Sending you love and solidarity, and also my cat Sundance absolutely blissed out during his afternoon nap, as well as a picture I took with my dad's old SLR camera on a trip to Cape Town last year because I've been enjoying getting back into analogue photography in this age of AI
If he leaves who's going to watch out for Neil!! No one else is left to care about the man!!!!
Every day I wake up and I think about them... Willie and Neil... Neil and Willie...
Past Sins
Oh, Sister
Mercator
The Notion of Respectability
Two Birds on a Wire
Tlhod is one of those books that can be really special from so many different angles. I read it for the gender, then I read it for the nationalism, and then I read it for the ice, and each time I took something else from it!
Hoy no es un dΓa Feliz, es un dΓa de lucha por los derechos que aΓΊn nos niegan, entre muchos de ellos el de seguir vivas.
Hasta que estemos todes.
Keep Fighting πβπΌ #8M
Respectfully, what did Stan Rogers put in the Northwest Passage that it hits like that
YES I LOVED IT SO MUCH
#FanvidRec for "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" by FairestCat, from Festivids 2024.
It's a great Casablanca vid that hits a bit hard right now (yes, I previously mentioned it when it was still anonymous).
archiveofourown.org/collections/...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2y...
Very excited to announce my talk at the @rgsibg.bsky.social !! 27 April, both in person and online. π₯³ #NavalHistory
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...
For the noisy valor of future years, for a lofty race of men, I have lost my cup at the fathers' feast, my honor, my cheerfulness. The wolfhound century leaps on my back but I have no wolf in my blood, oh, hide me deep and warm, like a cap in the sleeve of Siberia's coat. Let me see no coward, no sticky slime, no wheel with bones and blood, but silver foxes that shine all night with a grace from before the flood. Bear me off to the dark-flowing Yenisey where pine trees stretch to the stars, because I have no wolf in my blood, and shall only be killed by my peers. March 17-28, 1931
every single day as this wolfhound century progresses i think of this poem by osip mandelstam (who did not escape his own wolfhound century).
Π½ΠΎ Π½Π΅ Π²ΠΎΠ»ΠΊ Ρ ΠΏΠΎ ΠΊΡΠΎΠ²ΠΈ ΡΠ²ΠΎΠ΅ΠΉ
(the translation is by peter france)
Love to see a man rolling a cigarette on an erratically moving bus. This requires an inner equilibrium achieved by few
Returning to my roots
It also occurs to me that because my phone died, I never shared this here, so let me remedy that. I finally wrote about The Terror, Kropotkin, and mutual aid.
open.substack.com/pub/imaginin...
Inaugurating the Neil Burnside/Willie Caine tag and you're all welcome archiveofourown.org/works/78277776
What a pleasure to moderate this conversation. Takeaways: joy, naivety/approaching your work like an amateur, integrity - all sit at the foundation of creative work that lasts in a world designed to make it seem disposable.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Tune in Friday, December 5 during Terror Camp for an EXCLUSIVE TEASER of Alex Stone's film adaptation of The Worst Journey In The World βοΈ
when the function got a lil jocularity... #mash
A tuxedo cat stretched out on a blanket, one leg forward, eyes closed, deeply asleep
That's my sweet boy Sundance... He loves to be asleep on my lap. Wishing you safe travels!
HUGEST W EVER
ao3 kudos emails are a beautiful reminder of how fandom is so everlasting. like, someone might read smth i wrote over a decade ago, rejoicing in a new fandom for the very first time, & i may have forgotten that singular joy, but someone will follow in my footsteps. and it's right there in my inbox.
I am constantly thinking about my D&D character. I never understood people who said that and then it happened to me
A tabby cat and a tuxedo cat, snuggling on a wool blanket. The tabby cat is half on top of his brother.
I'm so sorry to hear that. Sending you hugs and a picture of Cassidy and Sundance π«
Last day to submit your abstract! π©΅
Good news... we're extending our submission deadline! You now have until September 5th to send us your proposals: whether it's for 5, 15, or 30 minute long presentations, we want to hear from you! π€©βοΈποΈ
Submit your abstract here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1u3x...
I am always in favour of another submission. Send us that abstract!!!!!!!
It did make us all laugh, which I count as a win!
My husband recently made this to shame our cat (who pees everywhere, but mostly in flower pots and old shoes)
21st Century Breakdown is still such an incredible album. Thank you Green Day
he knows the writer's struggle
