Hello everyone! My name is Cassandra Jules Corrigan and I’m an author of queer-friendly kids books. You can check my creds here.

My editor Alex and I have pitched a kids’ anthology of queer folklore and mythology where we’re hoping to gather submissions from 10-15 different contributors of different cultural backgrounds telling a queer story from their culture’s folklore or mythology. Talks have been going well, but the publisher, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (an imprint of Hachette), would like to see more submissions to get a better feel for what the final product would look like before green-lighting.

Submissions should be around 100-200 words, focused on one story, and be written in a style appropriate for late elementary/early middle school. If you would like to include sources for the story, you can put them at the end in a bibliography, Chicago/Turabian style is preferred.

We especially would like submissions from POC, but white authors are also welcome to submit.

If you would like to write something for us, you can use this form to submit. Please keep in mind that submitting does not guarantee that you will be included in the final anthology, but we will reach out to you via e-mail if we want to use your writing.

If you aren’t a writer or this isn’t your thing, I would still really appreciate a reblog to spread the word!

Thank you all so much!

s33th1ngg:

s33th1ngg:

I love themes of repression in horror

yesss let it bottle up inside and turn into something monstrous ^_^

chilewithcarnage:

cockodemon:

important-animal-images:

adios

transcrawler:

ship so good, a future where they’re safe and retired is called an au

bogleech:

naamahdarling:

proton-wobbler:

my-random–thoughts-deactivated:

Your daily dose of fluffy animal content ♡

Royal Flycatcher (genus Onychorhynchus)

This bird is being properly held in the photographers grip and is not being antagonized into doing this threat display. Flycatcher are well known in the banding world for being difficult to photograph, as they love to be dramatic about literally anything. It’s most likely this video was the last thing that happened to this bird before being released.

(I’m not affiliated with the banding station that captured this bird, just a bird bander myself and want to reassure people the bird is indeed fine)

Pretty effective defense display given that if I saw a bird do that I would definitely fucking LEAVE. What kind of Pan’s Labyrinth shit is that?!

hey what have dinosaurs been up to lately, I hope it isn’t weird

allthethoughtsandstuff:

yeah

melonwah:

ruinedchildhood:

Tigers with a frozen milk brick on a hot day

iputhepinprincess:

sacred-portal:

@pokeycub

road-rhythm:

ohnoitstbskyen:

theprofessional-amateur:

mysharona1987:

ALT

A ceo leaves for a week, very few people notice.

The custodial staff leave for a day, everyone notices.

Sanitation and custodial workers deserve far more money and respect than they generally get.

I don’t think people understand the degree to which society is kept alive by the labor of the least well-regarded professions. If sewage technicians and sanitation workers and their expertise and knowledge were to disappear tomorrow, the streets would pile high with bodies in every city. We live in a world where we get to be blessedly ignorant to just how fast, how brutally and how violently cholera can rip through a community. How many babies it can kill. How many elderly bodies it can devour alive. You’ve never seen what it’s like when typhoid takes root.

“Oh but we have modern medicine” if you don’t have clean drinking water and a way to dispose of your piss and shit and trash you are going to fucking die. No if or but or maybe, you are dead, and so are half the people you know.

It really is remarkable that overall, the more necessary the work, the worse society feels permitted—even obliged—to treat those who perform it.

fishmechs:

ALT