Pseudo-Psalms

Something terrifying about the way censorship is just straight up happening right now and they're barely trying to pretend that isn't what it is. The UK rolling out the Online Safety Act which forces anyone accessing 'adult' content (including discord, LGBT+ forums, various resources for drug addicts etc.) to share their face and ID with American third party companies, and refusing to debate a repeal in parliament despite 300,000 signatures on their own website to do so. Something fishy going on with Google docs suddenly deleting/restricting content. Itchio and Steam suddenly deleting 18+ games including both porn games and horror games at the behest of Mastercard.

I understand your point about not being too harsh with young writers, but when the deerskull-pomegranate stuff shows up in a published work I am inevitably gonna start shitting on it.

classism, ableism, *and racism — more than half of the US Black population live in the South!

This made me happy. I am a Texan, and to quote a pretty good folk punk song, "I eat meat and drive trucks and shoot guns and don't trust in the federal government to solve our problems, you might think I'm joking, but I'm not a republican." I drive a small pickup, I live on an active farm and ranch, I grew up hunting as an act of necessary subsistence. I wear boots and jeans and have a pretty thick accent that I do my best to tame when speaking to strangers. I look masculine as all hell, and most people just ASSUME I am uneducated, bigoted, and all kinds of unpallettable. It can be an incredibly isolating experience, especially in rural impoverished areas where, yeah, actually, a lot of those stereotypes are unfortunately true of the average person. Isolating because if your neighbors really "know you" they might not accept you, isolating because the people who you actually have social values in common with wont give your hick ass the time of day. Best case scenario? You live a peaceful but lonely life in the sticks while the local Baptist or church of christ preacher encourages you to pray for redemption every time he sees you, and honestly thinks he's being kind in doing so. But I've seen these stats now. I know you guys are out there, and just knowing makes me feel less alone.

Reblog daily for health and prosperity

This kinda sparks some introspection. I think I treat myself badly because i have been lead to believe throughout my life that there are hard inflexible definitions of GOOD and EVIL, and you must be one or the other, and everything NOT GOOD is automatically EVIL, and honestly how can you live up to that crystallized ideal of GOOD, so I simply MUST be NOT GOOD, and therefore secretly EVIL, and as one of the bad ones I do not deserve to be treated well or have good things happen.

I work at a bookstore and hearing one of my male coworkers call smutty romantasy "the downfall of society" because it's "literally just porn" radicalized me

Left this in the notes

in light of Trump's inauguration speech declaring multiple national emergencies that require him to take god-knows-what executive actions immediately, I'd like to remember this chapter of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder:

I don't normally do reblog bait, but absolutely reblog if you had 3 opportunities and never voted for Trump.

I want you to remember: