I know the fun take is “well yeah, we know”. And I agree, she’d been coded as gay FOREVER

But having show creators explicitly say “this character is queer, and executive meddling is what kept us from showing that” has me feeling ALL the things. Like, how cool that this character I love is *confirmed* and it’s not just…

I cannot recommend the app “Forest” enough. Basically it locks you out of your phone by planting a little pixel tree. You can choose to whitelist some things like your music app or texts. You set the timer, and the tree grows. If you stop it, it dies. It’s a cute little guilt trip that has shown me exactly how often I…

What a fucking read. I can’t imagine the amount of willful disregard for peoples’ lives that it took for her to email you. Just... the IDEA of saying “these people suck” while also having committed your entire being into supporting their cause.

I don’t want to tread into “no true Scotsman” territory, but this lesbian…

I moved to New England from the south awhile ago, and damn I miss the sound of cicadas. I get entirely too excited when I hear them in game

There’s something really satisfying about the diving and swimming sounds in the game, and I enjoyed the hell out of it this morning. It’ll have to do this summer, since I can’t go up to camp like I normally would.

My friend is coming over this afternoon to day drink and tie dye a bunch of random stuff. We haven’t actually hung out since everything started, and we decided tie dye is an easily done while social distancing outside activity. I’m pumped. 

Seeing a looooot of comments saying they’re just ordering from Amazon and fam, I URGE you to find the Raven Bookstore’s recent twitter thread about why that’s just completely undoing all the good karma points you’re trying to get by reading those books.

Use bookshop(dot)org if you want to shop online- they support…

...Why would you order it on Amazon instead of just... another indie? Like. Amazon is absolutely killing indies and undid all the goodwill points you were trying to get for yourself.

There are HUNDREDS of indie bookstores in the country, almost all of which can ship. If you want an online alternative, try…

Just a note: Almost the entire cowriting team that worked on the book were women or nonbinary folx. Probably went a long way to the representation in the game, not just having Crawford (who is also great!) on board (Carlan is one of the writers)

Thank you so much for this- I’ve been on the fence about getting this, even though I’m a devoted fan of the first game. There have been so many transphobic and misleading things coming out since the leaks, and it’s been hard to tell what’s actually real vs what’s just transphobic bullshit.

I think I’ll wait a few days…

I can answer this from a bookseller perspective- there’s a LOT of discussion in the industry right now about if it’s even possible for a store to be apolitical (no, because we all personally curate our selections), and do we need to speak out?

This is an argument happening in a *lot* of industries right now, especially since now everyone is discovering most office jobs can be done remotely. Publishing in particular- I work in books, and there’s a lot of discussion about WHY do we need all the pubs in New York? Why are they intentionally keeping out…

You should do a piece about the Bangor PD FB, and Tim Cotton, who runs it They hit national attention a few years ago because of the “Duck of Justice,” and since then, Officer Cotton has made a bit of a name for himself. The page has a regular column where they talk about who they picked up onwarrant this week (no…

As someone who has lived in Bangor most of her life, I can attest- it really do be like that.

Like. I love it here so much but sometimes I forget about what this all must look like to people from away.

I fully rolled into this blog thinking it was going to be about Cam Giganet.

Given how there’s a queer showrunner and a lot of other representation.. they did it for the *gays* not the *gaze*

Just because lesbian content exists, doesn’t automatically make it geared toward male cosumption. 

This aged well

Reading this in mid-May when it’s a worldwide pandemic and we’re all locked inside is... whoooooooo boy

Yup, mine has gotten *awful*, and trying to terraform or lay paths is absolutely infuriating if I’m trying to move to the left. I think I’m just going to cave and shell out for a sweet set of custom shelled Joycon on Etsy, because my brother never shuts up about how awesome his are.

Some cursed switch in my brain flipped the other day and started reading all the fish and bug puns in a Seinfeld voice and I can’t make it stop