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I need to charge it first, but I think it‘s a Kindle 10, about 5 years old. 4 GB of storage, I think.

Let me know if you can‘t find one on Craigslist!

I mostly wanted to get away from Amazon and their bullshit, but I‘ve grown to love my Kobo, especially the physical buttons. Way faster and more comfortable page turning this way.

Oh no! If you need a replacement, I have another Kindle I could send to you. I switched to Kobo, so it‘s sitting around unused.

The cover of my zine 'Iconic' about LiveJournal icons, a bunch of colorful 100x100 pixel images all set out in a grid "A zine about design, aesthetic and LiveJournal icons from the early 2000s"

Did you used to make LiveJournal icons? Do you still have some of the ones that you made? I'm looking to include more icons in the second print run of my LiveJournal Iconic zine and would love to see yours!

Share them here: form.jotform.com/252444103676...

BRRRRRRRRMMM

I can‘t believe it‘s been 15 years. Still the fandom of my heart!

Tumblr post by user formlessvoidbeast on April 3, 2024: newbie fic authors, shooting themselves in the foot: This fic is bad haha I suck at writing lol I am being mean to myself in the hopes that you will be nice to me but actually am dissuading anyone from even clicking on my fic because all I have done to advertise it is tell you why you shouldn't read it me: I am King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain and I have arrived in your fandom with the Express Intention of writing my Very Favorite Fics, which I will generously allow you to read. You're welcome.

I think about this Tumblr post a lot. Everyone who posts their writing should try channeling the energy of King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain

They work too well for me. I get push notifications all the time, even though I never turned them on. Weird.

Blind Guardian is the band of my heart 🩷

In a city where being a hero is a full-time job and your power comes from your fans, would you deny your feelings for fame? 💫💘

Starbright Agency is an upcoming queer-friendly romantic visual novel inspired by 90's magical girl anime, city pop, and idol culture✨🏙️

Do I even want to know?

I hope you can get some rest and peace ♥️♥️♥️

That's actually not how it is.

One month ago, CDU/CSU was expected to get more than 30% of votes; AfD went from 10% in the last election to now 20%. It's devastating that they got this many votes.

Good thing is that our democracy is (hopefully) strong enough not to form a coalition with nazis.

Absolutely

I didn't vote for Merz, but I agree with him on this. After all the bullshit Vance talked at the MSC, it's clear that this US administration, at best, doesn't see the EU as a partner, possibly even as an enemy.

It looks really cute on you 💚

I ignore the app for mine and it works just as well without.

please my ancient fandom hag soul is black and withered folks didn't code their own mulder/krychek geocities pages in the dark ages of the 90s to be disrespected this way

"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? The money lenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can."

Thanks to @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social for reminding me of this Ursula K. le Guin quote.

Every writer:

A woman playing a lyre sits atop a dragons clawed hand.

The dragon’s favorite treasure #ocs

We can always bitch together 🩷

I’m old and I like plenty more campy books, but this one is just dumb. It pretends to be high fantasy when it‘s just boring contemporary romance sprinkled with dragons and bad writing.

RIP, Bond.

It‘s probably the best after the horrendous clusterfuck that was No Time To Die. Bond is dead, and so will be the shitty spinoffs Amazon will churn out, five minutes after they go on air.

It‘s probably fanmade.

But as someone who studied ancient Greek for six years, this kind of ignorance hurts my soul.

illustration of a stoney-brick archway there’s a cat on top of the arch, approaching some crowd, and a cat passing through below. there’s another archway in the back and some autumn foliage around.

autumn kitties

Image of a tabby cat with white paws. She‘s reclining on a couch, one paw resting on a throw pillow, directly looking at the camera. She looks regal and judgemental, like the world emperor she is.

So, I gave Fourth Wing another shot because my coworkers won‘t shut up about it.

This is so bad, I only made it to 20% of the audio book. That‘s almost 5 hours of my life wasted.

Here, have a pic of my cat judging me for wasting 10€ that could have bought treats for her.

Holy crap, that’s a LOT! Well done and deserved 🩷

The irony of cis-straight normative patriarchy:

it introduces a METRIC FUCKTON of homoeroticism by believing men and women are so fundamentally different from one another that they can never truly understand one another

In this essay I will