[ text in the image: a tweet by @JulianKJarboe on twitter: “God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: because he wants humanity to share in the act of creation. I am only doing the Good Works here on Earth as intended!”  /end quote]

What I don’t mind: people often attribute the quote/idea to Danny if they first read it in his book, even though it’s framed as a quote, but this mistake is always done from enthusiasm for the material. Once this started happening a lot I joked to him that I should have asked to be attributed by my full name and phone number, and he’s quick to correct and inform people, but if it seems like that would still sting me, imagine being Danny and writing a whole ass book about your life in the middle of a really turbulent time and people keep telling you one of their favorite lines is where you quote someone else. It’s a wash lol.

However, I think I feel kind of weird about the amount of attention the screencaps of my tweet and pictures of his book get though, how rarely they link back to the source (and while this one does, and I’m engaging with this post because I think this particular OP is the nicest and most transparent example of this, I still wish it had been, I dunno, posted as a link and not an image with a tiny link in the description), because the thing is this line is also in my own book.

It’s a line in one of my stories, that I essentially drafted as a tweet of my own thoughts because in 2018, Passover overlapped with Easter and I was vaguely observing both (and Jewish readers are often the first to notice that this is a sound rabbinical argument, while Catholics will notice the Good Works framing– it’s syncretic or inter-faith on purpose, yes).

And I do mean what it says. Like, I’m sincere about the content of it, but with the pandemic tanking my book launch and maybe writing career, and now being unemployed, this kind of thing finally does just make me feel a little sad and frustrated. If even a fraction of the people who got clicks screen-capping my twitter and photographing my friend’s book lead to sales of my book that is largely about queer theology, I could pay my bills on royalties alone for, like, over a year. That’s tough right now! That feels bad.

The Julian in question is writer Julian K. Jarboe and I believe the quote in question is from a poem in their collection “Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel”

Hey, it’s Hershey. We already got our first exciting fan letter! Let’s see what it says

It’s from Forrest. Hi, Forrest! You suggested that we should delete our account on July 17th, 2021. 

Crochet Patterns

Anyway my friend had some not so nice teeth and during dinner the father of his fwb was like “you work where you work, you sleep with him and his teeth look like that? Get him an appointment.”and then bounced. So his fwb made him an appointment at the practice she managed and my friend ended up needing like 3k worth of dental work and his friend with benefits just gave it to him for free.