Inferior poets are absolutely fascinating

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

[uptownlowdown]

last night’s doodles: @pandyssiandiaspora’s sweet courier willow (who will be kissing my romeo real soon 😏❣️🌵)

[garyachapple]

Wild Flowers

Urquhart Butterfly Garden/Canal Park, Dundas, Ontario, June 26, 2026

[aflo]

Attempting to locate a new Greek restaraunt using my gyroscope

[elgreytea]

What are you reading rn, why are you reading it, and what format are you reading it in (physical book, ereader, on your phone etc)

[ilium-ilia]

Charity Fic Commissions Poll

For those of you who don't know, Canada is on fire, and Indigenous communities are being disproportionately affected by the overwhelming damage.

A few writers and I are working on setting up charity commissions where people would show proof of donations to charities such as:

Anishinabek Nation 7th Generation Charity

Ontario Native Women's Association

Mikinakoos Emergency Fund

Red Cross

True North Aid

Indigenous Climate Action

Any others with an appeal that appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel

Before we set up the commissions, we are putting out this poll to see interested numbers so that we are able to effectively decide how many commission slots we will offer and how long the commissions will be.

At the moment, we are thinking of commissions being 1,000 words maximum for 10$ minimum donated (or your local currency equivalent) but that is subject to change depending on interest. Most of us write for COD, but more information about characters/fandoms will be available when we make the official post.

Would you be interested in a Charity Commission?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 1 day 10 hours

Even if you're not interested in a commission, I highly encourage you to donate if you are able to! Lev's post is a very valuable resource and source of information if you'd like to do further research.

Please reblog this post, not only for sample size but to get word out about the fires and the charities.

[tofixtheshadows]

At the age of 93, Duane Michals (February 18, 1932 – June 9, 2026) created this photographic triptych “Do You Mind if I Sit Here?" for the New York Times, a reflection on gay cruising and the pain of being closeted.

[aeolianblues]

morose code I communicate in short and long sighs

[furrylibrarian]

You should turn into a dragon. For your mental health.

[historical-fashion-polls]

which outfit would you rather wear? (1894)

left ❤️

right 🩵

Voting ended onJul 17

submitted by @edwardian-girl-next-door ❤️🩵

[sclappin]

How convenient it is to attach small, useful objects to your clothes at waist level

[wigglybunfish]

in which murderbot is a very normal terracotta soldier and ART the dragon spirit of a chinese junk who dwells in the ship's keel. they meet in the ming dynasty perhaps, when ppl are sailing places extra willy-nilly.

*Nüwa is the mother goddess in chinese mythology, known for creating humanity from yellow clay and repairing the sky.

thank you @mutualrapport for hosting the event! original prompt below.

[drawn for the prompt: an AU of ART and MB's first meeting and conversation - e.g. another look at their first meeting from a fantasy, historical, or (non-canon) sci-fi lens! Any perspective is fine. The only constraint is that it cannot be set in the canon universe. Any visibly non-canon AU- fantasy, human, historical, etc. - anything goes!]

[violsva]

Three different tests of spinning thick-and-thin yarns: 21m/11g, 22m/13g, 13m/12g. All two-ply wool, purple is Corriedale and white is Cormo. It worked out to almost exactly 50% of each.

The purple ply is the same thick-and-thin yarn throughout. White is consistent fine, thick-and-thin, and (mostly) consistent thick.

[eggpngg2]

Personal ads in Siren, a Toronto-based lesbian magazine, 1998

[naldibutnice]

Carmen Guerrero by Otto Dyar, 1930

[violsva]

Oupire

A one page lesbian vampire RPG

You are a perfidious and beautiful spectre, a fiend of accursed passions and hellish arts, a horribly animated agent of misery and death. You are also very lonely.

You find yourself in a remote castle, where a maiden lives with her father and a few servants. She is beautiful, and charming, and naïve. You love her. You must have her. You must draw her with you into the dark embrace of evil and win her to your side forever.

What can you do to make her understand your affection?

Oupire is a lesbian vampire one-page RPG where you have to decide how strongly you can express your forbidden passion without risking being revealed and chased away with torches and pitchforks.

You will need: A six-sided die (or two)

Free PDF available here!

[violsva]

Oupire

Seduce an innocent maiden to your vampiric ways!

You are a perfidious and beautiful spectre, a fiend of accursed passions and hellish arts, a horribly animated agent of misery and death. You are also very lonely.

You find yourself in a remote castle, where a maiden lives with her father and a few servants. She is beautiful, and charming, and naïve. You love her. You must have her. You must draw her with you into the dark embrace of evil and win her to your side forever.

What can you do to make her understand your affection?

Oupire is a lesbian vampire one-page RPG where you have to decide how strongly you can express your forbidden passion without risking being revealed and chased away with torches and pitchforks.

You will need: A six-sided die (or two)

Free PDF available here!

[stamp-it-to-me]

two 1998 Finnish stamps in a series on regional flowers