Kym Deyn

@kymdeyn.bsky.social

Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - https://linktr.ee/kymdeyn - she/they with MECFS. In books and in bogs.

@clareshawpoet.bsky.socialReposted by @kymdeyn.bsky.social

I have loads of work to do and places to be today, so I'm drawing Venn Diagrams. There are some exceptions to the rule illustrated below, but on the whole, it holds true.

@fireantprincess.bsky.socialReposted by @kymdeyn.bsky.social

like, it is kinda obvious that me/cfs is a biological dysfunction, and it might very well be treatable in the future, but even if this was uncertain, if you feel like your current approach would look bad in retrospect, it is… telling.

@doriandawes.bsky.socialReposted by @kymdeyn.bsky.social

It is okay to let people dislike things. It is also okay to let them vent their dislike in public and on social media. It is okay to dislike things without having a moral and political reason for doing so. I need you all to please stop tying your entire identities up in the things you consume.

@anforsorrow.bsky.socialReposted by @kymdeyn.bsky.social

In 1835, NY newspaper The Sun published six articles about how astronomer Sir John Herschel had found life on the Moon using a large telescope. The articles described how he saw plants, animals, and a race of humanoids with bat-like wings. It was all a hoax, now known as the "Great Moon Hoax."

"Lunar animals and other objects Discovered by Sir John Herschel in his observatory at the Cape of Good Hope and copied from sketches in the Edinburgh Journal of Science." Printed in 1835 for the newspaper The Sun. Library of Congress.Portrait of a man-bat (Vespertilio-homo), from an edition of the moon series published in Naples. 1836. From "The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats." New York Public Library.Newsboy from The New York Sun hawking a copy containing The Great Moon Hoax of 1835. Among the illustrations of The Sun, "The Great Moon Hoax" of 1835.A busy lunar landscape, as depicted in a Welsh edition of the moon series. From "The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats" Frontispiece of Hanes y Lleuad. British Library.
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