Blazer of cat photos, not trails.

You like the Anne Rice Catholic/Xtian aesthetic, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, all the revamped 90s goth? Old World church aesthetic without the guilt and fear of eternal torment? Maybe you already got that part and now it's kinky, idk, you do you.

I can't resolve all that.

But I CAN resolve your need for cool Aesthetic books you will probably glance through and turn into art or something. Plus, Euro vampires have a big thing with catholicism. Your room can, too.

This early 1900s "Story of the Bible" is not in great shape but a lot of the pages are nice, not falling out, are filled with illustrations, and the cover looks cool.

Direct link to this book

I have a couple lots going up. This is an individual book, but most others will be in lots. Antiques will likely be individual.

Thank you so much for saying that! It means a lot to me to hear that. I was also able to immediately figure out my list as soon as I saw this question today, so I am excited to share! In no particular order:

The Bone People

Keri Hulme

This book really moved me in it's depictions of restorative justice, queer chosen family, asexual identity, and spirals are now a part of my own spiritual practice because of this book.

Beyond the Pale

Elana Dykewomon

The best queer historical fiction that I have ever read. It has an earthy and intense understanding of queer history that most books can't comprehend.

Dear Senthuran

Akwaeke Emezi

This book understood something about me that I still have yet to comprehend. Cannot sing its' praises enough.

Also I know no one asked, but as a bonus, my favourite non-queer book that I have ever read:

Right Story, Wrong Story

Tyson Yunkaporta

This book challenged my understandings of truth and storytelling. I would recommend it to anyone who prioritizes stories and storytelling in their own lives.

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

We clearly see that ICE are murdering white citizens where everyone can see them. What do you think they're doing that they're trying to hide in concentration camps to immigrants of color?

We clearly see that Israel is bombing hospitals and murdering children. What do you think they're doing that they have to murder journalists in order to keep it hidden?

It's unhinged to assume that someone's taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.

That is a bonkers assumption to make.

I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.

“the Seed-Urn, as it was called, would then be carried by an illiterate, nameless servant covered in soot and horse manure into the wife’s bedroom, where she stood completely immobilized by her corset and long skirts. she would then be artificially inseminated by a doctor, while he used a vibrator to get her off as a free bonus hysteria treatment”

“after that, she was promptly returned to the asylum, having been committed there for being theoretically aware of the alphabet. her husband prayed for four hours to be forgiven his sin of ankle-lust, and then reminded their 27 existing children that he did not love them. just in case they forgot"

The Brunswick Four and the Toronto raids in Canada 🇨🇦

Queer icons like Virginia Wolf, Oscar Wilde, and Freddie Mercury in Britain 🇬🇧

Cultural revolution in Weimar Germany 🇩🇪

The drag scene in Nigeria 🇳🇬

Gay and lesbian Mardi Gras in Australia 🇦🇺

Frida Kahlo and Mexicos fraught history 🇲🇽

Gay samurai in Japan 🇯🇵

Queer narratives erased by colonialism in Pakistan 🇵🇰

The modern world’s first legal same-sex marriages in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

The honoured Mahu (transgender individuals) in traditional Hawaiian culture 🌺

Hidden queer communities in communist Poland 🇵🇱

Husbands in ancient Egypt 🇪🇬

The Athens pride festival in Greece 🇬🇷

The Homosexual Movement of Liberation in Chile 🇨🇱