#using fun very liberally

[po-1-yb-1-us]

kind of obsessed with the idea of AM being forced into a humanoid body. like maybe before it was too late someone realised that, hey, this robot is too invested in the morality of this conflict and they condensed and confined him to one singular shell. maybe that way he could still be useful as a captive, a prisoner, but one that can still tell people how to win the war. ……idk its a fun idea to me

[queerliblib]

Irish? Queer? we’ve got books for you

Irish authors, settings (or both!), with a St. Patricks’ Day romance thrown in - all available at the Queer Liberation Library!

Books pictured are listed below, and there are more in the list in our collection if you click through!

Some Integrity by Padraig Regan (multi-award winning irish poetry, queerness as a way of looking)

In the Name of Love: the movement for Marriage Equality in Ireland by Una Mullally (what it says on the tin)

Moments of Glad Grace by Alison Wearing (ultimately a family story, exploring ancestral connections to Ireland and a daughter’s relationship with her aging father)

All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue (teens, tarot, and catholic school)

Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary (young friendship in 1980’s Dublin)

Lucky to Be Yours by Shannon O’Connor (fun F/F rom-com!)

[invasive]

Collection :]

[n1k0p4n]

Currently translating Epic in Quebec French because I realized I have free will and live posting to my partner’s dms

[akkivee]

read thru the arb event and the differences in how ichiro and jyushi greeted sasara vs rosho has been hilarious lmao

🎋: oh we’re really getting into it now!!!!

🌙: y-you surprised me……!!!

1️⃣: where did you even come from sasara-san…….

———

🍮: well if it isn’t ichiro-kun and jyushi-kun!! what a coincidence!!

🌙: ah, rosho-san!!! hello!!!

1️⃣: hello 😌

[catinfroghat]

I started a literature course at the public library and there was the poshest women I've ever heard in my life there my eyes literally widened in disbelief at the way she was pronouncing some words omg...

[mallach]

inane system bitching. not knowing who i am most of the time is internally annoying (but i deal with it) and conceptually devastating HOWEVER the real dilemma it presents is not knowing what icon to throw on things

[reigen-small-naturals]

you know these fandom accounts that are all sarcasm and vile and you just look at them and think 'buddy why are you even here if you aren't having fun'

[staticymaticyyourlifeisatravesty]

Finally did art of Miriam!! It's mostly concept at this point, but I did give Miriam funky blood wings mostly because I felt like she needed something to more outwardly make her inhuman.

They're based largely off of moth wings hence the eyes and the general way they sit when not in use. It was this or give Miriam more than two eyes.

The blood sword is unashamedly based off of the chikage from Bloodborne for Miriam IS influenced heavily by Bloodborne specifically lady Maria.

[wild-at-mind]

I get why people like the whole queer existence is resistance thing. I don't personally, because I think it puts a tonne of intracommunity pressure to exist in the 'right' way, I.e. the way that is 'radical' to the person currently scrutinising you. As a person with OCD that manifests in self scrutiny that I have to constantly concentrate on to avoid it becoming self hatred, I'm never going to be a fan of that. I kind of feel this way about any kind of assimilation conversation with regards to queerness really. I think it's an important conversation within irl communities who already care for each other- who shows up for others outside of their own interests and who doesn't, etc. But the internet makes things so impersonal and cold. It encourages people to make very serious snap judgements about others who they don't even know, and to encourage others to believe that about them. None of these people are in community together in any meaningful sense, or they wouldn't treat each other so ungenerously.

Anyway I had a bit of a realisation earlier- I think we have to tell ourselves our existence is inherently radical all the time because we're always getting the subtle message from our community and the wider activism community that having a good time or enjoying yourself is somehow bad, or insulting to people in dire straits. But instead of challenging that idea we say no it's OK because I'm doing activism simply by being here. I think it's fine to feel that way and in many ways existing as a marginalised person really is radical. I just want to make sure we aren't internalising the idea that we can't ever be happy or having a fun frivolous time without justifying it, and passing that idea along to others without meaning to.

[crescentfool]

based on a true story (ft @shoujok and @seashellshades)

[chickenisamazing]

Love that my new boss is openly pro-Palestine 🥲

[serenhob]

Idk why but I literally can't function without deadlines. I literally do nothing until te day before I need something done and it's stressing me out.

Like wdym that I wrote 2000 words in an hour for an essay that due tmr but I've only written 200 words for my writing for fun story 😭😭😭

[nicklasbackstroke]

I've been lowkey maintaining that, yaknow, the Canadian hockey boys at large likely aren't any better than the Americans, just less opportunity to stick their foot in their mouth I guess. But gotta say, wasn't expecting it to be PK Subban who showed his ass quite so badly lmao. Wasn't on my 2025 bingo card etc etc

[sturionic]

Donald Trump Is Not Joking About Annexing Canada: A Fucking Timeline

December 3, 2024: Trump's quip about Canada becoming 51st state was a joke, says minister who was there (CBC News 🇨🇦) <- This is when it could have feasibly been a joke

January 7, 2025: Donald Trump is quoted in a press conference directly stating his intentions to annex Canada (New York Times, timestamp 0:45 🇺🇸) <- This is where Americans should have stopped telling Canadians it's just a joke

REPORTER 1: Are you also considering military force to annex and acquire Canada? DONALD TRUMP: No. Economic force.

February 7, 2025: Trudeau says Trump threat to annex Canada 'is a real thing' (BBC 🇬🇧) <- This is where the Commonwealth starts to take it seriously

Trudeau suggested Trump has floated the idea of taking over Canada and making it the "51st state" because he wants to access the country's critical minerals. "Mr Trump has it in mind that the easiest way to do it is absorbing our country and it is a real thing," the prime minister said.

February 9, 2025: "Trump's national security adviser: 'I don't think there's any plans to invade Canada'" (NBC News 🇺🇸) <- CANADIANS NOTICE THAT THIS IS NOT A VERY STRONG DENIAL OF POSSIBLE MILITARY FORCE

February 10, 2025: Trump Confirms He’s Serious About Wanting Canada As 51st State (Forbes 🇺🇸)

Fox News host Bret Baier asked Trump whether Trudeau was right in telling business leaders the U.S. president’s threat to absorb Canada is a “real thing,” to which Trump agreed with Trudeau and responded, “Yes it is.”

February 12, 2025: ‘Trump effect’: How US tariffs, ’51st state’ threats are shaking up Canada (Al Jazeera 🇶🇦) <- This is where the rest of the fucking world outside America starts to take it seriously

February 18 2025: CBC releases podcast episode: "What if the U.S. invaded Canada?" (CBC's Front Burner 🇨🇦)

March 4, 2025: Canada Eyeing NATO Ally's Nukes To Deter Trump 'Threat': Candidate (Newsweek 🇺🇸), British nuclear weapons can protect Canada against Trump, says Trudeau party candidate (The Telegraph 🇬🇧)

“I would be working urgently with [European Nato allies] to build a closer security relationship… in a time when the United States can be a threat,” said [Canada's] ex-foreign minister and finance minister at the final Liberal leadership debate last week.

March 4, 2025: Prime Minister Trudeau: "What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that’ll make it easier to annex us” (CTV News 🇨🇦)

March 7, 2025: BC Premier David Eby: “We know the president in back rooms with Canadian officials has said he wants to redraw the border" (Global News 🇨🇦)

Eby: "If this president wants to annex Canada, he should save his breath to cool his soup, it is never going to happen.”

March 7, 2025: How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious (New York Times 🇺🇸) <- This is where American news media starts to treat this as maybe possibly not a joke

March 9, 2025: U.S. Congress bill aims to prevent funding of invasion of Canada (CTV News 🇨🇦) <- This is where you should understand that military force is ON THE TABLE

March 11, 2025: Canadian opinion of U.S. falls sharply; 63% take Trump's threats 'very seriously' (National Post 🇨🇦)

March 13, 2025 (TODAY): Trump threatens to acquire Canada, Greenland while next to NATO chief (Global News 🇨🇦)

“To be honest with you, Canada only works as a state...This would be the most incredible country visually,” [Trump] said. “If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it, between Canada and the U.S., just a straight artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago, many many decades ago, and it makes no sense.” -Donald Trump

And hey, just for fun, let's contrast that with another quote:

First of all, I would like to emphasize that the wall that has emerged in recent years between Russia and Ukraine, between the parts of what is essentially the same historical and spiritual space, to my mind is our great common misfortune and tragedy...I am confident that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia. -Vladimir Fucking Putin, the year before launching an attack on Ukraine, which everyone also said he was joking about and definitely wouldn't do (2021 essay, Kremlin official website 🇷🇺)

I know you're overwhelmed, Americans, but please stop saying this is a joke. Canadians are anticipating an invasion, possibly within the year. This is not a fucking drill.

[bogkeep]

i have not listened to Every podcast out there doing a critical analysis of diet culture, but it weirds me out how often i try one out and the hosts will mention recent attempts at weight loss or dieting, or unpack insecurities or their relationship to fatness in real time on the pod. they're allowed to do that, it's their bodies and their lives, but after being so maintenance phase-pilled for so long it kind of takes me out of it. i didn't realize how much i appreciate maintenance phase for Not Doing That until i had something to contrast it with.

maintenance phase really is the platonic ideal of a podcast. to me