still a thing — not got the spoons to do a proper fundraiser run, but I really really need help with daily expenses.

Oh, and I’m still technically in the red for council rent, as I’m paying in arrears after losing about 3 weeks’ worth of Housing Benefit when they switched me from irESA to UC. I just don’t have the savings or the resources to pay 2 month’s rent at once, even if only the one time.

Woman Diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disease at 2-Months-Old Wakes Up with No Pain for the First Time in Her Life After New Treatment Tatyana Thompson, who was diagnosed with sickle cell disease when she was 2 months old, was successfully cured of the disease after she participated in Johns Hopkins research on sickle cell treatment.

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Oh, and I’m still technically in the red for council rent, as I’m paying in arrears after losing about 3 weeks’ worth of Housing Benefit when they switched me from irESA to UC. I just don’t have the savings or the resources to pay 2 month’s rent at once, even if only the one time.

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I try to limit how often I ask for £££ help but — on disability/estranged from family/cost of living crisis ongoing. I can’t afford to both heat my flat AND do laundry right now.

Anything helps! If you can’t donate, plz boost 💙💙

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I try to limit how often I ask for £££ help but — on disability/estranged from family/cost of living crisis ongoing. I can’t afford to both heat my flat AND do laundry right now.

Anything helps! If you can’t donate, plz boost 💙💙

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Backslashes usually work, like in RegEx. But like I said, I can rig up smth this weekend when I get back from Shabbos that should be easier to type out and allow for different censor characters, other than just asterisks.

I can figure out something for MDX that makes it easier? Or we can figure out if the font we’re using on your site has censor bar characters or smth.

I was going by a different name then and tbh I'd rather leave the person I was in the 2010s behind.

Anyway, Emptiness Effigied and Unjust Depths both look really interesting and v. much like my kind of thing, so I'm glad to have been pointed to your work regardless :>

you probably don't remember me?

i'm just happy to see you again and to find out you're still writing!!

well, in a fun coincidence, i was literally just recommended Unjust Depths (on the strength of the themes it tackles) and then i found The Solstice War in the downloads section.

so i went to find your contact details and saw this post. so, uh, hi! we used to know each other, though—

Screenshots of an receipt for Gretchen Felker-Martin's new horror novella Black Flame, with a sketch of a cat buying it with stolen credit cards underneath.

If you buy one of Gretchen Felker-Martin's books and/or sign up for her Patreon in the next 24 hours and reply to this post with a screenshot of the receipt, I'll draw a sketch of my cat Onion committing crimes on your behalf! (The drawing might not be good, but her book will be excellent, win-win!)

This is a local-ish (feasible to reach on a day trip) indie bookshop; can post clearer proof of purchase if needed!

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Hiiiii
Getting very desperate and worried and kind need a miracle at this point ~

This meeds to be met in a few days
Any help is greatly appreciated!!

... and given Robin Westman's aesthetics' overall vibe, I would not be surprised if this was partially based on pre-reform Russian orthography.

I think that's not a 3, I think that's a variant of the propisnaya zeh (handwritten letter zeh)? I'd guess the mysterious hook character is some kind of archaic letter.

to my memory, pre-reform Russian alphabet used dotted i the same way Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Komi, Rusyn, etc. do ...

and i see it in 🚬 contexts, too, the whole "bromance" thing

i see this kinda rhetoric a lot — which is a little mind-boggling, because as well as being homophobic/lesbophobic, it's heterosexist, right? it derives from that hetero norm of "you cannot be FRIENDS with 'the opposite sex'"

One thought that keeps coming up in my brain is: Do non-lesbians recognize that the refrain "we just want to focus on female friendship" reads as such a lesbophobic dog whistle?

Like, girls who love girls can still be friends. Heck, any relationship (even romantic ones) can include friendship

Despair is a tool of the oppressor. You are allowed to be upset, but we have ways to fight back and be Really Fucking Annoying to the assholes at the root of the issue. itch could have done better by the devs caught in the crossfire but focus on the real enemy

yellat.money

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happy pride month!! your friendly neighborhood butch is opening commissions to help stay on top of bills and get a new tablet! if you're interested in getting some art from me, take a look at my form here! :)

Given how much contemporary fag culture hinges on “bad girls”, divas, etc., this is a pretty useful and interesting framing.

But you already know what I think about faggotry as a way for men to circumvent patriarchal strictures and my ~complicated relationship to womanhood via faggotry

I’m so sorry you and Talia (and Talia’s circle in general) are dealing with this shit. It feels like yet another iteration of using vulnerabilities of hypothetical people to harass actual trans women off of social media and public platforms in general

Present tense is fine. People must cope.

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Isidore Bloom holding a paperback copy of Arc Dream Press’s The Annotated King In Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers, annotated by Kenneth Hite.

A photo of the interior of Arc Dream Press’s The Annotated King In Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers, annotated by Kenneth Hite, showing the typesetting, typeface choices and overall book design, since in Isidore Bloom’s opinion, it’s very well done and gorgeous.

So, I got a dead tree paperback copy of the Annotated King in Yellow, the paperback edition of the gorgeous limited edition Arc Dream Press put out in the late 2010s, I think. 100% worth getting, the annotations are v. useful and the design and typesetting is AMAZING

The Bitter Drop | Author's Blog | 2025 Status Report A status report, addressing the recent radio silence, a heads up about upcoming retcons and archive edits, and estimates of when semi-regular updates will resume.

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tl;dr: the serial is not abandoned, updates will be resuming soon. some retcons coming.

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i'm so serious when i say that trans women need fucking money--especially Black trans women.

Evelynn is my friend and needs this real bad