Shaay Gallagher-Starr
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Shaay Gallagher-Starr
@shaaygs.bsky.social
Progressive leftist
🏳️‍⚧️&🏳️‍🌈 positive
Supporting the wellbeing of humans and non-humans the best I can.

Substack: https://shaay.substack.com?r=1swi68&utm_medium=ios
You certainly do! Please pass along our love 💕
March 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
💙📚 #ReadThisNotThat
Look to #NaomiNovik #Scholomance series to replace that trans antagonist #JKR

Start with *The Graduate* to follow El Higgins through her perilous magical boarding school. Perfect YA fantasy!
March 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
📚💙 #ReadThisNotThat
Try Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, beginning with *Midnight Riot.* (to replace #NeilGaiman #Neverwhere)

Fun, thoughtful, engaging, set in a London where magic still exists. Sort of a police non-procedural. Enjoying whole series!
#Aaronovitch #RiversofLondon
March 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
THAT is the damned truth!
March 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The only comparison worth making is McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is better, in my opinion. This book should be required reading.
March 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Shirley Jackson blows my mind. As good as ‘The Lottery’ is, I’m not sure it’s even the best story in that collection.

She wrote about racism more than most people realize now, too. Her short story, ‘After You, My Dear Alfonse,’ is a masterclass in white liberal racial bias & micro aggressions.
December 14, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Which is perfectly set up by the pause in: “are supposed, by some, to dream.”

The way the rhythm stutters in those sentences is masterful.
December 14, 2024 at 7:45 PM