normally I do most of my reading between like 12-4am so I default to epub so I can read in the dark but I went hardcopy for this cause it does some fun things with footnotes and fonts and now I’m like wow you guys know about printing on paper? you heard about this?

currently reading (and enjoying VERY much)

gender dysphoria but for being a swarm of nanobots /school of uniform fish, gender dysphoria but for being a ghostly orb that can’t be perceived directly, gender dysphoria but for being an ink smudge that can crawl around in an archive — many such cases !

gender dysphoria but for being a gelatinous shapeshifting blob

ah morning again time to apply the necessary creams, gels, and unguents to my earthly form

something so primal about using ‘inspect source’ to read a paywalled article, the ancient method of my ancestors

Through a Glass, Darkly | Sydney Review of Books Reviewing John Morrissey’s collection of short stories, Mykaela Saunders shows how the author’s flexible use of speculative fiction suspends the reader between allegorical explorations of colonisation...

From a review of John Morissey’s short stories which I have not read but we just did his debut novel Bird Deity for spec fic book club and wow what an odd, restrained, tensely magical book sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/thro...

i’ve never identified with a phrase more

[getting rejected at the bar] that's fine. actually my boys and i were thinking of diminishing and going into the west

ah friday night time to research the avignon antipopes

A solution to my problem? no no this is my comfort problem I need to dwell on it forever

"characters in tv shows are too self aware now! every emotional convo is like "i guess i yelled at you earlier because i never processed dad leaving" no!! no!!! flush someone's blood pressure medication because they called you lazy."

cannot stress enough how much this tweet is not only my guiding star for character writing but also the only thing that enables me to write conversations at all

If you want revenge, then dig two graves. the first one is a practice grave to get a feel for it and the second is your main or "show grave"

In Feb I read 11 books and in March I read….. 1 book. Mass DNF event. When archeologists discover my perfectly preserved reading spreadsheet they will puzzle over this for centuries.

I like genre fiction because I like pattern recognition like the fact it’s all the same is half the fun

amusing to look back on my undergrad years and my obsession with woolf’s Orlando and ovid’s Metamorphoses and for no one to have said hey bro what’s going on with your gender

every conversation at work is like “ok apart from all the issues I just mentioned and the fact that this is insane and it can’t be done and it’s ludicrous that we’re even considering it, what other risks do you foresee?”

spent the last 5 years making sure no one at work knows anything about my personal life and they just hired someone I went to primary school with im so pissed

"sure boss, real horny just like you asked"

arguing with my four year old over who knows more things and we’re both taking it way too seriously i’m so proud of him

very nutritious

a good reading diet is one part sweeping political fantasy that says something nuanced about what it means to be a person and one part sexy angry homosexual college roommates

a person in a robe opens their arms to embrace a beam of divine light. clouds are all around them. there is a galaxy in their lap

When there’s an “etymology” section in the Wikipedia article

GD was easily one of the most crazy-making experiences of my life god speed to you

help help!! teenager at the mall wearing invader zim merchandise!! recession imminent!!

sending emails on a sunday morning lock me up

Two ogres block the player’s access to the gender-changing coffin.

this really is what it’s like

[downloading ten fanfics a day, drinking double usual caffeine, sleeping biphasically, hair falling out] yeah good thanks

Something about reading jstor at the gym makes me feel like i’ve made it. Made it to where? Unclear. But i’m there. Five stars.

plans are in motion for you to one day be able to read the gay elf book which is not only gay and about elves it’s also good