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My uncle asked, "Are you the ones who looted the bank?"
The man laughed and said, "No, we arrived too late."

Always a thrill coming across a still active user who joined the year I did or even prior, we're an endangered species this late in the game.

What distinguishes the various economic formations of society – the distinction between for example a society based on slave-labour and a society based on wage-labour – is the form in which this surplus labour is in each case extorted from the immediate producer, the worker.

People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

Pity the object, for it is trapped in its circumstances.

Here we don't die, we shop.

Randomly finally found a copy of this at a typically lackluster library sale, just goes to show the worth in giving oneself even a less than promising reason to get out of the house.

Rest in peace, Patrick Stewart.

Mokoya once asked Sonami where they put all the graves. Sonomi said, "Mother doesn't leave that kind of mess."

Are you like him? I mean that you think I'm so fucking great that I have to die because you can't stand feeling what I make you feel and all that? I can play that, but it kind of gets me depressed sometimes.

Unfortunately reached the point where I need to speed up the reading to ward off giving up out of sheer boredom.

Ok, look, GRAmazon rots my soul forever and anon, but 'Monster Romance' showing up on the front page in the main tags of a work is something I'll certainly be taking advantage of.

Dearest birthday wishes, Ursula K. Le Guin.

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings."

He was too embarrassed to tell them that he was dying.

In a successful product, the role played by past labour in mediating its useful properties has been extinguished.

In every country where the capitalist mode of production prevails, it is the custom not to pay for labour-power until it has been exercised for the period fixed by the contract, for example, at the end of the week [...] Everywhere the worker allows credit to the capitalist. That this credit is no mere fiction is shown not only by the occasional loss of the wages the worker has already advanced, when a capitalist...

Was preparing to give this the whole 'not nearly as transgressive as it pretends to be' treatment, but 'Final Moments' (Saigo no Toki, 1966) may prove to be one of my favorite short stories of all time.

Just added the thousandth book to the shelves of the Trans Reading Trans Group. Onwards and upwards.

Every so often, I wonder how folks are able to read the same 50 Anglo writers year in, year out. Then I rediscover that some folks still incorporate jingoistic xenophobia as a key part of their literary personality in 2026. I may have a lot of problems, but thank fuck that isn't one of them.

...and the weapons in our hands were like food in famine, to us who had flirted with death unarmed.

"Under the priestess's soaked robe I could see the outline of two familar breasts." Imagine slipping that in and expecting all the cishet readers to dutifully not make anything out of it until they were told to.

Partial stars, sure, but when am I going to be able to block someone and immediately see them and their nazi-spewing filth off of my dash? Doesn't make Amazon enough money, I suppose.

My hobby of going to random libraries and fucking up their weeding tendencies by checking out every queer book I can conceivably imagine ever being interested in continues.

Once people guessed you would fail them at the pinch, they took care you should not live to do it.

Been a bit since I was genuinely pleased by any literary news. Many congrats to Anne Carson for her shiny new Nobel Prize for lit. Time to drown my patrons in queer poetry and other goodness.

I had thought I knew a little about command, and what is due to a man of standing. "But this is something," I thought, "to summon invisibility, like a god."

This is what I get now whenever I mark a book as finished from the front page. But yeah. Partial stars. Totes worth it.

Sorry, Amazon's continued massacre of this site wasn't worth this dingleberry of a partial star rating update. Bread and circuses, y'all.

Yeah yeah yeah, what can I say. Getting myself out to the local queer book club is better than drinking myself to death at home.

O. V. Usha; Malayalam
Shashikala Veerayya Swamy ; Kannada
Hajira Shakoor; Urdu
Nidumanuri Revati Devi; Telugu
Kamala Hemmige; Kannada
Vijaya Dabbe; Kannada
Jameela Nishat; Urdu
Hema Pattanshetti; Kannada
S. Usha; Kannada
Pravasini Mahakud; Oriya
A. Jayaprabha; Telugu