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TRAVESTY GENERATOR BY LILLIAN-YVONNE BERTRAM | SEALEY CHALLENGE 08012025 For day one of this year's Sealey Challenge, I re-read , by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram. It's been at least 4 years since I read it last, back when I had a sort o...

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I made a zine and called it MY CLOSEST APPROXIMATION For a couple of days last week, I had a burst of poems come to me. Of course, they came rough and drafty; they also felt like they belonged together. ...

who up bloggin

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my heart yearns for elder scrolls online

If I have any credibility or goodwill among you, please please please read this.

REVIVING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY AND LIFTING THE MORATORIUM ON FEDERAL EXECUTIONS, applying to “aliens, who traverse our borders and remain in the United States without legal status.”
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January 2025 Recap & Favorites Maybe it's the current state of the country, or maybe I really really love art, or maybe it's the spell finally taking hold, but I watched/read/played/listen...

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All of this, plus the Mexican Repatriation was enacted less than 100 years ago!

extra stoned today for no particular reason

The cover of torrin a. greathouse’s collection DEED, with a silver Stonewall Book Awards sticker on the cover

So thrilled to announce that my second collection, DEED has been selected as the winner of the Stonewall Book Awards Barbara Gittings Prize!

This is an award I’ve dreamed for years of seeing my work receive and it means the world that the panel chose DEED for this immense honor

i'm dog sitting my sister's puppy, he likes paw patrol

paw patrol policing in joshua tree

thinking about how i opened up to a family member about how difficult its been to process trans things lately and after hearing me out they told me i should listen to james paterson speeches 😀

Rubio Orders State Department to Stop Issuing Accurate Passports to Trans People Trans, intersex, and nonbinary people applying for passports will no longer be able to select an “X” marker for gender.

The State Department has stopped processing applications from trans, intersex, and nonbinary people for passports that accurately reflect their gender. theintercept.com/2025/01/23/m...

Copy of The Canterbury Tales.

Loads of spelling mistakes in this.

Time-Lapse YUKIKA · EP · 2023 · 10 songs

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A large black sea serpent swallows multiple mammal creatures then returns to the underwater depths below.

Deep waters

100% pure love on the radio as I walked into work

what a great time to be Online

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Feel free to share…it started in 2020.

the TikTok algorithm is so good that it even served up the perfect video to act as the background for its ban announcement

Long form content is SO BACK *cries in already accidentally clicked the banned app 77 times*

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

“He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath.”

Lestat de Lioncourt

The seven main Conclave characters in the Pentiment art style

conclavement

enough computer! i say as i grab my ipad and go to bed