Watergaw

She/her | books and other chaos | predates the millennium by a significant margin | AO3

[haridraws]

high ambient background football levels reminded me to actually finish this Personal Lore That Caused My Books comic

[ymutate]

Zulu Imbenge baskets are woven entirely of recycled telephone wire in the heart of KwaZulu-Natal, a province of South Africa. In the 1990s, Zulu women began repurposing discarded telephone wires, weaving them into intricate patterns to create colorful and durable baskets while preserving traditional weaving techniques.

[blog3839]

this picture is so cunty it’s disintigrating me

[actuallesbiansreddit]

If you like One Last Stop, you’ll probably like A Swift and Sudden Exit!! If you didn’t like OLS, you’ll probably like this better and should give it a shot!!

I want to give some flowers to the book I read last year that was the least shelved by other people on Goodreads. This was a 5/5 read for me, super immersive and you really didn’t know what was going to happen next. Great twists and two very lovable characters, a fated pair that defies the laws of space and time to be together. Pretty sci-fi, very gay! I just finished One Last Stop (very late to that party, I know) and couldn’t help but think of this book as I read it.

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Originally shared by Nautical26 on r/LesbianBookClub on June 29th, 2026 at 3:01 PM UTC.

[jspinkmills]

JAPANESE GOTHIC by Kylie Lee Baker is amazing! It lead me down a twisting, turning, blood-drenched path that kept me guessing the whole time, trying to unravel what’s real and what isn’t, while time weaves past and present inexorably, inescapably… Breathtaking!

[werewolf-transgenderism]

irritating as fuck when people get mad at Black people existing in premodern historical fiction/fantasy media. like first of all, you're racist. and second of all, you are acting as though Black people didn't exist in premodern Europe which is simply false. especially when we're talking about the Mediterranean, like what the fuck do you people think is along the southern half of the Mediterranean Ocean?? everyone's on boats, there are GOING to be interactions with Black people in Northern Africa, and there are GOING to be Black people in Mediterranean Europe. stop being stupid. your imagined homogeneous white European past is not historical reality, get over it you massive losers

[strawhatsufi]

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

[strawhatsufi]

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

[strawhatsufi]

You! You get it. In my view, if someone is saying "racialised" or "racially marked" without acknowledgement of context, they are doing it in a way that is gramatically incorrect.

[black--stars]

[Start ID: tumblr tags that read "#ohhh fuck that's a really good way of lookking at it #it forces the relative nature of it all to the forefront #it *makes* the listener pay attention to the fact that their context isn't THE context #and removes the assumption of Default]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[paper-wounds]

[apolladay]

Have you ever fired a gun?

* yes I’ve fired a gun

* I haven’t fired a traditional gun but I have shot a paintball or air-soft gun

* no, I haven’t fired any type type of gun

* see results

Have you ever fired a gun?

yes I’ve fired a gun

I haven’t fired a traditional gun but I have shot a paintball or air-soft gun

no, I haven’t fired any type type of gun

see results

Voting ended onJul 2

[ralfmaximus]

Are you a resident of the USA?

Yes American, and I've fired a gun

Not American, and I've fired a gun

Yes American, and I have never fired a gun

Not American, and I have never fired a gun

Meep morp I am not from this planet what is gun

Voting ended onJun 28

[nealashitposts]

I cant go to my local libary anymore because last year when I stopped by a librarian was reading a book I wrote under a pen name years ago. This book sold under 10k copies and I've literally only heard people talk about this book online *if* I went looking for it so I went up to them and tried to start a conversation like "oh hey I've heard of that book is it good?" Like hoping for some real feedback and she goes "yeah I love reading things by queer writers" and in a moment of terror I was like "oh but- hold on, I thought the author was some old hetero white guy?!" A thing I thought because I used my own dead grandpa's picture for the author pic because grandpa never had internet. I fake looked it up and was like "yeah if he was queer its not public?" And without looking up this absolute unit goes "oh the author bio is obviously fake. I'd bet my left leg the author is a west coast millennial non-binary queer who has never lived on the east coast." And then proceeded to rattle off a dozen linguistic flourishes that are specfic to the pacific northwest that are in the book and several that are nearly ubiquitous in the state where I said my pen name lives that are somehow completely absent from the book.

So you know. Got read for fifth and didn't even find out if she liked it.

[ktempestbradford]

Every year I tell the socials to Give Black People Money for Juneteenth. 2026 ain't about to be different. Give a little, give a lot, give directly, give widely.

Black fam: you are invited to reply to this with your info/links!

How to Give

Directly, if you can, to someone's Venmo, Ko-Fi, PayPal, Patreon, & etc.

Buy their art, books, music, jewelry, zine, or whatever else they create. Again, directly if possible.

Don't have money? I gotchu: Promote the heck out of their creations for the next week.

Check the notes for Black people to give money to if you don't know any personally (or if you do! You might find new, cool people).

Boost this post through the holiday weekend. Boost the Black people you know or find here through the weekend.

I can hear some of you saying: But Tempest, isn't asking for money cringe?

Only if you let it be.

Let's not forget why Juneteenth is a thing. Let's not forget that here in the year of our Lort 2026 there are people in white houses saying the racist parts out loud every day. Money can't solve that or make it better.

It can give a person a spark of joy in dark times. Maybe they'll buy a nice dessert, or go out to eat when they normally couldn't, or pay a bill without having to stress. Maybe they will be so freaking excited someone bought that thing they made!

So, Black people: Ask. Everyone else: Give No shame, no shade.

[ktempestbradford]

Because I am Black....

Venmo: @ KTBradford

PayPal

Patreon (I swear I'm putting new content there this month)

Buy my book!

[melodiousvoid]

Embroidered this on the back of my jacket for Pride a few months ago, promptly forgot. I used lineart direct from Watership Down to make the rabbit. ID under cut.

Image ID: A rabbit embroidered in white on a the back of a black jacket. There are six stripes in gay pride colors on its left, and five stripes in the trans pride colors on its right. Around the rabbit, stitched in jagged embroidery, are the words “Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.”

[ash-and-books]

Rating: 5/5

Book Blurb:

Bram Stoker Award–nominee and USA Today bestseller Johanna van Veen unveils a sapphic folk-horror tour de force—perfect for fans of The Witch and The Salt Grows Heavy.

A skull's grin is eternal…

The year is 1635.

Sister Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent, and Elsebeth, a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. War scorches the land, and no one survives it alone. Amid the devastation, they find something in the arms of a dying man: the gilded skull of a saint.

It is said that if you reunite the saint's skull with her body, a wish will be granted. Desperate for salvation, and each with secret desires of their own, Ursula and Elsebeth follow a ragged map across the blighted countryside. But darkness follows them. A necromancer, drawn to the relic's power. The saint herself, whispering at night. And as the lines between blessing and curse blur, the women must face a harrowing truth: the magic they seek comes at a cost.

At the journey's end, they'll face an impossible choice—one that could tear apart everything they know… or bind them to each other forever.

Review:

A sapphic folk-horror with a touch of historical and demonic vibes? THIS IS PERFECTION. I was immediately hooked from the first chapter in. Nun x Feral Girl? Oh yes yes yes. A demon hunting them down while a skull professing to be the skull of a saint that could grant them a wish if it reunites it with it's body... and then there's the fact that there are soldiers out there hunting them and this forbidden attraction between the both of them. I devoured this book. This is the perfect gothic sapphic horror vibe I love and I have made Johanna an auto read author for me because it was just a fantastic book. I truly couldn't get enough of it and loved every twist and turnon the turn for the characters.

Release Date: May 26, 2026

Publication/Blog: Ash and Books (ash-and-books.tumblr.com)

*Thanks Netgalley and Poisoned Pen Press for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

[morggo]

2026 - 2025 - 2024 - 2023

in spite of it all, happy 2026 pride.

you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads

you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride

these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.

final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. 👍

[sandandglass]

The Muppets s01e01

[le-sad-demiurge]

Fozzy getting hit on by lots of twinks

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Happy Pride Month

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Ten years later, this bit still slaps. They made a great pun and realized they could be nice/inclusive with it too.

[noadih]