it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"
Thank you so much for your wonderful words, and I'm so glad you enjoyed the journey!!
Wellety wellety wellety guess who is contributing to the Welsh folkloric fiction anthology I kept yelling about when it kickstarted: www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
Here is your occasional reminder that I have a new story out this month!
It's about creepy flowers and a family slowly falling apart, and it's free to read at The Dark:
www.thedarkmagazine.com/the-sunflowe...
No, it's because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population. The Guardian really needs to stop publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap as news. (The Avondvierdaagse is a nice tradition though.)
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
We are delighted to announce the full line-up of stories for the book (this is not the final running order):
Poem (title tbc) – Jo Walton
‘A Blessing and A Curse’ – Ben Moxon
‘The Giant’s Gifts’ – Ben...
The grass died that sweltering, fey summer, and the wildflowers, and the garden tomatoes, and the corn maze Dad had planted in the top field. (Mam said he’d been watching too many American movies; Dad...
www.thedarkmagazine.com
Once a year, Dutch kids, parents and teachers take part in a walking festival, heading out for four nights in a single week to explore their neighbourhoods, exercise and make friends. It’s a tradition...
This week's blog is about (re)discovering the secret to getting unstuck when you're fried.
Some of you won't like the answer 😂
Starmer in 24: my government will let you just get on with your lives, promise
Starmer in 26: IS THAT A PRO PALESTINE BIT OF CARD I SEE??? DO I SENSE A TRANS PERSON HAVING A WEE SOMEWHERE??? WHY IS YOUR 17YO NOT TUCKED UP IN BED WITH LIGHTS OUT AT 8.30, CITIZEN?????
Cynthia Gómez
Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords
JL George
Do you need a twink obliterated? The good folks at Bona Books have some suggestions. Get them in this year's Pride Storybundle.
www.storybundle.com/...
Marie Phillips
As an author who has been struggling this year to write due to life chaos, I think I have found (re-found?) the key to unstuck myself. This panacea is two-fold, and a good chunk of you are absolute…
oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this???
In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now
DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING
Honestly, this is where the current transphobia leads. Suddenly everyone gets comfortable treating gayness as tragic like it’s 1982. These are connected. You’re next.
Hatok
Got pissed off at parents who treat their kids like Starbucks orders and/or write in to the papers that this is not the child they ordered; stress-wrote a piece. Support the Daily Tism! thedailytism.com/mother-of-au...
Cheering for @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social today and Muñeca, a sassy, sapphic, snarky fairy tale that takes dead aim at the very supports that would lead to a Sleeping Beauty. Full of music + rage + longing (justice, love, a space) and some truly magical prose.
thedailytism.com
An aspiring Telegraph columnist is "thrilled" that her four-year-old daughter is autistic, due to all the hand-wringing articles she can get out of it about her horror at not getting exactly the child...
The sheer level of illiberalism from the government is galling - on teens, on protest, on speech, on immigration, on private business. It’s like they did securonomics but forgot the economics bit.
Libby
Ben Ansell
I haven’t reached an internal consensus on an u-16 ban yet but feel very strongly that 16-25 year olds are having both rights and responsibilities stripped from them and this is a Bad Thing.
