Spook’s Familiar

Companion to Spooky kitty. Library gremlin. Short hair, strong opinions. Heckin’ queer. (They/them)

@/cassdash.bsky.social on 🦋

[Spook’s Familiar @cdash741]

confusing the straights is enby self-care

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

A thread of contemporary fantasy authors you might enjoy if you’ve recently been disappointed by a once-beloved author:

[Spook’s Familiar @cdash741]

I’m looking for suggestions for queer speculative fiction (sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian, etc) with themes of overcoming tyranny and oppression. Ideally standalone novels, not part of a series.
Ideas?

[Spook’s Familiar @cdash741]

@JacksonEflin I just recently discovered the Secret Garden musical and I’m OBSESSED

[Spook’s Familiar @cdash741]

I’m on the 🦋 app now, if anyone wants to find me there.

[Kellie Carter Jackson @kcarterjackson]

I draw on the wisdom of Toni Morrison:
"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."
#WeRefuse.

[Louis Staples @LouisStaples]

Strangely, it's moments like this that I feel most lucky to be queer. I think about our elders. How hopeless they must have felt. How easy it would have been to give up. But they fought for the life I get to live today. What an insult it would be, to them, to succumb to despair

[Spook’s Familiar @cdash741]

@eve_ettinger I’m listening

[JAIL TRUMP @vvage_labor]

i straight up DO NOT care about “illegal” immigration and it’s weird that people do.

[Spook’s Familiar @cdash741]

@CamilleCailloux And I think the writers of the Obi-Wan series agree with me 😅

[Spook’s Familiar @cdash741]

@CamilleCailloux The Obi-Anakin-Padme triangle becomes so much more tragic if Obi-Wan is secretly also in love with Padme, but won’t go against his Jedi vows, and then has to watch her throw her career and life away for his padawan/little brother figure instead.

[Spook’s Familiar @cdash741]

@loni_capri @CamilleCailloux Eowyn & Faramir are actually, canonically together tho

[Spook’s Familiar @cdash741]

@GingerGorman I was the STAGE MANAGER.

Literally the most important job of the SM is to ensure the safety of cast & crew.

[Spook’s Familiar @cdash741]

@GingerGorman Stage managing a Community Theatre play, I told the (male, ofc) director I didn’t feel it was safe to rehearse in the unfinished(!!!) 2-story set, that several cast members had said they felt unsafe on it.

He told me to shut up and mind my own business.

[Rachel Karten @milkkarten]

Memes work. Earlier this year, @nypl launched a meme campaign to get library funding restored. It was a success, with people attributing the restoration of over $58M to the social team's strategy. I chatted with NYPL’s social manager about it, here’s what I learned:

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

I don’t think “doors held open” was a universal experience

[Spook’s Familiar @cdash741]

@MittenDAmour Why does that one guy look like he's posing for the cover of a bodice-ripper novel about a rake

[lisa @gaykittycorps]

what did depressed people and university students eat before instant ramen became popular in the west. genuine question

[Julia Serano @JuliaSerano]

...in a sense, the word "weird" is like "queer" – it's not a pejorative if you're comfortable with the fact that you fall outside the norm in that respect. but if you call (or insinuate) that a straight person is "queer" they will sometimes flip the fuck out...