Iris Melody

Cruel cruel angel....

Thank you for @general-grey for sharing this wonderful text except with me, i will be thinking about it forever

Zoom in, context, and sketch below

i think we should bring this back (with some amendments ofc) if we ever needed an "internet etiquette" for the younger generations, now is the moment to remind them. purity culture kills fandom

as well as the three laws of fandom:

Don't Like, Don't Read (DL;DR), Your Kink is not My Kink And That's OK (YKINMKATO) and Ship and Let Ship

📣 Purity culture kills fandom! 📣

NO ONE LIVING hasn't been squicked out by something. There's over 7 billion of us, my delights and disgusts aren't universal. So I move on. Don't like the ship? Move on. Don't like____? Move on.

I am not an exception. Neither are you. I don't like it I move on and shut my gob about it because everyone everywhere is squicked out by something and they need to put the thing down and just…motor.

This but also:

Frames this entire post and hangs it over the fireplace.

Steve McCurry

Cammino di Francesco – Rieti, Italy

I'm sorry but this photo got me emotional - this moment could have been from any time in the last 500 or more years and not a thing about the composition would have changed. Certainly, for hundreds of years, monks have worked in these gardens and stopped to pet animals in need of scritches. A monk 300 years ago dressed in this same style in these same gardens probably stopped to pet the ancestor of that cat. The only difference between now and then is that this time there was a camera. If you went to any monastery or temple in the world you could find similar scenes playing out.

People stop to pet cats and it has me emotional.

This should be a statue. We need more statues showing kindness and companionship to cats.

People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.

it literally could use a little clouds if i had to be honest

Hell yeah brother

a wonderful ao3 author note

No matter how much you dislike your own writing, I promise you it’s better than AI

Stabbed! A short comic

made for an anthology awhile ago

Calicos

Calinoes

BOSS MAKES A DOLLAR

I MAKE A DIME

THATS WHY I MAKE MEADE

OUTTA THE COMPANY SLIME

BOSS MAKES A DOLLAR

I MAKE A DIME

THATS WHY I STEAL HONEY

TWO ATTA TIME

BOSS MAKES A DOLLAR

I MAKE A CENT

THATS WHY I TAKE HONEY PACKETS,

BOTTLE, AND FERMENT

BOSS MAKES A DOLLAR

I DONT MAKE JACK

EXCEPT FOR THE MEAD

#MEDIEVAL LIFE HACKS

shoutout to the dysphoric butch women who need to pack, take testosterone, chest bind, get top and/or bottom surgery, wear artificial facial hair, and do other masculinizing things in order to feel like who you are. if you are a butch woman who feels as though you need to have a penis, high testosterone and/or no breasts, you are valid in your desires. while there are butches who experience these things and identify as men, we also have to respect butch women who need these things and still identify as women. i see you and i hope you can present how you need to in order to feel like who you really are.

shoutout to every woman who needs and/or wants to be on t, get top and/or bottom surgery, pack, bind, and so on

Shoutout to transfem butches who don't want bottom surgery, and/or hrt.

correct! :) glad that was clear

I'd just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.

Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.

He only took occasional sips of water.

The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.

Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.

Senator Booker's speech did reach many people. It wasn't a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.

Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to "make good trouble."

also like, a Black man breaking Strom Thurmond's record is absolutely *chef's kiss*

for those who are too young to know about Strom, he was literally a white supremacist

He trained himself to give this speech by practicing and then implementing limits on food and water intake leading up to this. He cut out food for days, then cut out water the day before.

He then went to do an appearance on Maddow after yielding.

the thing about being nonbinary is that you really do start to forget that other people have such strict walls around what is and isn’t allowed for genders. i thought we all agreed that we made that up. could you climb out of the cave real quick and feel the sunshine for a minute.

Hey did you know there's a tell all book about the behind the scenes of Meta and the author is forbidden from promoting it?

The good news is however that it's already published and can't be stifled and whoever didn't sign the NDA can promote it as much as they want.

She's not allowed to promote it?

Well then, I guess we'll have to do it for her.

It's available from bookshop.org and Barnes & Noble in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook. It's on the front page of the B&N website and they're advertising $5 off currently.

Also request it at your local library if they don't already have a copy!