Watching Days of Thunder for the first time in years. Fingers crossed it aged as well as my memory of it has....

My partner is shopping for new shoes. We are in Nordstrom together. This is my Olympics.

Just pulled up to middle school pickup with the top down & wearing a floppy hat + big sunglasses and a couple of teenage boys walked by & said they "like my summer vibe". I win. 😁

ALSO remember WorldCon has a history of robust and well-attended virtual programming so in-person attendance isn't necessarily necessary. It's great for disabled academics and people who can't travel for various reasons.

The problem is that Frente isn't on this list and neither is Counting Crows....

I have used--some would say overused--em-dashes in my writing for decades. I will eat glass before I stop using them now. AI can go fuck itself, and people who would accuse me of using AI just because I use actual English punctuation marks can also go fuck themselves.

I am in community with lots of disabled authors and literally none of us are using GenAI to write books. Avoid the lying plagiarism machine.

If you were at MagicCon Vegas and came away with an extra Goosemother pin, I have an extra Fblthp staff pin, and would absolutely love to trade with you...

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PSST!!

I am out of business cards and in need of a reorder. Do I stick with "Aspiring Hugo Loser" as my profession?

I'm co-hosting Concentration Check: reroll tonight with Dungeon Scrawlers on Twitch. Come join us and get a little (or a lot of!) work done! Twitch.tv/DungeonScrawlers

Someone insisted on joining me for this afternoon's errand

No spoilers! But I really enjoyed The Devil Wears Prada 2. And I did cry when Andi walked down the stairs in her final outfit. Iykyk

At least half the people ahead of me are either collectors or resellers and I'm getting nervous because they brought extra people to be able to buy extra merch.

There is a queue for the red popcorn bucket. Everyone cross your fingers.

As of this morning I'm an emergency contact for my coauthor's dog. Achievement Unlocked.

Hi Everyone!! Support our union efforts!! We even have a cute anime girl. Look at her. She's here to support workers and their rights!!!!!!!!!

In 18 hours I will be watching The Devil Wears Prada 2. My body is READY

Silas Motherfucking Marner

The irony of blasting "Peaceful, Easy Feeling" with the top down as I race through rush hour traffic on 405 is not lost on me.

Some days go so far off the rails you just have to say "f*** it" and doordash yourself a Five Guys burger.

Sometimes you get to sing in a huge arena & get your face on the jumbotron. Those times are good times. Throwback to @ratcityrollerderby.com at Key Arena.

I do love it when contract-shaped things land in my inbox. 📖

Today I had to leave D&D an hour early. So I had my character eat a leaf off a strange plant (very true to her character) so she could trip out or faint mid-combat. Highly recommend. Provided you trust the rest of the party with your incapacitated character in your absence....

Even on a bad pain day I am happy & excited to bake treats for my beloved bestie who just survived the madness of BookCon AND ALSO just hit the NYT list AND ALSO just received a 2026 Hugo Nomination. I have the absolute greatest people in my life and I'm honored to be the hookup for baked goods.

It's not cold today, so *until my body betrayed me* I thought I might go do boat chores. So I got dressed in boat clothes & put on face sunscreen. And now I'm smelling sunscreen while laying on a heating pad instead of a boat deck. And it's causing ennui.

I have beloved people on this list. CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎉🎉

It's 72°F here today and the sun is actually out. I'm... Not Cold? Odds are very much in favor of me getting sunburned while driving. 😊

I have an after school meeting at the Middle School. Apparently someone pulled a fire alarm right as the bell rang. So now I'm standing in a courtyard with 200 teenagers waiting for the fire department.

I'm at rehearsal for my May show & only now realizing how silly the variety of music I'm doing lead characters vocals on for this gig is. Your Love: The Outfield Pour Some Sugar on Me: Def Leppard And Mean: Taylor Swift And my band is pumped for all of them

I declare this poll invalid as the Pterodactyl is not in fact a dinosaur. But more Americans would know this if they bought my book, Draw-A-Saurus. Available at silvaniart.com/store.

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 OH HECK YEAH

The fact this happened in Baldwin County explains SO MUCH 😂

$5.39/gal at Costco is far better than the $6.05 I paid last time I filled up (at Not Costco). But it's still bananapants.

Our local mall is dog friendly and I love that for us (Didn't bring Widget today but I still get to see everyone's adorable dogs)

Happy book birthday to WINE FOR ROSES by Emily O'Malley Liu, new from @shirakipress.com ! www.amazon.com/Wine-Roses-E...

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Jeremy: *walked with a little help* Christina: *walked with no real help* Victor: *DID THE ROBOT* Reid: *casually strolled because there was no way to top that*. I love these nerds

Christina Koch is my age. She'd have been in 2nd or 3rd grade watching Challenger from her elementary school and in university during the Columbia disaster -- just like I was. Four GenX Astronauts just healed something in all of us. 🚀

i like that the artemis parachutes were striped! they didn’t have to be, they could have been anything. someone thought about it and decided “it should look jaunty as it descends.” it’s so human

I both got teary and also exclaimed, "oh, it looks like the opening of 'I Dream of Jeannie'!" I'm a *whole mess.

The human child doesn't like their picture on Social Media, so I show you the baby doggy instead. Trust they're both paying rapt attention to the Integrity return stream.

Red Bad Blood I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 🫶

I stg my mom never left a grocery store without buying a book.

Ketchup is neither the greatest condiment available nor is it the worst.

In the natural continuation of "cry about space week" I'm watching Apollo 13 tonight.

Obviously it's time for a HIDDEN FIGURES rewatch....

I used to work (and live) at a marina. 80% of men seem to believe that because they can *buy* a boat it means they know how to *operate* a boat. Hint: They do not. Number of vessels piloted by women I have towed to a service dock: 0

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.