Crooked Channel, Folded Temple
Two paintings for the Globe & Mail - David Gratzer, an attending physician at CAMH writes about what led us to a crisis of mental illness and potential paths towards meaningful change.
Big thanks to AD Ming Wong 🙏
These two originals are available in my shop.
ALT🌈 Hey Rainbow Readers! Our final list is queer horror! This is for readers who loved books like Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, Into the Drowning Deep by Seanan McGuire and The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass! For this list, we defined horror as stories that create feelings of fear, dread, repulsion, and terror in the audience. Horror feeds on audience’s deepest terrors by putting life’s most frightening and perplexing things at the center of attention
We hope you have enjoyed all ten of our Pride Month book lists, you can find them all saved in our guides. All of these lists feature between 10-20 books and all books on it will have under 5,000 Goodreads ratings, with a handful on each being under 1,000! Our goal is to introduce you to new books you might have never seen otherwise. These will be a mix of indie and traditional books; and range in age category!
Do you have any others you would add to this list? Authors please feel free to self-promote your queer horror books in the comments!
Books listed above their respective graphic.
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With A Vengeance by Freydís Moon
Cutting Your Teeth by Caylan MacRae
Transmuted by Eve Harms
The Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu
You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron
ALTRapture by Saint Harlowe
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
It Came From the Closet edited by Joe Vallese
Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky
ALTWhat We Devour by Linsey Miller
Chlorine by Jade Song
The Wicked and The Willing by Lianyu Tan
The Whites of Their Eyes edited by Xen
Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper
ALTThe Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro
Scout’s Honor by Lily Anderson
The Girls are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Queer Little Nightmares edited by David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli
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Lee Mandelo's Summer Sons definitely deserves to be on any queer horror list!
As an agender person, I want to be a girl with a massive cock
hot transgender summer. cut the sleeves off your shirts. hairy legs and arms. cut your hair. grow it out. sit outside. watch the sunset. go to a park. love and light.
i love having gay sex and then listening to Katy perry, it’s like having a glass of wine in the bath
creepypasta for cats!!!!!!!!! one time one of the taller high up cats opened a food and you sniffed it and you didn’t like it. and instead of opening up a food you like the high up cat ate it because this food was NEVER(!!!!!!!!) going to be for you at all! It was for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
reblog for easter
forget april fools day its almost time for the best video on this entire fuckin planet
sunglasses. no sun. it’s cloudy: overcast.
Holiday tradition
Important for those who need to pay their hospital bills.
I’m not saying this isn’t worth trying because like… anything is worth trying but when I was sent a $22k bill for my gallbladder removal when my insurance fucked up, it was fully itemized from the get go. There was literally no shame in charging me $220 for ten tablets of acetaminophen or anything like that. Most hospital bills come in already itemized.
The idea that you can shame them into feeling bad for their prices or that they’re being kept secret is giving bad advice and I do wonder if people spreading it have ever actually had to deal with truly expensive medical procedures that aren’t covered by insurance.
Like the most an itemized bill is gonna do for you is be there so you can check if you are being charged for things you straight up did not receive (which is quite possible).
Better advice is looking up the specific hospital’s patient advocacy line and seeing if you can apply for financial assistance, how their interest free payment plan, or look into the Charity Care offerings of the hospital, if it’s public and not private. If you are under a certain wage bracket, you may be eligible for the entirety of your bill being covered or receiving a discount.
I know this is a lot less #PettyRevenge or whatever, less sticking it to the man than “Haha, I wanna see my BILL PLEASE! NO SCAMMING THIS TIME!” or whatever but like… these are more realistic than your hospital suddenly being shy about telling you all the dumb shit they are shamelessly overcharging you for.
I lucked out with my $22k bill and it ended up just being a failure to send paperwork about my insurance coverage and I basically considered suicide foree an entire week for no reason but I WISH people had given me REALISTIC advice for my problems instead of “Uwu, ask for an itemized bill.”
Listen y’all… hospitals aren’t ashamed for charging you $1k per second of your nurse counting back from five or whatever.
It’s ALWAYS worth trying, though it will often involve further questioning and not just “itemized bill please” (ie asking why some individual item is X and why another thing is Y price, you have to actually challenge the bill) but I think this is a lot of false hope when most people actually working to help people with medical debt will not give you this advice. OP of this tweet is a 22 year old who struggled to answer any basic questions from peopel replying to her tweets.
And the rest are telling people to just not pay it because “credit scores are fake.”
Please… please god just do more research into how to manage medical bills. Don’t listen to everything you see on twitter. This is one small step that might help a little bit, MAYBE, but there are much better things to be spending your time on in terms of accessing help.
