Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

At Craftywonderlands Holiday Market at Oregon Convention Center this weekend! I'm at booth 162 (in the middle of Aisle 8), with a variety of goodies!!

I just spent far too much of my evening reading about why I will never apply at a specific company purely because of their article about their interview process. And I work in tech, which means that I have dealt with numerous and excruciatingly long interview processes, so that’s saying something.

Blindspots for Millennials 😅 IMO: it’s pretty accurate.

My husband’s outing me for wanting to play dating sims but not get murdered by the love interest at the end of them.

I am all for gay hockey romances on tv, I just have one question though: why wasn’t it Check Please! by Ngozi Ukazu? Because the money I would pay for that series to be made into a show. 👀 (Also, go read it. Bitty is an absolute gem of a hockey player/pie maker.)

@maxnichols.bsky.social: Ok, so you keep telling me the end of Oshi no Ko is bad, but like how bad? Me: It made me feel like the latter half of 2019. Max: …You just compared it to your dog dying. It made you feel like your dog died? Me: Yeah, kinda!

Two weeks ago our cats went to the vet for their annual checkups. What has ensued ever since is Calcifer meowing sadly at the front door begging for us to release him back into the wild. …Even though the one night the door didn’t latch and he did escape, he just sat on the stoop terrified. 🙄

I needed a project to keep myself busy recently so I scratch-built an Armstrong from Final Fantasy IX 🏠🐟

Does anyone else feel horrible amounts of sadness whenever an artist posts a tiny little comic of their OCs only for you to discover they don’t actually have a comic for them? Like how dare you make me fall in love with your OCs and not also give me all of the stories about them living in your head.

Zuckerberg is building a data center in Louisiana the size of Manhattan — while Meta runs ads about how small towns love their data centers, we found furious locals who plan to leave town completely.

I was not accepted into ECCC, but if someone ends up not able to go or can help me get off the wait-list I would be so grateful 🙏

My mom: I found your high school diploma! Also, my mom: Umm forget that. My parents apparently forgot to open a rather important piece of mail 20 years ago. 😂

Apparently I wrote X-Files fanfiction as a kid and I had no idea until my mom dropped off a million relics of Paige off at my house… It wasn’t good fanfiction either, sadly.

My husband has clearly forgotten about how our youngest cat has zero distaste of water and is absolutely feral around plastic bags ever since I made the mistake of giving him a tiny piece of salmon jerky five months ago.

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I just burnt my tongue because @maxnichols.bsky.social is apparently a MONSTER who thinks you heat pumpkin pie up…

Does anyone know of a group/organization that helps trans folk move or possibly seek asylum if they feel they're in danger? I don't want to speak for the trans community but if anyone has resources you would like me to post feel free to DM me. That goes for trans mental health hotlines as well.

If One Piece doesn’t give Kuma a happy ending then I am flying to Japan to riot. That is all.

My favorite part about being an adult? Having free will and fun money to buy all the Legos we probably don’t have space for. 😂 (I also have the Going Merry set back ordered!)

I just explained my very chaotic presentation creation process to @maxnichols.bsky.social. He called me a monster, and you know what? Fair. If I don’t randomly switch to adding speaker notes to a blank slide midway through writing another slide, have I really created a presentation at all?

I really want the Venmo IDs of Trump voters so I can start sending them cash requests every time I’m forced to pay a ridiculous import duty fee on a purchase due to Trump’s tariffs. It’s the least they can do since they voted for him. 😒

I just had to admit to my husband that I have no idea how to play chess and that, yes, we watched the entirety of Queen’s Gambit and I just had no fucking clue what was going on and I didn’t care enough to ask. It’s truly a testament to how well they played up the drama to keep me interested in it.

It’s 2 AM and the fireworks hellscape hasn’t ended. I really wish they were fully outlawed for sale for everyone except professionals putting on shows at set times for crowds. You can fight me on this but I’ll just shove my PTSD ridden mall shooting survivor bullshit back in your face. 🫠

Today started off with so much promise! My bread maker arrived and while the lovely smells of the freshly baked loaf were wafting through the house we get that tweet from the Orange Tyrant. I’m just so exhausted by even the simple pleasures in life getting ruined by his atrocities.

Worlds Apart 🌹✨ #art

If you are also in need of a small distraction from the hellscape that is the US right now: Here’s my partner roasting me for probably the first (and likely last) time. My only defense is that my reading comprehension is leagues better than my audio comprehension.

I don’t think I’m going to get over Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for a long time. It gives me that same feeling of love and astonishment as games that I first fell in love with did.

I love the bookstore my mom used to work at for doing this.

I’m pretty sure at least part of the reason @maxnichols.bsky.social watches kdramas with me is because he likes joking about what is otherwise a romantic comedy suddenly having a serial killer plot in it. The problem? He’s actually spot on with his joke like 40% of the time…

My favorite thing about drag queens besides their amazing self expression and creativity is the fact that they have made finding women’s shoes in size 12 much easier. It used to be like searching for Atlantis—especially for anything dressy.

Now the squirrel is openly taunting me back it seems. To add insult to injury here, it’s even standing on the box of chimney caps we need to have installed to keep it out of our chimney…

@maxnichols.bsky.social came into the room and asked me a question and I just stared at him because all my brain wanted to do in that moment was play this song in my head instead of listening to him www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2jH... So uh, happy anniversary Max! I’m sorry my brain is like this. 😂

Day 17 (??) of there being a squirrel living in the casement of our chimney: I have begun psychological warfare with the squeaking from the bricks by blasting “squirrel territorial sounds” from a YouTube video through the speaker in front of the fireplace.

I recognize that by state law, I am not licensed in any way to climb onto our roof and set up a live trap to get the squirrel living in our chimney out. But with each failed attempt to get wildlife removal companies to do so, I start believing that in my heart I am now licensed to do so.

I think a big part of home ownership is inevitably running into “What was the previous owner thinking?” type problems. You know, the ones where you’re suddenly spending thousands of dollars to fix some weird decision that they made during the initial build or a remodel.

Shaking the bars of my enclosure, foaming at the mouth screaming: HIRE MORE JUNIORS AND INDUSTRY NEWCOMERS YOU WON'T REGRET IT

You know what 2 AM means? Time to raid the fridge of pickles and hope my husband doesn’t catch me. Why? Because he’ll definitely try to steal some of the pickles.

it's independent bookstore day! and incidentally amazon has put on a book sale the same day, because they're undercutting scum! don't give them your money! support you local bookstore in person or use bookshop.org! maybe even buy My book! it's good! bookshop.org/p/books/hung...

I’ve done many a preorder in my time (hell, I got tickets to SDCC four years in a row!), but this Switch 2 one almost broke me. 💀

I grew up in the Bay Area—which is very LGBTQ+ friendly. My first time meeting a trans person was when a classmates parent transitioned when I was in second grade. I didn’t really understand what that meant, but I wasn’t bothered by it either—they were simply different than other people I’d met.

Sometimes I’ll be in a meeting with other editors and someone will say something that taken out of context sounds really wrong. Today’s sentence? “So that’s it on colons, anything else about colons before I move into the period?” (It was a presentation on punctuation, I swear.)

So much of this world is shit for trans people. Made some donations to Trans Lifeline and Transgender Law Center. Links if you have the means to join me: transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/ translifeline.org/donate/ UK orgs: mermaidsuk.org.uk?form=donate genderedintelligence.co.uk/donations

There's simply no ethical way to support Harry Potter in 2025. It's not possible. $0.20 from every dollar you give JK Rowling goes directly to physically harming a trans person and that's not a joke or an exaggeration.

I am begging people who excuse JK R's vile views and behavior because 'Harry Potter is my comfort story UwU' to grow up and get a personality. "I'm a Hufflepuff!" No you aren't!! You live in the real world and how you engage with it has real consequences!! Grow up!!

I truly cannot overstate how low the bar of entry is here. Pick up anything that can make a mark on anything else and join in on mankind’s ancient tradition of communicating through art

As an anime watcher, I’ve really come to appreciate the opening and ending songs in Japanese that I didn’t get to hear growing up. But also, it’s been nearly 30 years since 2.B.A. Master came out for Pokémon and I still regularly get the songs stuck in my head.

South of Midnight represents a group that’s so rarely seen in gaming with a black girl as the lead character. I want to make sure that black girls and women get the chance to play this—so if that’s you or someone you know? Send me a DM and we’ll make that happen! (Limiting this to 10 copies.)