AK Faulkner

AK Faulkner

@ravenswordpress.com

Your friendly local agender trauma merchant. Bereaved and current Corgi parent. Cat chew-toy. Visually impaired, posts may contain typos. Any pronouns. https://ravenswordpress.com/ https://www.patreon.com/AKFaulkner https://ko-fi.com/akfaulkner

14K followers8.1K following20K posts

AK Faulkner reposted

Sharing a couple fundraisers each day. It’s not much but hey it’s something. I understand feeling sad and angry about it all but small stuff matters. Throw a couple dollars at people in need if you can.

AK Faulkner reposted

So... That Turning Point/UVF documentary with all the people admitting to actual crimes is going nowhere except the memory hole then, huh? Damn, you'd think that'd be at least one or two real journalists in the country capable of feeling shame about what that says about the industry.

AK Faulkner reposted

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social

Incredible gender difference in voting intention in Brazil.

AK Faulkner reposted

I need 1400 to keep my apartment And I’m about to be at my root canal appointment which I need because I fell and passed out and landed on my face the other day and chipped a tooth badly

AK Faulkner reposted

guys I’m so close to being homeless I’m serious I’m not exaggerating I need to pay my rent on November 1st or I’m going to be homeless Please I’m so scared 😭😭😭😭

AK Faulkner reposted

Have to be honest here: Comic con tables are getting so expensive that I can see a point where indie creators are priced out of exhibiting. It simply won't be worth the cost / time. It's a worrying trajectory I don't see many discussing. If exhibitors can't afford to exhibit, there's no show 🤷‍♂️

AK Faulkner reposted

Replying to @bonnnt.bsky.social

absolutely sidestepping a bunch of handwringing bullshit about electorialism by simply looking at assholes and orienting yourself correctly

AK Faulkner reposted

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

#AceWeek AceWeek AceWeek! I could try to tell you all about my demisexual main character and the twelve books he's been in so far, but I'm also very tired 🫠

AK Faulkner reposted

Readers are loving my collection THE ASTRONAUT AMONG THE FLOWERS AND OTHER STORIES. Here’s what one of them had to say. Order yours: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-as... @starsandsabers.bsky.social

P.A. Cornell (She/Her)@cornellwriter.bsky.social

Readers are loving my collection THE ASTRONAUT AMONG THE FLOWERS AND OTHER STORIES. Here’s what one of them had to say. Order yours: www.starsandsabers.com/books/the-as... @starsandsabers.bsky.social

AK Faulkner reposted

Replying to @maitelsadany.bsky.social

Today, we saw in live time what it looks like for Egyptian security and executive interference in the judiciary to take control, for a verdict to be pre-set by decision-makers outside of a courtroom, for years of rule of law violations to go uncriticized. This is that legacy.

AK Faulkner reposted

Replying to @maitelsadany.bsky.social

There are no words—defense lawyers denied adequate time to review case files, a judge refusing to hear witnesses or review documents, police officers filling the room, the court appointing Lina Attalah a lawyer AGAINST her will and despite her 8-person legal team. For shame.

AK Faulkner reposted

Following an absolute farcical trial that makes a mockery of the rule of law, an Egyptian court has fined Lina Attalah LE 3 million and ordered the closure of Mada Masr, Egypt's leading independent media outlet, relied on by the world's diplomats, researchers, and scholars.

AK Faulkner reposted

Something benefiting you personally is not necessarily a good thing. Something that inconveniences you personally is not necessarily a bad thing.

AK Faulkner reposted

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

I need you all to know how smart your dog is. This morning, he stole a paper bag and ran off with it, but quickly realised that carrying it downstairs would be dangerous, so he actively tossed it and followed it down, and whenever it got stuck on a step he booped it to push it another few steps. 😍

The people who invented algebra. Chemistry. The number zero. The numerical system we use. The people who have in fact won so many Nobel prizes. Those Arabs?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

AK Faulkner reposted

Replying to @eicathomefinn.bsky.social

This removes from view the subjects most UK undergraduates and taught postgraduates study, subjects that by the government's own data outperform STEM subjects internationally (www.gov.uk/government/p... ) and that top many QS rankings. Our infrastructure is under attack, if only we could see it.

ft.comBritish Library to burn through reserves to recover from cyber attackLondon-based institution faces spending millions of pounds to rebuild most digital services

AK Faulkner reposted

Yet another "expert" review that fails to recognise that research infrastructure exists outside STEM and Medicine. Yet no rocket science is required to find studies of the infrastructure that powers SHAPE research: www.sas.ac.uk/national-rol...

researchagenda.newsThe UK can’t make the most of its research infrastructure if we can’t see itA world-leading research system needs world-leading infrastructure – and it needs to know where it is

Critics: a book by a Japanese person, main character is a woman, the film director is brown. TERRIBLE MOVIE, NOT WORTH YOUR TIME!!! Audiences: wow this is an awesome film actually

This post is unavailable.

Do any rich, asexual Americans want to marry me and finance my move to the USA so that I can attend conventions without international flights for every single one? 🤣

I add that by "porn clips" what they frequently use is Tumblr gifsets ripped from porn clips. Yep, not even paying the porn studios for it.

AK Faulkner@ravenswordpress.com

I'm feeling spicy today so let me tell you there is a percentage of authors who just transcribe porn clips and that is why those sex scenes are absolute ass. It's also why people are suddenly in new positions without having moved there.

What's with ASMRtists brushing hair like it's their first day on earth, despite having long hair themselves? This is supposed to be relaxing, you're knotting the fuck out of your friend's hair, please stop 😭🤣

Still feeling spicy, so here we go again. I'm extremely fucking tired of how narrow publishing and reading has become. It was already narrow, but these past few years it's become distilled, and obviously the focus is on cishet white men.

AK Faulkner reposted

ive talked on how i wont engage with writers who use ai, i wont eat at a restaurant with an ai menu, i wont have anything to do with it. but what this post illustrates is regardless of how OTHERS react, ultimately the worst part about using ai is that you are punishing YOURSELF and dont even know it

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

AK Faulkner reposted

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

I'm feeling spicy today so let me tell you there is a percentage of authors who just transcribe porn clips and that is why those sex scenes are absolute ass. It's also why people are suddenly in new positions without having moved there.

lacri 🔞 | commissions closed@lacrimale.bsky.social

"Pointless sex scenes" you haven't seen a good one actually

AK Faulkner reposted

Any pointing back and forth by britains and americans for whose to blame for the widespread transphobia when its obviously been a collaborative simultaneous process. US christian money, UK institutional legitimisation feeding back into US law, coming back to the UK to appease trump. Its symbiotic

I'm actually tired overall. More and more, people largely only want to read books which already have enormous fandoms. It's getting noticeably harder to reach folks with books which they've not heard of before. But the way MCM treat us has become intolerable.

Special shout-out to the Steward who ACTIVELY RESISTED telling one of my readers where to find the indie authors because we weren't, and I fucking quote, "the big-name authors".