26/01/2025 Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport Incoming Transmission…

Linocut print by Pamela Leavey

A lot of stories about learning magic hide the cost of magic: they tell a story that you can have magic through your own individual efforts, i.e. that magic comes by studying hard, learning something, and you just have it! You get this magic, and it’s yours.

Our own society encourages us to pretend that magic is free in similar ways. “I worked hard, I got paid, and I bought this iPhone. It’s magic! And it’s mine!” But we know, we all know deep down, that much of the actual costs are being paid by other people somewhere else, or will be paid by you in the future and in your children’s future.

Magic isn’t free. Whenever there is real magic, someone pays for it. And trying to claw apart the story to get to that truth, to expose and show that truth on a visceral level, is part of what I’m trying to do.

— Author Spotlight: Naomi Novik

hashtag normalize not forgiving shitty parents

I really hope Donna doesn't get a "redemption" unless she becomes a main character to have a full arc.

See, because from what we know and have seen, thus far, Donna does not deserve Carmy’s forgiveness.

Yet more of my favorite duo 💛 different style, far too much perspective lol. Considering getting prints made of this one....

I fucking forgot that enslaved people are risking their lives fighting fires

fucked up to me that some people dont let their pets on the furniture. you have this little guy in your house and youre not gonna let them sit on the couch with you? no kitty on the bed? incomprehensible.

YOU hates terfs

Eddie: Buck and I got into a fight. He told me to take everything that belongs to me and get out.

Maddie: What’d you do?

Eddie: Threw him over one shoulder, Christopher over the other and walked out.