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defo feel free to send asks about trans things or queer things, i love writing to a prompt or putting out specific stuff when asked!

i have written a lot of fanfic under the name DictionaryWrites, and now i write a lot of original fiction featuring queer, disabled, and transmasculine characters!

you can check out my writing in a big directory here, where there’s over 200 short stories available, many of them erotica, most of them gay

and i also have a historical fantasy romance novel called Heart of Stone between an ADHD vampire and his very autistic secretary. it’s super slowburn with lots of slice of life! check it out on goodreads

Plainer, but another one I simply must have.

been on my “to make” list forever!!! might need to move it up the queue (and also gain the courage to try making sweaters)

Sweaters aren’t that bad. When I originally learned to knit, it was to make a sweater. I made a rectangle and then that sweater. (The one from Viking Patterns with the tabs on the bottom.)

It’s mostly just confidence + being willing to spend 10x as long making one thing.

Looking through the pattern for this sucker, it’s not too bad. There are short rows, and it’s worked bottom up (ew), but it’s in the round and a lot of it is just stockinette, and the body doesn’t even have shaping on the sides. That may be painfully boring for me, but I don’t think it will be too hard. In particular, it’s the construction where you join the body and arms and work in the round, which means you aren’t doing fiddly bullshit to sew the arms into the body. You just use the stitches already on the needle and go up from there.

The cable patterns are written out in words in addition to being charted. TBH I like charts better, but I’d say this pattern is trying to be fairly accessible. (Not like the damn Cassidy that I’m currently knitting, which is like “do as on other side” meaning that you have to know a k2tog becomes a ssk and so on.) It’s not dead easy, but it’s not harder than a lot of hat patterns, just larger.

I’m not a fan of bottom up, and I prefer doing the hard parts first so that the boring parts are the only thing between me and a finished sweater. I find that more motivating. But in terms of courage, this order might be good.

Can confirm the Owls sweater is very, very easy and knits up fast. It took me less time than a pair of Nancy Bush knee-socks.

I also didn’t really like the eyes all the way around the yoke so I chose to get some special owl-eyes for stuffed animals for just one of the lil’ hooters

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Nice!

I’m thinking of giving them all button eyes but making just one winking or making them all different or something. I haven’t decided yet. I have a sweater lot of dark orange-brown wool that was looking for a project. I figure I’ll see how the finished thing looks, then decide on eyes.

Jonathan Harker’s Journal, May 16, continued.

“I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must have carried me here.”

“ Of one thing I am glad: if it was that the Count carried me here and undressed me, he must have been hurried in his task, for my pockets are intact.”

So yeah, there was no way I wasn’t gonna draw the campest possible take on this scene. The Brides are not at ALL pleased at being fangblocked by the Count, and are probably going to leave half a deer in his bed as payback.

THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS BY SŌSUKE NATSUKAWA

I know there are people out there who count books, bookstores, and cats among their top interests. Here’s the book for you. What would you do if a talking cat showed up at your bookstore telling you that you needed to liberate lonely, unread books from their neglectful owners? First I would be worried they’d be coming for my physical TBR, but then I’d want to join Rintaro Natsuki on this thoughtful, sweet adventure.

GARDEN SPELLS BY SARAH ADDISON ALLEN

A comfort book for lots of readers, Garden Spells boasts an absolutely enchanting old house, home to the eccentric Waverly women who are known for their magic. When the last Waverly, Sydney, returns home, she upends everyone’s lives. The family has to come together to heal, and readers should take care if wishing to avoid domestic abuse plot lines. If you think food is magic, and you have a fondness for Practical Magic, this is definitely your flavor of cozy.

HEART OF STONE BY JOHANNES T. EVANS

Let's serve you up some slow burn, pining vampire cozy fantasy. It’s a historical romance between a vampire named Henry and his newly hired secretary Theophilus. It’s also an immersive slice of 18th century life for characters expressly written, per the author’s note, with ADHD and autism. While the threat of outing and/or violence for queer characters is often driving the plot in queer historicals, this book doesn’t not delve into those kinds of stakes. It’s gorgeous.

Hey y’all, I’m happy to announce the first episode of “Anonsee Presents: Trans Stories” dropped on YouTube today! We’re interviewing the wonderful Johannes T. Evans, and you can catch the full interview on YouTube!

You can find Johannes on Twitter, tumblr, and medium as @JohannesTEvans and on Patreon as JohannesEvans!

all this fucking talk of "stealing" with the queer community. "gays are stealing from lesbians" "aces are stealing from gays" "transes are stealing from everyone" absolutely convinced white queers learned about cultural appropriation and decided it could be applied to sexuality and gender and it became entrenched becuz ppl are fucking obsessed with gatekeeping and exclusionism

besties, we are all in the alphabet soup together. the lines between us are blurred as hell. we are not stealing, we are inspired. our culture is bright and beautiful and a street fair that everyone trades at. quit being so goddamn individualistic and embrace the community. it's the only way we have solidarity

Yeah I'm convinced a big reason we got to this point is that white people took the real legitimate concept of cultural appropriation, eviscerated it of any recognition of colonialism or racism or Christian hegemony, and then restuffed it with the less challenging idea of private property

whats that defunct land quote again? every part of the film making process is awful, but not making film is even worse? idk something like that. anywah im being completely normal about art rn ::))

[ID: A tweet of a Reddit screenshot by Defunctland @/Defunctland with the screenshot from r/AskReddit asking “What’s one part of your hobby that you hate doing?” Defunctland’s comment reads “I hate literally every step in the filmmaking process. The only thing I hate more than making a film is not making a film.” /End ID]