Depart, depart! by Sim Kern

Depart, depart! by Sim Kern is a short novella of a natural disaster. Our narrator, a trans guy who is on hormones and pre-surgery, ends up in a public shelter with no privacy and where nobody seems to get any privacy. Also, the ghost of his grandfather, who narrowly escaped Nazi camps, keeps saving his…

These letters end in tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere

These letters end in tears by Musih Tedji Xaviere, follows a Catholic lesbian trying to find her lost love. The book is in the format of letters sent to Fatima, her atheist lover from a Muslim family. She tells of her search and of her own life with a gay best friend in a country…

Nightbloom, by Peace Adzo Medie

Around the world challenge / MyReadingChallenge54: Ghana Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie follows inseparable cousins − or rather, cousins that live a continent apart and have completely different lives, and who don’t talk to each other, but who were inseparable as kids. Heartbreaking and fantastic.

Likes Are There Ethics to Blogging?. Relatable: To …

Likes Are There Ethics to Blogging?. Relatable: To my delight, I learned that writing my own version of someone else’s idea is totally fine, as long as I give them a shout-out for the inspiration. Having someone do the reverse for me is high praise

Grenoble la nuit

J’ai eu la chance de rentrer d’un périple pendant les deux heures de la sensibilisation à la pollution lumineuse le 12 octobre. À Grenoble, il n’y avait ni tram éclairé ni lampadaires, ce qui a donné des très jolies découvertes. C’était très joli. J’ai bien conscience que ces photos ne sont pas d’excellente facture, mais…

L’oiseau bleu d’Erzeroum, Ian Manook

Around the World challenge: Arménie Je me suis dit que j’en avais marre d’avoir des lectures déprimantes, alors j’ai lu… …ah ben non, c’est un roman sur le génocide des Arméniens. Le roman suit deux petites filles en 1915 : la grande a 10 ans, la petite six. Elles sont attaquées, déportés, achetées comme esclaves…

Likes Uses. updated my tools / uses page …

Likes Uses. updated my tools / uses page for 2025. i’m surprised (in a good way) at how little has changed since the last update!

like: Sortie de résidence

Likes Sortie de résidence — John Brouillet – Photoreporter. Mon pote John s’est mis à faire des reportages photo sur son tout nouveau site, et je trouve ça joli et cool, n’hésitez pas à y jeter un coup d’œil !

Dreamland

Remember how I used to be obsessed with life in North Korea? For weirdly similar reasons, I’m obsessed with life in the United States. That is a messed up country that I would not want to live in. And a fascinating aspect of this hellhole country is its health system and, directly due to that,…

Here for the wrong reasons

In today’s cringe-but-cute sapphic stories: two bisexual women enter The Bachelor. One is a small-town cowgirl, there because she truly hopes to find true love. The other wants fame, because being seen in a tight red dress for a few weeks would really help with her influencer business − and she doesn’t mind a nice hook-up…