to be clear I completely understand being nice about a book for social reasons but assuming you're not saying it to a writer's face "some of the books on this award list are bad" is among the most ancient and honorable reactions a lover of books can have to an award list

when Hugo nominees are released my expectation is I will have read none of them; simply do not read new sff like that anymore. That said the idea that it's inappropriate to "dismiss" any of the nominees for a month after the list drops is like alarmingly alien to me. Do you really live like this

stone artefacts🥰

passed a bike shop (not the one I go to) while i was out yesterday with a sign out front that said Riding A Bike For A Few Hours Will Solve All Your Problems For A Few Hours and baby there's not a lot of things truer than that

on the other hand there's nothing worse than the anticipation of having to type it up out of your notebook and thereby find out whether you think it's any good or not. And that's what i'm procrastinating currently with all these posts. Thanks and I'm sorry

there's nothing better than putting a poem together in your head while you ride your bike and then when you get home you get to write it all down

Unless you already know the story, you will never ever in a million years guess who this is in reference to.

you hate to kick a man while he's down but personally I think it'd take a lot to get me to mistake a woman wearing a white apron for a swan

[feeling my gorge rise] My gorge !

my I ❤️ MIMESIS t-shirt—

was talking w M about a recent book we both read and both had the same rxn to—loved the early more mimetic sections, started to lose interest as the project shaded into genre—her gloss on this being that she & I are both "realism bitches." And by God it's true about me

feel like I get mentally stuck on this person pretty regularly because there's clearly a part of me that wants to be xem. Like obviously not enough to commit to the bit but sometimes I literally get bored yk

Since we do not fully obey them, are they useful at all?

this is like the main reason i did it yeah

one thing i'll say is i don't like the new feature on youtube where when i watch my korean clickbait cooking videos they are badly autodubbed into english

wandering around saying to people I Am The First Transgender Person To Ever Feel Ambivalent Or Melancholic About Getting A Transgender Surgery

friends fear he has already written two bad poems about the transgender surgery he is literally not getting for like more than two weeks

google map that says: Kroger Still the Thickest & Creamiest

???

this post is actually about I have I think six pronoun pins in a little dish on my dresser and five of them say he/him and one of them says they/them (from when I used to be at they/them) and I can't remember the last time I wore any of em

always imagine that the deal with genderfluid people is they keep a few dozen pronoun pins in a small velvet bag and every morning they draw one out and that's their pronouns for the day. Of course I am aware this can't possibly be true but imagining that it is keeps me going

if you want to write something just write something. if it's terrible that's what the trash is for. editing's a whole other job mate. you don't pop open a car's hood to have a look at the engine while driving it. that's not writing that's mad max

Peanuts strip of Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty chatting under a tree Patty: Let me ask you something. Chuck, do you think a girl who is ugly has as much chance for happiness as a girl who's beautiful? Charlie Brown: "Of course! For one thing you have a nice personality, and..." Patty: What makes you think I was talking about myself, Chuck? Patty: Trapped you didn't I, Chuck? Patty: That's all right. It was a dirty trick. Actually I guess I really was talking about myself, so what you were saying was probably true... Patty: But what made you think I was talking about myself, Chuck?

They're few and far between, but Peanuts strips that scratch at Peppermint Patty's insecurities still sting.

you can tell a shitpost is inexplicably saying what everyone's thinking when it has nearly two orders of magnitude more likes than reblogs

I just can't be anybody's positive evolved masculinity ambassador, I guess. The sense I sometimes get that anybody wants or expects trans guys to be that makes me feel a little bit sick to my stomach

You could read this as an own on trans guys but I don't actually think I'm trying to own trans guys. Or like not only. I actually kinda want people to be sympathetic to my issues on this lol

genuinely happy for guy in screenshot and his tmasc friends but to my own sorrow I do have to declare holy war against him due to my own badly fucked up cause of "why are we all collectively refusing to acknowledge that tguys can have some of the craziest masculinity hangups of anybody"

hi, boys

this is like tumblr of me to say but one really nice thing about putting it to yourself and to the world that you are a big weirdo and it's awesome is that every so often you get to watch in real time as a new acquaintance forms the thought I Have To Figure Out What's Going On With This Weird Guy

i think i can digging in the ground for tubers

reread serious weakness