I just had this hyper-realistic dream and like. I don’t even know what to make of this lmao
I was sitting in this park, on a bench, looking up at the night sky and all the stars and stuff, and I blinked and suddenly the entire sky was different. I’m talking different constellations, the sky absolutely packed with billions more stars, some so close they’re massive. I’m like wtf and suddenly I realise there’s an old man sitting next to me, dressed in like 1940s clothing, also looking up at the sky.
before I can ask him if he’s you know, noticed, he speaks, without looking away from the sky.
“this is what the universe really looks like,” he tells me.
“oh,” I say. a pause. “…can you put it back?”
he smiles and nods. I look up. the sky has gone back to normal.
“what do I do with this information?” I ask, looking at him again.
he turns his head and, smiling, looks me dead in the face. "be careful.“
hey op im pretty sure you mightve just met god or something like that
Keep track of how far you travel at night. It’s a big universe, kids. ❤
I am genuinely unclear on why a school shooting victim would relevant to the business of the Centers for Disease Control
@tanoraqui There is a law that prevents the CDC from studying gun violence. It’s the NRA’s fault, like so many things, they keep blocking attempts to get the law repealed.
Ok so I’ve seen Infinity War and all my feels were hurt but also I was happy (? somehow) but still. Petvengers cuteness therapy is a must. I’m open for prompts if you’d like to share 🙂
Anyway here is my crazy theory for Avengers 4 plot. Galaxy wide scavenger hunt for Dragon Balls Infinity Stones to wish to undo all this bullshit.
morning reblob just to let everybody know that free prompt season is open 😉
An Unkindness of Ghosts, my debut novelabout a young (disabled, intersex, lesbian/queer) Black woman living in the slums of a generation ship, came out October 2017.
I’ve been really honored by the overwhelmingly positive response; however, I wanted to do a little bit of book-related outreach, to make sure anyone who might be interested in Unkindnesshas at least heard of it! So this is my little masterlist post of all the reasons you might want to buy this book or pick it up from your library! tl;dr, it’s gay as shit.
1) Okay, so it feels decidedly notgood to me to simplify complex social locations into a laundry list of identities, but I do think Unkindness will speak to folks looking for books exploring the following topics & experiences:
– being trans, nonbinary, genderweird, genderantagonistic, gendertraumatized – being a dyke, dykegender, loving women, wanting women – being autistic, adhd, psychotic, “not otherwise specified,” borderline, PTSD – being a descendant of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, a refugee, & diasporan
2) A lot of folks have had nothing but kind things to say, and here’s a little blurb that gives you a better idea about what An Unkindness of Ghosts is actually about.
“Solomon’s big, unflinching and poetically detailed sci-fi debut tells the story of Aster Grey, an orphan raised on the slavery deck of a starship called the HSS Matilda as she searches for answers to her mother’s death and the mystery of the forces who control the starship. Aster is both neuroatypical and queer, and these elements of her characterization work seamlessly and nonexploitatively into a plot that mirrors so many of our own world’s greatest injustices, probing at our ideas about classism, racism, abuse and tyranny. A stunning first novel by a writer I can’t wait to see more from.”
Amal El-Mohtar’s stellar review in NPR said of the book:
What Solomon achieves with this debut — the sharpness, the depth, the precision — puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars. I want to say about this book, its only imperfection is that it ended.
It’s been favorably reviewed on several blogs and other venues as well!
3) It made more end-of-year lists that I can count, including
You can read an interview with me, the author (Rivers Solomon) about the book at The Rumpus: Magical Systems and Fusion Reactors, and you can read an excerpt in the Rumpus here.
ANYWAY, my cat almost deleted this whole ass post so I think that’s a sign I should quit while I’m ahead. Thanks for your support. Please reblog if you feel up to it.
“It was noticeably bigger between Sunday and Monday,” Herman said. “It’s more than a foot long right now,” he said. A second sinkhole has opened up right next to it, he said.
LMAO tragic.
I read about this this morning, and someone added in the biblical verse about how those in power who were evil would find themselves falling…literally…
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