John Augutus Shedd, “Salt from my Attic.”
y’all really recommend books like: title, there are gay characters, enemies to lovers, young adult, written by poc
not once do i ever see a summary
What more info do you need?
A SUMMARY
WHAT DO U MENA SUMMARY WHAT ELSE MATTERS ITS GAY POC AND ENEMIES TO LOVERS HOW OFTEN DO U CONE ACROSS THAT
i want to know what its about mainly. is it a romance? is there plot besides the romance? is it realistic fiction? sci fi? fantasy? historical? future? alternate history? whats the tone? what are the themes? what are the main characters’ NAMES?
I- it’s gay the gay
i value queer characters too. but i also want to know WHAT THE BOOK I’M READING IS ABOUT.
“GAY AND/OR RACIALLY DIVERSE” IS NOT A GENRE. nor is it an indicator of quality
do you know how many times I’ve been recommended a book solely because “it’s queer fantasy!”
do you know how many times those books have been so poorly written that I couldn’t finish them
Mostly, I want to know the tone. A 19th century war story isn’t gonna do it for me when I’m in the mood for a lighthearted austenesque romance - and those are both historical. A star warsy space romp isn’t gonna do it if I want to read about interplanetary political negotiations - and those are both sci fi. A fun gratuitious don’t-think-about-it-too-hard action story is not the same as a dark and complicated mob drama. A suspenseful thriller will bore me if I’m looking for a fast paced spy novel.
not providing a summary literally just shows how you treat marginalized people and their representation as this token woke thing that you can show off like a shiny trophy. no, people aren’t going to read something just because it has representation! that’s not how it works!
Artist bio by Anna Daliza
I CANNOT EVEN BEGIN TO EXPLAIN HOW MANY TIMES I’VE POSTED THE SUMMARY AND NO ONE EVEN CLICKS THE LINKS BUT THE SECOND I SAY TOXIC YAOI OR SUN MOON YURI, BITCHES GO CRAZY AND GIVE ME MONEYS
Fellowship
gay sex isnt this gay
The rituals have gotten so intricate
This is delightful.
But also: someone please introduce me to feminist lesbian pop music. I need this in my life.
Favorite bird genre has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur'
Groove-Billed Ani
Hoatzin
Pheasant Coucal
My adaptation of the God of Arepo short story, which was originally up at ShortBox Comics Fair for charity. You can get a copy of the DRM-free ebook here for free - and I'd encourage you to donate to Mighty Writers or The Ministry of Stories in exchange.
Again it's an honour to be drawing one of my favourite short stories ever. Thank you so much for the original authors for creating this story; and for everyone who bought a copy and donated to the above non-profits.
It never gets old and it always makes me cry.
change does not come from a place of comfort
I find pennies and nickels in my couch all the time, so I don’t know what you are talking about
let's form structures with mamas
these are hyraxes! they're not rodents or canines or anything like that. they belong to their very own order known as hyracoidea. their closest relatives are elephants and manatees, and these mamas and babies have FREAKY teeth
also important to note that the
and:
Pre-menstrual depression is always depicted as like "He He! I had a box of icecream bars and cried while watching the Titanic!" But in reality, it's more like, "I'm standing the edge of an abyss. There is nothing good inside of me, I'm filled with rage and desperation."
It's crazy that being told how to deal with that is never a part of anyone's menstrual sex education.
This has already been said in the notes, but if PMS causes extreme depression and even suicidal ideation, that is in fact something that most people do not experience and it can be treated
Like for the majority it really is "oh i'm hungrier and moodier than usual"
^this should be a part of sex education so the point still stands
I went to my doctor after I was walking to work one morning and saw a bus coming and actually took a step to throw myself in front of it before I pulled myself together. Later that day I started bleeding and was literally like someone flipped a switch and I didn't feel suicidal anymore. Which made me feel like I was loosing my mind because who goes from 'I want to throw myself in front of a bus' to 'I'm perfectly fine' just like that? I did some research, I went to the doctor and described my feelings, he looked me in the eye and gently asked what I thought it was, I said I'd read about PMDD and I thought it might be that, he said 'I think so too' and wrote a prescription.
If, before you get your period, you feel furiously angry, suicidal, irritated by every tiny thing to the point you want to murder someone, stuck in a black hole you'll never escape from. If you are experiencing extreme emotions for what seems like no good reason, especially if you get your period and those extreme emotions just go away. You're probably not just PMSing , you may have PMS's feral big sister PMDD and it's treatable.
Also this is something that can develop as you get older. So if you used to get normal PMS but what I wrote above sounds more like your norm now then don't just write it off as regular PMS.
I am SO happy more PMDD talk is happening. So apparently, it's like a recent thing that people found out, becoming an actual diagnosable disorder in 2019 (may need to be fact checked because I cannot find the article my mom found). Which coincidentally is when I was diagnosed.
It's true that before you start bleeding, it's the worst fucking time of your life. For me, my parents and I started to notice when we moved from Kentucky to Arkansas. Seemingly out of nowhere, I would get these uncontrollable fits of rage and depression. I would be so angry and snap at every little thing and then cry and scream about it the next second.
My parents, being outside observers were SO CONFUSED because it was like a switch flicked and I became this raging nightmare of anger, hate, and suicidal thoughts.
Then it would turn off.
At the time, we didn't see the connection between these moments and my periods. So when we went to my doctor and she asked if it was before my period, we had to think, oh yeah, it actually is. And that's when she explained PMDD to us.
The way she explained it was that there was a hormonal imbalance in me. I have TOO much estrogen. So when PMS comes around, that emotional rollercoaster that we get is cranked up to 10. It becomes so much worse than normal and explains why I felt suicidal only during these times when I have never actually felt suicidal before in my life.
So, she prescribed to me LoLoestrin Fe birth control. It's a low estrogen birth control and I was on it for a year before I moved to college. Lost access to health insurance and couldn't afford it. Then two years ago, got medicaid and gained access to it again. I have been medicated for PMDD for two years and it has been amazing. I am period free and I no longer am in constant misery.
Before, it was one week of horribleness, then one week of bleeding and cramps, followed by two weeks of recovery. By the end of that second week, I would have just BARELY recovered and the PMDD would start again. It was a horrible constant cycle to be in. It's one of the reasons I'm afraid of the current administration. If I lose access to my birth control - THAT I AM USING TO TREAT THIS CONDITION - I know what I will revert to.
I was 17-18 when we discovered this and it was terrifying. Because I just went from being fine to having literally the worst moments of my life. It was scary. I don't want to go back to that.
It's important it's talked about more since PMDD is a more recently discovered thing and also the entire conversation around periods in general is so societally looked down upon, that young girls/AFABs who feel this way may not understand why their entire life gets turned upside down seemingly at random.
There are many ways PMDD can develop, but keep track of your period. Once I was diagnosed and didn't have access to my medicine and had the worst day of my life, I had to check when my period was. Lo and behold, it was a week away. I had to train myself to not freak out and be scared and confused as to why I became an uncontrollable mess. I could pinpoint it and say "oh, it's PMDD week. Let's not take anything seriously that our brain decides."
I felt the need to really speak out for this since it was an extremely terrifying time for me and my parents and while I don't struggle with it anymore now due to being medicated, I live in America. The risk of losing access to my medication is high. Especially because it's a contraceptive.
So please please PLEASE, if you have any female friends or AFAB friends and they seem to have the worst week of their lives, have them check when their period is and help them in any way you can. The suicidal thoughts is real. I am not a suicidal person by any means; my pyschiatrist happily noted that I have a will to live because of everything I want to do. BUT PMDD had me otherwise. Genuine feelings of not wanting to live or exist anymore. The dark curiosity to look up peaceful ways to kill myself.
And then once I start bleeding, it goes away.
PMDD is insane but I'm happy to see people talking about it more, because it is truly a beast of a monster. So if you or a friend seem really off right before their period, check it out. I don't know if low-estrogen birth control works for everyone, but it works for me. That means there are possibilities of treating it. You don't have to experience this alone, either way.
Please spread awareness because this disorder is not well known and it was scary for me as a young teenager. It's crazy what our body can do, but set yourself up with a good support network, and you can make it through to the other side.
I don't dislike Boog like my parents do (my mom especially has a burning disdain for him), but the Boog-Rick Sutcliffe combo is kind of insufferable.
Oh God it's this combo again tonight. This is like nails on a chalkboard.
I figured out why the Boog-JD vibe is so different from the Boog-Sut vibe. At first I thought it was because Boog does not like Sut as much as he likes JD, but I think it's more nuanced than that.
I think when Boog is on with JD, Boog gets to be the clown. Like they're all professionals, but Boog gets to be the goofball of the two.
He can't do that with Sut because Sut doesn't know what's going on. Sut can talk pitching all day but the man read out "this double or double play is brought to you by" with a straight face last year. Sut cannot be the adult in the room, so Boog has to be.
And I don't think Boog likes that nearly as much as being the clown.
*stares wistfully out the window* blaseball...
