Long and Short of It

Children's books. New York. Darkness. Optimism. Edinburgh. Heroines.

[queer-adhd]

Revolting little machine I hope someone guy fawkeses you too.

(Context: was trying to find the text of a version of the Guy Fawkes poem which ends 'are we glad that they stopped him or not?' Was not expecting this thing to run defence for the UK parliament 400 years ago)

[queer-adhd]

Btw, if you ever wanted an indicator of the ideological censorship that now exists, and how pervasive it has become? The poem I was looking for, with its implication that maybe it might not have been a bad thing to blow up parliament way back when, was published in a children's book two decades ago. Without incident. Now I can't even SEARCH for that poem without receiving a telling off for its contents.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

[tvgods]

widow's bay. s01e02.

[pmamtraveller]

Franz Doubek - Allegory of Summer

[emotionallydevastatedandverygay]

look, you're very cool, and you wear leather, okay? so maybe you won't understand this. but everyone is worried, all of the time, whether they're interesting, or adventurous enough for you. and that BIZARRE little man over there likes you very much. and you like him. and if you can't get over yourself long enough to realize that, you're gonna end up another leather-clad, middle-aged sad sack dying in a puddle of his own piss!!!

[kylebonallo]

Edinburgh Castle, by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

[depsidase]

[quasi-normalcy]

Don't just do it for systematic bigotry, do it for everything. We need more people who can understand the world in terms of systems

[goodsirs]

Widow's Bay 1.01 "Welcome to Widow's Bay"

[natoraptor]

“Tour Guides”

-2026

[bobbole]

David Blackwood

[dizzyghoast]

every so often i remember how awesome the modern interconnected multicultural world is. i grew up getting to hear fairy tales from all over the world. africa, asia, europe, america. everywhere in between. i can have bagels for breakfast, curry for lunch, and ramen for dinner without even leaving the city limits. music and art and philosophy and technology that originated thousands of miles and years apart from eachother have come together and interwoven into something greater than the sum of its parts. its hard not fall into despair when thinking about the horrors but god. god the wonders.

[dizzyghoast]

you can have friends on the other side of the planet! neither of you even has to travel!!!!! you can just talk to them whenever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[calvinandhobbes-rss]

[longseasons]

[gwydionmisha]

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

[ashlgcostumes]

As someone who is both trans and has a child, absolutely hilarious to me that society presents one of these as absolutely only to be done if you are 110% certain and have proved to several people that you want it bad enough and are ready, and the other is like. You might as well everyone else does. Just do it nobody feels ready. You don’t want to? Yes you do

Especially since one of those is pretty reversible if you change your mind after a couple years and the other one, well, technically but that’s pretty frowned upon

[kami-ships-it]

Sparkle and Shine

[kaylmao]

idk i would personally rather give up access to certain products seasonally or locally than have people enslaved to give me the ability to have any product any place any time. i think i can go without tomatoes in january.

[kaylmao]

i truly do think that most people if confronted with it and pressed on it would agree. but it's comfortable to gain privileges from someone else's suffering, especially if you don't have to see that suffering directly.

[last-picture-show]

Pierre Jahan, Workers at The Louvre, Paris, 1947

[juncst]