WOO fancy pants dresses arriving on mah birthdayyyy happy bday to me from me 💅

Baba Yaga’s Hut, but she also has a chicken coop with human legs that keeps pace.

Actually it kinda seems like the way this operates is by amplifying your own infernal machine so it drowns out everything else The infernal machine you're talking to is yours...the more mundane machine just lets you externalize it It's like evil tarot cards

Back in the day when first getting on the tweet machine for writing purposes I was feeling a little intimidated, so I googled up an approximation of "FEAR ME" in Latin 💀

okay I don't know a lot of crime writers (@peggyblair.bsky.social ?) but SOMEBODY Canadian has got to write a sprawling psychologically savvy Tana French esque multi POV mystery about a Mr Big operation PLEASE, I BEG YOU, THIS IS MADE FOR FICTION

hey #Ottawa, if you heard/felt a prolonged low rumble, it was not construction or thunder, as I presumed, but an #earthquake

Well B2 of deeply unserious sexy vampires has hit 40k so at least there's that 🤪

Perfect meme; 10/10, no notes Happy Tuesday!

Man keeping my shit together and the household's collective shit together has been hard and stressful lately and it feels like something is always on the point of collapse - scramble to shore one thing up and then oh look that OTHER thing is collapsing now

"Balls to the walls" derives from the Old English "Manparts to the ramparts".

LOOK I MET A HOSS OR 2

jfc - is there a way to mute a post or something so I stop fucking seeing it in my feed? that trump as jesus bullshit is sickening and I hate looking at it

Briefly visited by a Bingley beast in the nighttime ❤️

14yo has a poetry assignment for which they have to select two poems and answer Qs about them Me: OOH OOH MY TIME HAS COME I got to foist a handful of suggestions on them and let me tell u discussing fave poems w my kids is every bit as satisfying as the same w novels This was one of their picks!

hahahahaha 🔥🔥🔥🔥

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. 2026, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.

OOH YES PLEASE QRTing to bookmark for later gnawing upon!

Now THAT was a vampire book, god damn 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Down to the last 75ish pages of this and leaking small teakettle noises, holy shit

good morning

Shnooter Loup 😍

Well this thread sure as hell lines up with the struggles of my auDHD 14yo which is great, but wtf do I DO about it

So this ep grabbed my attention when it crossed my skyline since I am currently making a mess in this sandbox BUT ALSO have been listening to more in this series while driving and dog walking and dish doing and man it's pretty great!! Like a conference in your pocket! Thinky genre thoughts CAN HAZ

This was really interesting, and I'd add to this, if you're interested in that kind of thing, this 2024 article from Uncanny: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/roma...

The world needed this. And needs more of this. Wonder, learning, discovery, bravery, cooperation, competence, and non-violent triumph. ❤️❤️❤️

Nah, I'm sorry, "mantasy" is what the girlies are having about gay hockey players. Speculative fiction for dudes who think Star Trek was too woke is gonna have to come up with a different, even dumber name.

These are 100% going to come alive and kill someone.

My accomplishments so far today: * sobbing over Jo Walton's MY REAL CHILDREN * uh

Unrelatedly -- I love that Christina Koch put this up on her social media and I'm like "That is a BANGER short story title and/or first line of a poem (or last line of a poem)" What's the most ominous thing you've ever loved?

One positive of this whole genre-discussion nadir is that we will engineer some truly excruciating man puns, today. Andromance. Himdark. Bro-sy crime.

MANTASY WHAT

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Believing in myself to vomit up something beautiful is my superpower

Dilly dallying is writing. Fight me Simon and Schuster

Meet the REAL hero of the deeply unserious sexy vampire trilogy I'm working on: Soup! 🐀 Soup is past the rat age for having babies and has adopted all the main characters, since they strike her as not very bright and in need of supervision Doodle by @heymonsterboy.bsky.social of course

IN OTHER NEWS I have soldiered my way to 36k a few days ahead of schedule 🤘🤘🤘 so today's plan is to a) iron out stupid repetition etc b) see if I can finish this chapter without making it a zillion words long Hopefully my lead will not be gobbled up by the plague threatening to descend upon me!!!

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Further thought: you know all the handwringing about "we used to not come home till the streetlights were on and kids today are sooo supervised" etc I worry sometimes that my teens lack life skills and that I had more "adult" exp at 17 than my 17yo You know, MAYBE THAT IS NOT SO TERRIBLE

Ooh 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

I'm of similar age to the podcasters (graduated high school in 97) and man this is upsetting to listen to, especially knowing that the predatory teachers at MY high school carried on for another 20 years before finally getting called on their shit

Aaaaaa this was the first "adult" book I ever read at age 10 and I will love it forever 😍😍😍

I hate to give the current nonsense oxygen but like...can we outside the US collectively agree that next time That Bastard sets foot in another country, we just arrest the guy and any minions with him and jail them all for 1000 years? Even his remaining minions in the US would probably be relieved

One of the very best from Clickhole

I am so curious what the elephant thinks of this experience

"oh what's that, oops, sorry, you're breaking up" *click*

Goddamn, Canadian politicians, TAKE NOTE

Have I mentioned: FUCK, MAN ugh well I guess I will go home and grumpily continue writing then

Missed the first session of a class I was rly looking forward to because I had NOON in my head instead of ELEVEN for fucks fucking sake, why is my brain so fucking...UGH, fuck

ONE of TWELVE lolsob this...may take a while 💀💀💀

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.