clara

Would second this, just replying is probably the best alternative

Tiny Weird Projects | Artists | The Dock The Dock is Leitrim’s flagship arts centre, housed in a landmark, riverside venue in Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland.

Last year, I took part in a pilot writing residency at The Dock in Leitrim, working on a book I kept calling my "tiny weird non-fiction project". This short residency is now being rolled out and seeking applications. Honoured they used the title. Apply/spread the word. www.thedock.ie/artists/open...

Have said this before in other forms, but will reiterate it here: if you're doing long-form writing of any sort, reading the words aloud into a microphone is a completely unparalleled cheat code. It's free, easy, and so effective it feels like it shouldn't be allowed. I do it in a few stages...

I'm SORRY, OKAY

Sir Gawain Fucks the Green Knight Here’s a tale ripe for telling. Can’t say where I heard it first—in pretty French or Dutch. Perhaps as a young lady walking ‘longside the Rijn. I’ll spin it for you in an English tongue, fine as frost on lace, sweet as malmsey wine. So it goes that young Gawain, strength kissed into his limbs, fresh as the bright dawn, comes trembling down to the Green Chapel. You’ve heard this tale, I know. His breath makes peach fuzz in the air, fear into him like worm to apple. Christmas Morn is too soon, time is short. You have your own life to save, he says, picking through thorn and bough to an ivy-clad cave. The creature is the Jack O’ the Glen / forest prince / the wood’s own laughter. Beard of lichen and eyes like dark elder. I need not repeat their exchange—my boy’s flinching heart—a songbird in a rattled cage. It is after the blows are dealt, he asks, what god is worshipped in these green trees? Boy, the Knight replies, boy, were you not just down on your knees? The Knight is the tang of sap / bark rough and petal soft / everywhere leaves scatter / easily crushed / Gawain clings / hardly knows what he clings to / he is the forest and the flower / a turmoil of roots / where god and tree meet and melt / the birch the oak the fern the deer / mushroom maggot crow / here Gawain is branch and bud / blow returned for blow

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so:

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"didn't we win an Emmy for that episode?"

Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul

Eddy and Double Dee from Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy. Fanart by hogancraft

same characters

i'm 5.7 wbu

- elevating the characters and their dynamic to this really moving kind of heightened symbolism

- while never exactly 'reading too much into it', feels like it's improving the original text through close and careful attention (although I'm still v early in Gundam so I can't really judge)

would love that. not to be boss baby about it but this has the same energy as Captain America fanworks from ten years ago. and I mean that as high praise

this is remarkable. well done

I hope they name the new museum in Limerick dedicated to the women after Frank McCourt

I was reading 'The Odyssey' (yes, the Wilson one) recently & what stands out is an emphasis on looking after guests, visitors and strangers & the relationship between host & hosted. There are very, very old ideas that conservatives *loathe* because it requires them to care for other people

this is good shit

Me: yeah I'm into vinyl

The vinyl:

What Trans+ kids say about draft education guidance that could force schools to segregate them We find out what 19 Trans+ young people's school lives are like, to understand the potential impact of new draft school guidance

“The government has engineered a situation where materially accommodating a Trans+ child now presents a major headache for even the most well-intentioned school administrator,” @sasha98.bsky.social

We spoke to 19 Trans+ pupils about the latest education guidance ⬇️

stunning

a digital collage with a pink, purple, green, yellow, and teal gradient overlaid on all the images. the images include a horse carrying a bucket, a cluster of mushrooms, a grub, a birds talon, a cicada, five spiders, two flower buds, a hand with an eye over the back of it, and a microscope slide of atoms. there is white text that reads "get weirder or die miserable." the background is black and there is a slightly grainy texture

get weirder 🫵

top goodreads review of my favourite book I read last year was "This book doesn't really do anything wrong but it's not what I expected it to be. 2⭐"

like – you're not buying a litre of milk here

either way i should loan you Females: A Concern by Andrea Long Chu

I think you have to write the omegaverse you want to see in the world

this is good

very sorry to hear this

The plan, quite obviously, is to restrict the age to 14 when it's too late for puberty blockers to do anything and then use that as evidence that they are ineffective. Transphobic policy based evidence making.

the Den, the Den, the pick of the Den /
the call of the telly at 2 a.m. /
the hen, the hen, I think he's a hen /
he holler into the morning

Reminder of this fabulous opportunity for aspiring children's writers and illustrators with @childrensbooksireland.ie. WCLF is proud to be partners and can't wait to welcome the Raising Voices fellows to our festival in July. Deadline 19 February

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

I'm an expert in drag performance.
If I was put in charge of a review of cancer treatment, would RTE describe me as "the expert who led the review into cancer treatment" or would that be an insane and misleading thing to write?

love Shirani

Title for divine light, the game,

Main character, Uri, holding herself and looking up

Divine Light, The new game I did the art for is out now :O

Check it out my little starlings...

paletteheart.itch.io/divine-light