Lizzy
@someonelizz.bsky.social
Queer fiction, linguistics, ephemera. Penhallow/Trevelyan stan. 🏳️🌈 she/her
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I’m generally tired of openings like “[Character] [verb]ed the [noun] as they [verb2]ed, [verb3]ing the [noun2] [adverbial]”
#SFFChat Q1: What are your favourite & least favourite types of openings/beginnings?
Do you detest books that open with weather, travel, or someone staring into a mirror? What about books that open with introspection or with action?
Discuss!
Do you detest books that open with weather, travel, or someone staring into a mirror? What about books that open with introspection or with action?
Discuss!
January 9, 2026 at 1:11 AM
I’m generally tired of openings like “[Character] [verb]ed the [noun] as they [verb2]ed, [verb3]ing the [noun2] [adverbial]”
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If you are in or near San Francisco, there is an emergency protest at 6 pm on Sansome, at immigration court. It is safe, I’ve been there multiple times, but large numbers of people would be very helpful. It’s time for us to get in the streets. Please turn out wherever you are, if you can.
ICE JUST MURDERED A WOMAN IN MINNEAPOLIS
Emergency protest TONIGHT! 6 PM 630 Sansome, SF
This is a non-violent, peaceful protest organized by ISF, endorsed by Bay Resistance & Mujeres Unidas. Come join us, resist ICE:
Emergency protest TONIGHT! 6 PM 630 Sansome, SF
This is a non-violent, peaceful protest organized by ISF, endorsed by Bay Resistance & Mujeres Unidas. Come join us, resist ICE:
January 7, 2026 at 9:31 PM
If you are in or near San Francisco, there is an emergency protest at 6 pm on Sansome, at immigration court. It is safe, I’ve been there multiple times, but large numbers of people would be very helpful. It’s time for us to get in the streets. Please turn out wherever you are, if you can.
Someone once told me that nobody ever died of cancer until seedless watermelons were invented.
If you want to troll someone effectively, you gotta be willing to say something *so* stupid it pops up in their mind, unbidden, a year later.
January 7, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Someone once told me that nobody ever died of cancer until seedless watermelons were invented.
The Handmaiden (2016)
January 6, 2026 at 7:08 AM
The Handmaiden (2016)
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Post a famous bathroom scene
January 5, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Post a famous bathroom scene
Avoiding my geopolitical anxiety by reading the Harvard Magazine obits, and damn this issue starts off with a banger
January 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM
reordering the alphabet by place of articulation
tired: from A to Z
wired: from P to H
tired: from A to Z
wired: from P to H
January 2, 2026 at 9:59 PM
reordering the alphabet by place of articulation
tired: from A to Z
wired: from P to H
tired: from A to Z
wired: from P to H
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foot fetishist (iambic pentameter)
January 1, 2026 at 10:16 PM
foot fetishist (iambic pentameter)
somebody’s read Metaphors We Live By
January 2, 2026 at 3:33 AM
somebody’s read Metaphors We Live By
I finished 30 books this year. Here are a few of my favorites:
January 1, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I finished 30 books this year. Here are a few of my favorites:
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December 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Average person only sniffs one ham a week. Jamón Jorge, who lives in Spain and sniffs 800 hams a day, was an outlier and should not have been counted
I like to imagine that there is a rivalry between two top ham-sniffers: one, a meticulous keeper of precise traditions, the other a brash bad-boy with a colossal nose.
December 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Average person only sniffs one ham a week. Jamón Jorge, who lives in Spain and sniffs 800 hams a day, was an outlier and should not have been counted
👀 Now I really want to read this
As I'm winding to the end of this book, I have to admit that this is the best piece of Aussie transfemme litfic I've read yet.
It's ironic. I searched so damn hard for a book like this in the fall, and here it just falls in my lap!
Anyway this is 100% my Aussie pick for the 2026 Start Here page.
It's ironic. I searched so damn hard for a book like this in the fall, and here it just falls in my lap!
Anyway this is 100% my Aussie pick for the 2026 Start Here page.
Alright we are BACK on the awards reading grind! This time with Geraldine by Aussie author Andrea Thompson, a novel that I have seen exactly nobody discuss.
Shoutout to Fremantle Press for the review copy (though next time please don't forward me your internal communications 🥺)
Shoutout to Fremantle Press for the review copy (though next time please don't forward me your internal communications 🥺)
December 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
👀 Now I really want to read this
I once watched a movie set in the 70s, I think it was All the President’s Men, and there’s a scene where a character lights a cigarette while IN AN ELEVATOR WITH ANOTHER PERSON, and I was so shocked I literally screamed out loud
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I once watched a movie set in the 70s, I think it was All the President’s Men, and there’s a scene where a character lights a cigarette while IN AN ELEVATOR WITH ANOTHER PERSON, and I was so shocked I literally screamed out loud
There’s a 1995 sci-fi novel, Slow River by Nicola Griffith, that’s set in what was then the future. Characters have ID implants in their arms and can get genetically modified to prevent cancer. And it’s mentioned in passing that the main character’s uncle has a husband.
On the upside, I had to explain context of a novel to baffled child: “in the olden days, it wasn’t allowed to be gay”
December 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
There’s a 1995 sci-fi novel, Slow River by Nicola Griffith, that’s set in what was then the future. Characters have ID implants in their arms and can get genetically modified to prevent cancer. And it’s mentioned in passing that the main character’s uncle has a husband.
This strikes me as an anachronistic take about Angels in America. The play premiered in the early 90s. I don’t think most people at the time thought of Trump as a particularly political figure, just as a rich real estate guy. He just didn’t seem very relevant to the themes of the play at the time.
December 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This strikes me as an anachronistic take about Angels in America. The play premiered in the early 90s. I don’t think most people at the time thought of Trump as a particularly political figure, just as a rich real estate guy. He just didn’t seem very relevant to the themes of the play at the time.
In TRYING by Chloe Caldwell, she says she feels like her infertility is karma for doing drugs, shoplifting t-shirts, and texting & driving. I deeply feel for anyone who wants kids & can’t have them, but I was taken aback to see texting & driving put in the same category as shoplifting a t-shirt.
I think it's interesting we always discuss the rights of drunk people handling heavy machinery that can kill you but we never discuss the rights of drunk people who walk home and their right to be safe from drivers
The California ACLU is staunchly opposed to the ignition interlock device program and is a big reason that it has not been expanded. Despite the fact that California heavily subsidizes the cost for low-income drunk drivers, the ACLU says that the program is a form of "racialized wealth extraction."
December 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
In TRYING by Chloe Caldwell, she says she feels like her infertility is karma for doing drugs, shoplifting t-shirts, and texting & driving. I deeply feel for anyone who wants kids & can’t have them, but I was taken aback to see texting & driving put in the same category as shoplifting a t-shirt.
I love meter, so this made me curious about meter in Obama’s speeches. The opening of his Iowa caucus speech is a line of iambic pentameter followed by a line of iambic tetrameter:
“You know, they said this day would never come / They said our sights were set too high.”
“You know, they said this day would never come / They said our sights were set too high.”
December 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I love meter, so this made me curious about meter in Obama’s speeches. The opening of his Iowa caucus speech is a line of iambic pentameter followed by a line of iambic tetrameter:
“You know, they said this day would never come / They said our sights were set too high.”
“You know, they said this day would never come / They said our sights were set too high.”
I enjoyed this book very much!
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Woodworking
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December 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I enjoyed this book very much!
I was at a diner the other day and they were saying that real love isn’t ever ambivalent
December 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I was at a diner the other day and they were saying that real love isn’t ever ambivalent
thank you Al Gore for inventing the internet so that I could learn that Tony Kushner’s husband (and perhaps Tony Kushner) has watched and enjoyed the gay hockey show
December 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
thank you Al Gore for inventing the internet so that I could learn that Tony Kushner’s husband (and perhaps Tony Kushner) has watched and enjoyed the gay hockey show
I have some friends in their early 30s, college-educated, high-info voters, lived their whole lives in the U.S., and I just had to explain to them what happened with Pat Buchanan and the butterfly ballot. I feel old.
December 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I have some friends in their early 30s, college-educated, high-info voters, lived their whole lives in the U.S., and I just had to explain to them what happened with Pat Buchanan and the butterfly ballot. I feel old.
of course I know law. Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law
“you know some law from grad school, right?”
“well it was 16th century laws of the sea. when will that ever be relevant?”
“well it was 16th century laws of the sea. when will that ever be relevant?”
December 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
of course I know law. Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law