I'm an innie. External ones always, always, always led to some form of punishment, whether from parents, teachers, or friends who were better at masking. Intense fear of abandonment plus overactive pattern recognition equals one autistic person terrified of external meltdowns.

Dollhouse.

When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales by WB Yeats.

In the United States, your 99-cent Kobo book is The Magnificent Sons, so I bought that one instead.

Everyone was of my opinion, and yet I found no one who wanted to accept the bargain of becoming imbecilic in order to become content. From this I concluded that if we set store by happiness, we set even greater store by reason. (2/2) #Voltaire

Voltaire: Candide, Zadig, and selected stories. Finished Candide this morning, so it's time for the selected stories.

Moby Dick is one of my favorites. The first time I read it I had just broken my arm and so required a lot of rest, so I'd read a bit and sleep a bit. I love a book with short chapters.

It can lead to a pleasure in violence and in the infliction of pain [...] It should and could lead to a desire for a new world. It should lead also toward a love of all human beings, and of good will toward them. But those who have once learned to love violence for its own sake [...] 2/2

The one in my town is called Scuppernong's. I was there yesterday, bought the Binti trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor. New books, used books, coffee, wine, special events like author readings or book clubs.

My friends have been asking/answering this question for over a decade. We always agree, they are not okay.

My solidarity with trans people isn’t at odds with Reproductive Justice — it’s integral to it.

I will keep using inclusive language. I will keep including trans people in my work.

Our liberation is bound together.
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