Naga @naga@octodon.social

hi! if anybody knows someone in the seattle area who's queer and does taxes (especially small business taxes) professionally I would love to pay them! feel free to DM me a contact :)

"We’re looking for stories about people who are planting the seeds for a totally different future, who are actively pushing for changes in their communities, who are imagining who they would be in another time and place, if they didn’t have to define themselves against stereotypes, systematic injustice and a dominant culture that excludes and harms them. Show us these visions."

"We are, as always, especially interested in submissions from trans women and people of color."

These are paid projects, circa $50-300.

https://www.autostraddle.com/call-for-submissions-in-another-world/

I don't do color work often. This was done as a farewell pinup when I ended my run on the webtoons series 'Dents' #mastoart #art #dents #webtoons #comics #pinup

No, no, young (and probably male) writer, those women are not robbing you of your success.

If you are not successful, it's because you're either not a good enough writer, or because you haven't written enough. Probably both.

It's not enough to be a better writer than Robert A Heinlein. Novels improve every year. You must become a better writer than N K Jemisin.

This has been a public service announcement from the Successful Professional Male Writers Association. #writing

We're planning to have a meeting to kick off the new year.

Take stock of where we are, what we need to do, and who wants to do it with us.

This means that even if you haven't contributed before, but would like to and think you can this coming spring, you're very welcome to join us!

We're checking suitable times with Doodle:
https://doodle.com/poll/xybf4nnic6nccv8g

#Florence

If the purge was real, I would spend the whole 24 hours planting trees in places I am not normally allowed to.

Progress! I have formatted the open letter, and it looks pretty much ready to send around. Here it is in PDF:

https://www.sunclipse.org/wp-content/downloads/2020/01/open-letter.pdf

And here is a copy in basic HTML:

https://www.sunclipse.org/wp-content/downloads/2020/01/open-letter.html

Signatories to date:
@noelle
@socrates
@milia
@host
@l4p1n
@koyu
@tyr
@er1n
@Sylvhem
@rey
@david
@liaizon

When I was a kid we used to hunt around for scorpions at night with a UV lamp. (UV makes scorpions floresce.) We didn't do anything to them, just looked at them for a while and moved on. Anyway I figure that's probably the arachnid equivalent to a UFO encounter.

Does anyone have any idea what it would cost me (as a person) to pay someone to on a bi-weekly or monthly basis review my private notebook and public social media posts to identify items worth saving on my personal website; and turn it the decent stuff into a "second-draft" with editorial commentary?

Assuming it's somewhere between 4~8 hours/mo of work?

I'm putting out a call for all marginalised people. If you're a POC, GNC, an immigrant, poor, indigionous or otherwise marginalised, I want to talk you! I'm writing a blog post on how AI is becoming the new eugenics. This is not for anything official, just my own blog that isn't even public yet. Contact me if you want to share your experience. Otherwise please boost! I want to talk to as many people as possible. DM me if you have questions

the thing about the internet is one moment you're like "heh, i just remembered Ralph the motorcycle mouse," so you google the beloved children's books from your youth.

and then exactly twenty-two seconds later you are somehow on the Etsy page of an amateur taxidermist who dresses stuffed mice as Pope Francis and sells them for $100 a pop, and squinting at the photos trying to evaluate if that's a rip-off or a fair price for the level of artistry.

because internet.