The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.

James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves.

Imagine knowing gerrymandering exists yet still rallying against a whole state as if it doesn’t.

“The South is enemy territory, fallen to the baddies!“ is just the leftwing version of “Portland is a warzone! LA is on fire! New York has fallen!” nonsense. Though often even *worse*, with the whole “let them die” attitude.

Seven cats seemingly convened for a meeting on a patch of grass just outside a forest

what in the cat conclave is going on here

A poster with a cat and the words: THE WRONG AMAZON IS BURNING THE WRONG ICE Is MELTING

Good morning 🫡

yeah wtf this is the second time in two weeks??

Co-sign

oh I get it, boop

Muscle mommy drow paladin warlock in BG3 character creation

Muscle mommy drow paladin warlock in action

I’m blue, da ba dee da ba die
(remade my elf durge as a drow) #bg3

Smoke at the end of Sinners, dripped out

Stack at the end of Sinners

so glad we got to see ascended and unascended routes in #sinners tbh #bg3

White spotted dark brindle Silken windhound just starting to bark against a park backdrop

awoo

would that you were real, ridiculous object

Astarion, the vampire from Baldur's Gate 3, wearing a cowboy hat and staring straight at the camera. The caption reads: Gauntlet Edwynna: Upstanding citizens have nothing to fear. And you are an upstanding citizen, aren't you?

Y'allstarion breaking the fourth wall.
You 𝘢𝘳𝘦 an upstanding citizen, aren't you? 😏
#bg3 #astarion #yallstarion

Closest to neutral face on I’ve got 🎻 at least I don’t think she’s an autumn like so many of these lol

this is really nice x
thank you for sharing.

😭 doing the lord‘s work

Love to pull a muscle reaching for the remote. Good times. #hypermobileproblems

Photo of black and white silken windhound on bed giving judgy eyes

I’m being judged.

one of my most beloved forest flora 🙌

Excuse me it’s not yet flat fuck Friday

tormented by a vision of a nameless Roman emperor in the Coliseum. it's full, teeming with life and sound and scent and movement; and as the crowd looks to him, he, eyes wild, hands raised palms-up, cries out in a voice loud enough for all creation to hear: LET'S GET THIS TRENDING

#bg3 #astarion

I can die happy now

When women, especially queer women, get medievalist it's more about reclaiming the Lady Knight—woman as hero, woman as subject not object—than anything else. It's about saying We Belong: here now, and there then. #medievalsky

Cover image for the film only lovers left alive starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston

and of course how could I forget

Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. One of the most beautiful graphic novels I’ve ever read (def content warnings for violence+)

Photo of If I Must Die: poetry and prose by Refaat Alareer

Christmas present from my brother finally arrived 🇵🇸

Happy national vampire day collage includes Lestat and Louis from Interview with the Vampire, Astarion from BG3 and a small queer chosen family dressed up as Laszlo, Guillermo and Nadja from What We Do in the Shadows

happy national vampire day, y’all, featuring some of my faves (including what we do in the shadows Halloween costumes)