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Im Here, Im Queer, I Want To Go Home

@multiversecassiel

Hi I'm Cassiel (Aspen). They/He.
I'm a genderfluid lesbian . I love books, punk rock, and my cat Khoshekh. Fallow my marine biology blog @friendofsirens

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

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haha that's a nice starry-eyed ambition you've got there buddy. sure hope the narrative doesn't warp it into something ruthless and all-consuming

It's crazy going from mostly hanging out with lgbt people to a tableful of cishets bc they'll find out a bi guy dates men and women and they'll spend 3 hours trying to wrap their heads around it. And I have to be like sorry but how have yall survived this long.

Captain: and he said he's bi and has hooked up with men!

FA: wait but wasn't he really into (flight attendant who's a woman)??

Me: well if he's bi then he's into men and women

FO: but he hooks up with men?

Me: yes that's what bisexual means

Captain: It's just really confusing

Me: it's really not

FA: but he's not--like he's not...

Me: he's bi. He likes both.

Captain: this is just something I don't know a lot about

FO: yeah it's really confusing

Me:

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Even better, the comments to this Twitter post were an absolute FIRESTORM of mostly dudes explaining to her that dials can’t only have 2 positions (not true) and that it wasn’t a very good piece (not true) that she was being disrespectful to her teacher (don’t care) and that it was a sign of her stupidity/rabid feminism/intellectual laziness/misandry/etc. that she couldn’t see any “middle ground.” It became, in its way, a performance piece. I was absolutely mesmerised, even as I wished I could cock-punch people through the internet.

Personally I hope that knob goes to 11 and stays there.

“Dials can’t have only 2 positions” is also missing the point. Even if it doesn’t have only 2 positions, the point stands that getting less of/farther away from “raging feminist” requires getting more of/closer to “complicit in my own dehumanization.” You should always be at 0% having to be complicit in your own dehumanization.

[Image ID: A tweet by Oliver Darkshire 🌈 (@/deathbybadger) that reads, "my husband is doing this new thing where he stops mid-special-interest-acceleration to say 'i am about to autism all over you. about crabs' and I put my things down and am like 'yes please proceed, I am now listening, i am ready to learn about crabs' and it feels very healthy". /end ID]

Helloo! I’m going to start posting some of the commissions I did this year! I’ve done a few for book authors and I loved working on these so much. 

These were commissioned by Travis Baldree author of Legend and Lattes that just got a new shiny edition! It’s a super cozy book perfect for autumn! (Grab some coffee and cinnamon rolls before diving into this book).

You can get stickers and mugs of these on the author’s webpage!

Dropping the latest Sketch-a-Wish voted on by my lovely Patreons for June! A cozy scene from Legends & Lattes (by @travis_baldree), featuring Viv and Tandri trying out Thimble's scrumptious Cinnamon Roll! If you missed it, reading this book for this SAW prompted me to make my own Cinnamon Rolls from scratch (for research, of course!) I have a highlight of these shenanigans on my Instagram. 😂 Are we excited for the Bookshops & Bonedust prequel? 🔥

With NASA announcing their streaming service NASA+ and also announcing it’s going to be free and also ad free, I’d just like to appreciate the lengths they go to make scientific knowledge and exploration as available as they possibly can.

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