writing isnt even like a hobby to me anymore its just that theres images trapped in my head and if i dont get them out fast enough they start rotting in there and stinking up the place

if ur gonna be pressed into service by your liege lord, u want to be the swiftest rider. get good at horses, because they're always sending the swiftest rider off to do some other shit that is, crucially, away from the battlefield. I'm telling u. when ur forces are outnumbered and the enemy legions show up with some unexpected advantage, someone in command is gonna say, "send the swiftest rider to alert the queen!!!" that's u. u want to be that guy

scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple

the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

Btw the thing this discovered is like. A foundational lab technique now and has revolutionized genetics

dragons

DRAGONS LOCATED

little pig made of glass and his brother, little pig made of glass made of paint

*banging pots and pans* APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

we love queer poetry!! you should love queer poetry!

we’ve got over 180!! books of queer poetry in our library

read some queer art that’s weird on purpose <3

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.

Addition for those unaware: Cory Booker is black. Strom Thurmond set the previous record about 70 years ago in protest of civil rights. Booker spent much of the time I was watching talking about the importance of working together for the people and the idea that it's not "left versus right but right versus wrong."

The new record speech is on the right side of history.

Minor correction: the questions from other Democrats did not allow him to sit down as he must remain standing and at his desk in order to retain the floor. Additionally, I believe the final time was 25 hours and 7 minutes.

Self correction: final time 25 hours 5 minutes.

Happy Edible Book Day everyone!

Again I took part in @renegadeguild's Edible Book Day event and proudly present my Book Suzette. I had a lot of fun making it and then dousing it in alcohol to set it on fire.

This whole book is made from crêpe the 'cover' with the crêpe-flower inlays. The 'pages' glued together with more crêpe batter. Only the text is cut from carrots an then baked into the batter (which worked a lot better once I cut the whole letters from one piece instead of cutting thin stripes and trying to to assemble them in the skillet while the batter was not yet baked through but yet solid enough to keep the letters from floating away)

Free Manual Wheelchair Reference Models

For disability pride month, I decided to release a pack of 3D manual wheelchair models.

The pack includes 5 wheelchairs:

All the wheelchairs are based off either wheelchairs I or friends of mine have used

Downloadable here!

or on the Clip Studio Paint Asset Store (ID 2097442) (there's been an issue with the CSP version, but the models in the download folder can be imported into clip studio paint until I can fix it)

More info about the download contents below:

drawing inspired by one of the tanks at the Shedd Aquarium… arapaima my beloved

day and night version because i’m indecisive!

It's still April 1st here, so I'm not too late to make a "Happy Edible Book!" post. What a day. A lot happened. Things are good.

having a freeze response to stress is so funny in the context of normal adult stressors. millions of years of evolution are trying to tell me that the email will not find me if i stay very still and do nothing

oh one source of bad information by robert bly we're really in it now

whoever keeps shooting rusty chains with hooks at me from the darkness STOP

Some thoughts on a Tuesday.

Life continues, despite how frightening things are, despite the sense that all the wheels are falling off. Life continues. Babies keep being born. People pass away. The wind still taps tree branches against windows.

I'm finding there's a disconnect between the daily work of life continuing and the abject terror that the news cycle would have us exist in. The things in the news are impossible to approach because it's difficult to connect them to every minute of the daily work of living, as some of the things we fear haven't happened yet, may never happen, or have already happened but not a way anticipated.

This is to say, when a loved one dies, you can still bake bread. You can be broken with grief, but cook for others. You can yell down the phone lines at representatives, and in the evening read a book that makes you laugh, or listen to the wind and tide drive waves against rocks.

Being in a state of constant terror seems, in some ways, like letting someone steal life. The very thing we're supposed to be advocating for: more life, better life. I'm thinking about what I can sustainably do over the next chunk of time while radical shifts happen (or don't). I don't yet have a concrete answer. That's fine--possibly good considering that adapabilty is essential for living.

I think we've taken in too many stories about a particular type of hero's journey. Teenagers toppling regimes. Lone figures somehow restoring righteousness. King killers.

I think a lot about how any of these stories exist because someone's ancestor survived by doing the daily work of baking, cleaning, shoveling shit from the stalls, and sometimes sitting and just breathing, stunned that they still live.

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