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A post by Rebecca Johnson: “I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.” A tumblr respond from mightymur: “The final, brilliant word on passive voice. "She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

started reading jordan s carroll's speculative whiteness and it is making me feel like everyone needs to be writing more sci-fi right now. like especially marginalized writers but also white writers committed to inclusive work. everyone just pivot towards inclusive, antifascist futurism please

The lettering is done in simulated sidewalk chalk. Next time you think art doesn't matter, consider how scared the fascist are of sidewalk chalk.

Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️‍🌈

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Everyone can contribute something to the fight, but because certain actions tend to get all the coverage, it can be easy to feel shut out. So here's a thread of ways to help that do NOT include:
Going anywhere
Calling anyone
Writing anything
If you want to help, we want your help. Let's go....

Eugene Police Debuts Own Press DSM, concerned by the EPD’s cosplay as members of the press, spoke to journalism experts who all agreed that this is bad.

NEW from DSM: A video published on YouTube showed a documentary filmmaker ordered to back away while filming the Eugene Police and subsequently learned that the department has its own "press."

We've spoken to experts who agree this is very bad.

Read about it ⤵️

A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

Journalists, teachers, scientists, artists, creatives, programmers: we’re all being moved out of the way because we ask why, and even if the answers bring progress, simply wanting to know is a threat to power

We can’t afford homes for our veterans. But we can afford a $200 Million ballroom at the Whitehouse. And I bet it goes over budget.

Alt text included!

They/Them BY DANEZ SMITH said short: i feel more like a stud. said with some nuance: as if i came to masculinity through the women’s gate, as if a daughter who grew into her father but not like trans, but like trans or a transformation without catalyst or smoke. or more like born in the right body too early or born at the wrong time, in the wrong language. i remember Tommy said he (is he a they now?) lived for how i put it in that one poem “more tomboy than boy” and i think that’s what language does—builds a room made for living. and who have i followed further into myself? Cam, Paula, Tommy, Fati, Andrea, Auntie George or anyone who saved me from a body of silence by just living their lives in the sun? and if the soul is a table on which the body sits crowded with the meat and the marrow and the red, red wine, around me sit too many ghosts to ever rest in isolation. of course you should address me in the plural. said short: i am everyone. i am everything. said shorter: i am.

Heard it was some kind of nonbinary day 🫡 www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

btw I've been told in non-explicit terms by my publisher that the only way this book will happen is if hello sunshine does well, so, you know. tell your friends and stuff. better yet: tell your library 🫡🙏❤️‍🔥

South Georgia library manager fired for trans-inclusive display The branch manager at the Pierce County Library was fired after displaying a trans-inclusive children's book in a public display.

Lavonnia Moore, the librarian fired for including one of my books on a display after a child requested it, sounds incredible and what happened to her should be a crime. roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/07/05/l...

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!

A Thread.

A drawing of a figure against a green alien background as stars fall

I SAW IT IN MY DREAMS

how about no

Books: For Pride IV Excerpt from This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers Edited by Elias Jahshan

This week's Pride book recommendation is This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers, Edited by Elias Jahshan.

And I've included an excerpt of my essay for the anthology www.feministgiant.com/p/books-for-...

Feels right to share this illustration while I enjoy Trans Pride day in Seattle. 😌

#oc #ocsky #art #trans

a six panel comic titled "threat management: the complete guide". each panel is a hastily drawn white dog with large jowls detailing the steps on how to bark at things. panel 1: step 1: scan all known dimensions. (the dog is staring into the middle distance, eyes seemingly going in different directions, while the background is reminiscent of the space odyssey stargate scene) panel 2: lock in. (the dog's face is drawn in close up, biting his lip and growling) panel 3: sound the alarm (the dog is barking, jowls flapping) panel 4: cover the area in drool (the dog is spitting) panel 5: refer to step 3 (the dog, head in the air, continues barking) panel 6: ensure the people understand the urgency of the situation, then repeat step 3. (the dog is stomping, and huffing, looking toward the reader)

mac is here on this #makeaterriblecomicday2025 to school you all in THREAT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS do not get caught off guard or Who Knows What Might Happen

As a queer author, thank you for buying our gay books in response to the challenges and bans and court decisions, but I implore you to go stand up for your public libraries and schools—they’re our greatest advocates, and they’re kind of the main target of this whole effort.

Fantasy Pride Book Fair 2025 Bundle. Fantasy. pridebookfair.carrd.co. An itch.io logo is in the corner. The background of the image is a blue-purple to pink gradient with a violet blob shape overlapping it. A sketched, purple-colored crown sits to the left of the text. 18 fantasy book covers are tiled on the image, featuring: Natural Outlaws and Fractured Sovereignty by S.M. Pearce; The Hidden Crystals by R. Dawnraven ; Nomads of Zyden by Xine Fury; How I Became a Therapist in Another World vol. 1-4 Omnibus by C.A. Moss; Zimanges by MC Burnell; The Edge of a World by JD Rivers; Of All the Stars by Kris Madigan; Blade Broken by Niranjan; Colors of Magic by Liz Sauco; A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray ; The Potent Solution by Ashley Nova; The Godsfang by Y. R. Liu; Chai and Cat-tales by Lynn Strong; Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault; Rainbow Islands by Devin Harnois; A Summer with the Immortal by Paris Vivian; Of Spells and Love by Odessa Silver; Manipulator's War by Elise Carlson.

The #PrideBookFair book bundle is LIVE! My novel "A LAKE OF FEATHERS AND MOONBEAMS" is featured in the Fantasy bundle! 18 books for $35!

Highlights Include:

The Godsfang by Y. R. Liu
Chai and Cat Tales by Lynn Strong
The Edge of the World by JD Rivers

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Sword cutting through darkness with trans flag colored flames. Text: "Our joy is a sword"

Doing a thing for a Pride thing

4 members of Jem and the Holograms from left to right: Aja, Jem, Kimber, Shana. Aja and Shana are playing guitar. Kimber is playing keytar, and Jem is singing into microphone. Aja has blue hair and wears a pink shirt and purple miniskirt. Jem has pink hair and wears a pink minidress with fringes belt. Kimber has red hair and wears blue capris, white blazer, and pink blouse underneath with cuffs that peek through end of sleeves. Shana has purple Afro and wears purple dress with silver blazer on top. The background is yellow, orange, purple color gradient. Jem logo is in bottom left corner.

Last semester, I had the opportunity to take a class on costume design in fantasy, sci-fi, and supernatural film and television. And for my final project, I chose to analyze the costumes in Jem and The Holograms! ✨

An intricate watercolor painting of a white transmasculine person with roses falling over his chest, showing top surgery scars, while he wears a blue skirt. He’s lying down on blue and purple tiles, and big pink roses decorate the corners of the composition.

Print available: Genderfluidity 💖

This celebrates being nonbinary: constantly in bloom, with multiple facets of who we are represented with the tiles. It's also about how our identities remain even when we're not perceived by others (I painted this when housebound)~

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you cannot discover you are gay or trans or oppressed if you lack any concepts or definitions to help you articulate or describe it

this is damnatio memoriae

censorship is evil

intro post for new folks, i’m lee and i make comics. my first book i am young came out in 2018, my next book the girl who flew away comes out in march 2025, another book, hare, is being pitched, and i recently started work on my next one! i’m also a cca comics mfa student, class of 2026!

Car selfie. Felt alt and cute. wearing lots of jewelry and hair out in curls ☆

Illustration of a white haired anime boy standing in a clearing in the woods, holding a sword to his hip

Day 2 of trying to convince you to follow me on my revision and publishing journey for my debut series!

Trying to get to 4k followers by end of #pridemonth!

I'm a trans NB aspiring author writing a story set in a queer-normative regency era inspired fantasy world!

#boosky #writersky #artsky

Authoritarians create an imaginary past by controlling access to actual history. They claim strength but are too fragile to face things as they actually exist.

"Vote blue no matter who" was always "vote blue no matter what." The what is genocide. The what is autocracy. The what is Trump. That is what the Democratic Party abides and accepts. The only thing they take a stand against is Democratic voters who point this out.