phiilomath

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Ooooh you want to create a black female character with more complex traits other than "she's beautiful and perfect" sooo bad 🌀🌀🌀 you want to write black characters who don't need to be the righteous voice of reason in order to be worth being in the story oooooh 🌀🌀🌀 you want to write us like actual human beings who aren't disproportionately punished by the narrative for being flawed 🌀🌀🌀🌀oooooooh

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he would not fucking say that but it’s he would not fucking talk about his queer identity like he was reading out of a college campus lgbt center brochure

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how are you people alive.

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was their any literature that inspired this record? ♡

simulacrum and simulation - jean baudrillard

i have no mouth and i must scream - harlan ellison

pilgrim's progress - john bunyan

nausea - jean-paul sartre

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bitches be like i love reflection and reevaluation

5 minutes later: continues the cycle

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Urgent help 🙏 📣

I stand on the rubble of our home, but my heart is filled with hope. I need your help to leave Gaza and complete my education to build my future. Every donation, no matter how small, will help me achieve my dream. Join us on a journey of rebuilding

GoFundMe link: https://gofund.me/463cbf01

Thank you for your support. Every bit of your kindness means so much to me 💔

My campaign has been vetted by:

1-@beesandwatermelon here #190 link here

2- @gazavetters

Shared by :

1- @a-shade-of-blue here

2- @dlxxv-vetted-donations here

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Can you imagine this? 😔

Here in Gaza, we’ve been living in tents for ten months. There are no words to truly capture the depth of our suffering. 💔

Ask yourself: Could you live like this? Imagine yourself in our place—facing daily hardships with no escape. Can you adapt to a life like this? 😩

It’s not just the lack of a home. It’s the endless bombing, the constant danger, and the overwhelming fear that surrounds us ��� We live in conditions that no one should endure: incomplete cleanliness, widespread disease, and an overwhelming struggle to survive 🍉

Words cannot fully describe the pain and suffering we face every single day. 💔💔

Please, don’t leave us alone. We need your support, your empathy, and your prayers now more than ever 🙏

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me after sleeping ljke shit for the 10,497th day in a row: this is good actually because now i'll be really tired when i go to bed tonight

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verified palestinian fundraisers

several more families have reached out to me requesting that i share their campaigns, so i'm putting together another list for people to share! please consider donating to some of these gofundmes, and if you can't then i'd love it if you could share these links around.

@ahmad-syam-blog | vetted by bees and watermelons (#171) | $280 CAD of $40,000

ahmed and his family are trying to raise funds to evacuate gaza and to care for his daughter who was born during the current attacks on gaza.

@aseelo680 | vetted by 90-ghost | $6,753 of $20,000

aseel was on my last list, but her blog has been deleted multiple times. she is still seeking treatment for her sick mother and father.

@motaz225 | vetted by 90-ghost | 9,031 SEK of 250,000

motaz is a nurse from gaza trying to save his wife and three children from the genocide so he and his family can rebuild their lives.

@sameer-24 | verified by ana-bananya | $250 of 50,000

sameer has a family of 17 (9 adults and 8 children) trying to cross the border to egypt.

@malakabed | vetted by 90-ghost | €4,850 of €25,000

malak is a medical student who has lost a brother and seen other family members injured in the war. she is trying to raise money to help her family leave gaza and complete her education.

@emanfamily81 | vetted by 90-ghost | €3,848 of €38,000

eman is trying to help her husband, his father, and their four children leave gaza after losing their home and other members of their family.

@emanzaqoutt | vetted by 90-ghost | $17,650 CAD of $40,000

eman is a biotechnology specialist looking to pursue her phd, but she and her family are stuck in gaza due to the closed borders.

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being anticapitalist with a strong work ethic is so fucking embarrassing like my managers don't deserve this

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so I’m looking at short story publishers (fantasy)

Tor, cream of the crop. 25 cents a word. Stories can be read for free (YES). Slowish response time at ~3 months. Prefer under 12k, absolute maximum is 17.5k. Don’t bother if it’s not highly professional quality. SFWA qualifying.

Crossed Genres. 6 cents a word. Different theme each month (this month’s is “failure”). Submissions must combine either sci-fi or fantasy with the theme. Response time 1 month. 1k-6k, no exceptions. SFWA qualifying.

Long Hidden, anthology from CG. 6 cents a word. 2k-8k, no exceptions. Must take place before 1935. Protagonist(s) must be under 18 and marginalized in their time and place. Must be sci-fi/fantasy/horror. Deadline 30 April. Response by 1 October.

Queers Destroy Science Fiction. Sci-fi only right now, author must identify as queer (gay, lesbian, bi, ace, pan, trans, genderfluid, etc, just not cishet). 7.5k max. Deadline 15 February. Responses by 1 March. You can submit one flash fiction and one short story at the same time. (My network blocks the Lightspeed site for some reason, so I can’t get all the submission details. >_>) Probably SFWA qualifying?

Women in Practical Armor. 6 cents a word. 2k-5k. Must be about 1) a female warrior who 2) is already empowered and 3) wears sensible armour. Deadline 1 April. Response within three months.

Fiction Vortex. $10 per story, with $20 and $30 for editor’s and readers’ choice stories (hoping to improve). Speculative fiction only. Imaginative but non-florid stories. 7.5k maximum, preference for 5k and under. (I kind of want to support them on general principle.)

Urban Fantasy Magazine. 6 cents a word. 8k max, under 4k preferred. Must be urban fantasy (aka, the modern world, doesn’t need to be a literal city). 

Nightmare. 6 cents a word. 1.5-7.5k, preference for under 5k. Horror and dark fantasy. Response time up to two weeks. SFWA and HWA qualifying.

Apex Magazine. 6 cents a word. 7.5k max, no exceptions. Dark sci-fi/fantasy/horror. SFWA qualifying.

Asimov’s Science Fiction. 8-10 cents a word. 20k max, 1k minimum. Sci-fi; borderline fantasy is ok, but not S&S. Prefer character focused. Response time 5 weeks; query at 3 months. SFWA qualifying, ofc.

Buzzy Mag. 10 cents a word. 10k max. Should be acceptable for anyone 15+. Response time 6-8 weeks. SFWA qualifying.

Strange Horizons. 8 cents a word. Speculative fiction. 10k max, prefers under 5k. Response time 40 days. Particularly interested in diverse perspectives, nuanced approahces to political issues, and hypertexts. SFWA qualifying. 

Fantasy and Science Fiction. 7-12 cents a word. Speculative fiction, preference for character focus, would like more science-fiction or humour. 25k maximum. Prefers Courier. Response time 15 days.

Scigentasy. 3 cents a word. .5-5k. Science-fiction and fantasy, progressive/feminist emphasis. Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. 15 cents a word. 3k maximum. Any sci-fi/fantasy, they like a literary bent. (psst, steinbecks!) They also like to see both traditional and experimental approaches. Response time two weeks. 

Beneath Ceaseless Skies. 6 cents a word. 10k maximum. Fantasy in secondary worlds only (it can be Earth, but drastically different—alternate history or whatever). Character focus, prefer styles that are lush yet clear, limited first or third person narration. Response time usually 2-4 weeks, can be 5-7 weeks. SFWA qualifying.

Clarkesworld. 10 cents a word up to 4000, 7 afterwards. 1-8k, preferred is 4k. Science-fiction and fantasy. Needs to be well-written and convenient to read on-screen. Appreciates rigour. No talking cats. Response time 2 days. SFWA qualifying.

Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show. 6 cents a word. Any length. Science-fiction and fantasy (along with fantastic horror). Good world-building and characterization. Clear straightforward prose. Response time three months. Yes, OSC is editor-in-chief. SFWA qualifying.

Interzone. Sub-pro rates if anything (but highly respected). 10k max. Short cover letter. Science-fiction and fantasy.

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Power outage so I had to do my t-shot by candlelight like the founding fathers.

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their filthy and lazy inmigrants versus our worldly and adventurous expats

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as is tradition I would like to wish a happy pride month specifically to this Indian guy I used to work with who came SPRINTING to find me when there was some buzz in India about gay marriage being legalized (this was in like 2018ish, it's sadly ended up not panning out) to ECSTATICALLY say "you know what this means??? it means men better start acting better, or their wives are going to leave them for women!!!" he was so excited for all of these hypothetical women who were about to finally leave their loser husbands and lez out. that's a true ally, I hope he's thriving wherever he is.