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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

It’s disturbing to see left-leaning folks glom on to comforting disinformation that fits their own narratives. Call me old-fashioned, but I think it’s crucial that we distinguish ourselves from the Right by sticking to facts and evidence, even when it’s awkward […] [Original post on queer.party]

Three rather smartly dressed bearded bros flank a poster-sized photo of Charlie Kirk. The photo is in black and white and rather glamorized. Kirk’s full name, “Charles James Kirk,” is emblazoned along the bottom of the photo in all capital letters. The photo stands on a black easel. The situation is apparently some kind of memorial.

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025

It’s remarkable how Christie’s generation of blue-blooded British writers took for granted that socialism was evil, prima facie, and no explanation of what makes it evil is required. At least Dorothy Sayers portrayed her socialists with a bit more nuance than the […] [Original post on queer.party]

“They must believe it to be entirely their own show."
The Russian laughed softly, as though amused.
"Yes, yes," he said. "That is true. They must have no inkling that we are using them for our own ends.
They are honest men, and that is their value to us. It is curious, but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. The instinct of the populace is infallible." He paused, and then repeated, as though the phrase pleased him: "Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards."

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2025

Whenever a scandal like this hits, we always found out that plenty of people knew, and the people in a position to stop it knew, yet chose to sweep it under the rug. To my mind, that makes them accomplices […] [Original post on queer.party]

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025

戦前戦中の日本の小説では60代は完全に老人扱い👴👵 今年還暦を迎えた私にはそこさこ刺さるね💦 （スクリーンショットは江戸川乱歩の1936年の小説『怪人二十面相』より）

江戸川乱歩の小説『怪人二十面相』（1936年）のスクリーンショット。

の下には茶色の十徳姿のおじいさんの変装が用意してありました。頭はしらが、顔もしわだらけの、どう見ても六十をこしたご隠居さまです。
彼は姿をととのえると、かくし持っていた竹の杖をつき、背中をまるめて、よちよちと、歩きだしました。

同じく『怪人二十面相』のスクリーンショット。

ずっとつづいて、いつしか穴山の坂をこしてしまったのでした。
つまり、老人は美術のお城の、奇妙な城主というわけでした。
きょうも老人は、白壁の土蔵のような建物の、奥まった一室で、古今の名画にとりかこまれて、

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025

Have any #comics fans ever heard of a #musical comic? And I don’t mean a comic adaptation of an animated musical film. HAGIO Moto’s “The Perfect Crime: Fairy” may be the only one in existence. It includes 30 songs, all by KAI Yoshiro of Kai Band. Hagio was […] [Original post on queer.party]

Photo of the closed volume on a wooden floor. The cover features a handsome young man with an 1980s-style New Wave hairdo wearing a tuxedo. The bow tie is sky blue and yellow, and tied very loosely. The man holds a bouquet of pinkish roses, and there are colorful party streamers on his head, shoulder, and the bouquet.

Interior two-page spread showing the male protagonist singing into a microphone and dancing with a young woman. The lyrics to the song (all in Japanese, of course) appear in various panels.

A full-color two-page splash page at the beginning of the volume showing three young women and a young man, dressed in exotic 1980s costumes dancing amid what seem to be shining lights. The words “Kai Yoshihiro musical” and the titles, “Fairy: The Perfect Chrime” appear in bold letters along the bottom of the two pages.

A list of all 30 songs, in Japanese, followed by Hagio’s own explanation of the origin of this manga. These pages are at the back of the book, after the manga itself.

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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @rachel-thorn.queer.party.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2025

I have no head for business, because I don’t understand money and numbers, so my brief career making lightsabers to sell to people was a miserable failure. I never once turned a profit because I always drastically underestimated how much money I had spent making […] [Original post on queer.party]

A replica Obi Wan Phantom Menace lightsaber, without the polycarbonate “blade” inserted, resting on a clear acrylic stand, photographed on a black wooden floor in ambient sunlight. The original prop combined various parts, including the body of a cylindrical hand grenade and part of the grip of a Graflex flash gun. The main hilt is black, with silver pommel and emitter, accented by brass neck between emitter and hilt.

The same lightsaber photographed in the same way, but in this photo the blade is inserted and lighted, in a sort of royal blue, deeper in color than the cyan blade of the Skywalker saber I posted earlier.

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