thank you! learning about the history of writing has been really interesting. and partially because it's so common in lots of fantasy, i wanted create a world without writing, that asks questions about literacy and power through hoarding the knowledge of writing (spoilers! ;)

television's most iconic throuple ever

Issue 8.3 features...

✒️ "On Fields of Purple Grass" by @ianli.bsky.social
✒️ "Tapetum Lucidum" by @nebulouswrites.com
✒️ "The Great Divide" by Meryem Yildiz
✒️ “Chlorophilia” by @mikethorn.bsky.social & @miriamricher.bsky.social

augursociety.org/augur-issue-...

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and in conjunction, not only is anti-blackness & the commodification of black bodies NOT new, it's over a THOUSAND YEARS OLD? i'm reading accounts calling ancient ethiopian slaves "demons" and feel like strangling someone.

people have hated us forever. when will we ever have peace?

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I adore it, I'm printing it out and framing it on my wall as we speak ☺️💅🖤✨

THEM FOREVER 💜💜🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🧡

literally so painful, like i wanted to learn more about the name game song only to find out it was written by a Black woman... but TWO COVERS by white women appear before it in search results 🙃