You know you're getting old when staff barely glance at you before they slap the "Over 18" wristband on.
@nickyrowlands
By day, I'm a queer feminist writer and mother. By night, I'm a queer feminist writer and mother with insomnia. Fueled by tea and books. She/her. #ProtectTransKids #FreePalestine
You know you're getting old when staff barely glance at you before they slap the "Over 18" wristband on.
Alysa Liu stole her hairstyle from an Australian
She never lived to see this moment, but itβs worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.
She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrewβs.
Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
I keep seeing authors getting duped by AI users pretending to be artists (and then sadly realising it when everyone calls their book AI slop).
These grifters are everywhere and I don't have a solution, but I have a few pointers:
Proposal: vampire romance is necromantasy
To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.β 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
"et choo, thomas?"
β sir topham hatt, during his assassination
Listen. The average person just doesnβt need training to know that itβs wrong to kill people.
This is not some big complex problem that requires expertise to get right. If ICE is killing people, itβs from a lack of morality, not a lack of knowledge.
Folks, please donβt tell artists they shouldnβt be making or selling their art right now. For many, itβs how they pay the bills. Art is vital during times like this. ALL ART. Whether itβs a protest sign or a book cover or just a beautiful drawing. Itβs part of the heart of humanity.
Thank you for talking about BPPV and sorry you have to experience it. It is truly the worst.
I have BPPV & it is the WORST. An episode feels like being shoved in a barrel, thrown roughly down a bumpy hill, & landing in a rapid before finally crawling ashore feeling more nauseous (& vomiting) than you ever have in your life. I'm glad to see people speaking about how debilitating it is.
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Full view of 1998 Xena: Warrior Princess calendar
January 15 entry on calendar: "MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.'S BIRTHDAY Xena ends the Trojan War"
I found out that you can reuse a decades old calendar if its yearβs dates line up with the current yearβs, so this year I got a lovely 1998 Xena: Warrior Princess calendar. The way they added show events into it is cracking me up.
βΉοΈ Oh damn, I'm sorry. I hope treatment all goes as well as possible and it doesn't progress.
A poem by Diana Wynne Jones, very early in her career. Wilkins Tooth was published in 1973. Richard, Colin and Mickey in the poem are not fictionalized: those are indeed the names of her sons.
It bothers me a lot when people erase queer, trans, and nonbinary authors writing m/m fiction in favor of calling us all "straight women" because we aren't gay cis white men,
But it especially pisses me off when people toss my friends' names at me like a gotcha.
A giant yellow sign on the side of the road announces βYOU ARE ENTERING A FRUIT FLY CONTROLLED AREAβ and below that in smaller letters βMake sure you know the rules.β
I donβt think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
The most recent one is βRobin Hood was a murderer and terrible person actually.β Like, do you even get the point of Robin Hood?
I grow weary of these gritty Robin Hood retellings. Where are the adventurous, romantic, camp, and vibrant Robin Hoods of yore?
NOW GO OUT THERE AND LIVE THE FINAL DAYS OF THIS SHITSTAINED YEAR BEING KIND AND BOLD AND DARING AND FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE PIT WHEN YOU SEE SOMEBODY GO DOWN YOU HELP THEM THE FUCK BACK UP
itβs the moooooooost wonderful tiiiiime of the yeeeeeeeeeeear (the 6 days between Christmas and New Year when it is socially acceptable to eat a 2pm breakfast consisting of the wreckage of cheese and chocolate left over from your 2am dinner)
Here's another take on a song which has been running through my head a lot these days β
"Satan thought up a plan
Dressed as a man
Walking the earth and since he began
The world is hell for you and me
But what a heaven it will be
When that man is dead and gone."
youtu.be/XDkhzVw0yBs
That's diabolical.
Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost
plastic kirk and spock ornament from wrath of khan, labeled in meme font CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS WITH AN ORNAMENT ABOUT A MAN WHO DIED TO SAVE OTHERS, THEN ROSE FROM THE DEAD TO THE GREAT JOY OF MANY.
merry happy to all my fudanshi and fujos
So, I'll have trouble with some dinosaurs? That tracks.
Dentist: Sorry, we have to reschedule your appointment.
Me:...I had an appointment?
STFU Trump.