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Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· 14d

ok here’s the thing about evil centaur robot with a chainsaw: I love evil centaur robot with a chainsaw

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· 25d

me watching the Odyssey

The “mentioned” meme (anime girl holding a bottle of champagne in one hand and a glass in the other) over text that reads “SEA PEOPLES MENTIONED”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Jul 5

I keep trying to quit this site for real, but then someone shows me a post & I’m back in. first of all, lol there’s no debate whether trump & FIFA are corrupt. 2nd, it’s a lil late for a World Cup boycott. and 3rd—sure let’s deny immigration miracle Balogun the right to play for the US tomorrow

Bluesky post, text reads: “Dear European friends: If you don't like the
FIFA decision and think Trump/FIFA/USA is corrupt my suggestion is to BOYCOTT AND DIVEST FROM THIS FUCKING COUNTRY like I've been freaking begging you to because of our multiple HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS!!”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Jul 3

for posterity lmao. okay I’m out for real

a reply from a very strange person, reading “and you are very smart. goodbye!”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Jul 3

people don’t read because they don’t want to read. the publisher will have receipts for all of this because it’s a liability issue if there aren’t

Text reads: “We would like to put forth a couple of points in defence of Tillie Walden, cartoonists, and comics scholarship in regard to the online mob that has formed this week on Bluesky who are currently sending us threatening emails, demanding that people destroy Tillies career, negative review bombing at various sites, telling stores and librarians not to carry the graphic novel, and more.”

Text reads: “1. Tillie did not "illustrate" Cleves's 2014 book, Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
2. Comics are not a "derivative" form
3. Nonfiction graphic novels are not "illustrated adaptations" of source materials
4. Cartoonists do research of a scholarly nature
5. Nonfiction cartoonists are protected by the same copyright provisions as academics and nonfiction writers, provisions that account for facts and the expression of facts
6. Tillie was in touch with Cleves in April 2025 as she sent her a manuscript a year before publication stating the Museum had already made edits, to which Cleves replied with a single edit/comment as well as words of praise:
"I'm already blown away by the historicity of it, and by the fullness of the characterization, and by the art, of course."
7. Please see the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History statement on Tillies book and research on their website”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Jun 22

oh the OP made fun of this dreadful Susan Abulhawa post from X:

Susan Abulhawa post from X. Text reads: “the irony of the United States celebrating its 250th anniversary is that it's literally a zionist colony, ruled utterly by a cabal of parasites.”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Jun 17

peak journalism www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Opening paragraph from a Wired article reads “SOMEONE INTERRUPTED A livestreamed, employee-only presentation at Meta earlier this week with an expletive-filled outburst about "being the company's bitch," according to a recording heard by WIRED. The individual then asked the people leading the call to write to a specitic Meta AI executive and "tell him that he's a piece of shit."”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Jun 12

they plot against me

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Apr 19

tfw you have an upset stomach and decide to ruin everybody else’s day

brown border terrier on a grey-green couch grinning with his eyes closed

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Apr 13

can’t remember the last time anybody faced consequences for anything, what is happening

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Apr 10

I think the dropoff in fantasy novel popularity over the last year is due to a dropoff in quality. I’ve read a few great fantasy novels, but many more that were predictable, samey in execution, and fell apart at the 2/3 mark. This happens bc agents and publishers think readers are stupid.

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Mar 22

try reading the article

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Jan 27

what did I fuckin say

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Jan 26

sidewalks are shoveled, yet all he feels is Woe

border terrier sits on a shoveled sidewalk between two formidable banks of snow. he has a blue leash and looks existentially pathetic

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Jan 17

Worcester MA bringing a certain (Narnia) energy that (C.S. Lewis haters) don’t like

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Dec 20

me finding out this season of Heated Rivalry only has 6 episodes

Public domain image of a painting, attributed to a nameless artist working in the style of Eglon van der Neer, titled A Lady Fainting after having been Bled c.1680-1750. The central focus of the painting is a passed-out woman in a red jacket over a dress made of delicate sheer fabric. Other women and a man—all in darker and less interesting clothing—are gathered around her and tending to her.

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Dec 20

hello police? this paragraph did violence to me (from this excellent & heartwarming article: archive.is/AJIp3)

Text reads “Other students have discovered vintage technology like Game Boys and mp3 players. Alexei Kotov is a sophomore at Aviation High School in Queens. He bought a CD Walkman on Amazon last year, and since the phone ban started, he has been packing his dad's old CDs - the Doors, Weezer - in his backpack. "My favorite one's probably No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom," Alexei says. "I like the vocals. It's, like, really emotional. He shares his earbuds at lunch and swaps recommendations with friends. "One of them is really into Queen, he says.”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Dec 19

girl I’m tired

On top: drawing of a thin-faced, intimidating blonde woman on a white background. Below, white text on black reads: “LOVE LETTERS
I'm in my 40s and have many boyfriends. Why don't you?
A letter writer is confused when people say there's no one out there.”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Nov 5

Bill Ackman crashout status: blaming Sliwa

Reply tweet from Bill Ackman reading “I disagree. Sliwa staying in convinced many Cuomo voters it was a foregone conclusion so they didn't vote. If Sliwa had dropped, Cuomo could have won.”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Oct 27

Dangerous Fictions is the book that Powell’s Books called “critically acclaimed” and Mars the cat called “adequate for cuddling”

An image of the hardcover book Dangerous Fictions by Lyta Gold above a handwritten sign reading “critically ACCLAIMED: Dangerous Fictions” with additional text

Mars, a black and white cat, cuddles seriously with the ARC of Dangerous Fictions

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Oct 19

lol Schumer got booed at the opera (screenshots from Frank Rich’s excellent essay on Mamdani and the failure of conventional NY Dem politics nymag.com/intelligence... )

Text reads “Such, for me at least, was the takeaway from the scene that unfolded at the September 21 premiere of the new opera inspired by Michael Chabon's Holocaust-haunted novel
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. In keeping with tradition, the company's general manager, Peter Gelb, appeared in front of the curtain before it went up to deliver a few welcoming remarks
- albeit this time spiked with an
impassioned paean to artistic freedom that drew a standing ovation. Once he finished, an unexpected player popped out of the wings: Chuck Schumer, the most powerful Democrat in Washington and the most durable lion of Democratic politics in New York. Why was he there? Not for the opera.
He breezed on- and offstage with the casual affect of someone dropping by before a round of pickleball. He had come to pander to the mishpocheh on the safe turf of the Upper West Side. In his brief remarks, he”

text reads “gave the same vow to protect artistic freedom Gelb just had, name-checking Jimmy Kimmel for good measure. But this time the audience did not cheer. "Do something about it!" shouted a heckler from a perch on high. Waves of boos followed, drowning out some light applause and implicitly giving Schumer the hook.
Not a single word he said was in any way objectionable. The jeers were for the messenger, not the message.”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Oct 18

a gorgeous stranger handed me this beautiful doublesided sign at the protest today #NoKings #fuckICE

Sign reads “No Kings! More Queens!” Image below is of two playing cards, a queen of clubs and a queen of hearts, reaching off the cards to kiss each other. The cards are held in a dark-complexioned hand on a rainbow background.

The sign has a heart with curly text reading “Fuck” above melting ice cubes. More ice is melting on the top of the heart.

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Oct 10

I wrote a whole book on the history of this sentiment and they just…posted it out…

Text from Reddit reads “Middle aged women buy books like trinkets. To them absolutely everything is ‘fun’ and disposable and really, the culture today rewards this kind of behavior like nothing else. I honestly couldn't care less if I tried. When I was like 18 years old, these things used to make me irritated but I have become too disillusioned with life to care about shit like this.”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Sep 15

vance patrick here got shoved into a locker

A tweet from Vance Patrick (@vance_gop). Text reads “Hey @Chase, why isn't your Barclay Circle Branch in Rochester Hills, MI complying with federal and state orders to lower the flag in honor of Charlie Kirk? You've had since Wednesday to lower it...” Image is of a Chase bank with a flag at full mast. The ratio stands at 1.5k replies, 909 reposts/quotes, 1.4k likes, and 1.2 million views.

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Sep 7

everyone is entitled to an opinion but there are actual facts here, like Flaubert & publisher were put on trial by the French goverment for his novel’s failure to condemn Madam Bovary. reading Wharton’s novels rather than “scanning criticism” will give you a clearer picture of what she’s doing

“Yet Wharton is not like her model Flaubert, who dissects his pinned and wriggling characters with a casual and cheerful
pitilessness (though a scan of Wharton criticism has led me to understand that The
House of Mirth and The Custom of the
Country operate more in this vein).
Throughout the novel there is sympathy for its characters, who fumble along doing the best they can in their prescribed roles, here too passive, there too much a hostage to the dictates of good society, but rarely consciously mean or selfish.”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Sep 4

Dangerous Fictions paperbacks have arrived! 🎉 Trotsky looks like a skeptical engineer warning that our shelf conditions are already overburdened. “Captain, we are at book capacity. She simply doesn’t have the room!” (he’s right)

An open box containing paperbacks titled Dangerous Fictions by Lyta Gold. Above the box, a grey tabby cat stares into the camera. He appears skeptical.

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Aug 25

hey your post is getting a lot of traction but the linked article doesn’t provide evidence for this claim. can you cite where you picked up this information? because other articles about the initial police report don’t support what you’re saying. don’t spread fake news even for a good cause

“Business Insider obtained a copy of the incident report from the Metropolitan Police Department.
The police report says that around 3 a.m. on Sunday, MPD officers in a cruiser saw a group of about 10 young people
surrounding Coristine's car and assaulting him.”

“The officers quickly intervened, and the suspects started to run, according to the incident report. Police were able to stop two of them - a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl - who they later arrested on a charge of unarmed carjacking.”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Aug 23

yep they got me. Obviously I shouldn’t reprint the original post that got me suspended but here’s the rest of the email

Text from the bozo Bluesky mods (don’t be bozos don’t get called bozos): “This post violates our Community Guidelines regarding violent or threatening speech. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:

•⁠ ⁠Threats of violence or physical harm: This includes threats or encouragement of violence against individuals, groups, institutions, or the general public.

•⁠ ⁠Incitement of self-harm or suicide: Content that encourages self-harm or suicide.

•⁠ ⁠Wishes of harm: Expressions of a desire for harm directed at a specific person or group.

In addition, users may not use Bluesky to break the law or cause harm to others. All users must be treated with respect.

As a result of these violations, your post has been taken down, and your account has been suspended for 24 hours.

We encourage you to review our guidelines and ensure that your future posts comply with our policies. Continued violations may result in further action, including longer suspensions or permanent account removal.”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Aug 22

the eye-gouging for real happened, it was in the course of a fight over Angela Borgia (a Borgia cousin):

Text reads: “One day, Ángela, courted by Ippolito, made a comment about his brother Giulio's beautiful eyes. Enraged and jealous, he ordered assassins to gouge out the eyes that Ángela so greatly prized.
They kidnapped Giulio and, in the presence of the cardinal, executed the order. The doctors were able to save one eye. The deed caused great commotion in the Court and the cardinal was temporarily banished.”

Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold@lytagold· Aug 8

ChatGPT5 is like having a pocket full of “Ph.D level experts” who somehow can’t tell me how many Bs are in “blueberry.” also I hear reports this thing is literally sentient and will soon be God