#brooklyn shire

[lightbulb77724]

Meet tendermans new group of misfits the reject club.

This is Leo they have multiple mutations that help him get around. Hes got a limp and has trouble speaking to the other creeps. They call him guardian.

This is sky rivers aka siren. She has sea creature abilities as well as water manipulation. He gets around on land by using a wheelchair.

This is cal fair or moon. Moon is blind and uses telepathy and there third eye to get around.

This is Brooklyn shire aka jackalope she can communicate with animals.

This is kristina shaw or snow queen she cant really speak and has to use a wheelchair unlike siren she can walk it just hurts to.

This is kisha kane or just kane. She lost her right arm in an accident and is hard of hearing in both ears.

[jlmvision]

i’ve been obsessed with this format of poem ever since i first read warsan shire’s ‘backwards,’ a piece where the second stanza is a repetition of the first in reverse. i love the idea that the exact same lines can mean entirely different things in the context of what came before and what comes after, and how this can shift mood and tone.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Palestinian liberation is a feminist issue. While this truism should need no elaboration, it has, as with so much that relates to Palestine, necessitated discussions, clarifications, analysis and documentation, again and again. Palestine rights activists have long been familiar with the all too common phenomenon known as PEP: Progressive Except for Palestine. Less known, but no less common in feminist circles is FEP, the Feminist Except for Palestine phenomenon. Books such as Evelyn Shakir’s 1997 Bint Arab recount incidents of FEP going back to the ’60s, with many Arab feminists being shunned by their American friends over their support for Palestinian liberation. FEP had one of its early expressions on a global stage at the 1985 United Nations World Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya, when Betty Friedan, an icon of second‑wave western feminism, with its slogan ‘the personal is political’, tried to censor the late Egyptian feminist Nawal el‑Saadawi as she was about to walk up to the stage to deliver her address. ‘Please do not bring up Palestine in your speech,’ Friedan told el‑Saadawi. ‘This is a women’s conference, not a political conference.’ Sadly, little has changed in global north feminism’s rejection of the very humanity of the Palestinian people, as evidenced in their continued exclusion from national and global discussions of women’s issues. White feminism has continued to align itself with orientalist imperialist militarism; Ms Magazine cheered the Bush Administration’s US war on Afghanistan in 2001, calling it a ‘coalition of hope’, and suggesting that invasion and occupation could, indeed would, liberate Afghan women. The white feminists in the Feminist Majority Foundation, which bought Ms Magazine in December 2001, never consulted with Afghan feminist organisations such as the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, who denounced both religious fundamentalism and western intervention in Afghanistan, and who opposed the US attacks on their country. More recently, hegemonic feminism’s desire to exempt Israel from criticism led to the fragmentation of the Women’s March, the coalition of women’s and feminist groups that came together to denounce the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the US. The co‑chair of the 2017 Women’s March was Brooklyn‑born Palestinian American Linda Sarsour, a grassroots organiser who had long championed Palestinian rights. When journalist Emily Shire asked in the New York Times ‘Does Feminism Have Room for Zionists?’, Sarsour responded with a resounding ‘No’. Many felt threatened by her outspokenness and visibility. Another Palestinian feminist, Mariam Barghouti, also asserted in a 2017 article that ‘No, You Can’t Be a Feminist and a Zionist’, and explained that: ‘When I hear anyone championing Zionism while also identifying as a feminist, my mind turns to images of night raids, to the torture of children and to the bulldozing of homes.’ In the wake of Israel’s latest war on Gaza, white feminists are denouncing the unsubstantiated accusations of sexual violence against Israeli women, without addressing the Israeli state’s amply documented gendered violence against Palestinian women, children, and men. ‘Feminism cannot be selective. Its framework comes from true and absolute liberation not just of women, but of all peoples,’ Barghouti continues, building on bell hooks’ analysis of feminism as a complete liberatory movement. ‘A feminist who is not also anti‑colonial, anti‑racist and in opposition to the various forms of injustice is selectively and oppressively serving the interests of a single segment of the global community.’ Simply, ‘feminism’ that aligns with regimes that engage in racial and ethnic oppression is gendered supremacy; no ideology that hinges on supremacy and discrimination is reconcilable with feminism.

[sgiandubh]

No smoke without fire...

This right in, via Deux Moi, and for the life of me I cannot understand why, unless some lost soul wants to shed some light again on The Shire:

This is a very old pic of a very old theatre date (Deux Moi Anon is American, hence the spelling, tomato/tomahto, LOL). But why now? Why after a salvo of speculations, via carefully directed Anons, about a possible theatre date in London around March 27, so well within the timeframe of Deux Moi's question (https://www.tumblr.com/sgiandubh/746058659808837632/funny-how-blatant-adverse-evidence-panic-and?source=share)? And why with that OLD theatre pic to 'substantiate' it?

No shipper in their right mind would have posted such a thing and I think we can be sure none of us did. But since it's out there, whodunit?

Games are being played, but never without a reason. I think it's too early to speculate fruitfully, so I am just taking note of this and let the dots further connect. Let's ask ourselves who is interested to have Them associated again in the gossip media? And yes, why. I might have thoughts about the why, but you know how annoyingly not funny I am about these.

Gracias a ti, siempre. 😘😘😘❤️

[Later edit]: this is the original Brooklyn Anon sent to @bat-cat-reader almost two years ago, on April 21, 2022: https://www.tumblr.com/bat-cat-reader/682089958191808512/hi-bat-i-was-at-the-sunday-3pm-show-of-cyrano-de?source=share

@bat-cat-reader's Anon curiously used the UK spelling. Plot thickens.

Why now? Who needs this pushed again?

[neoneun-au]

A post for my book recommendations, to be continuously updated as I read and remember more. Because without reading, I would not be writing. 

All time favourites are marked with a ☆

All are sorted by genre and will be linked (if able) to their Goodreads pages so that you can dig deeper into whatever catches your eye.

(ps if you have a Goodreads account, you can add me here)

Anthology/Short Story Collections

Behold This Dreamer - Walter de la Mare ☆

Love Letters of Great Men - Ursula Doyle

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami

Essays

Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay ☆

Bluets - Maggie Nelson ☆

On Freedom - Maggie Nelson

In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Malleable Forms - Meeka Walsh ☆

Fiction (Classic)

Persuasion - Jane Austen ☆

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Awakening - Kate Chopin

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell ☆

Siddhartha - Hermen Hesse

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera ☆

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction (Modern)

All’s Well - Mona Awad ☆

Bunny - Mona Awad

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach

The Pisces - Melissa Broder

White Oleander - Janet Finch

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Vegetarian - Han Kang

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova ☆

Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

The Road - Cormac McCarthy ☆

Under the Hawthorne Tree - Ai Mi

The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller ☆

After Dark - Haruki Murakami ☆

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami ☆

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi

Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi ☆

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

The Overstory - Richard Powers ☆

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

Blindness - José Saramago

How To Be Both - Ali Smith

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ☆

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Ru - Kim Thúy

Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín

Big Fish - Daniel Wallace

Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto

Horror/Thriller

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

Gerald’s Game - Stephen King

The Shining - Stephen King

Audition - Ryū Murakami

I’m Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid

Manga/Graphic Novels

Basilisk - Futaro Yamada, Maseki Sagawa

Death Note - Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata

Eureka Seven - Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou

Nana - Ai Yazawa ☆

Paradise Kiss - Ai Yazawa

Uzumaki - Junji Ito

xxxHolic - CLAMP

Memoirs/Journals

Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton

Speak, Okinawa - Elizabeth Miki Brina

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi

Henry and June - Anaïs Nin ☆

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls ☆

Non-Fiction (General)

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain

The Red Market - Scott Carney

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Jane Mayer

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr, E.B White

Non-Fiction (Philosophy/Spiritual)

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castañeda

Silence: In the Age of Noise - Erling Kagge ☆

The Kybalion - Three Initiates ☆

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo - Chögyam Trungpa

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

Plays

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Poetry Collections

I Love My Love - Reyna Biddy

Let Us Compare Mythologies - Leonard Cohen

The Prophet - Khalil Gibran

The Anatomy of Being - Shinji Moon

The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson ☆

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

Speculative Fiction

Dune - Frank Herbert

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel ☆

Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

True Crime

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote ☆

Young Adult

A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray ☆

The Diviners - Libba Bray

The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon

[candiedspit]

Historically January 31st has always brought good news; a couple years ago, I got my Brooklyn Poets Fellowship announcement that day, the next year it was that warsan shire had highly commended my poem for the moth poetry prize & last year I was manic and had gotten hired to write for this magazine. So, I’m excited to see what happens this year lots of energy this time of year

[rapidashrider]

For a while the largest living horse in the world was a Shire Horse by the name of Boringdon Black King, at 19.2 hands tall (the same height as Brooklyn Supreme), and his best friend who shared a paddock with him was a tiny white Shetland pony by the name of Polo. This was in the early/mid 90s, I was obsessed with Boringdon Black King and Polo. I wanted what they had.

BBK entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1978 so he was pretty old by the time I knew about him. There’s not a lot of info you can find about him online except for the fact he existed. And Polo, being only very small, and not a Guinness World Record holder, and notable only for being the very small best friend of a very large best friend, seems to have fallen out of written memory. But I remember. I remember Boringdon Black King and Polo.

horses are inherently funny because they come in so many sizes. like draft horses

this looks so fake. this horses skull is bigger than the dudes entire torso. this horses NECK is thicker than the dudes entire BODY.

and then at the opposite end of the spectrum you have shit like this shetland pony which ALSO looks fake

what the hell happened to this thing who bred this line of ponies to be so ridiculous

[daneliving]

How to Achieve a Spa-Like Skincare Routine at Home

Introduction A spa day is the ultimate way to unwind and rejuvenate, but who says you have to leave your home to achieve the same benefits? With the right products and a bit of self-care, you can turn your home into a luxurious spa retreat. From relaxing face masks to indulgent body scrubs, we’ve put together the ultimate guide to creating a spa-like skincare routine right in the comfort of your own home.

1. Start with a Clean Canvas

The first step in any skincare routine is to cleanse your face thoroughly. Use a gentle cleanser that suits your skin type — whether it’s oily, dry, or sensitive. A facial wash removes dirt, oil, and makeup, leaving your skin fresh and ready for the next steps. Consider using a luxury cotton towel for patting your face dry to avoid any irritation. Micro cotton towels, such as the Micro Cotton Brooklyn White Bath Towel, are soft, gentle, and absorb moisture quickly without irritating the skin.

2. Pamper Your Skin with a Face Mask

After cleansing, treat your skin to a soothing face mask. Face masks can target various skin concerns, such as hydration, pore tightening, or anti-aging. Choose a mask that caters to your skin’s needs and apply it evenly. For a truly spa-like experience, relax and let the mask sit for 15–20 minutes while you enjoy a cup of herbal tea or listen to calming music. The Micro Cotton Eden Shire Face Towel can be used to gently remove the mask afterward, leaving your skin feeling soft and refreshed.

3. Exfoliate for Smooth Skin

Exfoliating your skin is essential for removing dead skin cells and promoting cell turnover. Choose a scrub that fits your skin type — sensitive skin should opt for a gentle exfoliant, while oily skin can use something a bit more abrasive. Focus on areas like your face, elbows, and knees where skin tends to be rougher. After exfoliating, rinse off with warm water, and follow up with a hydrating lotion. Dry your skin gently with a soft cotton towel like the Prime Club Rivera Bath Towel for a spa-like feel.

4. Moisturize to Lock in Hydration

One of the most important steps in a skincare routine is moisturizing. A rich moisturizer locks in the hydration and ensures your skin remains soft and plump throughout the day. Choose a moisturizer that works for your skin type, and apply it liberally to your face, neck, and décolletage. For an added touch, use a luxury bath towel like the Micro Cotton Luxelite Bath Towel after your shower to gently pat your skin dry. This will leave your skin feeling ultra-soft and ready to absorb your moisturizer.

5. Finish with a Relaxing Bath

Nothing says “spa day” like a relaxing bath. Add some calming ingredients like Epsom salt, essential oils, or your favorite bath bombs for the ultimate indulgence. As you soak, focus on deep breathing to relax your mind and body. After your bath, wrap yourself in a plush towel like the Prime Club Eden Shire Hand Towel for a cozy finish. Your skin will feel soft and nourished, and your stress levels will melt away.

6. Nourish Your Body

Conclusion

Achieving a spa-like skincare routine at home doesn’t have to be complicated. With a few simple steps, high-quality products, and a relaxing atmosphere, you can create an indulgent experience every day. By incorporating soft cotton towels, luxurious bath towels, and premium skincare products, you can transform your regular skincare routine into a spa experience that leaves you feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.

For an extra touch of luxury, visit Dane Living to explore our collection of premium bath towels and hand towels designed to make your skincare routine feel like a spa getaway.

[abwwia]

Brooklyn Museum Show Devoted Exclusively to Works by Women Artists, By D. L. Shire | Oct. 26, 1975

"The exhibition devoted to women's art at the Brooklyn Museum marks an important event in the history of art by women and in the evolution of attitudes by museums toward this art.

It also is firm evidence that the controversies that raged a few years ago over whether there was enough quality in women's art to warrant significant exhibitions in established institutions like Brooklyn are a dead issue.

Although no one would attempt to say that the 141 works by as many women in this show, which ends on Nov. 9, are all top‐quality selections, there is an abundance of substantial, inventive and imaginative examples."

[kevrocksicehouse]

Burt Young

1940-2023.

When Burt Young played Paulie Pennino in Rocky 1976’s Best Picture Oscar winner, he got his own Supporting Actor nomination. He also established himself as the foremost player of scuzzbag losers. He had already made a claim as Curly, the cuckolded husband whose wheezing meltdown in J.J. Gittes office opened Chinatown, but Paulie was his Magnum Opus the embittered brother of Talia Shire whose rage against her and Rocky’s supposed abandonment (“You don’t even throw a crumb to your friend Paulie!”) could stand for every character actor eclipsed by a star. He played variations on life’s also-rans for the rest of his long career playing termite cop Sgt Scuzzi (“I thought he was the janitor”) in Robert Aldrich’s The Choirboys (1977), Trucker Bobby 'Love Machine' Pig Pen in Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy (1978), Union Man “Big Joe” in 1990’s Last Exit to Brooklyn as well as in Across 110th Street (1972), Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984), Rodney Dangerfield’s chauffeur in Back to School (1986) Sad fathers in 2005’s Transamerica and Tom McCarthy’s Win Win (2011). The only time I saw him in a lead was as a sheriff in the cheesy drive-in horror  Blood Beach (1981) but he acheived the character actor’s greatest honor – since his debut in 1969 as a bartender in an episode of The Doctors to 2021’s Charlie Boy, he didn’t spend a year out of work, and he leaves us with five films in the can. RIP.

[kamreadsandrecs]

By Amanda Holpuch

The niche world of hockey romance novels is getting mainstream attention after the wife of an N.H.L. player criticized book fans who she said had made comments and videos on social media about her husband that were “predatory and exploiting.”

Here’s what happened when the worlds of professional sports, romance novels and TikTok collided.

First, there was BookTok.

On TikTok, people share book recommendations and reviews under the hashtag #BookTok, and the community has become a powerful force in publishing: More than 100 authors with large BookTok followings drove $760 million in sales in 2022, a 60 percent increase from 2021, according to Circana BookScan, which tracks print sales.

Romance is a big part of the BookTok universe, as is its popular subgenre hockey romance, which falls under the broader sports-romance category.

Recent hits have included Anna Zabo and L.A. Witt’s “Scoreless Game,” a love story between two longtime friends who are players on the fictional Pittsburgh Griffins. In “Overnight Sensation,” by Sarina Bowen, an office intern for the fictional Brooklyn Bruisers moves in with a player after leaving the condo she lives in with her father, the hockey league’s commissioner.

The success of these books has been credited with driving interest among readers in ice hockey, and some professional and collegiate teams have embraced this new audience.

In Australia, where ice hockey is not particularly popular, professional teams have credited BookTok with increasing game attendance and fan interest.

Sarah Bricknall, the events and media manager for the Melbourne Mustangs, told The Hills Shire Times, a Sydney newspaper, that 15 to 30 BookTok fans had been at every home game since the team joined TikTok in May.

How did things go wrong?

On the internet, the lines between fictional players and real-life ones can blur, especially when teams use BookTok to promote themselves.

A video posted to the Seattle Kraken’s official TikTok account that has since been archived showed Alex Wennberg, a center for the team, walking down a hallway in a suit with the text “when you accidentally become a booktok account & now that’s all you can post.”

Other posts by romance fans on BookTok have talked about a specific player as a stand-in for a favorite fictional hockey player or showed game footage overlaid with quotes from hockey romance books. A segment of these posts are sexually explicit, and some fans have posted explicit comments on players’ personal social media accounts.

Emily Rath, the author of “Pucking Around,” a romance best seller on Amazon, said on TikTok that some fans had raised concerns about inappropriate behavior directed at players earlier this year.

“True hockey romance readers have been here before,” Ms. Rath said on TikTok. “We watched it all unfold in April, we were ringing the alarm bells, we were asking that it stop.”

The conflict peaked when an N.H.L. player’s wife got involved.

The issue started to attract attention from outside the romance world in July, when Felicia Wennberg, the wife of Alex Wennberg, said that some posts about her husband had gone too far.

Ms. Wennberg said on Instagram Stories that while she had initially joked about some of the videos and comments, they had since “crossed the line of what it means to fancy someone and when it actually sounds pretty predatory and exploiting.”

Her statement described what she considered acceptable, such as positive comments about her husband’s looks, and what she did not, such as chanting “krak my back” at players at games. She asked people to “think twice” about their posts.

In response, her Instagram account was flooded with harassing messages.

Mr. Wennberg then issued a statement on social media about the “vile comments.”

“We can all take a joke and funny comments but when it turns personal and into something bigger that affects our family, we need to tell you that we’ve had enough,” he wrote. “Enough of sexual harassment, and harassment of our character and our relationship.”

The Kraken has since removed its TikTok posts about BookTok.

How did TikTok creators respond?

The sexually explicit posts were made by a small sliver of the BookTok community.

One creator, Kierra Lewis, had made a video that Ms. Wennberg cited as an example of inappropriate behavior, and Ms. Lewis has since posted a handful of videos responding to the situation.

Ms. Lewis, who has 1.1 million followers on TikTok, had been flown out to a Kraken game earlier this year after she posted videos featuring explicit comments about N.H.L. players, including Mr. Wennberg.

She said that she had privately messaged Ms. Wennberg on Instagram to apologize. Ms. Lewis said that the Kraken TikTok account had unfollowed her, leaving her “confused and upset.”

In her videos responding to the controversy, Ms. Lewis expressed frustration with the team for backing away after it encouraged her, and with Ms. Wennberg for using one of Ms. Lewis’s posts as an example. She defended her videos by saying that TikTok is for “entertainment.”

Ms. Lewis did not respond to a request for comment.

The Kraken said in a statement that they had originally engaged with BookTok to connect with new audiences, but were reminded by this situation “that unintended consequences may arise.”

“It is disappointing that a small percentage of online commenters crossed a line,” the statement said. “We consider this a learning moment for the organization and have taken appropriate action.”



[kammartinez]

By Amanda Holpuch

The niche world of hockey romance novels is getting mainstream attention after the wife of an N.H.L. player criticized book fans who she said had made comments and videos on social media about her husband that were “predatory and exploiting.”

Here’s what happened when the worlds of professional sports, romance novels and TikTok collided.

First, there was BookTok.

On TikTok, people share book recommendations and reviews under the hashtag #BookTok, and the community has become a powerful force in publishing: More than 100 authors with large BookTok followings drove $760 million in sales in 2022, a 60 percent increase from 2021, according to Circana BookScan, which tracks print sales.

Romance is a big part of the BookTok universe, as is its popular subgenre hockey romance, which falls under the broader sports-romance category.

Recent hits have included Anna Zabo and L.A. Witt’s “Scoreless Game,” a love story between two longtime friends who are players on the fictional Pittsburgh Griffins. In “Overnight Sensation,” by Sarina Bowen, an office intern for the fictional Brooklyn Bruisers moves in with a player after leaving the condo she lives in with her father, the hockey league’s commissioner.

The success of these books has been credited with driving interest among readers in ice hockey, and some professional and collegiate teams have embraced this new audience.

In Australia, where ice hockey is not particularly popular, professional teams have credited BookTok with increasing game attendance and fan interest.

Sarah Bricknall, the events and media manager for the Melbourne Mustangs, told The Hills Shire Times, a Sydney newspaper, that 15 to 30 BookTok fans had been at every home game since the team joined TikTok in May.

How did things go wrong?

On the internet, the lines between fictional players and real-life ones can blur, especially when teams use BookTok to promote themselves.

A video posted to the Seattle Kraken’s official TikTok account that has since been archived showed Alex Wennberg, a center for the team, walking down a hallway in a suit with the text “when you accidentally become a booktok account & now that’s all you can post.”

Other posts by romance fans on BookTok have talked about a specific player as a stand-in for a favorite fictional hockey player or showed game footage overlaid with quotes from hockey romance books. A segment of these posts are sexually explicit, and some fans have posted explicit comments on players’ personal social media accounts.

Emily Rath, the author of “Pucking Around,” a romance best seller on Amazon, said on TikTok that some fans had raised concerns about inappropriate behavior directed at players earlier this year.

“True hockey romance readers have been here before,” Ms. Rath said on TikTok. “We watched it all unfold in April, we were ringing the alarm bells, we were asking that it stop.”

The conflict peaked when an N.H.L. player’s wife got involved.

The issue started to attract attention from outside the romance world in July, when Felicia Wennberg, the wife of Alex Wennberg, said that some posts about her husband had gone too far.

Ms. Wennberg said on Instagram Stories that while she had initially joked about some of the videos and comments, they had since “crossed the line of what it means to fancy someone and when it actually sounds pretty predatory and exploiting.”

Her statement described what she considered acceptable, such as positive comments about her husband’s looks, and what she did not, such as chanting “krak my back” at players at games. She asked people to “think twice” about their posts.

In response, her Instagram account was flooded with harassing messages.

Mr. Wennberg then issued a statement on social media about the “vile comments.”

“We can all take a joke and funny comments but when it turns personal and into something bigger that affects our family, we need to tell you that we’ve had enough,” he wrote. “Enough of sexual harassment, and harassment of our character and our relationship.”

The Kraken has since removed its TikTok posts about BookTok.

How did TikTok creators respond?

The sexually explicit posts were made by a small sliver of the BookTok community.

One creator, Kierra Lewis, had made a video that Ms. Wennberg cited as an example of inappropriate behavior, and Ms. Lewis has since posted a handful of videos responding to the situation.

Ms. Lewis, who has 1.1 million followers on TikTok, had been flown out to a Kraken game earlier this year after she posted videos featuring explicit comments about N.H.L. players, including Mr. Wennberg.

She said that she had privately messaged Ms. Wennberg on Instagram to apologize. Ms. Lewis said that the Kraken TikTok account had unfollowed her, leaving her “confused and upset.”

In her videos responding to the controversy, Ms. Lewis expressed frustration with the team for backing away after it encouraged her, and with Ms. Wennberg for using one of Ms. Lewis’s posts as an example. She defended her videos by saying that TikTok is for “entertainment.”

Ms. Lewis did not respond to a request for comment.

The Kraken said in a statement that they had originally engaged with BookTok to connect with new audiences, but were reminded by this situation “that unintended consequences may arise.”

“It is disappointing that a small percentage of online commenters crossed a line,” the statement said. “We consider this a learning moment for the organization and have taken appropriate action.”

[foldback]

Bandcamp is donating their fees to the NAACP today, and right in time, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires have just released their live Reunions set from the Brooklyn Bowl. Definitely recommended, but picking up anything today on Bandcamp is an easy way to help.

[kowalskishish]

I didn't think I was ready for another online acoustic gig. 

I was wrong. 

This one is special.

[verycorrectlotr]

115

Merry: Be careful how you speak. Pippin is still my cousin.

Sam: He once vaped on an airplane, punched a flight attendant, yelled at the cops, and he carries a ziplock bag full of broken glass to get free stuff.

Merry:

Merry: Third cousin.

[candiedspit]

This was actually a good year for my work…I was awarded a digital residency with RADAR productions (that I think has fizzled out, haven’t heard from the director in months) & won first place in Chariot Press’s Nonfiction Contest & my poem was highly commended by Warsan Shire for the Moth Poetry Prize & I was accepted into the Juniper Summer Writing Institute (couldn’t afford it though) & waitlisted for Kenyon Review’s Workshop & was named Poet of The Week by Brooklyn Poets (also did an interview with them) Won the Patricia Clearly Miller Award while in the hospital, Shrine was given an honorable mention for the Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize, I was awarded a residency with Anaphora but couldn’t afford it & then recently I was named a fellow with Periplus….not bad !!