#fluoresensitive

[fluoresensitives]

FLUORESENSITIVE PATREON (RE)LAUNCH

It is absolutely no secret that I've been a little slack in the writing department lately. Between the stressors of the world, a body and mind changing daily with disability, and just plain ol' burnout from writing my first novel, I haven't had my groove in a hot minute. I must ask you to forgive me for leaving you all for so long, and forgive me, again, for leaving the website. When I left last year, I was tired. Tired of the harassment, tired of the anti-Blackness and the way my words were constantly twisted and misunderstood. I lost my confidence in my voice, and I thought there was nothing I could say or do that would be worthy of attention. But so much has changed inside of me, in my personal life. And yes, seeing all those kind messages before I left and even some of the messages I see now in my inbox cheering my return... It makes me realize that some things are bigger than me. I don't mean to over-inflate my importance on this website, but I have been something here. Someone to hate, someone to love, someone to shit talk and support and whatever, but what matters beyond anything to me, is that I have been someone that has made a space for Black lesbians, a space for lovers of horror and of the grotesque, a space for Black people to be loud and angry and disagreeable. I don't know how long I can maintain this, or how long we will have places like Tumblr to scream into the void, but as long as it is here, I will be too, and I hope you'll have me and support, flaws and writing and moodboards and collages and all. To paraphrase Norma Desmond in that fabulous Broadway musical Sunset Boulevard— Everything will be as if we never said goodbye!

[nepofledgling]

Jude and Nemoira from On Sundays She Picked Flowers by @fluoresensitive! Jude made Nemoira that cute blouse and she made it with LOVE!!

If you've followed me for a while you might remember that I did the art for the hardcover version of the book in 2022 (!!! such an exciting and fun project to work on) This was one of the early concepts that we didn't end up using, but I found the sketch and decided to finish it for fun <3 If you still haven't read On Sundays go read it right now! You can buy it here

[bauliya]

Why did you participate in that dogpiling of a black person. What did fluoresensitive say that was so wrong?

because theyre one of those assholes who routinely dogpiles trans women and accuses them of sexual abuse and pedophilia for making even slightly kinky posts on a website where the baseline is people fully declaring how badly they want to cum inside and knock up men? use your brains. do research!

[librarycards]

Um! The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin, Beloved by Toni Morrison, Just Over My Head by James Baldwin, Motherthing by Ainsle Hogarth andddddd O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker?

hi yah yah! immaculate taste as always. here are some recs:

Hiromi Goto, Chorus of Mushrooms

Vanessa Onwuemezi, Dark Neighbourhood

Jac Jemc, The Grip of It

Mairead Case, Tiny

Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

I know you read a lot so I tried to find some you maaaay not have read, but some more popular others are My Soul to Keep, Piranesi, The Deep, and Jane: A Murder.

[akajustmerry]

Get behind me my light skinned friend! Also? In terms of Blackness, white-passing has to be something you claim for yourself, a conscious choice. Take Nella Larsen's Passing; both women are light skinned, but only one makes the conscious choice to move through the world as a white woman. Far as I know, you're kicking in this shit as a Black + Lebanese person so.... White passing, my ass, we should've never let these crackers learn our words.

omg yah yah!!!! exactly, none of these assholes understand that passing is a verb!! at most, its something someone claims for themselves! but dickhead non-Black people and whites found the term and as usual mutilated it! anyway, thank u and love u <3333

[archaeocommunologist]

So, per my request, syntaxblk added my name to the blocklist (and with the most detailed entry, no less!). As usual with this crowd, there are many funny aspects, but I wanted to draw up a few notes

1.) These people aren’t leftists. They have no coherent economic analysis. Their politics are an aestheticized jumble of “social justice” causes, and as such, they are laser-focused on speech acts, to the exclusion of all else. The only things they are capable of talking about or criticizing are the ways other people speak online: who is or isn’t “allowed” to speak on a topic, what words they are or aren’t “allowed” to use (see: “say her name”)—and that’s it. When it comes to the real world, they’ve got nothing.

2.) They are also hopelessly identitarian, and this stems from their adoption of afropessimist philosophy. You find similar “radical pessimist” notions in TERFism, third worldism, and certain strains of anarchism. The “oppressor class” is evil, which is why they oppress; white people are colonizers because white people are bad, not because colonization is profitable. This is an anti-materialist position that cannot create an effective politics. It’s a disease of powerlessness. It’s contemptible where it’s not just sad.

3.) #oh wow here we go calling black people psyops

William O’Neal was an FBI informant who infiltrated the Black Panthers in Chicago. He provided the FBI with detailed information about Fred Hampton’s apartment, and then slipped secobarbital into Hampton’s drink so that he would not wake up before the feds could assassinate him. William O’Neal was also a Black man. Identity isn’t a defense like you think it is.

[spacebeyonce]

Speak...say what you must....

[winds up to swing at the hornet's nest] I mean it's not anything we haven't said before but that post absolutely reminds me of the STAUNCH ao3 stans who say their dark/dead dove works are properly handling dark topics with care/sensitivity when the reality of it all is that you wrote that shit with one hand and it fucking shows. like we can REALLY tell.

so those hoes condescending to us and saying we're all just a bunch of triggered teenagers is laughable because they love to act high and mighty but who has the better reading comprehension here. it's not them.

[duckstabbed]

Making claims of someone posting csem in order for you to justify your aggressive transmisogynist smear campaign is like. I don't want to say its a new low but it's disturbing and fucked up for sure