Today only -- Aug 1st -- big ebook sale.
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ebooksAs in the title. Sale ends at midnight; I assume USA Eastern time (GMT -5, I believe). Links to all the booksellers -- Amazon, Apple, B&N, Google, Kobol.
This is the main link; you can filter by genre in the top menu.
Happy reading!
Comedy as poetry
Jul. 29th, 2025 02:11 pmteaotterThe barista at my local coffee shop just saw Chris Fleming at a local comedy show and was raving about it, so I had to go look them up. The comedy style is intensely physical, rambly, and surreal, and several people I've showed this to have bounced off very quickly.
But I realized that one of the things I love about this clip (and some of their other clips) is how much the pieces seem like poetry to me. They start out fairly well grounded, then take a turn, then take another turn, and end up in these intensely personal metaphorical spaces that I associate with modern poetry.
I saw a woman's not born yet
not even conceived yet
daughter appear to her
in the frozen aisle
and her fist burst through the blueberries
to reveal
a new vegan chex mix
I mean, yes, half of me is definitely going WTF, but at the same time I am absolutely here for the poetic exploration of gender from a nonbinary perspective and a sub rosa critique of the assumption that women somehow have a mystical grocery shopping power.
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Jul. 26th, 2025 01:33 pmarethinnenotsola, to his screen: Aaahhh! I hate your website. And you're 21? You have no excuse.arethinn, looking over: I think it's because they're 21, actually. People getting into Neocities are committing the same crimes we did on Geocities, just in higher resolution.enotsola: Not a single spinning skull or "Under Construction" banner. If you're going to steal my culture, do it right.(The website in question had a "collage" kind of design that made it hard to read text on the background, especially since bits of it wound up being white on off-white.)
perhaps relevant:
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Jul. 21st, 2025 11:15 amarethinnare there any life hacks for like. how to be worth anything and have anything you do deserve anyone giving a shit about it and to not get punished for the mere act of mentioning that it hurts to be wrong and not enough? answers on the back of a postcard
(and don't say "intimate friendships" like a couple of no doubt well-meaning folks did here. I have no idea how long it's been since I had one of those, never mind more than one. what a concept. the whole thing is there's not enough of me to achieve and sustain such a thing, even if I knew anyone with whom I would be comfortable trying it, which I don't. I barely get accepted into surface-level friendships. nor does "[you don't] need to reach a certain threshold to be allowed to live happily" make sense here because I'm talking about needing to reach a threshold to be accepted as belonging.)
(and don't say "intimate friendships" like a couple of no doubt well-meaning folks did here. I have no idea how long it's been since I had one of those, never mind more than one. what a concept. the whole thing is there's not enough of me to achieve and sustain such a thing, even if I knew anyone with whom I would be comfortable trying it, which I don't. I barely get accepted into surface-level friendships. nor does "[you don't] need to reach a certain threshold to be allowed to live happily" make sense here because I'm talking about needing to reach a threshold to be accepted as belonging.)
Dreams of Dead Stars, Part III, ch. 9: Anatomical Investigations
Jul. 20th, 2025 02:12 pmelynneNote: this chapter is very NSFW! My apologies for the rather abrupt end to this rather short chapter. I’m still working on getting myself back into a regular writing groove, and for that I’m going to skip another week, so the second half of this scene will be posted on Sunday, August 3rd. Thank you so much for reading, and for your patience!
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