Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

this isn't anti-hashtag but if you're working on a zine / collective / conference / etc consider making a group for it and following that instead

i think we have better tools for more intentional and more specialized communities here than Twitter can offer, even if they might be a little harder to find

one thing i would love to see from #MastoArt folks is a more active embracing of tools like https://a.gup.pe/ to build intentional networks of support, instead of relying on hashtags and similar networking patterns carried over from Twitter

#introductions follow me if you are a communist and read Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

but also: just listen to the EPs lol

anyway i hope it does well because i want her to keep making music

(i say “the EP” but this LP is a compilation of her two; the first isn’t anything special but the second was magic and i’m upset they broke it up the way they did)

the general flow and cohesion of the EP is so much better; the album just feels disorganized to me and i blame some Polydor/Darkroom/Interscope exec

holly humberstone released an LP but it really just feels like the EP plus some B‐sides for people who are too good to listen to an EP

the new macOS looks like the old macOS with worse settings

updated my personal computer

hey twitter folks, if you maintain critical infrastructure, i encourage you to simply let the site go down and let elon try to replace you

we could share some code with mastodon without all the simple design flaws i mean

sometimes i get the urge to just make another fediverse rails app

russia now trying to raise up a skeleton army to bolster their forces it sounds like

« To reach Potemkin’s remains, they would have opened a trapdoor in the floor and climbed down a narrow passageway, according to people who have visited the crypt. There they would have found a simple wooden coffin on a raised dais, marked with a single cross.

Under the lid of the coffin, a small black bag held Potemkin’s skull and bones, carefully numbered. »

« KYIV, Ukraine — As Russian forces pillage occupied Kherson and Moscow rushes in reinforcements ahead of a looming battle for the strategic southern port, the city’s Kremlin-appointed proxy rulers dispatched a team to a majestic 18th-century stone cathedral on a special mission.

They were sent to steal the bones of Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin. »

i don’t want to just be like “straight people don’t know how to fucking read” but in a very real way straight fiction is comprised of a number of literary slights of hand which serve to artificially uphold and reinforce the myths of straight culture, and i don’t know how you can care about literature and not see that happening, and i don’t know how you can see it happening and tolerate it, and i don’t know how you can refuse to tolerate it and still maintain that you are straight

i'm a good writer but there's things i absolutely will not tolerate in my own fiction namely :—

• pretending something normative is actually controversial (just write actual controversy)

• using bullshit or tropey conflicts for the sake of creating narrative tension (there are always better sources of tension)

• stating things with a flourish for the sake of making it appear more dramatic than it actually is (drama should be situational not a farce of prose [unless it is an actual farce i.e. comedy])

• “cheap tricks” more broadly, i.e. any technique which is justified primarily on account of what it does to the reader as opposed to what it does to the story (the story itself should justify the reader’s interest, so the job of the prose should be to support the story)

sometimes however it feels like refusing to do these things limits my potential audience quite severely, especially among straights (as the first two points are absolute mainstays of straight romance fiction)

you had to contrive a completely bullshit tension because literally every force in the universe endorses this relationship