enzo daumier/d.k.n 🏳️‍🌈

me putting tea in my virtual shopping cart: yes, yes, and yes!!!
me looking at the price tag: what the fuck, no.

by Yohann Schepacz

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#AI

Unsolicited writing advice: no. 8075: There is no such thing as serious writing. There are only writers who take their work seriously, and those who don’t. Tragedy is no more “serious” than comedy. Children’s writing is no less “serious” than writing for adults. Good writing is wherever you find it.

Shakespeare would be proud x

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 154:
Feed your writing daily. Feed it with fiction, non-fiction, news, games, theatre, films, art. Feed it with conversation. Feed it with experience. Feed it with curiosity. Don't expect to get anything out unless you also keep putting in.

Yeah
Here to stay but I totally get why people would leave. Esp marginalized folks who don't get as much support (I remain convinced the industry loves its marginalized debuts but hasn't scaled up to supporting long term careers)

Sammy Blue Jay taking off from the feeder this morning showing those amazing colours and designs.

La startup Macron finit donc comme 99% des startups : par un dépôt de bilan après avoir dilapidé les fonds propres et sans avoir réalisé la moindre des promesses qu'elle avait faites lors de la levée de fonds.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 4783: Place affects every aspect of a story. It shapes your characters, their relationships, their habits, their clothing, their culture, their food. Try thinking of place as a character, and count all the ways you can make your human characters interact with it.

I often repeat that there are no bad people but people who do bad things, and it's important to remember because it means everyone can do bad things. But also that everyone can choose to not do them, or choose to make amends for them
(aka "what matters is not the fuck up but what you do after")

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal.

This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer.

#MedievalMonday

YouTube video by Breaking Down Patriarchy Why Religious Tools Don't Work For Women

A thought-provoking video from Breaking Down Patriarchy

i often share this short video by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social about the Overton Window and why u shouldn't debate with fascists.

this is important everyday and especially now with that whole Mehdi Hassan on Jubilee mess.

La Terre qui monte ...

“Avec La Terre qui monte, David Camus signe un roman exigeant et généreux, qui s’adresse autant aux amateurs de grandes fresques d’imaginaire qu’aux lecteurs en quête d’une méditation sur la condition humaine.”

actualitte.com/article/1260...

Screenshot of a tweet from @AFP that reads "•@NASA is investigating what may be the first crime in outer space, with astronaut Anne McClain accused of identity theft and improperly accessing her estranged wife's private financial records while on the ISS" which is quote-tweeted by @The Sourkraut who says "Lesbians responsible for 100% of all space crime. Is by far my favorite statistic to date

This takes "be gay, do crimes" to previously unimagined levels

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This week's tea newsletter is about White2Tea's Day-Blind Stars--drunk in the way it should be: in a wild place when the world is a place of fear.

When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up”

« Le communautarisme gay m'exaspère autant que l'homophobie. »

« Le mariage est dans nos sociétés la base de la construction de la famille. Et une famille se construit entre un homme et une femme. »

Sébastien Lecornu (2012).

In honor of the HEROINE’S JOURNEY translation into Korean I am going to name my top 3 K-dramas with this narrative: The Uncanny Counter, Hospital Playlist, and…. W.

Every leftist knows fellow leftists are some of the most annoying people on the planet but there's a gigantic difference between being annoying and having institutional power. If you spend most of your energy punching left instead of right you simply do not have your priorities straight

#writingcommunity

Domination by Alice Roberts review – a brilliant but cynical history of Christianity The humanist historian brings objects to life beautifully, but falters when it comes to people and their beliefs

“To protest somewhere truly isolated would be like shouting “fuck the patriarchy” in a penguin colony.”

Honoré de Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine is a Hindu mandala Balzac’s realism is not merely descriptive but architectural: a literary mandala of modern society

Balzac, la Comédie humaine et le mandala

An art piece formed from lines.

#art #ink #lines #drawing

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences?
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.

Up du matin.
Du cyberpunk, du solarpunk, du queer terrorisme et des gens en armures colorées.
Que demander de plus ?

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