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I’ve got the voices of many in my throat
The teeth of a frog
And the tail of a goat

Remembrancer and The Dog, 2015

Today I get to show my piece for the super ambitious Ladies of Literature, Volume 2! It features a TON of beautiful artwork dedicated to female authors and female characters. I chose one of my all-time favorite books, Garth Nix’s Lirael, and snuck in two females - the titular Lirael and the Disreputable Dog. 

There is a gigantic Kickstarter going on to get the book printed (with just a few days to go!), so if you love female literary characters, I hope you’ll check it out (LINK)! And I’ve been interviewed by YA Interrobang for my piece too, if you wanna hear me wax poetic about how much I love Lirael (ANOTHER LINK!)!

You should be allowed to buy a hot, rotisserie chicken from the grocery store with EBT. You should be allowed to buy toothpaste and toilet paper. You should be allowed to buy otc medications. EBT should be expanded to include all basic necessities and be increased to match.

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actually its really sad we cant do inconsequential cartoon violence to eachother its not fair me and my friends cant throw bombs at eachother and put eachother through a giant cheese grater and toss eachother off cliffs

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we need to get nerf guns and big inflatable mallets right now its all we fucking have

"cost of living crisis" give me a FUCKING break it's called "unprecedented corporate greed and income inequality" fucking cost of living crisis like it's just a natural or unexplainable phenomenon Christ

we are so fucked guys its over

like this is insane like. of course women can be misogynistic, anyone can, thats absolutely true, but it really feels like people think all misogyny is is saying mean things and thinking misogynistic things instead of like femicide and marital rape and sexual harrassment at work and the fucking pay gap and the devaluation of domestic work and child rearing and medical neglect and abuse and forced births and forced sterilization and misogynistic and transmisogynistic hate crimes and domestic abuse and. idk. the systemic and violent oppression of all women? by the patriarchy?

Okay so Victorian erotica is literally the most heinous, morally bankrupt, horrific shit I've ever read - but I've read a fair bit, partly from historical interest but also because a while back I helped a friend with a university project she was doing about censorship and pornography in 19th century England.

Anyway I need to share with you all the most hilarious line that has ever been written, circa 1887:

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I feel like this excerpt is significantly enhanced by knowing that the novel in question is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an inexplicably sapient flea who lives on Bella's body, and that's why the third priest's penis is described in this way: from the narrator's perspective it literally blots out the sky.

annihilation is soooo good because the biologist is aware that she is an unreliable narrator and also hates it. she WANTS to be completely impartial and objective and just observe everything without influencing any of it. but she cant so instead she omits her name from the entire book to the point where it's almost absurd and completely intentional and splits her journal into "objective" chapters detailing her expedition and "subjective" chapters detailing her memories about her husband. ill never be over you biologist