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Beautiful work, as always. Please consider me for the hat :)

(Let me know if you’d like me to forward you the emailed receipt.)

And when Aragorn wears his bracers the rest of the time ahhhhh 😭

Thanks for the suggestions! Misery does clear that bar because it’s not about a larger system of violence against specific identities like the other two are. (I know that’s… very specific; it’s the best way I can think to explain.)

I’m so sorry 🫂💚 she was gorgeous, and you can really see her personality in these photos.

(Tomorrow I’m going to look at the 1988 Lambda Literary Awards on an actual computer screen. Their past awards listing does not like mobile 😂)

I was looking at that earlier, and it seems a little bit sparse! Not surprising since it was pre-Internet-as-we-know-it

The NYTimes bestseller list is, as you can imagine, pretty bleak offerings, and I’d rather read something that didn’t get the major accolades. It’s away from those accolades where you usually find the bravest, most beautiful stories, anyway.

A book adapted into a movie: Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. I enjoyed this one a lot. I was taken off guard by how sweet and sad it is—disarmingly so, and a novella besides, both of which are a testament to Mars-Jones’s skill.

I put the most recent High Occulture postcard on my fridge when it arrived, and I was looking at it today when I needed a reminder like this. Thanks so much for always leading with such kindness & community-minded generosity.