Ok, a combination of ADHD brain not vibing and needing to return books to the library means I am putting down both MORTAL FOLLIES and PARIS DAILLENCOURT. But I still have REALLY CUTE PEOPLE by Markus Harwood-Jones for another week, so that’s what we’re reading instead!
And done! KISS HER ONCE FOR ME was a delight 😍. Now it’s on to PARIS DAILLENCOURT IS ABOUT TO CRUMBLE, by Alexis Hall. I can’t tell you how excited I am for this bake off romance 🥰
Yeeeeessss!!! Agreed. Fantastic book. One of the only “why don’t they just leave” reasons I’ve truly believed.
a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy
the future is for trans people
… last night I started reading KISS HER ONCE FOR ME, by Alison Cochrun. I’m feeling the cognitive dissonance of reading a Christmas romance in March, but it’s set in PDX and I already love it 😍
*sigh* ADHD brain sometimes makes it difficult to do something like make a thread about all the books I’m reading this year, because it’s never going to stay in a tidy, linear list. Which is to say, I’m still making my way through MORTAL FOLLIES (enjoying it my brain is just working slowly), and…
Finished RULES FOR GHOSTING last night. Because I am who I am, I wanted more about the actual ghosts, but over all this was sweet and enjoyable ❤️
House Republicans have just introduced a bill that would result in a NATIONWIDE book ban. Oh, the bill is also specifically transphobic. Contact your House Rep and ask them to publicly oppose this legislation. A few more thoughts in the thread about this action. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...
"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."
"OK," you say. You take a step forward.
He takes a step back.
"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."
Lest we forget: the US now controls Venezuela's oil, which is EXTREMELY low-quality and hard to sell. They essentially tortured the people of Cuba into buying their lousy stolen oil oil. (And bombing Iran will likely close the Strait of Hormuz, further increasing the value of the lousy stolen oil.)
This is what I need cis folks to understand.
It's been a decade.
Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it
Image shows the cover of a book titled STRUCTURING LIFE TO SUPPORT CREATIVITY by Sandra Tayler.
Very excited to dive into this masterclass of a book by @sandratayler.bsky.social. Hoping it’ll solve all my problems 😅
Mom was asking about Becky Chamber’s Monk & Robot books, and I told her the first one is called A Psalm for the Wild Built. She her “Foam for a Wild Goat” 🤣
I understand why prison abolition is controversial but I don’t think you can get away from the fact that the most passionate prison abolitionists work closely with incarcerated people or were incarcerated themselves. The more you know about the logistics of incarceration the more you hate it.
Daily reminder: please preorder
DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
Happy Lunar New Year! 🔥 🐴 🎉 and Happy(?) Eclipse Season 😅 🌑 ♒️
I (mostly) understand the reasons, but am still irrationally irritated when I can’t go back and edit a post (typooos!!)
A tragedy in two acts
Since Cass is again making the rounds for expounding on all the ways we might make fewer trans kids, here’s a piece on how this discourse erases the lives of trans people doing extraordinary specifically because they embraced who they are. Whose rich lives wouldn’t have happened in the closet.
Protesters marched in NE Minneapolis on Sunday under the banner of “ICE Out—No Compromises! Stand with Immigrants! Justice for the Minneapolis Community!”
“Real safety does not come from press conferences & photo ops. It's fought for by people like us who continue to show up every day” -M. Zambrano
I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism.
I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm.
This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.
I literally saw a post two weeks back in which a guy with two jobs was flagellating himself because he was short on rent, lamenting that had he donated plasma more, maybe his rent would be on time. This system is deeply fucked. Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.
I’ve now also picked up RULES FOR GHOSTING by Shelly Jay Shore, so we’re gonna have two on the hook for a bit. Will report back soon ✌🏻
So, still working on MORTAL FOLLIES, but ADHD brain does what it does, and I’ve now also read CINDER HOUSE by @freyamarske.bsky.social. What a delightful, fresh retelling of Cinderella. It beautifully incorporates the foundations of the story we love, while also reimagining the context. I loved it.
A picture of the cover of a hardcover copy of Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang. The cover features a typewriter like instrument outlined in gold, topped by a circular image of deep red flame.
Y’all, can I just recommend a book to you (again)? BLOOD OVER BRIGHT HAVEN by M. L. Wang is an incredible reading, and a terrifyingly terrific metaphor for the world we find ourselves in right now. Read it.
Absolutely and completely 100% worth your time and $$. I cannot recommend this enough ❤️ ✍🏻
You are correct, and you should say it
Truth. The Macbeths are one of the only “healthy” marriages Shakespeare ever wrote about
😂 I mean, you’re not wrong
