![[ID: an edited action shot of my chemical romance performing. gerard has a messy speech bubble saying, "it's bandcamp friday," and another member has a messy speech bubble saying "whoa! thanks for reminding me! it is bandcamp friday! i cant wait to support my favorite artists. also i am on the ground" gerard is singing and pointing to the other member, feet wide apart, and the other member is playing guitar right in front of gerard while bent back on their knees so theyre horizontal with/on the ground, looking back up at gerard. end description] from joelleity](https://64.media.tumblr.com/7bd14880587764055d179b8138166b94/35ebcfa1c4c71795-32/s1280x1920/8462da360cc005fe2eaabaa70c07915f39e3e05b.jpg)
ALTseeing this recirculate! it’s not bandcamp friday — the next one is sept 1st! :-)
O no I missed it
Next up October 6th
Bandcamp Friday is TOMORROW!
I always forget, THANK YOU
"Cupid with a Pistol on Top of a Mountain of Skulls" by Gustave Doré ( 1832 –1883).
Listen, some days coming out of your well to shame mankind just doesn’t cut it.
whats cool about being trans is my parents are totally right. i did kill their beautiful son. im the thing that animates his corpse in an ever more convincing parody of a happy girl. i devoured him from the inside out and now there is nothing left of him and he is dead dead dead and there is only me, with my hollow eyes and dark eyeliner and long hair, and my big smile. my limp, effeminate gestures belie the marionetting of the boy they loved. my fagginess is his death. already his body becomes a fitter home for my parasitism in full; the tits, the hips, the thighs. sorry about your kid. thanks for the biomass <3
rereading my own writing is just a constant fluctuation between "damn, girl, you wrote this? (affectionate)" and "damn, girl, you wrote this? (derogatory)"
I am also “damn, girl, you wrote this? (forgetful)”
Damn girl, you wrote this?
Damn girl, you wrote this?
Damn girl, you wrote this?
This is honestly better advice than “if at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”
By all means try again. But do that after you figure out WHY you failed!
As someone who took etiquette lessons, politeness is an incredibly effective tool for disarming bigots. You can either force them to reconsider their words/actions by directly and calmly confronting their behavior (by using the rules of society in your favor), or you can dip entirely while they appear to be in the wrong.
Both options are great.
Because the thing is, when bigots pick fights, they are 100% counting on you to get louder than them. Or meaner. They want you to react emotionally and provide fodder for their 'You're Too Emotionally Immature To Understand' cannon.
What they aren't expecting you to do is say one of the following phrases in a polite, concerned tone:
For those of you who'd are spiteful and/or dealing with Fundamentalists/Evangelicals/generally shitty Christians:
And my all time favorite:
"It sounds to me like there are some seriously dark and angry forces at work in your heart."
(Nothing stops a Christian bigot in their tracks faster than implying the Devil is causing their bigotry. But you MUST be calm, polite, and gentle with your tone and wording. It is absolutely fair to twist the rules and play them at their own game, but you gotta play hard.)
TLDR: It's much faster to use etiquette, politeness, and rhetoric reversal when eviscerating idiots online and in person, because they aren't expecting you to weaponize their behaviors back in their direction. Don't get angry, get spitefully polite! :)
My favourite one is "Do you think that this is a normal/acceptable thing to say/do?"
Oh fuck off
Anyway the best opening line to a book is still from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
Another favorite is the opener from CS Lewis's Voyage of the Dawn Treader:
"There was a boy named Eustice Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
May I present a strong contender as well:
JESUS CHRIST. Killer opening.
ALTthis cat looks like it has 1 layer of hair to go underneath his other layer of hair that's solely used to shoot up in anger
That's actually true, cats have two layers of fur, this image shows really well the difference between their dense undercoat and their more sparce overcoat because this lil guy is just SO MAD
he is SO MAD that he became the perfect science demonstration.
ALTthis cat looks like it has 1 layer of hair to go underneath his other layer of hair that's solely used to shoot up in anger
That's actually true, cats have two layers of fur, this image shows really well the difference between their dense undercoat and their more sparce overcoat because this lil guy is just SO MAD
he is SO MAD that he became the perfect science demonstration.
Tonight (October 2), I'm in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. On October 7–8, I'm in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest.
The Lost Cause is my next novel. It's about the climate emergency. It's hopeful. Library Journal called it "a message hope in a near-future that looks increasingly bleak." As with every other one of my books Amazon refuses to sell the audiobook, so I made my own, and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-lost-cause-a-novel-of-climate-and-hope
That's a lot to unpack, I know. So many questions! Including this one: "How is it that I have another book out in 2023?" Because this is my third book this year. Short answer: I write when I'm anxious, so I came out of lockdown with nine books. Nine!
Hope and writing are closely related activities. Hope (the belief that you can make things better) is nothing so cheap and fatalistic as optimism (the belief that things will improve no matter what you do). The Lost Cause is full of people who are full of hope.
ALTThe action begins a full generation after the Hail Mary passage of the Green New Deal, and the people who grew up fighting the climate emergency (rather than sitting hopelessly by while the powers that be insisted that nothing could or should be done) have a name for themselves: they call themselves "the first generation in a century that doesn't fear the future."
I fear the future. Unchecked corporate power has us barreling over a cliff's edge and all the one-percent has to say is, "Well, it's too late to swerve now, what if the bus rolls and someone breaks a leg? Don't worry, we'll just keep speeding up and leap the gorge":
https://locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/
That unchecked corporate power has no better avatar than Amazon, one of the tech monopolies that has converted the old, good internet into "five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four":
https://twitter.com/tveastman/status/1069674780826071040
Amazon maintains a near-total grip over print and ebooks, but when it comes to audiobooks, that control is total. The company's Audible division has captured more than 90% of the market, and it abuses that dominance to cram Digital Rights Management onto every book it sells, even if the author doesn't want it:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff
This looks seriously worth reading. Recommended.
ive watched this video 5 times in the last two days and it always makes me laugh til i get a headache & i wanted it on my blog but didnt find it anywhere so guess i gotta do it myself
I wrote something for Spooky Season!
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Vincent Price as Prince Prospero
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) // director Roger Corman
That last one is the reaction image to end all reaction images.
