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Things I'm Reading
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I read everything. Here are excerpts of things I'm reading, in English #عربي and #Español. 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🪢🦯🔞 #writing #novels #kink #bdsm #فلسطين
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🌈 Not interested in compartmentalizing my interests 🔞but if you only follow me out of interest in one topic and are reallly *not* interested in others, you can mute the topics you are not interested in on your own profile settings. A suggestion 💫
Read the book #Tampa recently & keep pondering it. Billed as Lolita w/a gender reversal (not quite), it is about a teacher who preys on a 14 year-old boy in her class. The reviews focus on the salacious aspects, but sort of miss the point. Debating whether to do a thread on it. Has anyone read it?
Is it just me or is bsky’s “algorithm” a little zany?
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Michael McAdory was a leatherman and LGBT activist. He was one of the first people in Texas to be diagnosed with Kaposi's Sarcoma in 1981. He was a co-founder and the first president of KS/AIDS Foundation of Houston.
Omg lol!
I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
Little Day by Ava Limón

This is what it comes down to
Me on a park bench, always writing
This is what it comes down to.

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When I tie and suspend myself in my own style, I tie myself pretty tight, so at the same time I feel two different things: on one hand as if “I’m tormenting myself”, and on the other as if “I’m embracing myself”.
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Do you ever tie yourself? What are the feelings like for that?

Yes, I do self ties and self suspensions. But I’ve not been taught by anybody, so even though I can tie myself, I cannot tie other people.
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You are selecting a co-witness for the apocalypse. Choose for gentleness.
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Do not interview; notice.
The questionnaire kills warm-blooded animals. Come on!

Instead: observe how they treat the waiter, how they talk about people who are absent, whether they slide their chair back when a toddler wobbles past.
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Speak plainly when hurt; briefly when angry.
A clean wound heals; a theatrical wound becomes a career.

Name the specific sin, propose the small repair, and do not forward the minutes to the group chat. Apologies should be nouns (“I was cruel”), not weather reports (“things were said”).

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Allow difference to survive contact: their football; your medieval heresies; their tarot; your taxidermy. The aim is not to be two halves of one person but two complete people orbiting a third thing that neither of you owns.

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Excerpt from: An Existential Guide to: Making Friends

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Be a small mirror, not a full-length one.
Reflect a little. Don’t cosplay them. Keep your colours. Friends do not fuse; they braid.
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An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
Friends Friends What Glorious Friendly Friends!
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Why does everything have lead in it? Didn’t yall do a report that found lead in lunchables?
They try to push us back – well, that means we gotta put the gloves on and fight again,” she says. “We have to get rid of the people in charge – the 70- and 80-year-olds who hold us down, who want to try to suppress us. You get rid of them, and we can build up, and move forward.
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