Mary Sue

If you want something to tide you over til this comes out go read SIREN QUEEN right tf now.

Book cover for the forthcoming book The Scarlet Ball, by Nghi Vo. An Asian woman in a red Gilded Age ballgown faces the viewer defiantly holding a mask made to resemble a white woman's face. There are dark smoky hands reaching for her out of the darkness, grabbing her arms and caressing her face.

NEW COVER NEW COVER NEW COVER!

I've been dying to show off this incredible piece of art by Martina Fačkova, and here it is!

On October 6, 2026, you're all going to meet Judith Ban, and I cannot wait.

Long story short (longest story I've ever written anyway) Judith's on the run, and lands in magical Gilded Age New York. After two years working in service-industry hell, she gets the opportunity to have a rich white girl's face sewn over hers and to dance with literal demon lords.

Judith Ban of The Scarlet Ball is ruthless, reckless, and ambitious. She's hungry. She's a good dancer with a broken heart and a brick in her handbag, and she's going to have such a good time.

As you may guess, I love her, and I hope you love her too.

SIREN QUEEN is so good it's set in the Golden Age of Hollywood. I would call it horror I don't know what it's actually filed under though.

I went to look for this and found her backlist and I NEED you to know that every single cover is *incredible*

it's just, I don't know if you know this, but it's just that The Importance of Being Earnest opened in February of 1895, and then the next month, there came the libel trials. God it was so sad and everyone was awful about it and the play closed in May. but Robbie Ross was really good and faithful.

They picked the most conservative and boring outfit Ncuti wears in this production for the header.

Anyway here is the trailer.

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A photo of the Chicago skyline at night with a tangle of bright lighting lignite gap the night sky during a thunderstorm

Boom! Had a great ight show over the skyline tonight. Here’s my first big lightning shot of the season.

This is a 2-frame composite. Best as I can tell, two large, branching bolts struck the eastern antenna mast of the Hancock. #wxsky #ilwx

Blockity block block block

...any of the thousands of US Navy members current and former who have transited the Strait of Hormuz while Iran trolled the ship for shits and giggles can describe for you at least 3 ways they can close the Strait without attending any briefing.

this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone"

they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.

They’re like Mario casually gokart racing with the lizard who keeps kidnapping his girlfriend

"Oh you're a fan of Martin Luther King? Name every white moderate."

Get ready for a take the likes of which you've never seen
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A brindle bulldog mix is lying in a weird angle, with one haunch on my foot.

She's asleep.

this is the kind of content that ends up getting censored with crackdowns on sex and queer content. people trying to help queer (or straight) homeless kids trying to navigate safe ways to get it on--and they will encounter it either way, just like every kid will

In Intro LGBTQ+ I talk abt McRuer’s “central question of ableism”: “Wouldn’t you rather be more like me?”

Parallel response to trans ppl is clear here:

“Very few people in this world actually want there to be more trans people… …they ask: ‘Wouldn’t it be better if they just didn’t end up trans?’”

Moi: It is Tuesday! It is time to take my pills!

Moi: *opens the Monday slot in the pill sorter and takes those pills*

Moi:.....waitaminute

Like, what's better, burning them, shredding them into confetti consigned to the Willamette, or putting them in the drains of the troughs at the stadium pissers?

There is a lot I have a bid in for, where of the approximately 10k stamps, at least a dozen are German swastikas and if I win this lot, I am going to have to think long and hard about how I'm gonna destroy them.

I'm perusing some stamp dealer pages For Reasons and it's always fun* to click "next page" and BOOM! Swastika stamps being sold for lots and lots of money compared to other stamps.

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*It's not at all fun.

The 2026 Immigrant Justice Package passed because communities organized, advocates pushed, & families refused to be ignored. This is what happens when we stand together for dignity, safety, & belonging.

Phthalates Business Guidance Phthalates are chemicals that are most often, but not always, used to make plastics softer and/or more pliable. In this use, phthalates function as plasticizers. One example of a product that may cont...

*Number of pieces is not an indicator of safety. Ever hear of phthalates? No pieces to a rubber duck, but we're still on it.

www.cpsc.gov/Business--Ma...

There is a man at the ACC tournament screaming Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls while Stanford tries to shoot free throws

I second these. They get my Es down to pecish.

Alabama was set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey stopped it. Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row. Update: Ivey granted Burton clemency on March 10, commuting his death sentence to a life sentence.

HUGE: Alabama was set to kill Sonny Burton on Thursday. Governor Kay Ivey stopped it.

Sonny Burton did not kill anyone, but Alabama put him on death row. Ivey granted Burton clemency on March 10, commuting his death sentence to a life sentence.

Law Dork coverage:

rt if u hate nazis and love boobs

Nazis in Your Neighborhood: Anti-fascist researchers out an extremist music label operating in the Tenderloin Based in a supportive housing building, the one-man distributor sells fascist music and merch from all over the world

Neo-Nazi music label exposed by anti-fascists in #SanFrancisco. sf.gazetteer.co/nazis-in-you...

Hooray the coming of the Truck!