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[enyasaints]

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I am a sexual assault survivor seeking justice from my repeated sexual assault I endured in the workplace. I’m urging everyone who views this to spare $1 all it takes is 10,000 people to spare $1 for me to retain a lawyer to help me fight my case. This is not only a sexual assault case, this is a hostile work environment, racial discrimination case. Please help me keep fighting

Direct Aid:

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[spacelazarwolf]

https://www.tumblr.com/2blogr02blog/767434745480183808/that-makes-complete-sense-and-i-think-its-a-great

This whole thread be like: Tell me u know nothing abt trans masculine activism an intersectional feminism without telling me u know nothing abt trans masculine activism an intersectional feminism

bold of ppl to say this shit then spread the exact same kind of transphobic propaganda that garden variety transphobes do abt trans women:

ah yes it’s totally reasonable to disregard hundreds of trans ppl speaking abt their experiences bc a brown guy consensually and privately engaged with his partner’s detransition kink. this is a totally not transphobic or racist thing to obsess over.

[gigireece16]

how i’m trying to distract myself in my writing from everything that’s been occurring 😅😅

[foundintheforgotten]

Found in the Forgotten: Issue #1

A Sapphic/LGBT+ Grimdark Fantasy Comic Written by Queer Creators. Featuring Romance, Horror, & More!

"Waking up with zero memory of who she once was, Theory finds herself suddenly thrown into a world where monsters lurk at every corner, and she might just be one of them. The Kingdom of Hollowcourt follows one simple rule: magic is no longer allowed. After the lands were ravaged by a war between arcane practitioners, survivors rebuilt society, practicing mundane science, technology, and invention. Though their feats are by no means mundane. Unfortunately, Theory has already broken this rule by simply existing. Gifted with innate magic of unknown origins, she must now navigate determining her identity while remaining under the nose of the ever-watchful eyes of The System and learning who she can trust amongst a sea of snakes."

Disclaimer: Found in the Forgotten is an 18+ comic. It will feature nudity, NSFW scenes, and mature themes!

Meet the Main Character + Her Love Interests:

Theory is a woman lost to this new and unraveling world. Her main goal is to find out who she was before this and why she has powers that have long since been both outlawed and eradicated by the land.

Nemmet is a woman of action rather than words. Naturally intimidating, both due to her sheer size and her steely gaze, Nemmet warns away anyone who might try to get close to her, and for good reason. The weight of responsibility and power falls heavy on her shoulders. But can Theory manage to see Nemmet for who she truly is beyond the walls she's built?

Qhysheifa is a woman who knows how to play the courtly game, and she plays it very well. She has a number of people indebted to her throughout the kingdom. She always tries to look her best to keep up appearances, but she's not above getting down and dirty if the situation calls for it. Unlike Nemmet, Sheifa is all too willing to lend a helping hand, but will it be for selfish reasons?

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[anghraine]

I've been moving and navigating further departmental nonsense etc (my pseudo-dissertation got approved for defending, though! l o l). But it was interesting to see the Worst P&P Takes poll I reblogged accumulating more results and the general tenor of responses in the notes.

I mean, the results are definitely to be expected if you're familiar with the side of Austen fandom doing a lot of the reblogging etc. But still, interesting!

Many Tumblr polls specify that they're asking about personal preferences that may be irrational—favorite/least favorite, coolest/most annoying, or something like that. This one, though, asked for the worst interpretation of P&P, not the most annoying one—and the current leader is "Darcy is never really proud, he's just shy and probably has anxiety" against some very steep competition on the Bad Takes front.

I was thinking about why that seemed a kind of tediously predictable choice even though I agree that the take is wrong, and realized that while I do disagree with the shy Darcy interpretation and I particularly disagree with the specific formulation where he is never proud at all, it ultimately feels to me like a failure of nuance rather than just completely wrongheaded like some of the others. And this is probably my fundamental difference with a lot of Darcy takes I see!

In my opinion, a character who is introverted and who feels awkward in various social situations and who doesn't like common social activities and who has to work himself up to talking to his crush and who is repeatedly suggested to behave very differently in contexts where he's more comfortable being interpreted as shy and anxious is not that big of a leap.

Yes, it's important that he is actually fundamentally confident and haughty, that he makes his personal feelings of discomfort other people's problem, and that he thinks he's such a unique and special butterfly that he doesn't need to even put in an effort outside his personal social circle. But it's a misreading that is easy to follow (and long predates the 2005 P&P, as I've mentioned before!).

The additional misreading that a shy and anxious Darcy is also never proud at all is a much more drastic leap, and in my experience, condemnations of shy Darcy interpretations rarely differentiate between "Darcy is shy as well as arrogant" and "Darcy is shy rather than arrogant" as interpretations (although their basic arguments are quite different). But even that as the worst possible misreading of P&P when Darcy is not even the main character is ?????????

I mean, for one alternative (not even the one I voted for!), the idea that Elizabeth is an author avatar Mary Sue seems a far worse misreading of P&P than basically anything to do with Darcy at all. The center piece of the entire novel is Elizabeth's epiphany of self-knowledge about her own shortcomings that do not particularly resemble Austen's at all, but were ethically a concern for her, and she's a complex, interesting character in general whom Austen correctly regarded as a major achievement. Inverting that into Elizabeth as an improbably perfect, reality-warping self-insert is deeply wrong and frankly pretty misogynistic as well.

(ngl though, it's a little funny to see such a blatantly terrible reading of Elizabeth rank so far behind the shy Darcy votes. I've gotten "does anyone actually think/say that?" so many times on my posts about Austen fandom's prioritization of Darcy's character development over Elizabeth's and yet...)

And even just going with the Darcy-centric misreadings, the idea of Darcy as a "bad boy" seems easily the most absolutely wrong take on him. His pride is at least complicated and the finer points can be fairly debated and it's a quality that actually changes somewhat throughout the novel, and you can have discussion over what happened when, whose testimonies should be weighted more, etc. But there is no point at which "bad boy" isn't utterly wrong for him. However, there's definitely a tendency in some wings of the fandom to find the idea of Darcy being misread too favorably more objectionable than him being read too unfavorably, regardless of the particulars, so it's not a surprise.

I suppose you could argue about what "worst" means in the context of variously bad interpretations. Like, is an interpretation that is about a fairly trivial aspect of the book but extremely wrong about it "worse" than an interpretation that is pretty bad but at least comprehensibly so about something very important?

[unhingedfemmecontent]

Sapphic Romance Books (Interact to Boost Please)

Home Field Advantage - Dahlia Adler

Ophelia After All - Racquel Marie

I kissed Shara Wheeler -  Casey McQuiston

The Stars and the Blackness Between them - Junauda Petrus

Mistakes Were Made - Meryl Winsner

She's too Pretty to Burn - Wendy Heard

The Romance Recipe - Ruby Barrett

Something to Talk About - Meryl Wilsner

In the Event of Love - Courtney Kae

The Holiday Trap - Roan Parrish

Kiss Her Once for Me - Alison Cochrun

Dahlia Green Doesn’t Care - Ashley Herring Blake

Queerly Beloved - Susie Dumond

Read Between the Lines - Rachel Lacey

One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston

Written in the Stars - Alexandria Bellefleur

Never Anyone but You - Rupert Thomson

She Gets the Girl - Alyson Derrick and Rachael Lippincott

Honey Girl - Morgan Rodgers

[terahreads]

Blood On The Tide- Katee Robert

[anarchyparakeet]

I have a library card, am I hot yet?

[her-stars]

100+ black books coming in 2024 🫶🏾📚

[lesbrarians]

Love starting my day getting pissed bc of some ignorant asshole in the Tumblr comments of an innocent and very cute Tumblr post, slamming teachers and librarians like "i just get very wary when someone tries to loop in librarians and receptionists with literal nurses. Like holy shit please know what a nurse is for a sec."

I'd like to share my response here, because I think it's important that Tumblr educates themselves on the realities of modern day librarianship:

You can uplift nurses without diminishing the work of teachers and librarians. As an urban librarian -- we are frontline in the opioid crisis and deal with overdoses in the bathroom regularly, we need to administer naloxone, we are unpaid social workers. There was a fucking hatchet fight in my library recently, and people are trespassed every week for all kinds of insane shit. Don't even get me started on how we're dealing with being painted as child groomers for protecting the freedom to read. NYT published a fantastic article recently called "Librarians Face a Crisis of Violence and Abuse" -- please read that before you go knocking librarians as somehow lesser than nurses.

From my beloved BookRiot, with some great links to required reading:

The New York Times recently looked at the increased trauma, abuse, and burnout amongst library employees, and while I’m glad to see this problem talked about at a national level, it’s not like any of this is new. Fobazi Ettarh wrote an illuminating article in 2018 about “vocational awe” in librarianship that should be mandatory reading for every library employee.

I’ve written for Book Riot about the early trauma of the pandemic for library staff, the psychological burnout of front-line service, and the threats of gun violence in libraries.

Kelly Jensen has been covering the exponential increase in censorship for the last four years and she also did a deep dive into the pervasive sexual harassment from library patrons. Burnout and abuse have been in the profession for a long time, and it doesn’t look like things are improving.

I am an urban librarian and work at a very large, very famous library, but none of this is unique to urban libraries. Rural and suburban libraries have it just as bad, and deal with their own unique challenges -- and it's going to get so, SO much worse under another Trump administration. That's a topic for another post, but basically, please be kind to your librarians.

And finally: you need a master's degree in order a librarian. We are educated professionals and just as important to public health and safety as any nurse. Please don't diminish us as book jockeys.

[mysweettaylor]

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌈 Queer Books Out December 2023 🌈

🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!

❤️ Caught in a Bad Fauxmance by Elle Gonzalez Rose 🧡 Heartstopper #5 by Alice Oseman 💛 This Cursed Light by Emily Thiede 💚 All The Hidden Paths by Foz Meadows 💙 Vampires of Eden: Book One by Karla Nikole 💜 Not My Type by Joe Satoria ❤️ Storm in Her Heart by KC Luck 🧡 Eternal Embrace by Luna Lawson 💛 A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford 💙 Tomb of Heart and Shadow by Cara N. Delaney 💜 Through the Embers Volume 2 by Adriana Sargent 🌈 Lucero by Maya Motayne

❤️ The Poison Paradox by Hadley Field & Felix Green 🧡 Second Chances in New Port Stephen: A Novel by TJ Alexander 💛 Matrimonial Merriment by Nicky James 💚 Under the Christmas Tree by Jacqueline Ramsden 💙 Every Beat of Her Heart by KC Richardson 💜 The Memories of Marlie Rose by Morgan Lee Miller ❤️ Playing with Matches by Georgia Beers 🧡 Always Only You by Chloe Liese 💛 Fire in the Sky by Radclyffe and Julie Cannon 💙 Nuclear Sunrise by Jo Carthage 💜 The Naked Dancer by Emme C. Taylor 🌈 Resurrections by Ada Hoffmann

❤️ Destiny’s Women by Morgan Elliott 🧡 Framed by Kate Merrill 💛 The Spoil of Beasts by Gregory Ashe 💚 Catered All the Way by Annabeth Albert 💙 A Cynic’s Christmas Conundrum by L.M. Bennett 💜 Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn ❤️ One Swipe Away by Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue 🧡 The Gentlemen’s Club by A.V. Shener 💛 A Death at the Dionysus Club by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold 💙 Secrets of the Soul by Holly Oliver 💜 Like They Do in the Movies by Nan Campbell 🌈 Limelight by Gun Brooke

❤️ Heart First by S.B. Barnes 🧡 Grave Consequences by Sandra Barret 💛 Haunted by Myth by Barbara Ann Wright 💚 Invisible by Anna Larner 💙 The Murders at Sugar Mill Farm by Ronica Black 💜 Coasting and Crashing by Ana Hartnett ❤️ Fairest by K.S. Trenten 🧡 A City of Abundant Opportunity by Howard Leonard 💛 The Dark Side of MIdnight by Erin Wade 💙 Mending Bones by Merlina Garance 💜 Transform by Connal Braginsky & Sean Ian O’Meidhir 🌈 The Apple Diary by Gerri Hill

❤️ TruLove by Nicole Pyland 🧡 Structural Support by Sloan Spencer 💛 Whiskey War by Stacy Lynn Miller 💚 Overkill by Lou Wilham 💙 Heart of Outcasts by Nicole Silver 💜 In the Shadow of Victory by J. E. Leak ❤️ Just Like Her by Fiona Zedde 🧡 Gingerbread: Claus For Christmas by Miski Harris 💛 Lies are Forever by C. Jean Downer 💙 The Boys in the Club by M.T. Pope 💜 Lasting Light (Metal & Magic) by Michelle Frost 🌈 Tell No Tales by Edie Montreux

❤️ Radio Silence by Alice Oseman 🧡 Even Though We're Adults Vol. 7 by Takako Shimura 💛 The Accidental Bite by Michelle St. Wolf 💚 Mated to the Demons by Taylor Schafer 💙 Someday Away by Sara Elisabeth 💜 Gatherdawn Luminia Duet Volume 1 by Lee Colgin ❤️ Curse of Dawn by Richard Amos 🧡 Healing the Twin by Nora Phoenix 💛 Ride Me by KD Ellis 💙 How to Bang a Vampire by Joe Satoria 💜 Cthulhu for Christmas by Meghan Maslow 🌈 Prestige by Toni Reeb

❤️ Don't Look Down by Jessica Ann 🧡 Winter and the Wolves by Chris Storm and Kinkaid Knight 💛 Hat Trick by Ajay Daniel 💚 Starborn Husbands: Return to the Pleiades by S. Legend 💙 Dead Serious Case #4 Professor Prometheus Plume by Vawn Cassidy 💜 Practice for Toby by Amy Bellows ❤️ The Siren's Song by Crista Crown 🧡 Hers to Hunt K.J. Devoir

[cyv34]

"There's no good wlw books" "omg yes there are ur just not looking for them" NO THERES NOT I have YET to find/read a truly good wlw book. A LESBIAN book. I want them to both be lesbians. I don't a girl who's always dated men and then starts dating a girl and it's drama. And I want it to be a thriller or sci-fi or SOMETHING. I don't want this stupid cliche shit of oh "ones out ones not" "edgy Bisexual meets femme lesbian vice versa" etc etc - and I want SMUT but not weird smut !!

Things like the locked tomb trilogy are good !

Books similar to movies like the new love lies bleeding, never going back, the l word series, dare me series (the book had like no romance what so ever of Beth and Addy but yeah), yeah 😀🙏

I want books like aftg, the mortal instruments, Shiver, hunger games, BUT THE MC AND LOVE INTEREST ARE LESBIANS.

[terahreads]

Black sapphic WNBA romance

[unhingedfemmecontent]

LESBIAN HISTORY BOOKS pls boost

Female Husbands : A Trans History - Jen Manion

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America - Lillian Faderman

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community - Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedey

Sappisteries: A Global History of Love Between Women: Leila J. Rupp

Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985 - Lesbian History Group

After Sappho- Shelby Wynn Schwartz

Public Faces, Secret Lives - Wendy L. Rouse

Lesbian Literature - Jodie Medd

It Came from the Closet - Joe Vallese

[m00ncrab]