tRaum Books

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

I've read antifeminist and conservative works to write my essays. They were tediously repetitive, poorly written, and insufferably smug, utterly sure in the infallibility of their own worldview as axiomatic. Mocking the idea that people held different views was often passed off as an argument.

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

<3 <3333333333!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

An alternative cover for Never Angeline North's poetry (??) collection, BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES. A black and white family picture. Two children, a mother, who is being held by a bear. Book released by tRaum Books. BLACK HOLE SCIENCE is a hybrid poetry/flash collection of absurd and touching and cartoonish and sometimes disturbing pieces that span almost a decade of North's writing.

"I am letting the sun set in me
finally because I am too tired
of holding it up."
Never's poetry is the mood of right now. Read for yourself:
traumbooks.com/black-hole-s...

I am referring to a literary horror book by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin, called FLEISCHEREI.

FLEISCHEREI is such an excellent story book that somebody stole my copy. I did get to read it first so I can attest to its greatness.

this is not a difficult concept if you equally value all human life. children in countries outside the imperial core don’t deserve to be murdered.

Renaming the DoD to the Department of War is perhaps the most honest thing Trump has ever done.

Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi: 9781644214053 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Winner, ALA ALEX Award An urgent, groundbreaking and visually stunning new collection of graphic storytelling about the present Iranian revolution, using comics to show what would be censored in pho...

This is a good time to read WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM, an excellent anthology of comics about the Iranian resistance movement edited by Marjane Satrapi.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/755488...

Can confirm that FLEISCHEREI is excellent. 🥩🥩

filthyloot.com/product/flei...

An illustration of two little girls looking out their bedroom window at a giant snake. Cover for Black Hole Science Is Filled with Apologies, a hybrid poetry collection by Never Angeline North, with poems collected from over a decade. Cover designed by author. Book released by tRaum Books.

"I could not have asked for more from a collection of stories and poems. I was so pleased." We are so happy people are enjoying Black Hole Science Is Filled with Apologies!!!
Check it out for yourself here:
traumbooks.com/black-hole-s...

5 weird writing pet peeves:

- most adverbs
- chapter 1 lore dumps
- showing in one sentence and then in the next sentence telling the same thing
- unintended anachronisms
- tumblr-poisoned prose

5 weird writing pet peeves:

- someone's voice rising "an octave" or (god help us) "several octaves" without the aid of Autotune

- "disinterested" when you mean "uninterested"

- refusal or inability to use the pluperfect

- first-person narrators with plain vanilla voices

- dangling participles

4 weird writing pet peeves

- “quirked a brow” (unless it’s Spock)
- “based on my reading of the DSM entry” depictions of neurodivergence
- transparent or beige prose
- characters who would not use “therapy speak” using it OR characters who absolutely would use it not using it jst bc it’s “uncool”

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img

acefoundationict.org

What Isn't a Dog | Briar Ripley Page Get more from Briar Ripley Page on Patreon

final February flash fiction up for FREE on my patreon! I think this one is very good.

www.patreon.com/posts/151883...

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

"In Trump's speech he asked God to bless "the brave men and women of America's armed forces" who massacred these children. Democrats have come out with statements condemning the attacks – but mostly because they want the proper procedures to be followed."

The judges in WV have seen enough.

They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Never forget who you’re fighting for.

Max Klinger, Death Pissing, ca. 1880

Tenebrous Press - The Home of New Weird Horror Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.

For no reason, just posting this here as a reminder that art doesn’t need to be owned by a corporation and sold and conglomerated for billions.

Support indie art. It is (almost literally) the only art that remains🖤☠️

store.tenebrouspress.com

flyer for Vincent Endwell's release party for OLYOKE on Wed. 3/18 at the Twisted Spine in Brooklyn, alongside BACKMASK author OF Cieri

Two of the best currently operating in the fringes of what-the-fuck-did-I-just-read, hosted by our good friends at The Twisted Spine in Brooklyn!
It's an OLYOKE release party featuring epic conversation between author @endwellian.bsky.social & BACKMASK Void-ian @ossuary.bsky.social
Wed. March 18🖤☠️

Israel livestreamed themselves committing genocide and not only has the Developed world not punished them for this it is now joining them in an illegal war of aggression against Iran.

The people who endlessly lecture us about the rule of law, moral action and decency are despicable monsters.

we could have medicaid for every american but

Let's see if we can raise $10,000 today for red state or national queer orgs. Post proof here in the replies that you donated to a red state or national queer organization and I will share.

Who's with me?

(I can't donate myself because I'm a journalist who covers these orgs)

Thank you!! We have signed up 🪸

A logo with a circular image with a rainbow background and the white silhouette of an open book and a poised quill over the circle. Text beside this reads Indie Press Webring.

A year ago, I proposed making a web ring for independent presses! And - tada! The Indie Press Webring connects independent publishing houses. We're small, and we need your help spreading the word so we can grow.

Readers and Press folks alike, check it out: indiepresswebring.com

🌈📚
📚💙

A yellow banner with purple text that reads, “Bez Reviews Independent Books”. On the left side is my (Bez’s) mascot character Dogwater, a cat alien who has black fur on his right side, and cream-colored fur on his left side. The inside of his ears are purple, as are the leaf-shaped antenna sticking out of his head. His face is a TV screen that is currently displaying a triangle split in half with the word “Norbez” written on it. On the right side is the cover of Black Hole Science Is Filled with Apologies: a little girl points out the window of a dreamy bedroom, where her sister or mother is tidying up her collar. Out of the window is a dark, threatening sky, and a huge snake floating in the air.

. @traumbooks.bsky.social has their 1st poetry collection, an anthology of 10+ years of work by Never Angeline Nørth. What is Black Hole Science Is Filled With Apologies, & and why is this field of outer space so sorry?
Link to review in the replies!
#BRIB #booktwt #BookReview #queerbooks

Cover for Bryan Cebulski's coming of age novel, It Helps with the Blues. Illustration of a suburban night sky, seen from a balcony with an alcoholic drink resting on the railing. Beyond are the lit up windows of other houses. Blues is a quiet, contemplative story about a high-school kid who takes careful stock of his self and his friendships in the wake of a school-mate's unexpected death. Modern story from the perspective of Nick Carraway, the "watcher," vibes; jazz and whiskey notes, with Midwestern queer kids who drink and think a little too much!

Not pictured above, but ALSO a handsome little book we've got in stock is IT HELPS WITH THE BLUES, by @bryanonion.bsky.social "An ephemeral trip down a lightly travelled literary landscape shared with the likes of Fitzgerald and Salinger." 🍸🍸
traumbooks.itch.io/it-helps-wit...