I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
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The calls for trans people to be quieter as we're wiped out are only going to increase, and you owe it to your sisters and brothers to get louder and louder.
Beta reader: I wonder where the story goes after this!
Me: Who knowwwwwssss?
Beta reader: You?
Me: Nope
If you're researching queer history in England, farm records might be one of the last places you'd check.
Yet for #LGBTQHistoryMonth, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares how he's tracing queer histories within our farm archives, and gives tips for future research.
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DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
βListen, because I dived into the abyss I started to love the abyss of which I am made.β
β Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
"sorry if I'm being annoying talking about my writing or sharing my art."
nah. get worse. get so much worse. let the gushing, reposting your own work, and excited ramblings flow through you. unleash the swarm of creativity unto the world. it's a net good.
She was Tiffany Aching. Not Granny Weatherwax, but a witch in her own right. A witch who knew exactly who she was and how she wanted to do things. Her way. And she had not failed, because she had barely begun."
"Then it came to her. She did not deserve to die. And she was not alone. She never would be. Not while her land was beneath her boots. Her land. The land of the Achings.
HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
βTooth fairies? Hogfathers? Littleββ
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
βSo we can believe the big ones?β
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
Fellow writers: I am deeply saddened to share that if we want the rewards of having written, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of writing
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A green wolf with flowers growing from its belly
#dailyart 69 : flowers
"without witness, without reward" is a really good principle to follow.
whether it's action, kindness, providing aid, or charity, you can do a lot of good in this world without seeking the validation that comes from the number on your post going up.
the upside, for what it's worth, is that your niece knows she has you, and she'll always know that. i know your brother and how close you are, and i'm so, SO sorry you have to hear that from his corner.
My goals for 2026 are simple. I shall be:
1. Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn!
2. Treacherous as the Sea!
3. Stronger than the foundations of the earth!
4. All shall love the new me, and despair!
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
I wish you, and me, and all of us, strength & solidarity & joy in the new year as we find our way together: which we have done this year already, and will arise tomorrow to do again. /thread
Oh, so you like bad boys? [places yet another em dash]
NICE COMPLIMENTS TO GIVE WRITERS β’ you are incredibly clever β’ your work impacted my soul β’ i'm still thinking about your book β’ i will read everything you ever write β’ honestly you are a monster β’ i put your book in the time-out corner β’ im crying why are you like this
Forever in love with this one.
From Pat Schneider's book, The Weight of Love: bookshop.org/a/862/9780942544480
#poem #booksky #writing
listen, pal, you're talking real brave for someone within chin lifting range of the tip of my blade
exerting dominance by hitting "add to dictionary" when I see red squigglies
Definitely heavy on the (...sometimes human...) taxidermy, but the writing is exquisite and Fuller's grasp of character and design is absolutely incredible in this show.
From Ursula K. Le Guin's Collected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9781598537369
#poem #books #writing
"Resilience"
Acrylics on canvas
