Arthur of Camelot

Morgan Arthur, he / him, white, asexual, trans guy. fandom blog without any loyalty to a particular fandom, but so far Marvel / Fallout 4 / Dragon Age / Breath of the Wild / Detroit: Become Human have been pretty consistent

[thisiswhymomworries]

QBdatabase.com

need more queer books in your life? mad at all the book bans? wish you could read books about people actually like you?

the Queer Books Database is a free, online searchable database that lists queer rep in over 2,500 fiction and 500 non-fiction books! you can filter by age, genre, year, and specific identity--including race, disability, mental illness, and neurodivergence

here’s some ideas of what you can search for:

a legal thriller featuring a bisexual transgender woman or a sci-fi with a disabled black gay man

Young Adult, Middle Grade, and Children’s books in both fiction and non-fiction titles

classic queer lit from 1872 to 1956 (Carmilla to Giovanni’s Room)

biographies of famous historical and modern activists, musicians, athletes, immigrants, and writers

supportive spiritual texts and guidance from community leaders (filter by fifteen different religions!)

representation for LGBT identities under the “plus,” characters of color, fat rep, neurodivergence, older characters, questioning and closeted characters, religious identity, disabled characters--and more!

check with your local library to find these titles or ask about Inter-Library Loans to grab one from a library nearby! this really helps support libraries, authors, and me, an autistic transgender librarian :)

[birdplushie]

i think it's funny when a character is almost exclusively referred to by their last name by other people and this carries over into their internal monologue when someone writes from their pov. not even on a first name basis with herself

[neshamama]

power chords were invented by indigenous (shawnee) musician link wray, who also made history when his song "rumble" became the first and only instrumental single banned from the radio in the us (way back in 1958!!!!!) "rumble" would go on to appear on shows like the sopranos and spongebob squarepants and films like pulp fiction

[neshamama]

100%

link wray popularized the modern "power chord" with distortion like the larsen effect in the late 1950s. this 1959 song "comanche" highlights his guitar techniques that played a role in the development of punk and metal.

playing that banned song in the 70s in san francisco:

after death, wray was featured in the 2017 documentary, RUMBLE: the indians who rocked the world. here is an article by one of his biographers if you would like to learn more:

The "Rumble" hitmaker, who grew up in Dunn, didn't embrace his Shawnee heritage until his forties.

[sickjacket]

Link Wray kicks ass. He wrote one of my favorite albums in a chicken shack and he played guitar so loud he had to put the speakers outside to record the songs. It’s the most “recorded in a chicken shack” album I ever heard in my life, listen to how recorded in a chicken shack this shit is

[verygoodcomments]

[shadeslayer]

overdraft fee is crazy like bro you literally know i dont have the money

[stephenroot]

I hate cigarettes so much I hate that smoking is becoming cool again I hate that we're becoming contrarian hipsters about this disgusting habit that has literally killed so many people and destroyed so many lives I'm so serious we need to become absolute killjoys about this again it's time to go 90s scolds on cigarettes until the scourge is wiped out entirely.

[rejectingrepublicans]

[saywhat-politics]

Officials Roasted After Posting Video Of Alleged Reflecting Pool Vandal In The Act

“Is this what you guys imagined you’d be doing when you got this gig,” a social media user mockingly asked Park Police after watching the fo

“Is this what you guys imagined you’d be doing when you got this gig,” a social media user mockingly asked Park Police after watching the footage.

By Elyse Wanshel

Jun 25, 2026, 04:50 PM EDT

Prepare for your logic to feel vandalized.

On Wednesday, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool drama got as thick as the pool’s algae when Park Police posted a notice to X asking for the public’s help identifying an alleged vandal.

“The United States Park Police is seeking assistance in identifying the individual depicted here in connection with a Destruction of Government Property investigation,” officials said in the post, noting that the alleged incident occurred on June 19 at around 3:30 p.m.

The post also provides a video of the supposed crime. The footage, which is shot from a distance and is pretty blurry, shows a person reaching into the pool and pulling something out — and that’s it.

After watching the seemingly benign footage on X, critics were more eager to mock Park Police than they were to assist officials.

[boss-of-armadildos]

[dekaydk]

The pension cutbacks or cancellations are a harbinger of what’s to come. Ending Social Security is at the top of the list for Project 2025. They will either fully “privatize” it (hand it over to financial markets to “manage” and take fees out for their “assistance”) or start paying in some form of cryptocurrency. Either way the promise of a stable retirement income will be broken, because every retiree will get some kind of reduction in payout, and will have to understand how to manage their own money in an unregulated and predatory market. Crypto is even worse, since even today a decent hacker can just clean out your wallet, leaving you without recourse, since law enforcement has neither capacity nor ability to protect you, much less find the culprits.

The largest theft in history, billions will flow from the bottom 90 percent to the billionaire class, and it will be entirely legal.

[quixylvre]

[vulpes-aestatis]

Baby sphinx trying to be like mama and waylaying travelers, but all its riddles are completely non-sensical like the ones a 1st grader would tell

[thecactifindahome]

[wizardarchetypes]

riding in the backseat of someone else’s car is such an important way to discover new music

[pankendev]

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

[northern-punk-lad]

Being prime minister of the uk has a higher regret rate than being trans

So the solution is to ban prime ministers

[northern-punk-lad]

[shamebats]

The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone

[unfuckablebogtroll]

☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

It’s not the heat. It very literally is the sun.

[libraford]

Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.

Its surprisingly tasty????

[libraford]

Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.

[libraford]

I have been reminded of:

-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.

[libraford]

I have now been informed of

-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.

[libraford]

"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

"... ah."

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and it’s conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings it’s not a coherent story it’s just a collection of paragraphs that don’t actually plausibly link to one another. you're not fighting with the audience you don’t look clever you look like you don’t know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don't treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.

[ineffectualdemon]

Getting to the end of a story and going "THE CLUES WERE THERE THE WHOLE TIME!" is always joyous for me whether or not I picked up on the clues leading up

If I saw the clues and caught the hints then yes! I am clever and me and the author/creator/artist etc were in on it together the whole time!

If I didn't notice the clues or got fooled but can clearly see them in hindsight then "Ha! You won this time storyteller! I am delighted by this game we play!' and then I enjoy putting the pieces together afterwards and enjoying how clever it was. I feel like the creator respects me as an audience

If there is a "twist" that comes with 0 clues or foreshadowing at all I'm annoyed. I'm pissed off. I feel like I'm being condescended to and patronised. It's not clever or interesting and makes me annoyed I ended up caring about characters and plot points that ended up meaningless.

Because it's not that these stories don't have foreshadowing or plot clues. They just abandon it for a "surprising twist"

A story that pays off the clues is letting me into the fun and makes a participant in the story

A story that just gives me a "shock" but no pay off is telling me not to engage or get attached or care. So why would I watch?

[merulanoir]

Adding my own two cents: I feel like some less experienced writers fall victim to the thought process that goes basically "random events happen in real life -> there are rarely if ever coherent signs to spot -> this cannot happen in fiction."

And the issue is that yeah, that's often true for life outside of pages, but fiction isn't real life. It has its own logic, and if you want to craft a satisfying narrative, you will have to accept that.

[yesornopolls]

Thought experiment currently making the rounds:

Every adult on earth is transported to a room on their own, and they are required to press one of two buttons, red or blue. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone lives. If more than 50% of people press the red button, then everyone who pressed the blue button will die. Do you press the Blue Button?

IMO there is an objectively right answer, but I’m hoping for a little faith in humanity today.

Do you press the Blue Button?

Yes

No

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