ren, book and candle 🕯️✨👻

bite back, a collection of poems by blayne waterloo. the cover is a gorgeous, dark nighttime scene at a graveyard. cover description by its artist, anni jyn: a pale femme figure with long dark hair stands wearing a dirty pale dress and a dark corset as they hold out their bloody hand towards a werewolf creature crouching on the ground (they also have blood on their mouth, throat and chest). the werewolf has a bloody face and bloody paws, they’re crouching next to gravestones that have a little blood on the very top of them. the setting is a swampy misty grave yard with a dark overhanging canopy, the moonlight and stars hang in the thick green canopy

you should get this, it’s exquisite. just falling in love with the words and the messages with each turn of the page.

thank you for writing these poems and sharing them with all of us, @ewhag.com. obsessed with the cover by @annijyn.com. 🩶

Ghosts are Just Vibing, Man! If a ghost has beef with you, maybe that's a you problem.

IT'S SPOOOOOOKY FLYTRAP FRIDAY! Which means we got some free, unpaywalled content for you. Co-founder @nicolefroio.bsky.social argues that ghosts are just vibing, and that we are kind of silly to fear them:

Pritzker should absolutely say something here, but we’re going to see these scenes play out across the country, and the Democratic Party in general needs to come up with a response that doesn’t throw the people they’re encouraging to take the streets under the bus.

Importantly many white USians are decidedly incurious about John Brown. They are uninterested in deep learning about him and his compatriots.

NBC dismantles 'NBC Asian America' editorial team – AsAmNews NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino, and NBC Out will no longer have dedicated editorial teams. 150 staffers have been laid off.

The shuttering of NBC Asian America and all the other NBC units devoted to marginalized communities makes me sick.

This is a GREAT time to follow/support @asamnews.bsky.social and all the other independent outlets that support our communities.

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YouTube video by Ladytron Ladytron - I See Red (Official Video)

same 🎧

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“some women strategized about helping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who they see as more palatable”

some women just want to watch the world burn

guess who Cuomo said was favorite modern-day president?

may or may not be looking up schnauzer line tattoos

I am also under tattooed

I love seeing this. Like, I know I'm not the only masker, even if it feels like it some days, but seeing people make posts about masking, confirms my decision about continuing to mask.

I will come across this post months from now and have no clue what the hell I was talking about, so, future self: it’s a dr oz reference

I desire a schnauzer

I am under puppied

hacking for good, you love to see it

One of my favorite movies I’ve watched this year and high up on my list in general.

A wooden golem sits at the dinner table like a perfect gentleman.

Have you seen Oddity? this adorable guy gives me ghost turnip vibes

They were so cursed looking, I love it lol.

inside, it’s all just ghost turnip

this looks how I feel

the struggle is so very real

poured a spindrift but really wanted tea. it’s tragic.

I finished work too late and now I think I’m too sleepy for a movie and I’m gonna whine about it

okay someone can come take care of me now.

Sure seems like a new chapter in this whole mask off era. it’s so bad.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, I just am trying to think how fabric would work like that and how it would appear only when a photo was taken. Like, there’s no way right?

hope none of you are drinking each time sliwa or cuomo mention de blasio

sorry but hearing sliwa say “I’m being marginalized out of this” is the most I’ve laughed in awhile

ah yes, those Magic Eye flags