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| librarian | practicing stoic | writer | linguist | cinephile |
Professional idiot and amateur transsexual
He/him or they/them idc
You have to start fagging it up

Little bit of info

Hullo! I'm Lou and I like a lot of things.

First and foremost, my greatest passion is writing of all kinds, but my typical go-tos are historical fiction, horror, poetry, short stories, academic papers, and research/nonfic. Here's my portfolio, if you're so inclined.

Current WIP:

The Sepulcher, a character-ish driven historic horror fiction about an early 19th century English commerce ship that finds something out in the middle of the Atlantic. This ruthless force warps minds and realities, and it knows you very well.

Themes: family, love, religion, masculinity, death, isolation, identity, class

(Currently not posted in full anywhere, but my tag #The Sepulcher has little bits for now)

Other than that, my great loves, topics, and interests are as follows:

  • The Wild West/cowboys/American folk heroes
  • Philosophy (particularly Stoicism and Epicureanism)
  • Boats of any and all kinds (and, of course, pirates)
  • The 50s/rockabilly culture
  • Social issues; human and animal rights
  • Metal and punk rock
  • Linguistics, history/anthropology of language
  • Film (Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, The Coen Brothers, Greta Gerwig, John Carpenter, and Stanley Kubrick are some of my favorites)
  • Making friends and hugging strangers

Trans rights and free Palestine. Have a great day!

Humans didn't make the big ben. Do you really think those dumbass Britains could make a clock that big? Those big gears are way too heavy, how'd they get those up there. No way. It was the beasts

people: do you like (character)?

me, a little unhinged about said character: He’s fine. He’s alright.

"never kill yourself" is perhaps my favourite meme these days. there will always be joy in your future and you just need to stick it out to find it

In this exciting and spicy new Romantasy novel, a young orphan noblewoman warrior princess farmer's daughter must become a spy in the court of King Handsome of Europeland and seduce the young king while also winning a series of competition trials and maybe becoming an assassin rebel leader general. Oh and she gets a dragon.

She has at least four mysterious and brooding older men lusting after her and none of them has heard of the concept of enthusiastic consent or a power imbalance.

Every other woman is either the kindest most compliant pushover or else a heartless bitch depending on if she likes the protagonist or not.

I assume the title is some version of A ____ of ____ and ____? With one of those last two possibly being "bone"

who else up & bisexual⁉️⁉️⁉️ And very afraid

if there’s anything i know for certain it’s that i am often up. and always bisexual. And scared

I was commissioned to make an art quilt inspired by a photo of the HMS Endurance, Ernest Shackleton's antarctic exploration vessel.

Here are my reference photo (taken by Frank Hurley on August 27, 1915) and some process pictures!

I printed a scale copy of the image, then used it to create an applique pattern and to trace the rigging onto water soluble fabric so I could free motion quilt over all the lines. (FMQ is essentially freehand sketching with your sewing machine by manually moving the quilt under your needle in whatever patterns you want to create with thread.)

I think watching some random actor's entire filmography just because you fancy them is actually so important. It teaches you that even the most successful artists start somewhere. That they experience ups and downs and career ruts and often have to do very weird projects at some point just because their rent is due. And maybe you discover that you don't even like that guy all that much lol

some of you think ‘nuanced’ only means ‘morally grey’ and I’m here to tell you that actually straight up good characters can still be nuanced and unapologetically evil characters can still be nuanced. the character doesn’t have to be an anti hero or morally dubious to have depth. they don’t even have to feel sorry about their crimes to have depth.

I'm probably not the best person to make this observation bc I am White TM and not especially well-versed in rap music's history, but what is this phenomenon going on in my notes about Kendrick having the red/white/blue dancers stand in a trans flag formation?

So many people are like "i doubt this was on purpose" girl. it's Kendrick Lamar. He is known for being extremely involved in his dancers' choreography, having multilayered symbolism in his performances- which this entire show was full of- being an activist, winning a fucking Pulitzer, being tightly in control of his own image and how he presents himself to the media, and has trans family members that he has not only openly spoken about but has an entire song about.

You think every single thing about his superbowl performance was intentional except this one thing? You think the dancers just happened to sort themselves out in the unique 5 bar gradient formation that literally only the trans flag has that no other flag has? Why? Why the fuck would that be? You think they all just did this by divine coincidence?

Why is it so unbelievable to y'all that a known activist, with known support for the trans community, would show the trans flag on purpose? Why is it so unbelievable to y'all that a Black man would care about trans people? I didn't see this "oh they don't care, oh all celebrities are fake" shit getting thrown at Lady Gaga or Chappell Roan two weeks ago at the grammys. Yeah they're both queer, but they arent trans. Why is the reaction to two cis white celebrities "omg they're so brave, this is so important" -which, btw, is the correct reaction- but to a Black dude it's just doubt, squabbling discourse, and crickets?

And I'm not even posting the vile racist filth I've been getting in my inbox, straight up confirming this pattern. Like someone please correct me if I'm overstepping but I am fucking flabbergasted by this reaction to Kendrick's allyship and it disgusts me.

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