we all know I have no life, so:

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

the thing that's so unbelievably weird about this is that it's a dogwhistle against the culture that invented algebra

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Hungary was the playbook for anti LGBTQ policy in the west. Don't say gay in Florida was modeled on policies adopted there, which they modeled off of Russia. Same with ending legal recognition of trans people. They restricted access to transition care in 2020.

www.hrw.org/news/2023/02...

anonymized ao3 comment reading "They deserve to have their little egg"

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not to downplay the severity of what's cominb but the entire fall campaign of just executing boats full of civilians in the caribbean was a screaming klaxon that illegality of the order is no obstacle for Hegseth's Department of Warcrimes

every new yorker giving erin shit for this post better be sending the mayor a comment asking him to do something to protect trans kids www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

To Get Ahead of ICE, New York Leaders Learn from Other States and Cities - Bolts Immigration authorities haven’t yet descended onto New York in the numbers they have in other cities. Advocates want public officials to use this time to redouble protections.

Trump has surged large federal deployments to LA and Chicago, the 2nd and 3rd largest cities in the nation, but, while there have been arrests and operations here, not to its largest and most heavily immigrant, NYC. For @boltsmag.org, I took stock of local leaders' thinking around how to prepare

Supreme Court Rules Against Conversion Therapy Bans On Transgender Day Of Visibility "The fallout could be catastrophic," said Justice Jackson in her lone dissent of the 8-1 opinion.

1. In devastating news, the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of conversion therapy, a practice the UN calls torture.

The ruling could have catastrophic consequences, writes Jackson in her sole dissent.

The ruling comes on trans day of visibility.

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Still have yet to be paid from my job. Community is all I have. Out of levothyroxine (miscalculated how much I still have). Thank you so much

Latest portrait commission: Imagine waking up to the High King of the Noldor Ereinion Gil-Galad staring at you with fuck-me eyes only to reach out to his slutty little nightgown and realise it’s the Third Age and the High King is a High Crisp. It was all a sex dream.

#silmarillion #silmart

Arwen and Asfaloth 🤍 #lotr #lordoftherings

He looks like if The Matrix was about being cis.

Trans masc and his body

you also get something akin to this in elf spheres where there’ll be a post doing criticism of the views that are baked into tolkien’s work and people reply explaining how they’ve personally reinterpreted it so it no longer carries that meaning and now they don’t have to think about it

honestly the best accessible example of interacting with other stories in a distinctly christian way is that thing where it became popular online in the 2010s to claim that there was some totally unverifiable “original version” of various myths where things were more progressive

Photographs of a dinosaur-looking bird, the shoebill, and popstar Sabrina Carpenter, overlaid with a height comparison showing both are 152 cm, with visual graphics saying the magazine's name SSWAGGER and some Chinese characters

Photographs of a shoebill and popstar Sabrina Carpenter overlaid with a height comparison showing that, yes indeed, both are just 152 cm

I can't even begin to describe this photograph. I think that might be Taylor Swift on a night out with Sabrina Carpenter. But Sabrina is photoshopped to have a shoebill face and talons, with wing-tips coming out her coat but still Sabrina's hair

Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine

Someone should ask Mayor Mamdani at his press conference if he intends to direct H+H to absorb the trans youth patients from NYU Langone and other regional hospitals that illegally ended care, and if he plans to hold them accountable with NYC’s human rights ordinances.

He still has no comment.

What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022 “Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

*taps internet microphone*

After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ...

We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ...

lithub.com/what-was-los...

Trump Administration Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans Under a new rule, the State Department will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally.

Trump Opens the Door for ICE to Target Anyone Suspected of Being Trans
Under a new rule, the State Dept will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally. transitics.substack.com/p/trump-admi...

avoidant attachment behavior triggered by presence of Bird That Might Fly Away

CELEBORN????

mommy issues smh

Drawing in profile of a woman with a sword over her shoulder and a crown on her head.

Sick day sketchbook page (I'm on the mend)

Conservatives were on the record in January 2023 in the NYT saying explicitly that they targeted trans youth to be able to ban transitioning for everyone. They admitted it but then every dumb centrist was like "but what about the evidence on trans youth."

And here we are.

I'm out of words here

How a DHS shooting of a third U.S. citizen went unnoticed for months No state or federal agency disclosed that a Homeland Security Investigations agent had killed Ruben Ray Martinez until it was revealed in a public records request.

DHS killed a 23yo in Texas in March 2025 the same way they killed Renee Good www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.

They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

Real Young & Lazy Horse is the rock and roll book club that will blow out your eardrums ‘It's just an extension of our hang.’

once a rare phantom that only played sporadic summer shows at Rippers, the four horsemen of Real Young have taken up winter residency at Union Pool, with the next show slated for early April nygroove.nyc/real-young-l...