maya ⭐ @maya@occult.institute

if you read stuff on my website and it's more convenient to refer to me as your friend than as a person on the internet with a website you keep up with, I hereby befriend you

if you see undesirable content being federated through occult.institute to your instance please let me know and I will implement the necessary blocks. this is a 1.5 user instance so I don't typically bother blocking instances proactively but that is only because of laziness/perceived lack of impact, and I don't want it to actually impact anyone

😬🧷: microblogging has neither the social immediacy of chat nor the considered aspect of email. while I still accept responsibility for the impact of what I write, until this crap gets an edit button, it may not ever be what I *meant*.

if u follow me and u wish I would CW something I don't, DM me :)

I just thought of the following four words and I need to know if anyone finds them as funny as I do: "Computer Modern wedding invitations"

what is the appropriate skull density for home decor

also a lot of reviews have criticized it heavily for not engaging with America's history of chattel slavery. That seems like a really good critique -- it's not that a story like it couldn't have been told, but that there's something really sketchy about setting something like this in a supposed Baltimore and yet not grappling with slavery and race.

Also OverDrive is probably still a pain in the ass to get books onto kindle or whatever, but it worked great to just read in the browser.

I just read Docile by K. M. Szpara. I don't think it needs a full review on my website, so here goes: bits of this felt a bit too perfectly therapized, and sins too neatly swept over. Maybe it could have used a few more edit passes to tighten up the plot/cast. That said, it was a good read, even for me as someone who reads 0 m/m stuff. More speculative fiction stuff should commit to exploring one idea thoroughly. Definitely read CWs for the book first!

does anyone else have twitter refuse to show them publicly-scoped content when they're not logged in? it shows up in a private browsing window... obviously I have a lot of my own speculation already about this but if anyone has actual facts/knowledge that'd be interesting

(to the tune of teenage mutant ninja turtles) post pandemic hair decisions

who is supposed to vend "official" merch for a book series? the author, or the publisher? does this *have* a traditional answer, given the relative rarity of book merch?