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the ghost of one specific homosexual cowboy regularly possesses Tumblr gays

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It’s that time of year. Reblog with how many you’ve heard of.

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yo it occurred to me to crowdsource this: I am planning to visit Scandinavia in the next year for a couple of weeks. I've never been there. where should I go and what should I see/do?

i'll have about a week and need to end it by travelling (by train probs through Denmark) to the southwest of the Netherlands so I don't know that I can see All The Countries. So if you have thoughts about which to prioritise among Norway, Finland, and Sweden pitch your opinions please! I have no idea how to plan this.

(reblogs to get more opinions appreciated)

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/ A group of Women stand underneath Umbrellas in the London Rain, 1928

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i think maybe we could spend less time thinking about things that make us angry and more time thinking about other stuff

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brother what

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Now is absolutely the time to support queer authors, queer-friendly libraries, and queer bookstores. There is a lot of damage being done to these communities right now, and I truly believe community is the antidote. Find an author to uplift, request a queer book from your local library, and if you can, try and buy a queer book from an indie store. It makes a bigger difference than you might think.

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Truck drivers in Michigan have for years smashed into an undersized bridge called The Big Penny. Normal warning signs have not deterred drivers from wedging dozens of trucks into its hungry maw.

So they put eyes and teeth on the bridge, in part as a further deterrent.

It has not worked…

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I got a puma. I have always not very secretly wanted a big cat, but these are very big, 7-8 feet long and weighing as much as me. I hope the "familiar" part makes it nice, because I'm not sure I want it sleeping at the foot of my bed otherwise. Imagine if it pounced on your toes in the night...

You show up for your first day at Copyright-Free Magic School. As you're going through orientation, you're informed that all new students get a school-assigned familiar that they are responsible for housing and maintaining. The staff member assures you that your assigned familiar is appropriately chosen and reflects you in some way.

Spin this to find out yours. (Remember, you are responsible for maintaining this familiar in your dorm room.)

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Submissions are Open!

Please submit covers via the askbox or in the linked form, including the book title, date and publisher of the edition, cover artist (if known) and, importantly, an image of reasonable quality and resolution or a link to such an image.

Submissions will remain open until the new year, or until I am swamped by weight of numbers, whichever happens first.

Further Information:

This tournament is only for book covers. No films, video games, comic books, manga etc. at this stage, though if this goes well I may consider running another tournament.

Any genre, edition or style is eligible.

That said, no NSFW art, please, mostly because your humble pollrunner is going to be doing a lot of this on public transport or at work, and would rather avoid awkward conversations.

No fanart or fanmade covers. Published works only, please.

Yes, if you are an illustrator you can absolutely submit your own work so long as it's published.

Covers of books in other languages are 100% okay, and moreover encouraged.

There's no limit on submissions per person. (This may turn out to be a curse.)

Please do not assume your humble pollrunner is American.

Please avoid submitting piles of covers by the same illustrator for the same series. Pick the best one or two and go with that.

The tricky issue: no, I'm not going to be making moral judgement on works. If you don't think it should be in the running, exercise your civic responsibility and vote it out.

Above all else, please be civil! We're here to have fun.

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just saw a fanfic on ao3 have a dedication for chatgpt... that section is meant for your horny perverted mutual who proofread your work, you violated sacred law and you will be torn apart and laid bare btw

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A 22 yr old in my org got drunk tuesday night and kinda shit on the fact that I'm running a community cleanup for our chapter. Said something along the lines of "i didn't join up to pick trash." Which really bothers me and it took me a while to figure out why. The whole point of the community cleanup is that we're returning to the neighborhoods where we knocked doors for A4 to help clean up their streets and provide material improvement for free in an effort to build inroads with those neighbors.

Like... if your socialism doesn't include picking uo trash, I'm guessing it also doesn't include doing the dishes, babysitting, or anything else that is important but not prestigious. Idk man, fuck off with that shit. You'll pick up trash and you'll like it until you understand why picking up trash isn't anyone's job but your own. I hate that attitude. If helping and doing activism was always fun and visible and impressive, everyone you know would already be doing it.

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The South Korean radical feminist 4B movement, in which women swear off marriage, childbirth, dating men, and sex with men, has sparked intense conversations among Americans on social media. Here is what you need to know about 4B.

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i need ppl to follow

heyyyyyy i love talking about writing on tumblr but my dash is always dead. i'm gonna hurl this post out into the void and hope it comes back with some cool blogs i have stuff in common with. so hit rb if you:

consider yourself a writeblr / bookblr (idk if that's a word)

like mystery/thriller and sci fi

post progress on your writing

post about books you're reading

orrrrr if you're a fan of Xfiles, BTVS, Sherlock Holmes, Twin Peaks, or similar :)

about me: i'm a queer writer working on my first novel which is an adult steampunk mystery, just started a new draft of it :) and i like to complain about it