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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️

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call me lottie - silver vaporlight kay, frog kosaric, whatever // local representative of frog industrial concern // outsider lit and stupid shit // 38, she/her but y'know // let those laugh that win

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · Jan 22

here is a thread of my fine writing, available at frog industrial concern dot itch dot io
frogindustrialconcern.itch.io

frog industrial concern

frogindustrialconcern.itch.io

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 3h

if we wanted good chatrooms we would have used comic chat. we didn't. chatrooms should be shitty and you should hate using them. good chatrooms are like making a sloppy joe with exquisite artisanal sourdough bread. horse shit

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · 14h

Damn! Outwitted again... by tricky rats!
— The Rat Dunce, 1986-2013

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 3h

chatrooms should be shitty. they should be shitty and you should hate using them. do you think we used mirc because we didn't have better options? no! we had better options for most of its lifetime! we used it because we loved khaled mardam-bey like a member of our family

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 3h

the next time some older millennial tries to talk shit on discord, calling it "chat rooms but worse", i want you to tell them to go suck eggs. chatrooms used to be too fucking good. skype was basically like if the girl robot from wall-e gave head. everyone who touched it developed gluten intolerance

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 3h

most evil possible burrito option, sounds decadent and beautiful

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 3h

look up french tacos sometime

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 3h

15 years ago we had lowtax, epic meal time, and million dollar extreme. now we have no tax, no time for meals, and a million dollars is no longer considered extreme

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 3h

redyed my hair lads

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · Jul 29

the old lady from the lao gan ma has been hunting me down like a trophy deer for over a decade. despite her wealth and fame i remain the most dangerous game to her and she is my personal rainsford. and yet everyone continues to recommend her sauce

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 7h

"white people have an underdeveloped sense of the past's relationship with the present" would be a hard sell for a coffee table book though

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 7h

"been" and "stay" gloss into more or less the same set of phrases in GenAm, represent senses of time that are functionally equivalent in GenAm and which GenAm exclusive speakers kinda struggle with

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 7h

a thing that has stuck with me 4ever abt pop linguistics is that you'll hear factoids about time-sense and language all day long but you don't hear anyone claiming time-sense differs between people who speak GenAm and AAVE at home despite AAVE having several temporal modes GenAm lacks any concept of

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 8h

before you argue with me about this please actually read the paper, literacy is soooo fundamental

Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 9h

if you actually want to understand what the struggle for trans care looks like in a non-bourgois state, here's a paper on how Cuba came to offer full trans healthcare guaranteed by the state, and how it's become a world model for gender affirming care

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Abstract
In 2008, Cuba's minister of public health signed Resolution 126, an act that assured complete coverage for Cubans seeking sexual reassignment surgeries (also known as gender confirmation surgeries), the first of any country in Latin America to do so. Ten years later, Cuba is celebrated as having one of the most open and inclusive LGBTQ public health and education programs in the Americas. As illustrated throughout this article, the Cuban state approaches sexuality and sexual identity not as rights-based issues but rather as health-based challenges. Through the case study of Cuba's understanding of transsexuals' right to health, we argue that Cuba has provided an example of how the right to health for all moves toward breaking down the barriers of stigma by improving health outcomes for those with transsexual health needs.

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 8h

YAY

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Sauce @wisgoat666.bsky.social · 8h

dog women

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 8h

the countercurrents that produce new lit movements were so totally thrown into the visual arts that you wound up with radical new ideas about human consciousness & the relationship between author and audience being explored by comedy dinner theater and newspaper cartoons rather than really by books

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 8h

the likes of twain and bierce had the full breadth of a writer's usual productive lifetime to see their idols crumble and their principles fail. this is a luxury afforded to few young turk types in literature

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 8h

literary realism had the irreparable societal wound that produced the civil war to contend with in america. this made it unusually energetic, early, and sticky. americans were still largely writing in the same mode as the 1860s realists until after the first world war

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 8h

it's not really about either being a global economic power (france and britain had decadents for days) or a marginalized one (also true of russia and mexico) or even an up-and-comer (germany, italy). in the visual arts we had a bit of a reputation for eccentricity

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 8h

you can't have good decadent literature in a society where "inflate the dollar on purpose with silver" and "inflate the dollar on purpose with fiat currency" are two separate and actually viable parliamentary parties. you can't have good decadent lit in a society that thinks Blavatsky is a pussy

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 8h

my pet theory is that everyone who would have formed the nucleus of the american decadent movement was instead harmlessly expended by the extremely robust american pastimes of crank politics, eastern mystic religious occultism, and print journalism

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 8h

decadents are interesting and don't get enough play. Rachilde alone would have a porp-esque reputation if they wrote in the present day

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 8h

the absence of decadent literature in the american tradition is as mysterious and flagrant as our lack of high-profile sodomy trials in the 1890s

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Cosuman @cosuman.bsky.social · 9h

Drag the "Oh, it's x fanfiction but written in the past so clearly it's haute literature" fame from Dante's The Divine Comedy and dump it on Os Lusíadas. I'm sorry. It's just "The Greek Pantheon fucks with the Portuguese People and constantly rizzes them up thru history to that point."

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 8h

i feel genuinely cheated not to be able to read Os Lusiadas in portuguese tbh. every description i've ever heard of it is unhinged. it seems to be to don quixote as pessoa is to borges