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fic writer // he/him // queer artful posting for erudite dorks | occasional linguistics | sundry pigswill the vibe is very much "look at this rock I found"

[hydrattan]

I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me

[toastflower]

every night strange masked figures in jumpsuits come to examine my phat ass and take notes

[toastflower]

[needlessly provoking my unstable captor] wow ok let’s see YOU eat a bowl of sand with no spoon sometime. [crunch gulp] blegh. fuck you. fuckin pussy.

[thevampirecrow]

fellatio sounds like a supporting shakespeare character rather than oral sex on a penis to be honest

[toastflower]

first in my bloodline to fight this many squirrels

[mxjackparker]

This kind of response to things I say about sex work, which isn't always phrased like this but almost always focuses on me being male or a man or my pronouns, shows a fundamental misunderstanding of why mansplaining is bad.

I am a sex worker. I have been for a decade. The majority of people I know are sex workers and I'm embedded in sex worker community. I started before 18 and have done it in brothels, cars, my own home, clients' homes, saunas, and hotels.

It's absolutely reasonable to criticize men who speak on issues they don't experience like an authority, especially when they speak over women to do it. It is not reasonable to raise someone's gender (or in this case, pronouns) as a reason their thoughts aren't worth hearing when the issue is one they do face.

[mxjackparker]

I see people bringing up that I'm trans in response to things like this, as a way to legitimize my speech. The reason I refuse to do so, despite many of my experiences selling sex being pre-transition, is that I equally do not want cis men who have done sex work to be silenced on the topic.

We need more active and former sex workers to speak out. That won't happen if we're dismissing those who do.

[toastflower]

what a sad pathetic fucked up man. I need to put him in. my mouh. mmf. inf my moumthf, I said

[orpheuslament]

in a way this too is hannibal lecter

[orpheuslament]

you are of course completely right but GOD miss piggy playing hannibal lecter would be such a monumental serve it would entirely change the world as we know it

[toastflower]

tongue twisters in westeros be like:

Im not the northern warden

I’m the northern warden’s ward

which is why I’m warding northmen

with the northern warden’s sword

[toastflower]

Bored ironborn iron shorts on a short ironboard

[toastflower]

House Lothston’s lot is not a lot,

There’s not a lot of Lothstons.

If Lothston’s lot improved a lot,

The lot the Lothstons might’ve got

Would thrice be worth House Lothston’s lot

(there not being lots of Lothstons).

[toastflower]

you’re the smithy’s apprentice? well shoot. Hop on the wagon son, we’re a-hightailin’ after yon coyote! Ol’ Zeke here reckons a shiny new anvil’s bound to fall on him any day now. scooch over, there’s a good boy. Yessir, happens ‘bout once a week he says, ain’t that right Zeke?

[theprofessional-amateur]

Link to original post with all the links

Some very helpful tools, ideas, and ways keep going or get involved

I will add the resource Big Beautiful Boycott as a way of checking businesses to avoid that is not an app

The Big Beautiful Boycott stops funding to those funding fascism. Every dollar is a choice

[daysleftofsecondterm]

1,098 days left

[toastflower]

This is how you lose the time war, Charlie Brown!

[toastflower]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: In Flanders Fields - John McCrae, The Simpsons Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Ned Flanders Additional Tags: War, Flanderization, On Purpose Summary:

John McCrae's famous and tragic war poem, reimagined ever so slightly.

[nephilot]

i've been reading a lot of speculative fiction lately esp from nightmare magazine. here are some hits i've read in the past few days:

57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides by Sam J. Miller

i love the list format of this story! i've been looking for stories that play with form, and the way this narrative loops around to the title thru a numbered list was very satisfying. the ending also kind of felt like a gut punch.

We, the Girls Who Did Not Make It by EA Petricone

a choral voice of a group of women murdered by two serial killers. i've noticed that this is a common mode for stories abt the victims of misogynistic violence - to bring them together into a group and have them speak almost as one. it works here, partially bc the story is so careful to individualize the women within the group even as they speak together. also was holding my breath for a lot of this story.

Bleed for Me, Bro by Sharang Biswas

what if you could reanimate ppl... what would that do for s&m.... i loved the premise omg.

The Sound of Children Screaming by Rachael K. Jones

gun violence portal fantasy. classrooms have portals that take hiding children to a magical world. really adored this one. kind of gave me chills if i'm being honest.

Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather by Sarah Pinsker

unconventional formats my beloved!! told through an entry on a website abt folk songs, with the different users arguing and sharing lore and researching the song.

Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island by Nibedita Sen

another unconventional format and my FAVORITE on this list. about a girl who's taken from her home by british colonizers who massacred her island. it's told through an annotated bibliography, and it's such a sharp story that plays with the idea of the Other and historical reality and how history is formed. it's beautifully written too. i read it twice and then sent it to my boyfriend to read.

Chew by Tamsyn Muir

takes place in germany after wwii and has maybe my favorite zombie i've ever come across. i'm not really into zombies so that's both saying a lot and very little.

The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends by Eugenia Triantafyllou

two friends duel it out thru what are basically goodreads reviews for a strange fantasy series. once again unconventional formats my beloved <3 <3 <3

Fandom for Robots by Vina Jie-Mae Prasad

such a sweet story about a robot who gets into an anime. i love stories abt fandom bc i'm so tumblr ig. IDC. i'm free.

Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers by Alyssa Wong

a woman goes on a terrible tinder date and turns the tables on her serial killer date. it gets crazier and more fun and more upsetting from there! another gut punch ending.

Angel, Monster, Man by Sam J. Miller

a group of gay men during the aids crisis invent a man using the writings of their dead friends and colleagues. he takes on a life of his own. it was a story filled with the rage and grief of its characters. also realizing this is the second sam j. miller on the list!

[brofisting]

helpful tattoo reminder: they are technically Injuries so u have to eat a lot of calories drink a lot of water and sleep a lot after so your body can Heal The Injury

[brofisting]

another helpful tattoo reminder: the 24-48 hours after you get a tattoo your brain can not be trusted in regards to whether or not you should have gotten that tattoo, if you have somehow ruined your life, if it turned out ugly, etc. ignore that

[brofisting]

finally, while i am at it: always bring a candy bar and a sugary drink to your appointment for blood-sugar reasons (worst case scenario) or so you can have a treat (unilaterally applicable)

[brofisting]

this has been your friendly neighborhood haver of 19* tattoos (assorted sizes and placements)

*not totally sure here. bad at counting

[parasocialanxiety]

Can I just emphasize that not everyone reading this has yet encountered the information that injuries require food, hydration, and sleep? I think the way many people associate rest and injury is that you rest the injury itself to avoid making it worse, but overlook that the healing process itself requires rest regardless of if not-rest directly injures it further.

Also exercise is a form of controlled injury so that as your body heals it heals stronger. You also need food-hydration-rest for strength and cardiovascular improvements after exercise.

[toastflower]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Three Moments of an Explosion - China Mieville, The Dowager of Bees - China Mieville Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Past Abuse, Card Games, playing fast and loose with story mechanics, Texas Summary:

A woman on the run finds solace in an unexpected deck of cards, and then finds unexpected cards in the deck itself.

[toastflower]

magical girl transformation sequence but on the inside, my kidneys have swapped places and my blood type’s A+ now.