#ALSO also if I DIDNT tag you and you've been reading something neat PLEASE let me know!!!! I am always !!!!!! about what people are reading

[variousqueerthings]

I was tagged by @oh2e for some books and texts I’ve been reading recently

Before We Were Trans (Kit Heyam): I finished this last night and I am so happy that this exists. A challenge to the existing frameworks of what we call Trans History, purposefully intersectional and broad in its exploration

Brand New Ancients (Kae Tempest): This came out before Kae did, so ignore the name there. A beautiful story in poetic form, you can see it was intended to be read out loud. Reconsidering mythologies and gods

Shikhandi And Other Tales They Don’t Tell You (Devdutt Pattanaik): A queer exploration of Indian mythologies and religious stories. I have a lot to learn here, and I’m so glad this perspective exists

I Sexually Identify As An Attack Helicopter (Isabel Fall): A short story that sparked a lot of conversation about how we forcibly out creatives, genuinely an interesting set of questions about what happens when queer gender rights are appropriated by militaristic society

The Prophets (Robert Jones Jr.): Rethreading queer lines that were broken under slavery, centres two enslaved men on a plantation, while creating queer cultural roots through space and time

Detransition Baby (Torrey Peters): A story about a detransitioned trans woman (now cis man) who accidentally gets a woman pregnant and tries to find a way to queer parenthood. I’m pleased I read it and definitely recommend, but there were elements that I struggled with. The detransitioned character was so worth following

Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer): Recommended to anyone who’s feeling climate doom, especially to get us out of an individualistic headspace and into anti-colonialist allyship with one another. Also plants. Remember to thank them

A Bright Room Called Day (Tony Kushner): Can’t believe I never read (or watched) this play before, considering it’s Kushner and I was a baby theatre gay, but I found it very healing in our times + Kushner’s musings in the 1994 afterword, thank you @mimsyaf

Between The World And Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates): A letter to his son. I don’t even know what else to say, go read it

Thanks again for the tag, I feel like if there’s one thing I actually have had the energy to do it’s read a lot (ngl it’s been a coping mechanism/avoidance tactic at times) and I always want to !!!! about it. I noticed with this list I’m currently drawn to books about creating/recreating threads; historical, mythological, political, communal. I’m very much feeling the potential power of finding similarities, allyship, and family, rather than cutting ourselves off into individual causes and clear-cut hierarchical identities. Some of these books were for me to find myself in and some of them were about listening. I think that’s an important balance too.

hon mention: The Peregrine, JA Baker

tagging (and no pressure whatsoever, I don’t know if you’ve had the spoons for books): @hunkydorkling , @le-red-queen , @an-sceal , @elsonambulo , @pohjanneito , @likethegardensofbabylonn

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My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Listen listen listen dark side Logan orange wrath is all I want in my life please I've been on this theory since day one please I want to be right sandman, after punching me in the face with this ep the least you could do is let me be right /j

14 notes • Posted 2021-08-02 16:24:06 GMT

#4

Hi im so confused. Wh. Why are people mad that an adhd coded character, from a creator who likely has undiagnosed adhd, was told they were infodumping by a character that often teases and makes fun of him for things that are in his nature?? Like its fine, im not saying you arent allowed, but like. Theyve also been made fun of for wearing glasses. And there wasnt a problem with that. It just. Seems odd to me. Cuz for me, as a person with adhd who heavily projects on logan, i think its fuckin neat to see it used, it makes it feel almost canon that hes like me. I really didnt think that all the people who depict logan as adhd or autistic would have a problem with that but here we are i guess.

I for one, while i thought the jam eating part was gross thought the rest of it was charming and cute, and something nice and angst free for once in this series since joan joined in lmao (not that thats a problem, joan added a plot so angst is natural)

I missed my boys being happy. So its nice to finally see it. Even if its far back in canon and lacked any story.

14 notes • Posted 2021-02-20 01:01:56 GMT

#3

Fuck all the sides, fuck Thomas, fuck em all, the only valid character is Logan and we been knew but my friendship with the others is o v e r

Nico and Virgil are on thin ice but they can stay for now.

This is only partially a joke I'm like hella upset at all the sides and Thomas ngl ngl

15 notes • Posted 2021-07-31 23:24:58 GMT

#2

HI IDK HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW BUT BO BURNHAM PUT INSIDE ONTO SPOTIFY

20 notes • Posted 2021-06-13 17:26:58 GMT

#1

Look who's inside again from bo Burnhams inside is about the spiral into the addiction of being mentally ill and how even when you get better you go out and look for a reason to get worse again because when you've been mentally ill for so long it's easier to be reclusive and not participate in society than it is to learn how to reenter it and its a never ending spiral that ultimately leaves you left in your room alone scared to leave but also so desperate to do so and live your life

And kindly fuck you bo, I didn't ask to be read like that, this mortifying ordeal of being know is just as mortifying as I expected

32 notes • Posted 2021-06-15 16:35:24 GMT

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