fuck ICE

i wish we could all agree on a secondary location but unfortunately when tumblr is over we will be dispersing into our own directions like dandelion seeds

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

joe biden should do another stimulus check where the ira sends me a lox bagel. with cream cheese please

irs.

the word 'swim' is doing a lot of heavy work here

Not half as much as the audio is

@photomatt should kill himself.

I genuinely hope this circulates forever.

If you want a platform that doesn’t ban you for posting while trans, try Wafrn. It’s explicitly pro-trans, you can post porn (its name stands for We Allow Female Representing Nipples), it runs doom, and it lets you bite someone’s post. It also has opt-in bluesky integration, in case you want to follow artists you like on bluesky without making an account there.

apparently the director of the no fucking til marriage movie is like "it's not the sex purge movie, that's not what it's about" but my guy I'm sorry you made the sex purge movie. that's what you did. like describe it however you want but conceptually the film is about a nation wide sex fest on the one day a year fucking is permitted by the state, that's a sex purge. the film can be about a wholesome romance happening during the sex purge but it is definitely the sex purge.

I just got off a 3 hour call with @shanyshko discussing what lengths Shane go to in order to stay closeted from his cleaners. Conclusion: he hides the dildos in a safe with financial documents on top just in case anyone breaks in

On the other hand Scott doesn’t care enough to stay closeted from his staff because he doesn’t think his staff are people