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πŸŒΏπŸ‘€πŸŒΏ Queer SFF writer. Read my work: cslytal.wordpress.com Buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/cslytal

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The Christmas Carol but it’s Mr Rogers, Bill Nye, LeVar Burton, and Bob Ross all telling republicans β€œI’m not angry, just disappointed”

16.07.2025 20:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And why do I have a feeling there will be a precipitous change in demographics among those remaining πŸ˜’

06.05.2025 01:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think I’ll be seeing that vicious woman’s smug face and nastyass cheroot in my mind’s eye for the rest of my life.

04.05.2025 04:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’™

04.05.2025 03:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, excellent, thank you!

03.05.2025 16:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are there any instances of UBI in le Guin? Surely there must be…

03.05.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know Rachel Swirsky did a novella or something a while back now, but other than that I’ll have to do some digging.

03.05.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking about writing up an essay about UBI in fiction, mostly because I had my semi-annual β€œrandomly remembering how annoyed The Expanse books’ (otherwise a great series) depiction of it annoyed me” event

03.05.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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A sense of urgency Words and images, posted for free, for whoever feels called to read them.

I’m sharing my creative writing on a new blog, for free. I wrote about why in the first post. wp.me/pgvcdp-c

03.05.2025 11:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Really tempted to pick up remastered Oblivion, but not sure if I want to do PC or console.

03.05.2025 01:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyway. Yeah. #WhenDevilsSing by #XanKaur on audio. Highly recommended!

02.05.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Multi narrator experience where everyone not only did a great job but were actually easily distinguishable! With tasteful ambient audio elements that aren’t disruptive. Do you know how hard that all is to do!?

#WhenDevilsSing

02.05.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And great characters! Brown and lgbtq characters!

Also the audio was just oooooh, πŸ‘ŒπŸ‘ŒπŸ‘Œ

#WhenDevilsSing

02.05.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean don’t get me wrong it’s like the OLYMPICS of generational trauma but you know there’s some cool supernatural southern gothic horror in there.

#WhenDevilsSing

02.05.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

#WhenDevilsSing by #XanKaur is a GREAT listen. (Thanks to #librofm for the librarian ALC.)

02.05.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Bayley, in a full on kangaroo onesie, absolutely slays

Bayley, in a full on kangaroo onesie, absolutely slays

Bayley is standing up, thus displaying the kangaroo onesie even better

Bayley is standing up, thus displaying the kangaroo onesie even better

The whole side quest is great and I love it, I’ve just had that thought stuck in my head for all four episodes. Of course the motto doesn’t account for this, but charisma is charisma no matter what you’re wearing πŸ˜‚

#dimension20 #titantakedown

02.05.2025 05:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Austin Creed on Dimension 20: Titan Takedown wearing white shirtsleeves and a brown waistcoat

Austin Creed on Dimension 20: Titan Takedown wearing white shirtsleeves and a brown waistcoat

Austin Creed on Dimension 20: Titan Takedown wearing white shirtsleeves and a brown waistcoat, but with a more smoldering expression

Austin Creed on Dimension 20: Titan Takedown wearing white shirtsleeves and a brown waistcoat, but with a more smoldering expression

Ok bear with me, this post is made with 100% respectful eyes.

You know that subset of Pride and Prejudice girlies whose motto is the most attractive thing a woman can do is wear less clothes and the most attractive thing a man can do is wear more? Well…

#dimension20 #titantakedown

02.05.2025 05:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Damn. I was saving up all my zingers for when I came back here and now I can’t remember any of β€˜em.

02.05.2025 04:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Once in undergrad I wrote about how a character in a Flannery O’Connor short story was using antebellum symbology in all her rhetoric and the professor said it was an angle she’d never noticed and she’d teach it as part of the lesson from then on and honestly I peaked

02.05.2025 03:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

26.03.2025 16:43 πŸ‘ 4596 πŸ” 2300 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 1168

Dear Gov of NY:
You're against masking for health reasons but these jerks can mask up???

26.03.2025 17:40 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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Make this go viral!

Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.

26.03.2025 16:42 πŸ‘ 29322 πŸ” 15694 πŸ’¬ 1406 πŸ“Œ 1717

hi, cis people!

you might just now be hearing about this. there’s a thread in here with guidance. we’re down to 16 days and i have to believe more than 5,000 people give a shit if ~250,000 of us could lose our access to healthcare.

tap in. scroll up. help out. please. ⬇️

26.03.2025 18:23 πŸ‘ 260 πŸ” 278 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
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WATCH LIVE: NPR, PBS heads answer lawmakers' allegations of bias The CEOs of the largest U.S. public broadcasting networks are appearing before a House subcommittee chaired by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Killing public media is a part of Project 2025 and today, Marjorie Taylor Greene has hauled the heads of NPR and PBS before the House to answer her accusations that they’re β€œbiased.” Republicans are mad that they fact check. And β€¦πŸ§΅β¬‡οΈ

www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

26.03.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

26.03.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 36502 πŸ” 16291 πŸ’¬ 1844 πŸ“Œ 1036

@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@democrats.senate.gov

MORE OF THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

26.03.2025 05:11 πŸ‘ 163 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3
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a woman is laughing with her mouth open and wearing a purple vest with the words wailing awkwardly written on it . ALT: a woman is laughing with her mouth open and wearing a purple vest with the words wailing awkwardly written on it .
26.03.2025 00:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And now I’m in that post-book funk where my emotions are all the hell over the place and I’m just angrily stomping around my my apartment because there’s no more book.

26.03.2025 00:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

GOD what a mindfuck.

Also dead billionaires for the win

26.03.2025 00:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What I can’t get over is how perfectly it hits both the post millennial sarcastic nihilism while also having such a beating, bloody human heart at its center.

26.03.2025 00:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0