I need cafe culture to plateau and for communal eating places to stay casual get ur bougie shit out of here pls nd ty
Something something Sister Midnight something something something the South Asian Gothic interrupts the trends in the neo-Gothic by being the colonial Other that the gothic tradition is rooted in something something—
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I got diagnosed w adhd :)
Following the cat named rat around the house with a mosquito bat because he is my lord and I am his champion.
Explore Western Ghats solarpunk and Khasi-mythology-infused cyberhorror; meet ravenous invisible ghosts, undead fintech bros, and eldritch cucurbits; travel from sacred rock-cut caves of the ancient past to secret libraries of the future!
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I carved out this space hoping in some abstract world where I get to be myself, but I come to realize this little place where I go to and imagine myself some sort of man, some sort of freedom, is not anchored to any material reality and my heart breaks
Ugh. No donations since this morning. Naser's health continues to deteriorate.
Amal writes:
"The children, who should be celebrating Eid, sit beside me in the hospital, asking, “Mommy… will Daddy get better?” All I can do is pray and hope in your compassionate hearts."
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Hey you know I *would* actually like to stop being angry all the fucking time about every single thing but I simply cannot
Two days left to back the KUMARI LOVES A MONSTER reprint drive!
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Bully for them our colonially rooted education system that jumps backwards every time any marginalized person pulls it forward has already done that for them. Do we not have droves of people owning and operating that machinery with so much glee already?
Talking bout love jihad tf out of here I can’t wait until ur in the ground and I mean that
My favorite thing about talking to Hindu nationalists is
None of it. I tried to find something funny to say but fuck you honestly lmao I’m so done with this shit
Grateful to see my smol essay on the self and identity, the politics of belonging, is a BSFA Awards finalist. 🥹
Congratulations to all finalists! @strangehorizons.bsky.social , @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social
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My eye doctor tells me for five hundred rupees (bless Chennai) that there’s nothing wrong with my eyes which means I now get to try to convince my psychiatrist that there’s something wrong with my brain instead
James Baldwin said, “We are a racist society, racist to the very marrow, and we are fighting a racist war... My own condition, as a black man in America, tells me what Americans really feel and really want, and tells me who they really are. And, therefore, every bombed village is my hometown.”
It takes a certain kind of…narcissistic nihilism to look across the country at people self-organizing against something that is generally a fairly good material symbol of the intangible class warfare that has alienated them and say, “what a silly distraction from what *really* matters.” And yet…
I think about this a lot
(from “Babel” R.F. Kuang, ch. 13)
do not hand me that temporary fish or teach me how to fish and spare the rod simply
catch fish for me
although given the lack of pay you must know this is a volunteer position
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HI! I explain the premise... one of the premises... one of the premises of my world Witness Crescent Suns in a handstitched little video slideshow of unrelated art and unrelated music composed by some guy, you wouldn't know them.spare a view? A comment? A croissant?
Black-owned bookstores in the U.S. now have their own directory for the first time ever, launched by the nonprofit National Association of Black Bookstores www.nab2.org
We've added a bunch of excellent zines to our OTHER INDIE STUFF page. Work by Pith.Bull, Prrrbutt, Prasanna Venkatesh, Malvika Raj, Priyanka Paul, Kokaachi & more! 0% billionaire-produced art! Hook up your friends
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The PNW is just rage bait as praxis so this is fr
I haven’t received any help yet, but even $10 for gas would be so helpful right now
People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.
It’s an honour to be asked to review fab manuscripts about queer things ahead of their publication. One of the books I’ve had the pleasure of endorsing is Yvette Taylor’s edited collection, “Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality and Scotland.”
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The UK government awarded £90,000 ($114,000) in public funds to an Israeli research initiative whose findings around alleged sexual violence on 7 October were later used to mobilise support for the Gaza genocide.
Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260303-uk-...
Rights group says over 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since Israeli-US attacks began - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/rights-group-says-over-1000-civilians-killed-iran-israeli-us-attacks
A reminder that we have two current calls for papers - the Peter Nicholls Essay Prize (deadline: 11 January 2026) and a special issue on pulp sf (deadline: 5 April 2026). Details in the newsfeed. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about
I am happy to report that my jet lag is finally gone and I am now walking around Chennai melting and eating 5 meals a day like I was built to
