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good is a thing you do

@tora42 / tora42.tumblr.com

queer fandom old with a fondness for fiction podcasts, murderbot diaries, and whatever else catches my attention at any given moment
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Reblogged uovoc
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Old Ne Zha art from when I watched the first movie!! No spoilers please I haven't watched the second one yet ^_^ hehe

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Reblogged wickedlittlecritta
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Seiryu Miharashi Station (The Ghost Station) is a railway station on the Nishikigawa Seiryū Line in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. It has no entrances or exits, meant only to get fresh air and enjoy the scenery.
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Reblogged wickedlittlecritta
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hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.

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For my own future reference, and for anyone else who wants it, a list of authors mentioned in the notes. (I cannot promise this is comprehensive, there are a lot of reblogs and I might have missed some.) I've included a link for each author, where possible I've tried to find one that leads you to their books, prioritising own websites/publishers, falling back on wikipedia otherwise.

If you find any mistakes in the links let me know and I'll edit. This post will be in two parts, because I literally broke tumblr with how many authors there were. I think it's about a hundred and fifty.

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And here's part two:

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I didn't see her (hope i didn't miss her) Roxane Gay! Fiction and non-fiction essays

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Reblogged dharmaavocado
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Der Sumpf/The Swamp

Manchen der Freunde sah ich, und den geliebtesten Hilflos versinken im Sumpfe, an dem ich Taglich vorbeigeh. Und es geschah nicht an einem Einzigen Vormittag. Viele Wochen nahm es oft; dies machte es schrecklicher. Und das Gedenken an die gemeinsamen Langen Gespräche über den Sumpf, der So viele schon birgt. Hilflos nun sah ich ihn zurückgelehnt Bedeckt mit den Blutegeln In dem schimmernden Sanft bewegten Schlamm. Auf dem versinkenden Antlitz das gräßliche Wonnige Lächeln. I beheld many friends, and the friend I loved the most, helplessly sink into the swamp I pass by daily. And a drowning was not over in a single morning. Often it took many weeks; this made it more terrible. And the memory of our long agreeing talks about the swamp, which already held so many. Powerless now I saw him leaning back covered with leeches in the shimmering softly moving slime. Upon the sinking face the ghastly blissful smile.

Bertolt Brecht trans. Naomi Replansky in Poetry Magazine, December 1947 (original German)

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Reblogged wickedlittlecritta
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honestly sometimes stories where characters have self awareness and solve their problems maturely can be really refreshing sometimes. and sometimes it feels like therapyspeak slop. intense stories where no one is capable of understanding themselves and act out in incorrect ways can be very fun. and sometimes it feels like contrived bullshit. whatever makes "a good story" is harder to make happen than just using the right kind of characters using the right words

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