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I do not think "Star Trek" is a children's show.

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Sidney Poitier visits Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis on the set of "Some Like It Hot"

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I love personalization. I love stickers on water bottles and on laptops. I love shitty marker drawing on the toes of converse. I love hand embroidered doodles on jeans. I love posters on walls. I love knick knacks on shelves. I love jewelry with goofy charms. I love when people take things and make them theirs.

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Has your name every appeared in the credits of a book, or is it likely to in the near future? Then you should join AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS! Transcript below the cut. A version of this zine formatted for print is available to download on my patreon.

Do you make books? Yes? I want YOU to join Authors Against Book Bans! By Maia Kobabe

WHAT IS AABB? 

A coalition of writers, illustrators, editors & other book creators, standing united against the unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We support the availability of diverse voices in our libraries, in our schools, & in our culture. We pledge to band together against the oppression of literature, to speak when our voices are silenced, to go where our bodies are needed, & to fight to ensure this freedom.

Our concern is not only for the books, but for the children, families, educators, librarians, & communities who suffer when the freedom to read is challenged and taken away.

WHAT CAN AABB OFFER YOU? 

- Regional groups working on legislation to protect authors & the freedom to read state-by-state

- Online trainings on digital security, public speaking, & how to counter book challenges in your community

-Affinity groups for BIPOC authors, queer authors, authors with disabilities, indie, nonfiction, romance writers & more

-Support if your book is challenged!

-A very active discord community

Author: What if my book hasn’t been challenged? 

Maia: JOIN!

Author: Ok, but what if I’m really busy and can’t do much organizing right now? 

Maia: JOIN ANYWAY! 

Even if all you do is sign up, your membership will help lend weight to the letters AABB sends to publishers & legislators. As of January 2025, AABB has 3500+ members. Check out the recent open letter to publishers on AABB’s socials & feel free to share it with your contacts. 

An Open Letter to Our Publishers- instagram.com/p/DCzYmKcR8uq

Maia: I’ve been facing intense challenges to my book since 2021. Knowing that I am not alone in the fight against censorship is what keeps my spirits up! 

Watching the folks in AABB share information, co-write legislation, show up to library & school board meetings, & speak up to publishers about the need to protect diverse books & minority authors has been amazing! 

This is a weird & scary time to be an author, but you are not alone! Join thousands of us fighting for the freedom to read, the freedom to write, the freedom to teach, the freedom to learn, & the freedom to share our stories!

AABB on instagram / AABB on bluesky

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This is a great monologue until Izzy says, "We're good".

Excuse me? How many people have you killed? How many lives have you wrecked? How many ships have you destroyed?

Izzy, I love you, but you're a goddamned pirate!

CON O'NEILL as Izzy Hands in OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022— ) Episode 2.08

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Edgy action movie Jeeves adaptation where Bertie says fuck

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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A NOTE ABOUT CUMMERBUNDS

When reading Jeeves fics, I’ve noticed that writers don’t actually know much about cummerbunds (until today I’ve pronounced them “cumberbunds” but even spellcheck tells me that’s wrong). Often the ones that set Jeeves off are worn as daywear. Cummerbunds are evening wear, and evening wear only.

"White tie” is of course the fanciest traditional formal evening dress for men, even in this century. Less formal wear is of course, tuxedos/dinner jackets. Jeeves knows best.

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I wrote this for the Supernatural cookbook, "The Pissed Off Sandwich". I was asked to write a recipe for John Winchester, and I thought of his Kitchen Sink Stew. To write this, I actually made stew with beef jerky. NEVER AGAIN.

Note: This is taken from John Winchester’s journal.  It has been left unedited.

JOHN WINCHESTER'S KITCHEN SINK STEW

STARTING OUT

Stew: only way to get vegetables down Dean’s gullet.  Constipated Dean is hell to live with.  Sammy loves vegetables.  He’s a freak.  And not just because he has demon blood.

JOHN WINCHESTER’S TIPS:

You need a stove.  Tried making this on a hot plate but it took three days and set the motel room on fire.  First ingredients, then cooking directions, then toppings and/or stuff on the side.

1. BASICS

2 lbs boneless beef chuck roast cut into medium-sized pieces

4 tablespoons of butter /14 diner packets

2 large onions, peeled and chopped up

2 tablespoons flour.  Or Bisquick

1 teaspoon sugar (skip sugar if using Bisquik)/ 2 Domino sugar packets

2 cups beer.  If you like dark beer, something like Negra Modelo.  My favorite is Budweiser.  Or whatever’s on sale at the gas station.  Guinness is a wuss beer and it costs too much.

2 beef bouillon cubes in 1 1/2 cup water. 

2. SEASONING THE STUFF:

Salt and pepper

Worcestershire sauce

Tabasco sauce

Parsley if you’ve got it

Bay leaf if you’ve got it

JOHN WINCHESTER’S TIPS:

Beef jerky or Slim Jims adds a nice flavor.  NO GUMMI WORMS, no matter how much Dean begs.

3. VEGETABLES:

You can put anything in this stew.  Mix and match:

1 big turnip, cut into big pieces

4 carrots, peeled, cut into chunks

4 potatoes, peeled, cut into chunks

2 green peppers, chopped up

2 cups lima beans

One big can diced tomatoes

2 cups okra

Canned corn

2 cups string beans

2 cups peas

2 boxes frozen spinach

2 boxes frozen mixed vegetables

What the hell are parsnips?

4. COOKING DIRECTIONS:

Brown beef with butter, salt and pepper. 

Add flour and stir until beef is coated and browned.

Add Worcestershire sauce—a couple of good shakes. 

Add sugar.  Add onions.  Stir around until the onions are soft.

Add beer and beef broth.  Give it a good stir.

Add vegetables.  Stir it.

Remember to give it a stir!

Cook for 2 hours, covered.  If it looks too dry add water, stock, or best of all, beer as long as it ain't Guinness or one of them light beers. This shit is water.

5. TOPPINGS:

Crumbled Doritos or B-B-Q potato chips

Pretzels

Party mix – the salty kind, not the sweet kind

Beef jerky

Crispy Chinese noodles from these cheapo restaurants.  If you want to grab a couple of soy sauce packets and add that in to the stew, be my guest.

JOHN WINCHESTER’S TIPS:

If no potatoes, use rice, around 2 cups.  Makes one big chunk of stuff.  Boys didn’t much like it: made them eat anyway.

No potatoes or rice, a couple of boxes of mac and cheese without the cheese works.  Save the cheese for something else, like dip.  If you have company.  We don’t.  We sprinkle it on cereal.

6. NO SALAD!!

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Anthony Coleman Takes Another Puppet Class - SNL

More trauma humor!

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Puppet Class with Seth MacFarlane - SNL

More trauma humor!

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Cupcake Dog - War never changes

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fuck dating pople...im nback on my bullshit (drawing hugh laurie and steohen fry)

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hello there! :) i was wondering if you had any queer reads with a disabled main character? i’ve had so many ankle injuries and so much anxiety in the last couple of months that i could scream lol, so i thought reading a book where the main character is similar-ish to me might be a good bet! i’m just not exactly sure how to search for stuff like this, if that makes sense…

Yep, you can search right here! https://lgbtqreads.com/representation/disability-neurodivergence/

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Hey look, it's-a me! The Shabti and I will be at Romance Con in Milwaukee this September. Stop by to meet me and the rest of the massive lineup of romance authors--it's gonna be rad!

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These have been languishing in my old Flickr albums for years. I have a huge collection of these sheet music oddities from the Egyptian Revival craze of the 1910s-1920s (with a few earlier and later outliers). Some of them are hella weird.