once again someone is using my fandom sockpuppet email account from 2006 to do regular degular daily business. this time it was donate to an islamic cultural center in illinois. last time it was to request old graduation photos from somewhere in indiana. no one but me has access to this acct????
for about a month a local bike shop has had a signboard reading "i got a bike for my spouse. best trade ever" and today when i drove past they changed it to "my spouse did not appreciate our last sign"
surprise!
Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends from @ecwpress.bsky.social
is now up on goodreads (with a cover i am still screeching about). add it to your TBR if you like morally questionable decisions made by equally morally questionable sapphics.
god yeah me too. the excitement when they were trying to get information about different geological features through the communication time lag!!! that also got me!
Local Nerd Who Never Cries At Anything Abruptly Tearing Up Over Ground Control Saying "That's So Interesting" When Learning That Something Orange Occluding The View From The Hatch-Adjacent Window Which Prevented One Of The Astronauts From Seeing The Color Variation Clearly
had the artemis livestream up in the background while i was grading papers and it really was SO unexpectedly and astonishingly evocative to hear people be so enthused about the work they're doing and the discoveries they're making
not my best year bracket-wise but certainly also not my worst
there are two book series i've read with purposefully fat merpeople/merpeople-adjacent and every time i'm like. THANK you
Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.
every time i successfully "we have food at home" or its equally-annoying cousin, "i literally packed my own lunch today" myself i'm like whoa that was so good of me to follow my budget, i should reward myself. by getting the thing i just talked myself down from.
my partner just launched a collection of brooches based on New England tomb monuments in case the customer for that is you www.heavensvault.net
i love when i tell my students that the next class period is going to be extra fun and they're like doubt.jpg and then as soon as class is over they're all like whoa that was so fun
howwww was this 17 years ago
the vivid, fascinating characters and the richly-embodied and -articulated worlds in which they live
🏴
Book cover for The Citizen of Eastport, by V B Ruth. Front cover features portraits of three characters, one facing front and the other two in profile on either side, with a menacing metallic figure behind and overhead. Back cover shows a spilled rocks glass and a dead body in a pool of light. Blurb reads: Vi used to be a fighter. In the underground rings she was a champion, but on the streets of Eastport, where gangs and trade powers fight for dominance, the most she could ever be is a pawn. Instead she keeps her head down, takes care of her people, and tries to avoid trouble. Trouble comes for her anyway, when a wealthy citizen decides he wants something she has. As his net draws tighter around her, hope rests in the unlikeliest places: the provocative thief she can't keep her hands off of, and the childhood sweetheart she once betrayed.
It's here!! I've been working on THE CITIZEN OF EASTPORT for 5 years and it's finally time to unleash it upon the world. If you like messy queer relationships, intrigue, noir, and butch protagonists, you might want to check it out.
Available in ebook and paperback: books2read.com/citizenofeas...
technically it was harvest moon in middle school, but i didn't understand what it was (i also didn't know what harvest moon was, an online friend sent me the link). the first one on purpose was 😔😔😔 sneurmione. age 15, linked by a high school friend, on (if memory + fanlore serves) sycophant hex
yes exactly
omg that's such a good way of putting it
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ohhhhh i love
that looks SO good
astro,
screenshot of google street view of a store in kenya; the awning of the store is painted EGG DEPOT
screencap of geoguessr daily challenge, the wall is painted in yellow: "Say no Drugs yes to eggs" (this was from over a year ago so i don't recall exactly where it is but i'm almost certain it's somewhere in the philippines
egg mention... there was also an egg mention today but obviously i wouldn't post a screencap from an ongoing challenge
'other' seems to be like 45% siberian architecture by volume, 30% 'i don't remember why i screencapped this...' 20% a mishmash of misleading flags, animals, and people reacting to the google car, and 5% egg mention
...u cannot deny... there is also a small category that could distinctly be labeled... 'other'
sometimes i scroll through all my screencaps of my favorite geoguessr daily challenge moments (i take screencaps of my geoguessr favorite daily challenge moments) and it's like a fairly even breakdown of beautiful locales and stuff that strikes me, in some way, as fucking hilarious. but...
auspicious day (didn't have to stop at the intersection where every single one of the egregious number of street signs is formatted differently)
i think it was astro!
not my cat nearly locking me out of my computer by slamming his little face on the enter key midway through me typing my password like four times in a row