Emily aka Foaly

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

Oh that’s my friend Montressor’s wine cellar

Toad stands on a rock, reading poetry to his seeds. From "The Garden" In *Frog and Toad Together*

And all the next day Toad read poems to his seeds.

If you have any mental health issue of some kind, at some point in your life this will happen:

Person: “ha ha! Your Behavior! It is as though you have the Condition!”
You: “well yeah, I do have the Condition and I take The Medicine for it.”
Person: “oh. I’m uncomfortable now, which is your fault”

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

UNFOLDING If there is no spirit unfolding itself in history, No gradual growth of consciousness Beneath the land grabs and forced migrations, The bought elections, the betrayal of trust By party faction in the name of progress- What about spirit in the personal realm Unfolding slowly inside us, so slowly That our best days seem like a holding action? Seasons repeat themselves, but the tree Shading the yard keeps growing. Don't be chagrined that the sadness you felt This evening beside the bed of a friend Who's growing weaker wasn't more profound Than the sadness of yesterday, that you still Can't imagine a fraction of what he's feeling As the world he loves slips from his grasp. No progress from your perspective, But who's to say what you might notice If the scroll of the last few months were unrolled On the table before you, how clear it might be That your your understanding of all you're losing In losing him has been slowly deepening? Another day, you say to yourself, at dusk As you climb your porch steps, which you notice Could use some scraping and painting this weekend, A fresh coat that with luck will last a year. --Carl Dennis

SO many great poems in these old issues of The New Yorker

Going hard is NOT a metric of being a good top or bottom!!

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️

“I will do it tomorrow,” said Toad. “Today I will take life easy.”

Perry: This St. Patrick’s Day, don’t forget Irish music’s anti-fascist roots Dropkick Murphys, the iconic Irish American punk band, are headlining a free block party March 6 near where Alex Pretti was killed by immigration agents, contributing columnist David M. Perry writes.

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

Four panel fan comic in which Batgirl shows up out of nowhere to cover Supergirl with a hug to let her know how much she brightens each of her days. A rare sudden eclipse if you will, but a really nice one.

Be a friend this weekend! 💜☀️

It's like, Robin Hood, Lion King, Great Mouse Detective, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, Zootopia, A Goofy Movie, both the Rescuers films... Disney has too many films/shows that are Formative Experiences for furries.

I ended the list there on purpose, don't yell at me because I didn't mention Bongo

I'm not saying it would be a good idea, but I do think it would be really fun if two siblings transitioning in opposite directions used each other's dead names as their chosen names.

Remember when Google removed "Don't be evil"?

Line luplau seen in the foreground on her daughter Marie Luplau's large group portrait painting From the Early Days of the Fight for Women's Suffrage (1897). An oil painting depicting a large indoor gathering of men and women in late 19th-century dress. A central standing figure — an older woman in a long dark dress with a white lace collar — commands attention, appearing to address or preside over the assembled group. To her left sits a younger woman at a table with papers and a glass vessel. The crowd behind and around them is densely arranged, faces rendered individually. The setting appears to be a meeting hall with gas lamps visible on the wall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage#/media/File:Marie_Luplau_-_Fra_Kvindevalgretskampens_f%C3%B8rste_dage_(1897),.jpg

Female writers and readers have been challenging the patriarchy for more than 200 years

by Roberta Garrett

theconversation.com/female-write...

Suffrage at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/books...

#books #literature #womenhistoryMonth

The Short But Magical Life of John Keats | TheCollector Poet John Keats, in his short life, wrote some of the most beloved poems in the English language.

The Short But Magical Life of John Keats

Poet John Keats, in his short life, wrote some of the most beloved poems in the English language.

www.thecollector.com/john-keats-e...

Books by Keats at PG:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

#books #literature #poetry

I aspire to exude as much confidence as this little Kinesin protein strutting along a microtubule while hauling intracellular cargo.

Look at that little guy go! 🔬🧪

It's amazing how much taking on a persona and presenting it through outward appearance can make a difference. <3 Claiming it for yourself is important. You've got this!

Happy Hinamatsuri to all the lovely dolls out there and in my life and who see this. You’re doing wonderfully, and I love you all very much! 💚🐴

Screenshot of Untitled Goose Game in which the a child lies sprawled on the ground, his glasses knocked off his face, after the titular goose unties the boys shoes. The goose stands nearby taunting the child with a stolen toy airplane.

Stayed up much too late Saturday night replaying #UntitledGooseGame for the first time in a few years.

Absolutely wonderful experience even after all this time. I hope one day we get a proper sequel!

An iBook G3 booting into Mac OS 9.2

It is March. And that means it is #MARCHintosh.

I heard stories of people who've fed crows, and been given gifts in return. It sounded charming, so I began doing that.

Then, one night, there was a rapping on my bedroom window. I stumbled up and opened.

A crow flew in and spoke: "They're coming for you. You must flee."

I only just made it out.

Yeah. The othering in this artwork is fucking insulting. “Allies”? Don’t pull this shit. You’re just going to alienate us and piss us off.

Framed series of My Little Pony card game cards including color separation proofs of the Sonata Dusk card

A really nice thing Enterplay did was sending me special limited versions of some of the cards I designed. Foils, con exclusives, alternate text versions as well as some of the color separated proof copies!

#MyLittlePony #MLP #MLPCCG

Hey.

Tell people when they do good job.

When you like the stuff they make.

When you like the characters they’ve created.

The stories they’ve told.

Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.

Trust. They don’t.

Tell. Them.

Post-Pillion: the Kink Civil War It shouldn't be the moral fight - it’s just two philosophies talking past each other.

I really appreciated this breakdown and the way it structured the reviews I've been hearing from kinksters.

"You don’t have to agree with the other group. But if you can’t even recognize its reasons to exist, you’re not debating. You’re policing"

mstrq.substack.com/p/pillion-th...

Fragment of an emaki from the 12th century Genji Monogatari. H 21.8 x W 23.4cm. Paper decorated with gold. The author of the painting belonged to the upper court during the Heian period; it would be Fujiwara Takashino or Takayoshi (藤原 隆 能,? 1126 -1174?). The text is written in hiragana in the sōgana (草仮名) cursive style — an extremely fluid, abbreviated form that was considered the height of aristocratic elegance at the Heian court. It was known as onnade (女手, "women's hand"), the feminine script associated with court literature, as opposed to the more formal Chinese-derived kanji used in official documents by men. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji#/media/File:Genji_emaki_01003_002.jpg

‘The tale of Genji’
A beautifully wrought, truncated version of the world’s first novel.

by Neely Tucker

lcm.loc.gov/issue/januar...

The tale of Genji at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66057

#books #literature