Reblog this to tell the person you reblogged it from that you'd missed them if they left this hell site.

every reread kills me a little bit more

reread and enjoy <3

since all kinds of vintage/older things have been making combacks can tech companies bring back colorful clear plastic that shows the insides? that would be so sexy

sexy

you see a character that's afraid of commitment, i see a beautiful and misunderstood aromantic

official aromantic post

i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that's it. any more than that and i am Stressed

One day, in the future, this entire system of tiered passports and immigration restrictions and second-class citizenship will be gone, a relic of the past, and the phrase "Immigration is a human right, moving is a human right" will seem as quaint and obvious as "Aparteid is bad" in an old sci-fi episode

im so serious about this but if youre autistic and especially if youre chronically ill creative labour cannot be your only way to relax. working on a creative project is still working. take time to do nothing. its good for you i promise.

How does one do nothing? This is a genuine question. Very chronically ill autistic who wants to create all the time.

I don't know what OP would suggest but here are some restful activities that I've been trying to force myself to do more of:

I could definitely give a lot of that a try! Thank you!

I'm so glad. It's definitely a process for me, too. The brain's pressure to "create, create, create" and the way it equates 'chilling out' with 'losing' or 'wasting' time.

But I just have to keep reminding myself that resting is NOT a waste, it's nourishment and enrichment. I can't grow my creative crops if I don't nurture them with idleness.

i know i say this regularly every couple years but like im actually on my hands and knees begging you people to watch dark.

Haven't seen anyone talking about it here, but vocal transfeminist and writer Tara Knight has been sent a threat from the fbi insisting that she stop speaking about "radical gender ideology" and get rid of the past 3 years of her work.

A black trans woman is getting personally threatened by the fbi for being a transfeminist. What the fuck. Hopefully this gets more reach than my usual posts so that people who are able to can support her.

Here’s her latest post about it.

[Transcript: So as you all have likely heard I was forwarded a letter from the FBI informing me that my work and my platform and everything I’ve built over the past three years has to go, um, for propagating what they are calling ‘radical gender ideology’. Um, this comes from Trump Executive order, um basically saying I’m a propagandist for domestic… september eleventh… thing. Um, I would… I— I’ll just say, point blank, short period. I have no intentions of stopping anything. Maybe to my detriment but I’ve never been the smartest one. That’s— all I’m gonna say on this.]

Just as I was writing that transcript she posted this—

[Transcript: So I was told and informed that it’s probably in my best interest to tell all of you where you can find me in the event that I get deleted because having a platform is probably the only thing that will keep… everything okay, if you will. So I will provide the links and ads to my TikTok, my Substack, my Bluesky, the like. You’ll be able to find me there in the event… y’know. Y’know.]

TikTok: @ bundleof.styx

Bluesky: @ bundleofstyxx.bsky.social

Substack: @ bundleofstyxx

^ just putting this here along with the transcripts, please support her if you can

Tumblr removed the linked materials. Never stop sharing about Tara Knight.

Tumblr has started banning and suppressing my articles and work. This is really scary for me.

Everyone, I am so sorry to send out the help signal again, but I had a job offer that fell through, and I am struggling affording my thyroid medicine / food for day to day life ; surviving off of leftovers and canned goods, would love to eat something fresh for a day oe two. I am unable to take in commissions atm because I am working a whopping 10 hours *every day* while being disabled atm due to having 2 other jobs. Still waiting to get paid from inprnt and my work at publishing, would absolutely appreciate any help i can get- I will Die without thyroid medicine, hehe feeling super nervous and antsy. Levothyroxine is 60 usd a month. 🍀🪿 thank you so much, Ill do my best to make new free art to make up for it !!

Reblogging with a link to the artist, Emily K., who's based in Philly and is firmly anti-AI! You can print this piece (and some others) for free for use at protests and such!

vietnamese people, Iraqis, Yemenis, Afghans, etc are allowed to never forgive your soldiers regardless of how guilty they felt afterwards for destroying their beloved country and people you do know that right? None of your victims owe you their forgiveness for your peace of mind because they will never get it, they don't get to come back home with their loved ones, they don't get back those years of suffering and then having to affront the consequences of your government's invasion and rebuild everything brick by brick, they're allowed to be furious and mad at all of you forever

Us Americans failing to understand that this goes beyond Trump is pissing me off so much.

This is not only about Trump. This is about YOUR government. About Latinoamérica's history with you. It's about the occupation, the coups YOUR government orchestrated years ago that resulted in so many deaths. It's about the multiple threats that your government have done against Mexico about annexing them. The interventions that over and over and over again you keep pushing against the rest of us and God forgive I start talking specifically about the interventions on Iraq, Afghanistan, Gaza, Puerto Rico and now the occupation of Venezuela.

It's the fact that some of you laugh at us when we worry about what president you choose because you FAIL TO UNDERSTAND HOW IT IMPACT THE REST OF US.

How many times do we have to keep seeing USA playing the "savior" card till you admit that there is something terribly wrong with all of it?

this website is a great resource for minnesotan mutual aid and testimony to what is happening here

books with non linear narrative, experiments with the form, etc: go!

please do not all say house of leaves i know some of you bitches read books

Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire: each chapter takes place in the same chunk of London over something like 1000 years

if we can count comics, Moore's Promethea too, one of the volumes is a trip around the Tree of Life, i think the whole narrative can be mapped on the Tarot Majors too

Mark Danielewski's Only Revolutions is a book length prose poem that you read from the ends in to the center. i haven't gotten through it but respect the ambitious structure

i feel like Hal Duncan's Vellum & Ink had something interesting structurally between them but i don't think i finished them, specifically bc i waited too long to start Ink after Vellum & got completely lost

Honorable mention/not sure if it counts but the language was interesting enough that I'm tempted to include it: The Tide Will Erase All by Justin Hellstrom is an Improbability Drive-style apocalypse told by a ten(?) year old but might also be a radio/satellite announcement of their story after the fact? needs a revisit

OH SHIT Koji Suzuki's Ring Cycle. Ring is a horror novel that happens on an entirely different level of operation than what we find out about it on Spiral & Loop

Jeff Vandermee's Dead Astronauts, i actually don't know how to describe what he did with it but it's nuts

The Dictionary of the Khazars is a novel that's a lexicon

this is turning up a whole bunch of things I hadn't heard of which is EXACTLY what i wanted god bless you all:

So Stories of Your Life and Others has been on my wishlist for ages as has Pale Fire; Voice of the Fire is on my bookshelf waiting for me and I think I read Promethea or parts thereof when it first came out; I read Catch-22 recently and will rave about it at the drop of a hat, read Cloud Atlas… a couple of years ago I think? After having it on my shelf for a million billion years & dug the matryoska structure muchly, but yeah! Otherwise I hadn't heard of most of these?!?! excellent work everyone well done

Got a few I haven't seen in the notes:

Blake Butler's There Is No Year is decidedly nonlinear, bordering on nonsensical, with upsetting vibes and such perfect pacing that I couldn't put it down

Matt Bell plays in this territory a lot; pretty much anything by him is going to be fighting you back a little but my introduction was the short story "The Cartographer's Girl"

John Elizabeth Stintzi takes a pretty oblique approach to structure in Vanishing Monuments and, I understand, in My Volcano. (Disclaimer: they are also a friend of mine, but I make the recommendation in earnest)

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins is like if Warren Ellis tried to write House of Leaves, and I mean that as a compliment

I'm sure you're aware of Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, but it is, in fact, all that and a bag of chips, especially in its structure

Monica Ojeda does some fun things with structure, especially in Nefando but definitely also in Jawbone, though I'll note that Nefando especially deals in some very dark territory

Steven Millhauser's short stories are pretty distinctly nonlinear and often outright weird in a very fun way -- I love his collection The Barnum Museum, notably the source of the short story that inspired the movie The Illusionist

I feel like Ayse Papatya Bucak's The Trojan War Museum fits here, but I also just feel like that collection is underrated, so cum grano salis

I think the movie is better-known, but Laszlo Krasznahorkai's Satantango is formally and topically very weird in a way that I found delightful

I also enthusiastically cosign the recommendations of Coup de Grace and Pale Fire. For what it's worth, Pale Fire is also one of the funniest books I've ever read.

I am not aware of Our Share of Night! Also, "bordering on nonsensical, with upsetting vibes" is like catnip. Thank you.

253 by Geoff Ryman (originally published on the web with hyperlinks, later published as a paper book) now at : https://www.253novel.com/

The Bridge by Iain Banks

and

Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh

(both have the dude in a coma)

See Under: Love by David Grossman. It's in four parts, two of them are straightforward lit fic, one is salmon point-of-view, if I recall correctly, one is a story told in dictionary definitions.

And short stories:

Stet by Sarah Gailey (the story emerges from the footnotes)

Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel (a story in forum posts)

I'm frankly shocked nobody's mentioned David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas," which is an interconnected set of six stories in different times and with different narrators that are all split in half and work towards the center, like this:

1-2-3-4-5-6-5-4-3-2-1

The stories leave off, sometimes mid-sentence, and resume later in the book, while working forward in time from the first story that's an Age of Sail story until the 6th one, the only one not interrupted, is in the far post-apocalyptic future. Then each story is resolved in reverse chronological order.

What amazes me about this book (it's one of my favorites) is that Mitchell somehow makes each of these stories entirely distinct and unique. I don't know how he managed to write in six such distinct voices to the point that you'd think six writers had collaborated on this work.

Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice definitely plays with "when" the narrative is taking place from POV to POV, not to mention playing with the POV itself. The later books become a fair bit more conventional (but no less entertaining for the change) in that regard. I think her later The Raven Tower does some of that as well but it's been a bit so don't hold me to that one. (I remember being amazed by what it pulls off, mind you, so it's another big recommendation.) But definitely, Ancillary Justice.

May I humbly recommend my novel turned into a literary podcast and will someday be a physical book queer fantasy noir Say I Slew Them Not. It’s a radio show about a journalist reporting on a trial for war crimes while publishing accused war criminals memoir (who rebelled and won against a colonial empire which may have something to do with why he’s being tried for war crimes) 

you’ve for different timelines to keep track of, different formats (memoir chapter, transcripts, letters, etc), and unreliable narrators. And each chapter title comes together to tell a story of their own.

books with non linear narrative, experiments with the form, etc: go!

please do not all say house of leaves i know some of you bitches read books

Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire: each chapter takes place in the same chunk of London over something like 1000 years

if we can count comics, Moore's Promethea too, one of the volumes is a trip around the Tree of Life, i think the whole narrative can be mapped on the Tarot Majors too

Mark Danielewski's Only Revolutions is a book length prose poem that you read from the ends in to the center. i haven't gotten through it but respect the ambitious structure

i feel like Hal Duncan's Vellum & Ink had something interesting structurally between them but i don't think i finished them, specifically bc i waited too long to start Ink after Vellum & got completely lost

Honorable mention/not sure if it counts but the language was interesting enough that I'm tempted to include it: The Tide Will Erase All by Justin Hellstrom is an Improbability Drive-style apocalypse told by a ten(?) year old but might also be a radio/satellite announcement of their story after the fact? needs a revisit

OH SHIT Koji Suzuki's Ring Cycle. Ring is a horror novel that happens on an entirely different level of operation than what we find out about it on Spiral & Loop

Jeff Vandermee's Dead Astronauts, i actually don't know how to describe what he did with it but it's nuts

The Dictionary of the Khazars is a novel that's a lexicon

this is turning up a whole bunch of things I hadn't heard of which is EXACTLY what i wanted god bless you all:

So Stories of Your Life and Others has been on my wishlist for ages as has Pale Fire; Voice of the Fire is on my bookshelf waiting for me and I think I read Promethea or parts thereof when it first came out; I read Catch-22 recently and will rave about it at the drop of a hat, read Cloud Atlas… a couple of years ago I think? After having it on my shelf for a million billion years & dug the matryoska structure muchly, but yeah! Otherwise I hadn't heard of most of these?!?! excellent work everyone well done

Got a few I haven't seen in the notes:

Blake Butler's There Is No Year is decidedly nonlinear, bordering on nonsensical, with upsetting vibes and such perfect pacing that I couldn't put it down

Matt Bell plays in this territory a lot; pretty much anything by him is going to be fighting you back a little but my introduction was the short story "The Cartographer's Girl"

John Elizabeth Stintzi takes a pretty oblique approach to structure in Vanishing Monuments and, I understand, in My Volcano. (Disclaimer: they are also a friend of mine, but I make the recommendation in earnest)

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins is like if Warren Ellis tried to write House of Leaves, and I mean that as a compliment

I'm sure you're aware of Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, but it is, in fact, all that and a bag of chips, especially in its structure

Monica Ojeda does some fun things with structure, especially in Nefando but definitely also in Jawbone, though I'll note that Nefando especially deals in some very dark territory

Steven Millhauser's short stories are pretty distinctly nonlinear and often outright weird in a very fun way -- I love his collection The Barnum Museum, notably the source of the short story that inspired the movie The Illusionist

I feel like Ayse Papatya Bucak's The Trojan War Museum fits here, but I also just feel like that collection is underrated, so cum grano salis

I think the movie is better-known, but Laszlo Krasznahorkai's Satantango is formally and topically very weird in a way that I found delightful

I also enthusiastically cosign the recommendations of Coup de Grace and Pale Fire. For what it's worth, Pale Fire is also one of the funniest books I've ever read.

I am not aware of Our Share of Night! Also, "bordering on nonsensical, with upsetting vibes" is like catnip. Thank you.

253 by Geoff Ryman (originally published on the web with hyperlinks, later published as a paper book) now at : https://www.253novel.com/

The Bridge by Iain Banks

and

Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh

(both have the dude in a coma)

See Under: Love by David Grossman. It's in four parts, two of them are straightforward lit fic, one is salmon point-of-view, if I recall correctly, one is a story told in dictionary definitions.

And short stories:

Stet by Sarah Gailey (the story emerges from the footnotes)

Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel (a story in forum posts)

I'm frankly shocked nobody's mentioned David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas," which is an interconnected set of six stories in different times and with different narrators that are all split in half and work towards the center, like this:

1-2-3-4-5-6-5-4-3-2-1

The stories leave off, sometimes mid-sentence, and resume later in the book, while working forward in time from the first story that's an Age of Sail story until the 6th one, the only one not interrupted, is in the far post-apocalyptic future. Then each story is resolved in reverse chronological order.

What amazes me about this book (it's one of my favorites) is that Mitchell somehow makes each of these stories entirely distinct and unique. I don't know how he managed to write in six such distinct voices to the point that you'd think six writers had collaborated on this work.

Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice definitely plays with "when" the narrative is taking place from POV to POV, not to mention playing with the POV itself. The later books become a fair bit more conventional (but no less entertaining for the change) in that regard. I think her later The Raven Tower does some of that as well but it's been a bit so don't hold me to that one. (I remember being amazed by what it pulls off, mind you, so it's another big recommendation.) But definitely, Ancillary Justice.