Quill (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

It’s not my most recent (see Chuck’s thread for my actual most recent photo from DC) but this one is my favorite.

A photo of the primary train station in Washington, DC, with glossy tiles floor, arching ceiling and windows, and hardly any people.

Ooh, scary! Architecture!

With Glen Close and Amy Adams in it! *shudder*

I have not forgotten that, after the 2016 election the entirety of the mainstream left decided to read the memoir of a white man claiming to be from Appalachia instead of listening to marginalized people, and that’s how JD Vance became vice president.

stay connected to what’s happening in the world, but I have personal rules around making sure I don’t read news near bed time, and I log off completely every weekend.

I do recommend finding your own ways of making sure your needs are met, because if they aren’t, you’re much easier to manipulate.

These are part of the reasons it is so important right now to make every effort to disengage from the things that are happening in the world every now and then, make sure you are eating and sleeping as well as you can, and staying connected with a broad variety of trusted sources. This is why I

Abusive relationships and cults employ specific tactics to keep people under control. Some of the most important ones are sleep deprivation, control over appearance, control of food, and keeping people so busy and locked into “the mission” that they don’t have time to ask questions or think.

Which when I started writing seemed like some weird little sci-fi niche, but now in a time of rising *waves hand at the state of the world* is horrifically relevant!

Oh same, but swap out “incestuous breeding program” for “secret-thousand-year-genetic-manipulation-project”.

but we really do have to understand at a certain point that, in spite of the dangers and harm we faced within this system, we still will never understand it unless we are willing to listen to the people who have lived outside of Whiteness.

patriarchy has demanded that of us for so long.

But most of us have been protected from the biggest dangers of white supremacy, especially if we got married and participated in heteronormativity. It might not *feel* that way because we traded a lot of freedom (both physical and mental/emotional)

Dear Fellow White Women:

*lies on the floor and gathers energy*

It’s late in the game, but please if you haven’t already, engage in some trauma work. You really have to do it if you want to show up to help others. You have to learn to sit down and shut up, even though that’s triggering because the

“This is just a distraction from x.”

No. No. It’s all part of a larger machine. Stop acting like the cruelty is a tactic to distract from some kind of larger, more pristine plan.

The cruelty is the point. It is part of the machine.

Glad you weren’t here for some of “the stuff” but glad you’re back!

*lights a candle for Carmella Creaper*

Especially when it came time to write my own books. I think I’m only now starting to get comfortable leaning into what I like the best. But my books are way more meaningful than they would have been if I’d *tried* to write something “serious”.

People tried *so hard* to get me to read classic sci-fi and fantasy because I was an advanced reader and into the genre, and they wanted to pry Star Wars books out of my hands.

I just ended up with feeling like what I like to read wasn’t good enough, and it took a long time to deconstruct that.

Thanks for asking, and yes, I’m here for ideas!

A photo of a black cat lying on a blanket, licking her own paw with half-open eyes, looking very relaxed.

I realized that I tend to only put out Kiki updates to my private chats, and some of y’all who followed the Kiki saga last fall might want to know that she continues to do well, and believes I am her mama.

I have realized that while my children are amazing at cleaning up after themselves when specifically asked, they have not yet developed the skill of noticing when something needs cleaned and taking care of it.

So I, the parent with AuDHD, am now going to try to take that on. 🙃

Wish me luck.

If you stopped masking, you can get back into it! I did. 💚

PBS needs you, y'all. Become a member. Get Passport. mainline documentaries until your eyes bulge cuz your brain is too stuffed.

*cackling*

*Hides under the desk for a bit because of Rowling scare*

*cackles some more*

Damn, it was worth the wait!

So many of your favorite thinkers and creativities are marginalized people who are currently focused on survival and/or political action.

Would be cool if you supported them in meaningful ways, like by paying them or wearing an n95 or setting up mutual aid networks, instead of bemoaning less posts.

(Watched him share screen and scroll through because he did not believe I could have done it that fast. Hah!)

When someone throws a document at you, asks you to get it half a page shorter, and all you do is go in and change some paragraph spacing, bounce it back five minutes later, and they think you are a miracle-worker.

Looking forward to when @pairofclaws.bsky.social comes back from hiatus and can tell us what her books taste like. 🔥💚

🎶 I keep my side of the street clean 🎶

(Unrelated to anything happening online, just a jukebox brain moment.)