because vampires are condemned to hell but werewolves arent and then she asked me what i thought and i said vampire because im already condemned to hell and she said in the nicest tone of voice “i dont think anybody is condemned to hell….” paused, stared at me for a few moments, and added on “…not even gay people”

iapislazuli

Happy pride month to the filthiest most brutal read I’ve ever been given in my life

aruviwrote

People, my wonderful transfem friend is taking students for her class. Do your thing and help her find students. The relative value of a dollar and a rupee means that just ten international students can help her make rent.

taliabhattwrites

Hey folks, Swarnim's an old friend and a talented engineer. As Aruvi said, a dollar goes a longer way in India, and India's current regime is exceedingly unkind to trans women trying to find gainful employment, or even just live their lives. Please help a trans woman from the third world support herself!

herpsandbirds

Chinese Tiger Gecko (Goniurosaurus araneus), family Eublepharidae, China

photographs by Artur Tomaszek

loreleywrites

im always saying this

ggcrono

entertheaardvark-deactivated202

I’m so sorry has everybody seen this bots of new york

the-transfeminine-mystique

the Master whose oracle is at Delphi does not speak, does not dissimulate; he signifies

queen-of-crows

Not trying to victim blame or anything but you’d think with all the times necromancers have tried/succeeded in raising undead armies the people of Tamriel would’ve stopped burying their dead fully armed and equipped for battle.

Like, I know your great grandpa’s sword was A Part Of Him and all but maybe you could bury SuperDeathblade somewhere not right next to SuperDeathbladeMan. Just in case.

karhs

oh, what, so he can get his ass kicked when he inevitably gets raised from the dead?? you want to make great grandpa into a loser? a chump?? if his corpse is going to be puppeteered into battle by a sick and twisted sorcerer then by the nine he is going to do it well

nariarts

Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;

Clothing company Patagonia is currently suing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because suing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're suing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!

dungeonlust

Art by • Makoto Kobayashi

birdandmoon

Female birds with confusing names.

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a-door-to-somewhere

Happy birthday, Sally Ride. You would have been 75 today. you died just 3 years before gay marriage bans were ruled unconstitutional in the US, legalizing gay marriage in every state. You turned down being NASA's administrator multiple times to remain in California, where you lived with your secret long-term partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy. Thank you for paving the way for young girls into STEM fields. Thank you for your brave actions in the Challenger disaster investigations. Thank you for befriending Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman in space and a cosmonaut, regardless of politics or borders. I wish I could say you'd be proud of how far we've come in 14 years, but I really can't.

Happy Pride, everyone.

vintagerpg

The Gardens of Ynn (2024) does for outside what The Stygian Library does for inside.

Before we go on, I have to explain that my maternal grandfather was a gardener, and because of this (and its relative proximity) we visited Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania quite frequently (the Wyeth museum is nearby, which explains that particular obsession as well, I think). When I was little, these trips were mostly confined to the sprawling greenhouse, but at some point, when I was about 11, we were there in the autumn and I explored the grounds for the first time in my memory. The greenhouse is on a rise overlooking a fountain garden in what I now understand is a mix of Italian and French influences, but at the time was just entirely magical. Made with a porous sort of concrete, the fountains were stained, cracked, eroded and covered with lichen, making the decorative grotesques even more so. Particularly the back area, where a dry, forlorn pool was choked with brown leaves and lined with broken statuary. It seemed, and continues to in my imagination, like the setting for something.

Ynn appeals to me because in many ways it delivers on the promise of that autumnal discovery. Here is the garden I somehow felt was behind the garden. Where the insects are unfamiliar, where the day is twice as long and where spending enough time among the strange plants can turn you into a fae or a vampire. Or worse: Ynn fell to ruin because it was infected by a memetic virus called the Idea of Thorns, and vectors for infection remain. If it were to spread to the mundane world, the result would be disaster.

The cover is the delightful Ramona Alderdoodle. The interiors are by Riot Bones. They capture an interesting facet of the book. Because it is outside and, I suppose, has environments more varied than “endless library,” Ynn naturally feels more D&D-like. Riot Bones captures some of this in the art, but also, just as often, their characters lounge about, talking, walking, enjoying the space. It’s a place of adventure, yes, but a garden all the same.

stivkun

Okay, maybe that guy was a bit fishy. We need the right detective for this case.

Dedicating this to all the Columbo comments under three fish in a trench coat, he's a catfish now.

steelneck95

Zilla eatin' calamari

crow-caller

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.