Firefly Shift

2024 Wrap-Up from Storygraph, a few stats, and the graphic. I love stats so the end of year wrap ups are fascinating to me. I saw someone else post theirs & felt like sharing since I haven't. It was a great year of reading! Day 387 of my streak w/ many days of reading 1% right before midnight 🤣

What the actual hell?! A close Trump advisor and MAGA figure just posted, “Alligator lives matter. The good news is alligators are guaranteed 65 million meals if we get started now.” This is disgusting, it’s genocidal language. Dehumanizing, dangerous, and unacceptable. How is this even real life?

Movie you've watched more than six times using GIFs (home mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR)

Hey buddy, I hate pattern recognition. But I believe in us. Sincerely, A Millennial US Citizen. #booksky #politics

Day 543: Some Recent Finishes! #booksky

The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.

Day 491: Finished this awesome trilogy by Brynne Weaver. I'm sad it's over honestly, but she did leave a hint for her next book in the epilogue. So we'll see ;_; Serial killer ladies fall for murderous men who are protective & most if not all the victims deserve it. So. Good. #booksky

D486: 1. I acknowledge Fifty Shades is not well written & bad BDSM rep. I am still going to reread it so I can read Greys POV trilogy for the first time. If I can do the whole thing; that would be a first. 🤣 We'll see. 2. The Stars Too Fondly was really cute ❤️ I wanted more. Alt text

ICE has begun raiding the homes of American citizens. A widely shared story out of Oklahoma describes a disturbing incident where a woman and her children were dragged into their yard half-naked. Reports are mounting across multiple states of agents targeting the wrong properties.

fighting tears

Um... www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Day 474 My mother was here plus I was busyyy with work so I didn't get much reading done but I finished Between the World and Me, fantastic & moving read.

@golden.house.gov I pray for you & your fellow cronies that voted for the SAVE act every awful thing that can possibly happen to you & your families. Double if it passes the Senate. Amen. Xoxo, A veteran family.

This is where I'm at with playing polite with politics anymore. At this point, I consider these acts & ones like them as a threat of harm to my life & my daughters. Politicians who don't stand up to this shit & the Trump cult are TRAITORS to the American people & deserve jail & far worse.

Oh, the irony 😂—talk about paid protesters! MAGA has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk in Pennsylvania, alleging he failed to pay individuals who gathered signatures for a petition during the 2024 presidential campaign.

Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

"They will imagine a rifle on my tongue and fix themselves fetuses in the corner, cover their ears in fear of the firecrackers and horses and rockets I've stuffed in my bag." From Rifqa by Mohammad El-Kurd "Crows"

Major alert: Montana may be about to pass a major anti-trans bill that charges parents with felony endangerment of a child if their child is on trans youth care. It would apply to parents just passing through the state, visiting. Would be the first law of its kind to pass anywhere. Vote is TODAY.

Day 463: Finished another book yesterday, Starting on Between the world and me by Ta-Nehisi Coates It's read by the author & his voice is captivating

The Trump admin is dismantling Freedom of Information Act offices. Then the offices send out emails like, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” The lengths this admin will go to ensure zero transparency with the American people is astounding.

Break down of what small business owners are facing. #tariffs #EconSky

I don't think "funny/parody" MAGA red hats are as funny as they think. From a distance, I still think you're MAGA. And I'm not getting close enough to you to see if it's a joke.

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

There's a lot going on, God knows, but don't miss that the President of the United States is using the full force of the Federal government, as well as tax dollars, to punish a state because its Governor... refused to do as he instructed. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

Day 458: Finished Kimberly Lemming's new book. absolutely hysterical and stupid and fantastic. Lots of spice. I love a good throuple too. Glad I finally got to read it. #booksky

March Roundup #booksky 8 Books this month ❤️ Fantasy heavy month. I unpaused a book so disregard the avg time to finish haha.

Hey #booksky #booktok Looking for recommendations for books about MCs with chronic pain. Extra want: there's some kind of anxiety/audhd situation too. Additional incentive for books by authors that fall into one or all categories: Queer Disabled Black/Brown

Day 456: Finished Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield ❤️ very cute oh my goodness. I really need to read more books w/ MCs with chronic pain. It's like a cool mist on a really hot day. Started Kimberly Lemming's new book

Day 456: Awweee this is so cute! I had a little bit of a lull but it picked up again. Think I'm going to stay up and finish tonight maybe. #booksky

AHHHHHHH YAY "I got abducted by aliens and now I'm trapped in a rom-com" by Kimberly Lemming readyyy to borrow #booksky

Day 454: Finished The Sapling Cage 😍 it was so good. Left in a great place for a trilogy but wrapped up really nicely for the first book. Thank you #transreadathon for the recommendation (several folks posted it) Started Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield ❤️ #booksky

Day 454: Dude. I don't even know what to say that's not spoilery but it hit me in the feelings for our MC. You're not alone princess ;_; Also, I reaaaaalllyyyy appreciate that the youngins were not written as somehow amazinglyyy good at the action scenes. #booksky

Racism? No Community Guideline violation. Hate speech? No community guideline violation. Spam & scam posts? NO VIOLATION. "Bitch I fucking love this so much" on a Queer Art post? Removed in seconds.

Yep

Day 452: Really enjoying this so far, our MC is a trans woman who borrows a friend's identity to take her place in becoming a witch in a coven the friend was promised to. We have asshole knights & someone is up to something evil in the world. Also, wtf is up with this other witch whelp?! Jerk.

They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

Day 452: Started The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Trans Readathon has brought me plenty of new recs ❤️ 😍 #booksky

Amazing mega list of trans books by trans authors under this post! 📚🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈

Day 451: Holy shit 😳 shit has gotten really real. I'm loving the descriptions, they're a bit visceral? Really enjoy the combination of pirates, mermaids & mythology. Staying up late to finish. #booksky