Zaozao is a tired fish ☸️ ☭

I have to stay offline and get work done. Leaving this post open so if I try to check bsky I remember that I cannot wake this tiger

Time to repost Fun In The Woods Part 1 since many of you missed it back then

zhang chenghua to me

FAT tiger lying on its side. resplendent in its thiccness

holy shit she's real

no * USians to be clear

No one's ever heard of the White Terror either

🚨URGENT URGENT URGENT🚨

I am Nema, a mother of 3 children from Gaza

💔We have run out of food

My children are hungry, and every day is getting harder.
We are close to famine and cannot afford basic food

🚨We urgently need $200

✅Verified by Molly Shah

Please Help us from here pls 👇
bit.ly/4u9QP2q

The whole point of defending the right for uncomfortable, or even reprehensible fiction to have the right to exist isnt that its all cool and nothing is ever wrong with it

Its that government/corpo organizations will NEVER look at things with the """nuance""" you think is so self evident

This is your *this is an emergency* reminder of Lina and Mahmoud
He needs a surgery, his life is at risk and he is in severe pain.
Every minute counts. If you can contribute today, even with a little bit, it will make a difference
chuffed.org/project/omsham

That's just how she is. What about you?

I also have to remind myself that the satisfaction of big word count after skipping breaks is not worth being unable to write at all for the next two days

I have to remind myself that I'm disabled with barely functioning wrists before I let my blood pressure spike over other people's word counts

1000 Lotuses Part 3 - Ghost Gate by LotusCarp A lesbian-focused queer fantasy inspired by China in the 10th century.

The free smut here is actually one of the very first things I wrote for 1000 Lotuses when I first came up with it four years ago. And before 1000 Lotuses? I was so depressed that I forgot how to write prose. I hadn't written in nearly two years lotuscarp.itch.io/1000-lotuses...

The chief difficulty with Part 3: I actually wrote big chunks of it a few years ago. Lots of things changed since then, so this manuscript has been in active open-heart surgery for a while lmao

an illustration by Spindle of the characters Nanami, a volh (essentially a false-dragonborn) woman with white horns and long black hair, kissing and fingering Felt (a rabbitfolk woman with short pink hair). The view is from outside a window peeking onto them

meanwhile, with Felt and Nanami <3

4'9" bodhisattva :')

Three of the main characters from my webnovel 1000 Lotuses. From left to right: Zhang Chenghua, a drunken boxer and healer in simple clothes for traveling; Zhang Suming, a tiger woman with simple robes/skirt, who is taller and wider than her sister Chenghua; and Li Zanghong, a very short woman wearing the outfit of a minor civil official. THEY ARE ALL LESBIANS

The 1000 Lotuses Part 1 itchio page has been updated with character portraits in full color by my dear friend paintbrushDjinn! lotuscarp.itch.io/1000-lotuses...

You know how Guanshiyin pusa is a character in Journey to the West. I also put her in my own Chinese epic bc she loves me and she told me to

LotusCarp Studio's Message to Proponents of Gen-AI Piss your fucking pants.

The cool thing about being an indie author is I can update my website whenever I want and I can put anything I want on it

Graphic alerts to a mutual aid need: a black cat sits in a carboard box looking up. Writing overlaid says 'Topaz says "There's only room for one in here! Please keep Britt sheltered & safe." Anything helps' You are directed to support via linktr.ee/hiitsbritt

🌞 It is _critical_ to post on the behalf of crowdfunders. @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social is homeless, NOT EATING & SO widely blocked / muted, it is YOUR words that legitimize helping.

24hr left!

- $697 shelter
- $69 bills, more for shelter!
- Cashapp loan $40
- FOOD $, OFC!
linktr.ee/hiitsbritt

My children are freezing and starving 💔❄️
Their tiny bodies can’t endure this cold and hunger. My husband was taken prisoner in the final days of the war, and I’m about to give birth alone 🤰🏻
We urgently need €200 — 10 people giving €20 can save us 🙏
Please don’t ignore us.
chuffed.org/project/1591...

This is what happens when your parents are part of a wave of Cantonese working class immigrants but you get born decades later and go to school with bougie Mandarin-speaking kids

Sama’a stands with her two daughters in front of the market on a dirt road. Sam is wearing a black hijab, a white sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, black pants, and is holding baby Talia in her arms who is swaddled in a white blanket, and wearing a headband at her hip is three year-old Julia, who is wearing a blue and green plaid dress with a white collar and white shoes with big gold flowers on them. Her dark hair is pulled back into two pigtails.

5 month old Talia lying in a wrought iron bassinet, with a blue cushion with white stars. She has dark hair and light skin, wearing a brown fleece sweater and is covered in a white knitted blanket, looking at the camera with big brown eyes. Behind her is her 3 year old sister, Julia, who has her hands on Talia’s head. She is wearing a white fleece sweater with pink hearts. Her dark hair is in pigtails, and she is looking at the camera.

3 year old Julia looking up at the camera with big brown eyes, her dark brown hair in pigtails. She is wearing a denim dress with an embroidered bib, and a pale blue puffy coat.

Baha’a (father) taking a photo of 5 month old Talia at his chest, you can see his hand holding her up. She is wearing mint green fuzzy pajamas with an animal print, and looking over her shoulder. She has light brown skin and a mess off dark hair on her head.

Eid is approaching... and my little girls look sadly at the holiday clothes other children are wearing. All I need is $300 to buy them new clothes and bring back their smiles after everything we've been through.

If anyone can help 🙏

- Sama’a 🤍
@mommunism.bsky.social

chuffed.org/project/157569

"My dad works at an industrial plant and my mom works at this grocery chain" and people would just assume I meant they were in management or corporate........

The sole purpose of my existence in high school and college was to shock people with the realization that not all Chinese parents in America have H-1B visas and six-figure professional salaries

Help Ahmad & Samar escape the war & build a safe, dignified future Hi, I'm helping my dear friends Ahmad and Samar who are seeking your support to build a secure and stable future for themselves.  Please read their story and donate!

Ahmad's account is marked as spam, but he's very real and is just looking for help surviving in Gaza. Any help you can give (donation, sharing, commenting, reaching out) is appreciated.

Ahmad's account: @ahmadjohary16.bsky.social

Donation link below for his campaign.

Kannazuki no Miko - Agony (Full) YouTube video by anlismil

1000 Lotuses final volume cover pose for Suming and Zanghong (jk....unless......)

We have to keep complaining:
stop-paypros.neocities.org