They see me writing...

Afrolatinx, wheelchair user, Non-binary, queer, he/him. Stand Up Comic & Poet. I post and write about stories and experiences that move me. www.rollingeddie.com

[antigoneprogone]

AVERAGE NORTHERNLION DIALOGUE

Look, I'm fuckinnnnnnnnnn...! I'm fuckin' tired as bawls, dawg. [not switching his tone of voice at all] I think I lost some weight there, and I'm sure I need some rest, but sleepin' don't come very easy in a [enunciating precisely] straight. White. Vest. [pause] [reading chat] "Just go to bed earlier"? Okay, listen to me. Said the grasshopper to the morning sun, "No matter how hard I try and how high I jump, I can never embrace you", and thus the sun responded, "My brother, the mere act of being here is an embrace in and of itself." So beggars can't be fuckin' choosers, okay? Okay. [unpauses game (Poo-Poo Piranhas Jungle Gym Adventure) where the puzzle is to put the square block in the square hole and he puts it in the triangle hole] Dude!!!!!!!!!!!!

[disarmonia]

Wyll Ravengard ❤️‍🔥 Painted this completely unplanned and unexpected portrait last night. I guess the heavy rain traditionally brought me inspiration after all, even though it's now really hard to not read all sound of thunder as explosions. Unfortunately russian attacks on our homes happen more often than thunderstorms. Wonder if this will ever go back to normal. Either way, happy with our handsome boy, excited to do more BG3 art when I have more time between commissions and charity work. If you like my art, consider tipping! MY TIP JARS HERE ❤️‍🩹

[renthony]

There's a difference between "disabled" and "legally recognized as disabled," and I just want to give a shout-out to all the other disabled people who don't have formal diagnoses, who don't have access to benefits of any kind, who don't have the ability to use even the shittiest and least-helpful resources, because the process of getting legal recognition for disability sucks ass.

And another shout-out to all the disabled people who purposely avoid getting diagnosed, because official diagnoses can be used against you, and you're unable or unwilling to risk it.

[tolerateit]

[kn1538210]

[spacevoyagerx]

Pillars of Creation

The Pillars of Creation is a famous region within the Eagle Nebula (M16), located about 6,500 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Serpens.

The name "Pillars of Creation" refers to the towering columns of gas and dust that are part of this stellar nursery, where new stars are being born.

Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

[cardassiangoodreads]

I, for one, am happy these actors feel comfortable being loud about how much you and your friend suck. If you’re doing something so against that show as voting for a rapist convicted felon who wants to end democracy, what did you expect? Especially from those women?

Actors being loud about how these assholes are NOT welcome makes fandom safer for a lot more people who deserve to be there.

Maybe your fav actor hating you for your bigoted politics should be a cause for reflection about what’s gone so wrong in your life. You know, if this bothers you so much.

[roach-works]

"my friends wanted to have a stupid, nerdy time at a star trek convention"

ah yes star trek, a show famous for not having any thought whatsoever put into writing it, watching it, or talking about it. definitely one of the top shows out there meant to be consumed by stupid people just looking for easy fun with no challenging political messages whatsoever. star trek. that show.

star trek.

[loveswirl]

please witness its power

[noosphe-re]

Green Rainbow Natural Iridescent Pyrite From Peru

[shoebillstork]

Someone pulled up ao3 on the smart fridge at qork

[wicdiv]

As part of the Wicked + the Divine: The Covers Version we promised finally doing a Sakhmet cover to finish the set.

Here it is.

Jamie and Matt did her proud.

You can still pre-order a copy of it here.

[mmaisonnnn]

[ad-wills]

writers and artists will go “this isn’t good enough.” my brother in christ, you’re creating something new out of nothing and expressing yourself creatively. your productivity and unrealistic standards of perfection do not define you or the worth of your art. you’re doing great.

[391780]

[probablyasocialecologist]

Fear Is the Mind Killer; What Enlivens the Mind? — “Dune”’s Alt-Victimhood and Radical Nonviolence in “Nausicaä” | Los Angeles Review of Boo

Jerrine Tan compares “Dune” to “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.”...

Ursula K. Le Guin once said that “[t]o use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it.” Crucially, Nausicaä imagines a new way of being in the world by radically reframing our relation to it and our understanding of it. Instead of a desert, the inhospitable environment in Nausicaä is known as the Sea of Decay. But far from a dying and deadened milieu, the Sea of Decay is in fact brimming with life. This is hardly ironic but for a dominant binary and linear ontology around life and death. The living and the dead are not fixed in a binary but bound together in an intimate, dynamic, circling dance. Decay and regeneration are two sides of the same coin. Reflecting on when he moved to the Yanase River, Miyazaki recalls, “The river was more like a polluted ditch, filled with leeches and midge larvae. I was amazed by how noble these midges were and impressed that they would live in such a place.” The Sea of Decay, teeming with life, is arguably the site of some of the most luxuriant and resplendent imagery in all of Miyazaki’s films.

[nkjemisin]

Your writing hits like Ursula k. LeGuin and Octavia Butler are nodding somewhere. You take the dynamic nature of human phenomena and ask what happens if we hold them still in time to truly examine them embodied in characters.

Thank you for writing the story of Sieh in the Inheritance Trilogy. It’s hard to explain what the god of childhood means to someone who didn’t really get one. With him, I was not bitter or angry or sad at what I missed. Instead, I had a character who was a lot like me to show me it’s possible to change at any time.

Sieh reminds me of Shori from Fledgling in some ways: a lost child with dangerous and other-worldly powers who wants belonging. Both of them are forced to grow up very quickly and make a future with with their chosen families against huge odds.

They both helped me find my joy again after losing it for a very long time and grow again even when it’s hard and painful.

Thank you for your writing.

Wow, all of this is high praise, and I'm honored! Thanks.

I'm sorry that your own childhood was unpleasant. That's one of the reasons why I made Sieh himself unpleasant, in many ways -- because he's all of childhood. The cute and the disturbing, the well-behaved and the feral, the fat happy kids who get to grow up and the starving abused kids who don't always. I'm glad some of that resonated.

Thank you again.

[nonolithic]

Beacon

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.