plox

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they/she ~☉~ sleepy in seattle

a sailor aloft in a historical sloop's standing rigging
"a good book can change a life" meme depicting men being being feminized by Peter Watts' 'Blindsight'. The author's caption reads "I don't know who did this. But it certainly puts forward an unusual perspective."
Wolf spider carrying an egg sac past a garden trowel
Mech design by Keith Thompson
diagrams of the CSS Alabama's mechanical systems; the steam funnel and screw propeller retract to improve sailing performance and hide her nature as a steam ship
Sometimes the dead require blood to speak. What they need, beyond all else, is the gift of memory. Tell their stories, speak their names, affirm their truths. The dead will cast shade and spill tea, pay attention to truths that are most brutal. Recite their poems, sing their songs, read their texts. Let their words live on in your work and on your tongue. What is remembered lives. These are ancestors of sundered lines. Many were cut off in life, few have biological descendents. If you are their true descendents, your wellbeing is in their interest. Ask for assistance in your projects and endeavors, turn to them for inspiration and insight. In everything you do, honor them and recognize that assistance. These spirits, in life, feared dying alone. Assure against their isolation in death. They died in prisons and camps and psych wards, at the hands of inquisitors and gaybashers and cops. Vengeance is sweet even to them. The greatest vengeance is to live joyously on their behalf. Be ready for old debts to come due. The dead are rarely constrained by human morality, they make fearsome conspirators and defenders. War extends to all levels, there are hostile forces as well. Keep your friends close.