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This feels like a pertinent time to remind folks that I am also on Bluesky.

(Alternatively, if you're just here for updates on my tabletop RPG projects and don't care about the shitposting, following Penguin King Games on itch.io may be more the ticket!)

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10 year old college humor sketch that i watched at 1am last night and have since watched five more times

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Checking in

Not gonna be regularly posting here, but I figured some of you might like to know where I am posting these days.

I am mostly on Bluesky as far as social media goes.

I have a new webcomic! It's called Magical Women and it's about a group of magical girls who failed to save the world 20 years ago and now they're all almost 40 and trying to get the gang back together again. You can read it at magicalwomencomic.com for free, but if you want to support it/me, you can subscribe and read updates one month early, plus get free ebooks at the end of every issue.

Speaking of subscribing, I have built my own version of patreon that's baked into my own website. It's cheaper than patreon, and I don't have to worry about being beholden to someone else's rules while also giving them a cut despite them shaddowbanning me.

I have been serializing my gothic horror/lesbian pulp romance novel Cruel Muse on my website, with one chapter a month for all paid subscribers.

At the very least, you should subscribe to my newsletter to hear about my new work and projects. I send it out once per month so I don't annoy you.

I really miss old Tumblr and I wish I could post here without getting constantly kicked by them. I had such a great community here. I hope some of you will come find me elsewhere and we can party like it's 2012 again.

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I'd just like to clarify some things about Senator Cory Booker's marathon Senate speech in protest of the present administration and everything they are doing to the American people.

Senator Booker was NOT allowed to sit down, eat, or use the bathroom during his speech. Sitting or leaving the room to use the bathroom would be considered yielding the floor. Eating would have interfered with his speaking and the person who has the senate floor must continue to speak, except when listening to questions that they will then answer.

He only took occasional sips of water.

The person who previously held the record for longest speech on the Senate floor did have bathroom breaks and also did things like read from the encyclopedia.

Senator Booker did not do that. His speech was to point out the damage that this administration is doing and he stayed on that subject.

Senator Booker's speech did reach many people. It wasn't a silly stunt that was done so that he could take the record for longest speech. He wanted to show the country that democrats will do something to bring attention to the problems we are facing. That democrats are listening to them.

Senator Cory Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes to "make good trouble."

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Five Things orphan_account Said

In Five Things, orphan_account discusses having one of AO3's oldest accounts, preserving fanworks, and being mistaken for a real person. Read more on otw-news.org/yck7a29c

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look, if i catch sight of a mutual's unfortunately popular post in the wild dragging their flailing body behind it, i am obligated to smack that pony's ass and send them for another round of the pasture. i'm sorry, it's nothing personal, but it's in my contract

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so much care put into housing this aging spider. why are my eyes wet

(tiktok link)

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“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

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frontflip into a dropsplit next season

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LOZ x Dunmeshi crossover

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Sam Reich is even more terrifying when you realize he’s the one person on tumblr who’s had the motive, means, and opportunity to steal the president’s shoelaces

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Bro why do you keep insisting we try to disarm this genderbending trap? We literally mapped out this whole dungeon floor we can just walk around it...

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hey hi hello so as the US goes through this ~ hostile government takeover ~ Trump signed an executive order last week to eliminate the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). On Thursday (3/20) DOGE attempted to quietly raid IMLS but staff there posted to reddit and the unwanted media attention led them to put a pause on the takeover, for now. Trump replaced the director of IMLS with Keith Sonderling, who very openly stated that his goals are to "promote patriotism" and "American exceptionalism". We worry grants will be more dependent on whether your institution supports DEI [or anyone who isn't a white hetero cis amab].

A lot of libraries depend on IMLS grants! If they go away we will lose librarians and libraries may close, or at least significantly decrease their services. This will affect funding for technology classes, free resources for the blind, summer reading, databases, free internet access assistance, and interlibrary loans among other things. As the administration also targets social security, immigration, and other safety nets, libraries are attempting to fill the gap for the public, and things will get much harder without reliable funding.

This is also IN ADDITION to the administration calling book bans "fake" and some states attempting to pass laws to criminalize librarians, with fears in the library world that they will also try to make it a federal crime to promote or otherwise provide access to "inappropriate materials" which have included books that promote "gender ideology" or basically any character that isn't a white heterosexual cis amab. That is one of the cornerstones of Project 2025. This IMLS takeover will only make things worse, and make it harder for people to access information.

Personally, we have been told by our director to be very careful and not talk about this while at work because of fears of retaliation, we have had several calls from the public to remove books with gay characters (we didn't), and as an adult services librarian, I am already seeing an impact on databases I help the public use. Medline Plus, the only free and easy-to-use medical encyclopedia for the public I have been able to find, is a US government website and already has warnings above certain pages about the "harms of gender ideology". This warning can be seen above pages on health disparities and abortion.

If you're so inclined and live in the US, the ALA put together a portal that makes it easy to email your reps with a script. You can find the portal here. I would also recommend investing in your local library, post on social media what services you use, sign up for a library card and see how many resources you can access for free. Many state library associations collect user stories of libraries so they can show their stakeholders they matter. Like my library, it is likely that staff have been warned not to discuss this at work because of fears of retaliation, so try not to talk to librarians about this at work.

General advocacy page:

Article from NPR about the takeover:

What happens if IMLS goes away:

A report on how much museums give back to the US economy:

An interactive map of what IMLS funds in the US: