Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

90s fashion was bad but 90s fashion on gay women was bad in a way that i want to fuck

this author is claiming that lesbianism effectively ended in the 90s as a coherent political concept but i would like to submit as a counterargument that dykes in the 90s were really fucking hot

(i’m reading a book by a young person on lesbian feminism, and realizing that my feelings on the subject might actually be part of a Pattern of young female-and-female-adjacent queer studies majors looking to the 70s and 80s with interest instead of dismissal)

young millennials and zoomers do not care about your fake queer/lesbian binary and they will make being a dyke cool again

watch out kids, lesbianism is coming back

« “Americans were playing a basic game — ‘Trump wants dirt on Biden,’” says Suriya Jayanti, chief of energy policy at the American Embassy in Kyiv at the time. “What was actually going on in Ukraine was this crazy web of shifting alliances and oligarch pockets and horse trading and back-stabbing, and in our American myopia we had limited understanding that if a tree falls in the forest and America is not there to hear it, it still falls.” » you’d think we would have learned this lesson a while ago, yet

« This week, Mr. Biden and the White House Twitter feed boasted that the president had delivered a large increase in Social Security checks to retirees this year. That increase is an adjustment for cost of living — and it is the result of prices rising faster on Mr. Biden’s watch than they have in four decades » lmao that’s one way to spin it

tryna get better for my comrades

people just, like… don’t keep their drafts…

as a teenager when i was first really getting started writing i strongly believed that capturing the Process was as important as creating an End Product and it is only as an adult that i have really come to realize how entirely atypical that mentality is in the writing world

my posts are correct you cowards; i’m the one who is wrong

i encourage people to disagree with me but instead people just disagree with my posts 😩

this college offered an english degree but its library held virtually none of the most widely-read pieces of english literature

at my alma mater’s library the “fun to read” section was like, three tiny rows set into the wall of the quiet area

i think university libraries should have a budget for, and invest in, things which are fun to read

if you’re a nerd, go ahead and read frankenstein and carmilla, it can’t hurt

as a romance author i think you will develop so much faster and better today studying Twilight and like, a handful of good anime than you will studying like 99% of contemporary popular romance literature

i don’t LIKE that this is the case, i just think that it is

i mean i think it could be better obviously and i have some notable disagreements with choices it made in story structure but it walked so that somebody else could run

like, in my generation there was Harry Potter, right, which people loved because of its worldbuilding and the richness and mystery and magic of it all, and the plot and gradual development of the story over the course of their childhoods and there’s so MUCH to it—but the writing is mostly worthless and nobody is seriously out here like “i’m trying to copy J.K. Rowling’s Literary Style” unless they’re intentionally doing a parody (i hope)

and then there was Twilight, which is a completely garbage story built on entirely unbelievable premises which somehow manages to work anyway because the writing is actually really fucking good

i also think Twilight was a notable contribution to the English canon but that is neither here nor there