So, is this the hook you wanted?

Conor. He/him. 18+. I’m just chilling.

[lunchboxpoems]

[jack-the-fool]

Love You Like A Dog | Ron Stampler

how to be a dog / andrew kane | jaw / eli spencer | DNDADS: Odyssey / The Tower of Terry | Forward to The Odyssey / Translation by Emily Wilson | bleedingandbroken | DNDADS: Odyssey / The Tower of Terry | i will remove my teeth / inkthecrow | strangers by ethel cain / art by jayetart | DNDADS: Odyssey / Big Willy Style | snow and dirty rain / richard siken | DNDADS: Odyssey / Death of a Salesmen | open question / jonny bolduc | DNDADS: Odyssey / Death of a Salesmen | Songs for Little People / illustrations by H. Stratton | Quote by Lacey Paige Ramburger / art by haleyincarnate | i am a dog. i have blood all over my teeth / sciencedfiction | Borzoi / mxmorgan | DNDADS: Odyssey / Hi Going Home, I'm Dad

[soon-palestine]

[lunchboxpoems]

LUCILLE CLIFTON

[pokeharvest]

[Image ID: A poem titled "poem on my fortieth birthday to my mother who died young." The poem reads:

"well i have almost come to the place where you fell

tripping over a wire at the forty-fourth lap

and i have decided to keep running,

head up, body attentive, fingers

aimed like darts at first prize, so

i might not even watch out for the thin thing

grabbing towards my ankles but

i'm trying for the long one mama,

running like hell and if i fall

i fall." End ID.]

[sleeplessv0id]

what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy

[macaronis-telegraph]

Queer WWI Literature

This is a very niche and limited category, so I’ve been trying to throw together a list of what I can find out there for anyone else who might also be interested. What follows are all books that contain LGBTQ+ rep of any kind, that also involve the First World War as a central theme.

Titles with an asterisk* are the ones I have personally read, and would be more than happy to talk about/answer any questions about their content/rep!

Written in the 20th Century

Alf, by Bruno Vogel (1929)

Despised and Rejected, by Rose Allatini (pseud. A.T. Fitzroy) (1918)*

Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches, edited by Martin Taylor (1989)

The Memorial, by Christopher Isherwood (1932)

My Father and Myself, by J.R. Ackerley (1968)

The Prisoners of War: A Play in Three Acts, by J.R. Ackerley (1925)*

The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, The Ghost Road), by Pat Barker (1991, 1993, 1995)*

A Scarlet Pansy, by Robert Scully (1932)*

Strange Meeting, by Susan Hill (1976)

Written in the 21st Century

The Absolutist, by John Boyne (2011)

Across Your Dreams, by Jay Lewis Taylor (2016)

Alec, by William di Canzio (2021)

Ashthorne, by April Yates (2022)

Awfully Glad, by Charlie Cochrane (2014)

Bonds of Earth, by G.N. Chevalier (2012)*

The Boy I Love, by Marion Husband (2005)*

The Daughters of Mars, Thomas Keneally (2012)

Eleventh Hour, by Elin Gregory (2016)

The Fallen Snow, by John J. Kelley (2012)

Fighting Proud: The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars, by Stephen Bourne (2017) – (I know I said fiction, but I’m going to leave this one here anyhow)

Flower of Iowa, by Lance Ringel (2014)*

The Great Swindle, by Pierre Lemaitre (2013)*

The Indian Clerk, by David Leavitt (2007)

The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing, by Mary Paulson-Ellis (2019) *

In Memoriam, by Alice Winn (2023)

The Lie, by Helen Dunmore (2014)

The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters (2014)

A Pride of Poppies, short story collection published by Manifold Press (2015)

Promises Made Under Fire, by Charlie Cochrane (2013)

The Shell House, by Linda Newbery (2002)*

Spectred Isle, by K.J. Charles (2017)

The Stranger’s Child, by Alan Hollinghurst (2011)

The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden (2024)

Whistling in the Dark, by Tamara Allen (2008)*

Wild with All Regrets, by Emma Deards (2023)

The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon (2023)

This is a dynamic list, which I will continue to update whenever I find something new. If you know of anything that isn’t on this list and needs to be, please let me know!

[oddlyunadventurous]

[fereldancore-deactivated2025012]

I don’t blog about sports, but early this morning my favourite athlete Johnny ‘Hockey’ Gaudreau was knocked off his bicycle and killed along with his younger brother the night before their sister’s wedding. He had just turned 31 years old, married his next door neighbour and had a toddler daughter and a 6 month old son (who were planned to be flower girl and ring bearer at the wedding).

I adored Johnny because he was a such a small streak of lightning in a game full of huge dudes who were regularly a whole foot taller than him. His skills were just fucking phenomenal and he was so exciting to watch. I screamed with joy and cheered him on so loudly I lost my voice on many occasions. He represented his country for International Competitions and is the highest US point scorer.

I could get technical and talk about my favourite goals of his, his stickhandling, dangles, on ice spatial awareness etc but it is all on film for anyone to see, just too much to choose from. Nobody moved like Johnny Hockey.

As a person he was a sweet, kind guy who was universally liked in the sport and beyond. I do not follow celebrities on social media, but on hockey forums there are endless stories of his voracious love of mac and cheese (so much so Kraft put him in a TV ad) and skittles candies that he had a hockey stick covered in them and auctioned for charity.

In interviews he always talked hockey and his family. Whenever asked about new contracts and paycheques he would just shrug and say ‘yeah I bought my dad a boat so we can go fishing’ or ‘I just got a cool new wheelchair lift installed in my holiday home so my cousin can come and spend time with me’, or change the subject and talk about his dog, his wife and kids or The Birds. He was a real gem of a gentleman, modest and always ready to give credit to his team and dad (legendary NJ coach Guy Gaudreau) who motivated Johnny to skate as a toddler by placing skittles candies on the ice for him to fetch.

I’m am so sad for him, his family. This is just a blurb of feels about someone I counted down the days for until I could see them make magic on ice. I wish I could write a good tribute, dammit. Thank you Johnny Hockey.

[guerrillatech]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

How dare you leave this Jason Todd discourse in the tags.

[calamitysong]

in the bar passing the phone around saying “have you read this poem? have you read this poem?”

[makomoriz]

cant get this one out of my head

[datasoong47]

[linguisticparadox]

[r5h]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2609/

[bralsra-deactivated20250108]

theres ALWAYS a relevant XKCD for everything huh

[wtf-scientific-papers]

Gelation of Soy Milk with Hagfish Exudate Creates a Flocculated and Fibrous Emulsion- and Particle Gel

(Lukas et al. 2016)

[ID: diagram from a research paper showing how soy milk can be turned into traditional tofu curd by adding CaCl2 (calcium chloride), or ‘novel tofu curd’ by adding hagfish slime. The structures of each substance are shown, including particles of soy protein, oil droplets stabilized by soy protein, hagfish slime, and hagfish mucin.

A handy sidebar compares the production methods and properties of hagfish tofu vs regular tofu. Traditional tofu has bullet points that read “heat set (70-80°C), 40-60 minutes, energy intense, min. 8% protein, low water content, brittle.” The hagfish tofu bullet points read “cold set, seconds, low energy, min. 2% protein, high water content, cohesive & fibrous, soft.” End ID]

Submitter comment: Plus this unsettling quote: “Hagfish mucin was found to induce a depletion and bridging mechanism, which caused the emulsion and suspension to flocculate, making “soy slime”, a cohesive and cold-set emulsion- and particle gel… Because the mucin-induced flocculation resembles the salt- or acid-induced flocculation in tofu curd production, the soy slime was cooked for comparison.”

Did they eat the hagfish slime tofu? The paper doesn’t say, but one has to wonder.

[making-friendos]

Choose your fighter

[greenbloodedskink]

Choose your fighter!

golden retriever

silver retriever

bronze retriever

platinum retriever

aluminium retriever

plutonium retriever

copper retriever

lead retriever

diamond retriever

Voting ended onJun 30, 2024

[making-friendos]

Reblogging for a larger sample size 🐕🐕🐕

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Elemental Retriever

[camillamaecaulay]

graves grow no green that you can use.

gwendolyn brooks

[lunchboxpoems]

KAT GIORDANO

[nebulations]

[ID: A poem titled "Explaining Time to My Dog," title in all caps. It reads:

a work day is sixteen walks long---eight of those big ones, where we don't make that left turn off 14th and pass the house with the year-round inflatables. a year is the time between when the other houses take their inflatables down and when they put them back out, the time between fireworks finales, but also the time it takes me to walk to the mailbox and back with you staring out the window. but also the time it takes for me to run a 5k in the morning. in other words, a year is also 30 minutes. 30 minutes is the length of a walk, but also the refractory period after a walk before i have to start spelling it again instead. i'm sorry, but t is what it is. we all have words the people we love can't say to us, not because they'll hurt us but because it'll feel too good too fast and your feelings are scary, that look on your face when you're running full-tilt at someone who's not ready yet, who's st.ill putting their shoes on. it's the not- readiness they're afraid of, the way it makes them feel to see you feeling. the way they wish they had something to say other than "wait" and the way they can't define that word. it hurts, but you figure it out eventually, the sounds of the letters, the shapes of them in their mouths, the certain way they breathe, like their hand is already on the leash across the room. End ID0

[bashircore]

Made a real good chart

[quel-bon-idee]

SPORTS EDITION!!!! GET SPORTED

[bashircore]

Reblog the sports edition