Tea Harpy

Hey, I'm Owl! This is my personal account for engaging with art, writing, and various fan communities. I'll also occasionally post doodles or light essays on here. Hit me up if you would like to talk about story construction, character building, or cool marine life facts. Be forewarned, this blog is also +18

[torpublishinggroup]

Celebrate Pride with Tor Publishing Group!

Nobody’s Baby by Olivia Waite (@oliviawaite)

Dorothy Gentleman, ship’s detective and no-nonsense auntie, is called to a new case when an infant is mysteriously left on her nephew’s doorstep. The catch: they’re on an interstellar generation starship, and no one should be having children right now, much less abandoning them. Follow along as Olivia Waite brings the cozy mystery genre to the stars in this delightful novella series.  

Cabaret in Flames by Hache Pueyo

In a glittering, alternative Brazil, Ariadne is the all-too-human doctor for the powerful, near-immortal vampiric guls. Five years ago, her mentor went missing; now, a gul claiming to be her mentor's old paramour shows up on her doorstep with the news that her mentor may still be alive—and in need of their rescue. Dark, luscious, mysterious, and bloody, Cabaret in Flames wanders eerie nighttime alleyways and haunted hallways of memory, grappling with what it means to love—and be loved by—monsters.

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Celebrate Pride with Tor Publishing Group!

The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes

Guy Moulène has a simple goal: keep his sister out of debt. As an exterminator, that means hunting the uncanny creatures that crawl up from the river and attempt to infest the walls of the city. His latest quarry is different: a centipede the size of a dragon with a deadly venom and a ravenous taste for artwork. As it digests Tiliard from the sewers to the opera houses, its toxin reshapes the future of the city. No sane person would hunt it, if they had the choice.

Guy doesn’t have a choice.

Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske (@fahye)

To graduate the Academie of the Grand Duchy of Sieuxerr, every mage with a healer’s gift must endure a five-day trial. The exam groups are chosen at random, and all must pass together or fail together. What the exam should not include is the dead body of a classmate, a brilliant scholar who would’ve been first in their class, appearing in the exam hall on the first day of the trial. 

Five scholars. Five secrets. Five days to solve a murder and pass the most important exam of their lives, and maybe uncover a secret large enough to change the world. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.)

Out September 15, 2026!

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[knittingontheroad]

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

[weepingwidar]

Casey Weldon (US-American, 1979) - Curtains (2026)

[champsinthemaking]

it is literally wurmple sippy soup wednesday

[champsinthemaking]

wurmple sippy soup THE MOTION PICTURE wednesday

[homunculus-argument]

"I learned a lot from making this" is artist talk for "making this sucked ass and I'm not entirely happy with the result."

[animelionessmika]

^what artistic growth feels like

[siorca]

this is so fucking funny I love sharks

[blackjame]

House Passes Legislation to Combat Organized Supply Chain Theft and Retail Crime

The CORCA Act takes important steps to strengthen legal tools for law enforcement and crack down on interstate and transnational crime.

Legislative Update: Combatting Organized Retail Crime Act (CORCA)

This May, the U.S. House is expected to vote on the Combatting Organized Retail Crime Act (CORCA), bipartisan legislation will ensure federa

Homeland Security finds a new sneaky way to steal your data

In a barely publicized House vote on Tuesday evening, 144 Democrats joined 203 Republicans to pass the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act—

I'm so tired. So very very tired.

[plotholes-and-spellingerrors]

It's not through the Senate yet. There's still time to raise a stink about it. Maybe contacting your senators won't be enough to stop it but god damn it so much power comes from people not trying to stop things because the outcome feels inevitable.

[archduchesskittycat]

If goth is a whole music genre then why can't I find any songs about being trapped in a spooky castle

[archduchesskittycat]

This sounds like a random joke but I'm actually annoyed about this. Goth music is named for gothic fiction which is named for gothic architecture. Spooky gothic castles are a staple of gothic lit. So why can I not find any songs about being trapped in a spooky castle for the playlist I'm making for my 18th century gothic novel.

[archduchesskittycat]

Solution: trap some musicians in a castle until they write songs about it

[omercifulheaves]

*reads somewhere that John Brown and his cohorts would butcher slave owners and associates with "broadswords."* *me: thinks this is referring to some of the more serious cavalry sabers in the 19th century which were called "broadswords."* No it turns out the crazy motherfucker was literally running around during Bleeding Kansas hacking dudes to death with an actual Conan The Barbarian-ass broadsword.

[thememedaddy]

[lokiloo-blog]

I hate hate HATE all those 2edgy 4me theories about kids shows. Like Angelica dreaming up the rugrats, or the ed, edd, and eddy children being ghosts, or literally anything that takes a lighthearted and fun kids show and has to turn it into some tragic take of rape or murder or misinformed mental illness. So you know what? From now on I’m gonna do the exact opposite. Every cool grim-dark show is now because of a bunch of children. To get us started: Game of Thrones: A middle-school DnD campaign with the most angry, vindictive DM who has promised to kill everyone’s player characters (and their family) by the end.

[werewolfxo-moved-deactivated202]

The Walking Dead is actually a bunch of kids playing zombie apocalypse in their neighborhood and every time someone “dies,” it’s because their parents called them home for supper.

[transselkie]

Breaking Bad is actually just a fanfic the students in Mr. White’s class write about him because no one has any idea what he does with his free time and the running jokes about it got wildly out of hand.

[rootingformephistopheles]

I feel it would be good to have a word that's like not ragebait but shamebait, where you can read a post and just go 'ah, this person just wants me to feel ashamed of myself and is not engaging with the issue in a constructive or useful way. I do not have to participate in this actually' and like. move on with your day

[allonsybadwolf]

"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)

Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".

Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH

[enerdsout]

[marzipanandminutiae]

If you've ever seen images of sweatshops in the early 20th century, in New York or the UK or other developed countries

Guess what

Your clothing is still made in a place that looks like that. The only thing that's different is the tech level of the sewing machines and the race of the workers 

[happylandfill23]

i've had this garfield panel saved forever and i even marked in my calendar today as "the monday that wouldn't die" so uh. happy(?) monday the 22nd aka the monday that wouldn't die

[cock-holliday]

wish literally any gay papers would talk about lil nas x cause every article is either written with contempt OR makes sweeping assumptions by only quoting the cops and blatantly lies about things they contradict in their own article. like how is there no coverage of support or efforts to keep an eye on his location?

shortest possible story is that he he got arrested and hospitalized after walking around outside at night, MAYBE having 'an episode', MAYBE he was drunk, maybe he was high, maybe he was just being loud, who knows. Dude was outside at night in boxers and cowboy boots and that's all he did to "invite" police interaction.

But cops claimed he assaulted them so he gets arrested. Then goes to the hospital. Then goes back into custody.

And then he's not heard of for a while, then days later says he's out and okay. But facing FELONY charges!

WHERE IS EVERYONE? Pinknews cunts? Them? OutMag? Hello??

[cock-holliday]

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Almost a year later, Lil Nas X is out of a mental health rehab program, looking good, saying he feels really good, and seems to be on the way up after all of this. I'm really happy for him. I hope he has good genuine support in his life through family, friends, and folks rooting on him that he can count on.

I am really disappointed but not surprised how quickly a lot of media support for him disappeared, especially queer papers. An interview from before the police incident really highlighted how many people wanted him to fail and wanted to see him fall, including certain pockets within communities that should have has his back.

Happy Happy Pride to Lil Nas X. I hope nothing but good things come his way.

[caprart1]

i DO believe that a good writer can make mischaracterization work. oh there's a character who doesn't normally cry? figure it out!! disect the character. make the situation cryable for them. make that character cry ugly tears even if it goes against their very nature. YOU CAN MAKE IT WORK!!!

[amyrosedefensesquad]

A great piece of advice I've seen is "Don't fixate about what the character would never do. Think about the circumstances that would drive them to do this, even if they wouldn't normally."

[ficsinhistory]

Best advice ever!