Wall Creeper Rajesh Mahajan, 2022 Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh

Chol Mabior at Robert Wun Couture FW 2026

On this pride month, remember that Twin Peaks aired an episode in 1990 where it introduced Denise Bryson, an openly transgender woman in the DEA who is referred to by the characters with her pronouns, and her identity is respected and valued throughout the three episodes she was in, making her a fan favourite among fans and transgender women.

She returns in the third season, where her former boss Gordon Cole, told everyone who wasn't willing to support her for her identity, to fix their hearts or die. The phrase "fix your hearts or die" was eventually appropriated by the transgender community and became a common phrase used against transphobes.

Also remember that Laura Palmer and Dale Cooper, the main characters of the show, are bisexual, and have canonically related and felt seen in queer spaces (there's also a scrapped scene from Fire Walk With Me where Laura and Donna were going to kiss, and the infamous deleted scene where it seemed Cooper was going to kiss Harry after the Miss Twin Peaks show). And they're not the only ones who are bisexual! Ronette Pulaski, Theresa Banks and Bobby Briggs are also bisexual.

I have to mention that BOB was played by Frank Silva, a non-white gay man who sadly passed away due to AIDS complications in 1995. Frank had been involved in Lynch productions since Dune, and everybody honours and remembers Frank fondly, saying he was the sweetest man you could ever meet.

In conclusion, Twin Peaks is a queer show and it's important to acknowledge what Twin Peaks did for the community. Especially Denise Bryson and the quote "fix your hearts or die".

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!

Per @spoonstrek

and a little borzoi design

one of my earliest video game memories was my neighbor from down the street burning me a copy of Roller Coaster Tycoon onto a CD and giving it to me for free, with the caveat that one day a week he would sit behind me and backseat game HARD. like "build this here, okay now build this here, no not there, HERE, okay now make a path here," etc etc. i never minded it at the time, i genuinely had no idea how to play so i thought he was teaching me. years later i learned that him and his family were Orthodox Jewish and him backseat gaming me was his way of getting around the Sabbath ban on playing video games

the entire family was so fucking funny dude. one time they accidentally left a floodlight in their backyard on past midnight that was shining directly into my parents' bedroom, so they go over and knock on their door to ask "hey can you turn that light off?"

and they go "no. we cannot turn the light off :)" and then my parents remember it's technically the Sabbath and the parents in particular are so Orthodox they won't even directly ask people to do things for them. and they keep repeating "no, WE can't turn the light off :)" while holding the door wide open and angling their bodies towards the light switch

back when we were an androgynous teen hippy dressed entirely in lilac, we got hailed as we passed by a house in golders green (an area of nw london famously orthodox jewish back then, which has since become way more multicultural) by some orthodox jews who needed help

a candle had fallen over and set their tablecloth alight, but they weren't allowed to put out the growing fire - so we went in and put out the tablecloth (it hadn't got that bad yet, fortunately), and wished them shabbat shalom, and they were really freaked out that someone who looked like us was jewish

so either you are lying or uhhh they were fucking idiots who do not know basic halacha because ofc you can put out a fire like that on shab

politeness forbids we respond to this in an appropriate way, we're just telling you what happened

On this day, 23 August 1924, French resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud was born. On her 20th birthday, 23 August 1944, she engaged in her most successful resistance action. Along with three other fighters and a train driver, Riffaud successfully captured a Nazi supply train complete with 80 soldiers on board. Her unit threw all the grenades and explosives they had at the train, then used fireworks to make the Germans believe they were outnumbered and outgunned. Riffaud recalled to Agence France-Presse in an interview: “We made an incredible amount of noise and it terrified the poor Germans and they pulled back into a tunnel. The locomotive was still sticking out and we managed to persuade a retired train driver who was washing the dishes with his wife to go down with us to detach it. He was a brave man. We warned him that he would be a perfect target, but he told us not to worry, and crawled underneath the engine, unhooked it and drove it away, and then walked home. We didn’t even think to thank him.” The resistance activists were then backed up by some firefighters and the local mayor, until eventually the Germans, stranded in the tunnel, surrendered. At that point Riffaud realised it was her birthday, and they then celebrated with dried sausages, jam and ham seized from the train. Learn more about resistance to Nazism in World War II in episodes 63, 64, 72, and 77-80 of our podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/working-class-history/id1355066333

let’s merge with mama

if i die i will be reincarnated as an iconic and common printing error

Seaglass - Jeanne Rosier Smith

American , b. 1966 -

Pastel on sanded paper , 24 x 24 in.

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one of our neighbours when we were growing upwas a sweet autistic kid who didn't speak until he was four, and his first word was rhinoceros

guess what I'm fucking makingggg

first time making crab rangoons, sorry

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Cats love to stare at you from random surfaces

This morning my twice-fed cats stared me down as i made my own breakfast

Your white cat looks mechanical. Like the one from Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

those two look like gangsters about to fuck you up like "nyan, see?"

Your hoarder grandfather dies and you gotta clean out his hoarder house but unfortunately he was a powerful wizard so you gotta clean out twelve tower floors of floor-to-ceiling cursed artefacts and expired mystery potions.

There's a rat infestation and you genuinely can't tell if they're natural rats or not.

He's got some really nice magical cupboards that lead to huge extradimensional spaces but those spaces are also crammed full of random bullshit.

You find like twelve magical ancestral swords in there. You're pretty sure that your family has a magical ancestral sword but you have no idea if it's any of these ones. You'll have to ask your mum but she refused to come to the tower so you're gonna have to lug all twelve of them across the country to her idyllic little village to find out.

#hey op write a manga

Only somebody who has never seen me try to draw would say this.

you could ask the swords which one is your ancestral one but you can't stand their singing, and especially not that one who sounds like the anthony & the johnsons guy (plus swords are notorious fibbers)

but you decide to keep the one you're especially fond of who can transform between being a jewish tgirl and a cutlass

I won't publish the ask (they asked me not to), but I thought I'd still answer it publicly!

no, royalties are not a significant source of income for most authors. if you wrote something like Project Hail Mary, then absolutely, the royalties would be substantial! but that's like winning the lottery. Ryan Gosling is not starring in the movie adaption of most books.

when you sell a book to a publisher, you get what's called 'an advance against royalties'. it's usually split into multiple parts, so you might get one third for the initial sale, one third for the final revised manuscript, and one third on the publishing date.

an advance against royalties is the publisher saying "we believe you will eventually make X amount in royalties, so here it is ahead of time." and then you don't actually see any money from royalties until the advance is paid off. most books do not make enough in royalties to pay off the advance (I have two children's books and one fiction book, and have yet to see royalties for any of them).

advances are still great, but you need to make them stretch! for instance, last year my net income was about 30k Canadian (21k USD), which is fantastic when you consider that I mostly made it through writing. but I'm definitely not a millionaire. I can live off my writing (not trying to undersell that!) but I'll probably remain in a low income bracket for the foreseeable future.

this isn't meant to discourage anyone from seeking out writing as a career! however, there is a reason that many authors have alternate jobs with writing on the side. or, you know, rich spouses.

this isn't me making a fuss about pirating (I've pirated way too many shows to run my mouth on that lmao), but there IS actually a financial incentive to having people buy your books!

buying books shows the publisher that they can make money off you, which means they're more likely to give you advances for future books. and advances are what authors live off (if they don't have a side job). that's why I always push pre-orders so hard! you have to be a racehorse worth betting on, or else they send you to the glue factory....

if I can offer one alternative to pirating: asking your library to stock the book also helps authors, and doesn't cost anything. the only downside is the patience required.

OOPS yes, @stjohnstarling makes a good point! everything I'm saying is from the perspective of traditional publishing, but it's a very different game if you're a self-published author

I will also add that this is why pre-orders can make a HUGE difference to authors - because if there's enough hype, publishers can pull more levers to build that momentum and reach more readers to help authors earn out their advance faster.