Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo! Southern Gothic + Fast & Furious, with actual gay and trans characters.

*10/15/2025 noncooperation thread*

ICE: Let's grab 'em at an elementary school drop-off!

Hundreds of Chicago parents: NOPE.

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I was talking to someone on here awhile ago about this dude and figured this could bring some sunshine to the skyline

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Consider screening this with friends.
Have folks over with snacks.

The community connection will feel good. Maybe you can organize watching something together every month/ 2 weeks/week. Nothing fancy.

This Indigenous Peoples Day please speak up: another typhoon sweeping away homes of Alaska's Natives, who, during settlement (statehood: 1948) were forced to end ways of life (like my Grandma's) involving mobility across regions & stuck them in flood-prone/unstable villages with housing deficits.

More forest adventures - and more mushrooms!

Hinako Shimizu - Silent Hill f
#pixelart #ドット絵 #fanart #hinakoshimizu #SilentHillf

Thread (read all the posts) and quite true. Just ASK animal-related groups that are local: "I'm struggling, do you know of any pet food banks/options around?" because they usually have contacts and might run one themselves.

WOW What an huge honor!! Thank you so much to @theignyteawards.bsky.social, everyone who voted, and the readers and writers supporting BIPOC speculative stories ❤️

Minneapolis / St Paul let's rise to the occasion

Endurance sports are a great way to get in touch with your body as different parts fall off and roll down the street like a hubcap

He put his hand upon the sleeper’s rear, as though feeling if it was soft enough; and then, without more ado, sat quietly down there.

IN MICE

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

#invertober 11, dark fishing spider 🎣

#invertober2025

Hah to me the soap shapes look like surrealist madly smiling faces 😅

I love the tassels dangling in your face 😄

Have you read The Sellout by Paul Beatty? I feel like that might fit the bill

For Romance as a book genre/marketing category, yes. I have my own opinions about that but it is a fact that if you market a book as Romance, that’s what you’re communicating to readers and what they will expect to find.

Not applicable to stories in other media though.

I didn't even know I somehow got my copy early! Sign up if you want slightly pulpy very trans hiveminds and fungal intelligence and neurospiciness and space opera noir-ish and Diaspora feels and righteous crankiness and competitive community art and I WANNA EAT THE THING

On the edge of the meadow
🍂🌻

Oh absolutely. There’s a reason for the joke about anarchist meetings using a progressive stack!