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“A divine place that is just as misunderstood as “balance” is. Where Blackness intersects on the realm of sexuality is simultaneously spiritual, political, social, and physical. We don’t have to perfectly understand Black asexuality to make way for it. Asexuality is already valid. We can know this about ourselves, and we can have trouble with understanding it, unpacking it, and feeling secure within it.”
Excerpt From Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
#pearl reads#asexuality#my goal for 2024 is to read more#at least two books a month#this is my first!#refusing compulsory sexuality#sherronda j brown
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My comic is so pretty...
The hiatus is letting me take a little extra time on these episodes, and I'm definitely putting it to good use!!!
#almost done with my 8th episode... which will give me. two weeks. of buffer...#id really like at LEAST a month... but to be more comfortable id like two#which means 2-6 more episodes before I come back!#I've got about 7 weeks so its possible. but i do still have to finish book 4#so much to do ..........#I decided for my next comic im doing 3 updates a month.#having 10 days instead of 7 to make an episode is such a huge huge huge difference...#difference in quality and in my health!#anyways the comic is really pretty im really happy with the work im doing rn#the environments especially. im getting to spend a nice amount of time on them and theyre turning out so nicely#its nice to be able to write with a lot of different environments and not have to redo panels when I get to them cause of time#cause every time theres a wild angle? you need a new background...#so sometimes. often actually. there just isnt the time to make the backgrounds for those and i have to make them more flat...#which is fine. it doesnt really affect anything narratively. but. idk. it's kinda sad right?#anyways yeah! 10 days will be much better.#36 episodes a year is about what ive been uploading with my hiatuses on the weekly schedule anyways!#so might as well cut out that super stressful middleman and just commit to that#52 a year is just such a huge difference and i have to accept its not possible to me#i will hurt myself trying to do that. and i want to make comics my whole life!#so i cant push myself that hard now and sacrifice my future. we're gonna go slower after this...#anyways yeah cant wait to come back but also time. if I could get an extra week like a secret one just for me#where theres no chores no nothin just me and my work#thatd be great! so go ahead and do what you gotta do to give me a little pocket dimension#me: ugh i want to return right now...#the more logical me: NO we need the time to finish everything!!!!!! NOT right now!!!!#time and time again#ttawebcomic#comic panels#hiatus stuff#adam and steve
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Howdy hello- guess who made a wings au :)
More to come with this eventually- I’m working on my designs for other characters at the moment, but for now we’ve got Red-Tailed Hawk for Curt and Eagle Owl for Owen.
For DMA I had Barn Owl wings because a) Barn Owls are beautiful and I wanted to draw the wings for them, and more importantly, b) Owen would probably want to disguise his wings, and it would make sense if it was as a different type of owl. I just assume he’d dye his feathers in some way or another. Look- just don’t think about it too much.
#guys look I made an au!#I hope to do more with this because it’s so much fun to think about and draw#I’ve been meaning to finish this for ages- had the idea like two months ago#I’m particularly happy with Red Tailed Hawk Curt- if you don’t know they are a very common bird of prey in the US- but very cool#there’s one that lives not to far behind my house AND I saw one quite literally yesterday#and curt just had that vibe y’know#the vibe of that bird#also I was a massive bird nerd when I was a little kid so this is scratching that itch from when I was 10#so I’ve got the books I can consult for this thing#At least for North American birds#but yeah very pumped about this#fun fact: the sound you hear on tv used for the bald eagle is actually the sound of a red tailed hawk#I’d like to thank the lovely ryoko-akari for giving me that radical fact#I think it would be silly if they could make bird sounds#just for fun#let my guy Owen hoot- let Curt screech I think#alr what do I call this au guys#wings are forever#birds are forever#spies are birds#birds used to be used by the government for espionage there has to be something good#OK after some consultation we’ve got one- from the fantastic swingingthehatchetnow- I give you:#Spies are Forever: Live and Let Fly#isn’t that great yall#man’s a genius#ok regular tag time#spies are forever#tin can brothers#tin can bros#tcb spies are forever
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I’m excited to subvert the “good drow players are all just Drizzt superfans” thing by making a good drow that is herself a Drizzt superfan.
#drizzt do'urden#baldur's gate 3#bg3#becoming a bard because you used to sit in your bedroom with your lute making up songs about your hero's adventures#while your dad sat in the living room with his head in his hands#thanking eilistraee that at least your brother was more sensible#then running away from home at the tender age of 80#to go make a name for yourself in the big city#too naive to really get that just because drizzt is popular doesn't mean everyone will open their arms to you#i've read like 12 drizzt books in the last two months waiting for this gd game#you bet I'm using that
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I've been thinking about the tragedy of Elizabeth Woodville living to see the end of her family name.
I don't mean her family with her husband, which lived on through her daughter and grandson. I mean her own.
Her sisters died, one by one, many of them after 1485. When Elizabeth died, only Katherine was left, and she would die before the turn of the century as well.
All her brothers died, too. Lewis died in childhood. John was executed. Anthony was murdered. Lionel died suddenly in the peak of Richard's reign, unable to see his niece become queen. Edward perished at war. Richard died in grieving peace. For all the violence and judgement the family endured, it was "an accident of biology" that ended their line: none of the brothers left heirs, and the Woodville name was extinguished. We know the family was aware of this. We know they mourned it, too:
“Buy a bell to be a tenor at Grafton to the bells now there, for a remembrance of the last of my blood.”
Elizabeth lived through the deposition and death of her young sons, and lived to see the end of her own family name. It must have been such a haunting loss, on both sides.
#(the quote is by Richard Woodville in his deathbed will; he was the last of the Woodville brothers to die)#elizabeth woodville#woodvilles#my post#to be clear I am not arguing that the death of an English gentry family name is some kind of giant tragedy (it absolutely the fuck is not)#I'm trying to put it into perspective with regards to what Elizabeth may have felt because we know her family DID feel this way#writing this kinda reminded me of how I am just not fond at all about the way Elizabeth's experiences in 1483-85 are written about#and the way lots so many of the unprecedentedly horrifying aspects are overlooked or treated so casually:#the seizure and murder of two MINOR sons and the illegal execution of another;#her sheer vulnerability in every way compared to all her queenly predecessors; how she was harassed by 'dire threats' for months;#how she had 5 very young daughters with her to look after at the time (Bridget and Katherine were literally 3 and 4 years old);#how unprecedented Richard's treatment of her was: EW was the first queen of england to be officially declared an adulteress;#and the first and ONLY queen to be officially accused of witchcraft#(Joan of Navarre was accused of her treason; she was never explicitly accused of witchcraft on an official level like EW was)#the first crowned queen of england to have her marriage annulled; and the first queen to have her children officially bastardized#what former queens endured through rumors* were turned into horrifying realities for her.#(I'm not trying to downplay the nightmare of that but this was fundamentally on a different level altogether)#nor did Elizabeth get a trial or appeal to the church. like I cannot emphasize this enough: this was not normal for queens#and not normal for depositions. ultimately what Richard did *was* unprecedented#and of course let's not forget that Elizabeth had literally just been unexpectedly widowed like 20 days before everything happened#I really don't feel like any of this is emphasized as much as it should be?#apart from the horrifying death of her sons - but most modern books never call it murder they just write that they 'disappeared'#and emphasize that ACTUALLY we don't know what happened to them (this includes Arlene Okerlund)#rather than allowing her to have that grief (at the very least)#more time is spent dealing with accusations that she was a heartless bitch or inconsistent intriguer for making a deal with Richard instead#it also feels like a waste because there's a lot that can be analyzed about queenship and R3's usurpation if this is ever explored properly#anyway - it's kinda sad that even after Henry won and her daughter became queen EW didn't really get a break#her family kept dying one by one and the Woodville name was extinguished. and she lived to see it#it's kinda heartbreaking - it was such a dramatic rise and such a slow haunting fall#makes for a great story tho
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Potential September Reading
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (ideally in audio)
An English Squire by Christabel R. Coleridge
A Sherlock Holmes story (and/or a screen adaptation)
C.S. Lewis nonfiction
A sensation or mystery novel
A piece of one of the Psmith stories
Some kind of nonfiction book
#monthly reading lists#books#a nicely restrained list#mostly made up of my strong september associations#of course it's psmith pseptember so i must read at least a chapter or two#(i know too well that i don't have the discipline to expect more but i would like a taste)#sherlock holmes audiobooks made great commute reading during several septembers and now it's a vital part of the season#(i'll prob only read one or two short stories rather than try for a whole volume)#i've vaguely been feeling i'm due for a hobbit reread for a few months#but now it hit me strongly that i must read it in audio#(if i can't find a good audio version i'll have to skip that item)#i read 'surprised by joy' one september while my sister was in ireland and i was missing it#and now it feels right especially because there's an oxford academia vibe that's great for back-to-school#i want to read some kind of female-written mystery#but yet to decide if i want victorian sensation novel or agatha christie#or if i'll just try a vaguely gothic christian novel#an english squire gets on the list thanks to thatscarletflycatcher and it just feels right to have that be my next obscure classic#i wanted something for back-to-school but i didn't know if i wanted a non-psmith school story or what#so i just went with nonfiction because it's about me learning new things#also several things that didn't make the list but may be read#i was very close to putting the tenant of wildfell hall on the list#but i don't want the pressure#if i do read it it needs to be something i'm not required to do#i will probably try to finish chesterton's 'varied types'#and prob read more emma m lion#and maybe pride and prejudice on audio?
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let's talk about the fish/water/christ symbolism in the game of kings. with spoilers
fish (as ιχθυς) is an acronym for christ, and it's the first food jesus eats after being resurrected, right? it symbolizes rebirth, life, and christ himself. i personally think fish are slippery and cold-blooded too, but that's neither here nor there.
now look at how the game of kings starts: "lymond is back". we immediately know this book is about returning, it's about rebirth. in fact, the first thing we see is the man himself submerged in a body of water and coming out on the other side, after a baptism of sorts, as the character he will play for most of the book: lymond the outlaw, lymond the traitor.
the first words out of his mouth are "i am a narwhal": he identifies himself as a fish right away, and not just any fish but the unicorn fish; the unicorn of course being scotland's national animal. in perspective, he tells us everything we need to know about him: his status as a christ figure, his destiny to be reborn, his complicated relationship with his country.
the next time he's in a body of water, it's the second chapter and he's dying from a head injury in a bog. he's washed clean, this time, too: from his own identity. he's free to inhabit another character from the lymond constellation. it's also pretty funny that he's found by sym while he's going fishing ("you’ve hooked a twenty-pounder this time, my lad"), and he's nursed back to health by someone named Christian. not subtle.
lymond seems to be pretty into this whole fish and rebirth thing, does he not? he wouldn't lie to us. he wouldn't pretend to embrace life while actively seeking death, right? anyway, no relation at all, when the baby queen mary tries feeding him a fish he pretends to eat it and secretly throws it away. the fish is described as struggling and barely alive, which again i am sure is a coincidence.
then some stuff happens, and the next time lymond is offered fish he doesn't have it in him to keep pretending. he doesn't want the damn fish. newsflash, asshole (richard): he really, really wants to die. this is my favorite scene for many reasons, and one of them is the perfect juxtaposition of its literal and symbolic meanings: richard says he wants to see lymond hanged, but what he does is to drag him away from the tomb-like dovecote and towards running water, makes him eat the damn fish again and again until the miracle is complete. he's holding on to his brother with both hands and teeth before he even realizes he's doing it.
when it comes to an end the fish is off the hook, christ is off the cross and for once he's not sacrificed for the sins of others, and we close on him in his mother's arms in a beautiful literary pietà.
there's so much stuff i purposefully didn't mention and probably didn't notice, this is just a tiny example of the gorgeous figurative and thematic cohesion in this novel. i love it. thank you dorothy dunnett.
#lymond chronicles#the game of kings#the amount of symbolism in 4.3 knight adversary makes it almost look like a tarot card#something between the star and the knight/king of cups#i have a lot to say about tarot too#probably for a later post#i seems like you can't run out of things to say about the game of kings it's sooo well done#dorothy “three meanings at least per line” dunnett#if you think i'm annoying just know i've been talking like this on discord with the book club for the last two months and a half#thank you book club#anyway this is a rambling mess but you get it. you get it#ughhh lymond my brain will never be the same#lymond#the lymond chronicles
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Radical compassion is a will to care for, a commitment to feel with, a striving to learn from, and an openness to be vulnerable before a precarious other, though they may be drastically dissimilar to yourself. Radical compassion is not an appeal to an idyllic oneness where difference is blithely effaced. Nor is it a smug projection of oneself into the position of another, thereby displacing that other. Nor is it an invitation to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes and amble, like a tourist, through their lifeworld, leaving them existentially barefoot all the while. Rather, radical compassion is an exhortation to ethically walk and sit and fight and build alongside another whose condition may be utterly unlike your own. Radical compassion works to impart care, exchange feeling, transmit understanding, embolden vulnerability, and fortify solidarity across circumstantial, sociocultural, phenomenological, and ontological chasms in the interest of mutual liberation. It persists even and especially toward beings who are the objects of contempt and condemnation from dominant value systems.
Most urgently, mad methodology primes us to extend radical compassion to the madpersons, queer personae, ghosts, freaks, weirdos, imaginary friends, disembodied voices, unvoiced bodies, and unReasonable others, who trespass, like stowaways or fugitives, in Reasonable modernity.
How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind by La Marr Jurelle Bruce
#how to go mad without losing your mind#la marr jurelle bruce#mad studies#mad methodology#radical compassion#dw to anyone who has followed me here from insta i will not simply repost all my quotes from there#but bruce is too good and too insightful not to share on every platform#if i knew what was good for me i would reread this book at least every two months#my readings
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a collection of Pride-related picture books I read this June!
#queer lit#queer books#pride month#lgbtq books#two spirit#picture books#kid books#canadian#canlit#kidlit#children's books#book lists#award winning#parents#babies#weddings#i WILL be doing more indepth posts about these just like i normally do#but ha.... the queue is a bit backed up to say the least#so i'll probably be sitting on them for a while#but i wanted to give people a sampling in case anyone was itching to go out and find some queer kidlit!#'pride puppy' / 'mama and mommy and me in the middle' were probably my 2 personal favourites 🤔 but all were pretty solid#well i have Opinions about some but i have Opinions about all kidlit so nothing knew there but there were none that i disliked here#does anyone else have some personal favourites for queer lit? just the existence of queer stories oriented for kids is kinda mindblowing#this did not exist when i was a kid
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I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been born a frog. I should have been
#us elections#us politics#election 2024#i talked to an older friend today and he helped a lot#being with people helps#reminding myself that people care helps#47.5% of people in the usa care#which is a minority but at least it's close enough of a minority to a coin flip that i can always find good people#i am trying to be positive and not live out these last two months of peace in despair#being alone hurts more and i spent too much time today doomscrolling but i need some time to prepare for what i might see in the future#i do not want to make plans i do not want to make plans i should not NEED TO HAVE PLANS FOR A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION#when i was 15 i had a whole plan for a novel i wanted to write. it was a whole carpe diem/memento mori about living life before it's over#it was going to be a good book. but now i'm not sure i believe in what i am saying enough to write it.#and i am not sure if it would be what the world needs.#but it would have been a good book. it would have been an amazing book and i didn't want to start because i didn't know how#and i wanted to wait until i had more writing and life experience to do it justice#and now i just don't have the OPTIMISM to do it justice and now it may never be written#moral of the story is write the thing NOW edit later make the thing now while you are still passionate about it existing#contrary to the contents of this post i am actually doing much better than i was this morning.#today an irl friend held my hand as i cried under a couch and an online friend reached out to make sure i am okay and i am not alone.#a lot of it is cold comfort. but at least i am regaining some faith in humanity. not all of it. i will never again have all of it.#but i will have enough.#i am a little more afraid of dying young than i was this morning and that is good. that is good.#i am not the only one who has lived through a historical event.#i will do a lot more tiredposting in the near future#especially as inauguration day comes up#but for now in the tags i feel at least a little better.#seraph rambles#seraph originals#side note: the content of the actual post is reminding me of otherkin back in like the 2010s lol remember when that was a thing on tumblr
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has it really been only one week since my last therapy session. feels like it's been a month
#in that time i have a) learned i will be kocked out of my apartment in less than three months time#b) come out to my sister with moxed results#c) realized that i need to look into buying an apartment instead of just renting somewhere new bc it actually might be more feasible#learned so much about the whole process. spent so many hours googling and looking for places and learning abt it all#oh and i had a research article/book chapter get published somewhere in all this#anyway this week i have four apartment viewings two financial advisor appointments and a realtor appointment. also work#at least I'm off work from next week until december#I'm dyig scoob
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people on tiktok are so casual about oh I have 300 unread books in my house let's read them before I buy more like bro? I don't even have 300 books in total in my house maybe you should realize that's not normal???
#if it was like one or two people like okay you have reasons#but its pretty much every person on booktok???#theres this person who reads like 4 books per week and they get at least 8 books per week like you see thats a problem right??#idk maybe im wrong but i think they should realize that maybe#just maybe#they should use the library instead of buying 10 books per month (or week) that theyre not gonna read#fandomchaos posts#ethan complaints
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somewhat rough sketch of my halman concept
#2001 a space odyssey#2010 odyssey two#3001 the final odyssey#halman#does anyone know where all the glowing blue halmans (halmen?) came from#like i dont dislike them but i really really like the concept of dust nebula dave as hes described when he appears in 2010 so im curious#where the other version came from because it's what i usually see on here#whagever. as i mentioned this is based on daves description in 2010 and my own thoughts about discovery as hals body#also i know it's not to scale sorry im compromising for visual impact#also i forgot to post this for like a month probably at least. whoops. anyway#digital#art#books
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the absolute tragedy of hyping yourself up to see your ex-situationship after two months and they’ve gotten hotter 😭😭😭
#we started t at the same time (just before we broke up)#and they’re on a higher dose + doing voice training + booked in for top surgery next month#so i’m just seething with the horrible mix of insecurity and jealousy and desire that i don’t know how to handle#well at least i’m not gonna see them for another two months so hopefully i sort it out by then
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Finished binding volume 1 of Becoming Whole!
@pikapeppa thank you for being so lovely and sharing your writing with the world! (And for hyping me up and sending me pretty photomode screenshots)
#hfw#mine#my art#fan fic bookbinding#i think this took me… 4 months?#mostly because i’m a fool and i did the layout in indesign and had to resize it twice#and i wanted screenshots for filler pages and the end of chapters so i had to find and edit all of those#and i decided to draw illustrations for each chapter heading#and then i went wild in the author's note section with qr codes for links and art credits#i bound the textblock/glued it/made a cover but i put off finishing it because if i fucked up the final steps i’d have to redo everything#and also i was scared the end papers were too fragile and the whole book was gonna fall apart so i just let it sit for a month on my desk#but it’s in my makeshift press overnight to make sure the glue sticks properly and then it will be readable!!!#I MADE THIS WITH MY OWN TWO HANDS#AND NOW I GET TO READ ONE OF MY FAVORITE FICS FOREVER#at least the first 17 chapters#3 more volumes to go#plus another set for pikapeppaaaa :)))))))))))))#excuse the goofy pics and glue all over my desk
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Potential August Reads:
Helen by Maria Edgeworth
Marcel's Letters by Carolyn Porter
Heretics by G.K. Chesterton
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower
Something by Rose Wilder Lane
Poetry by James Whitcomb Riley
Something Jane Austen related (movies/miniseries count)
#monthly reading lists#books#in order we have#a library ebook i *have* to read because it said it inspired wives and daughters#a book that was vaguely on my reading list and happened to be at a library i rarely go to#(so i couldn't leave it there but it has to go on the list so i'm motivated to actually read it)#another random library find but also i'm in the mood to read chesterton discourse#(especially if it's short and i let myself read the chapters out of order)#it's emma m lion month and i better reread while i still have a ku free trial#found two rwl books at that same library and i'd like to read one at least#finding the old book of whitcomb riley poetry was a highlight of last august#(and i know the library has another volume that's just as old and forgotten)#and then austen august!#i had a lot of fun last month having a category with lots of book and movie options so i had to try another one this month
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