I feel obligated to extend a blanket apology to poets, as I have always said that one should not date poets (I say as a poet myself) and the past few months have basically only been on dates with people who write poems (among other things), and it has been quite nice.

Screaming deal!

@jestintzi.bsky.social gave us MY VOLCANO, a strange nonbinary-Canadian authored surreal SF novel via @twodollarradio.bsky.social...a terrific #PrideMonth read, says my 4.5* #Booksky. 🌈📚 expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2022/06/my-v...

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Man, this is so incredibly cool. www.popsci.com/environment/...

Single, sexy, been awake since 2 a.m. (kill me)

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

which is not to discount the great things I got out of MFA. Like @jestintzi.bsky.social as a good friend was worth MFA alone I think. Yeah that's right Jes, your friendship has made surviving long island worth it. Anyway, my fingers hurt now 🙃

READ @catfitzpatrick.net talking to @publisherswkly.bsky.social ! "Part of our determination to be funny and irreverent is undoubtedly about resisting the reduction of your humanity to your suffering. We’re like: no, we have many jokes and bright colors, thank you very much!" shorturl.at/Zd6KH

Sometimes I get cold shouldered by trans people in the wild and it haunts me deeply.

I just recalled that I've been shortlisted for this prize the last three times they've held it (2022, 2024, and 2026). I am the official Miss Congeniality for this prize!

Cool to see my novella TANTALUS (a standalone excerpt of my forthcoming novel GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE) is on the shortlist for the Novella Prize from @malahatreview.bsky.social

one of my all time favorite books

MY VOLCANO came out 4 years ago as of yesterday. Wild times. Find your volcano at www.johnelizabethstintzi.com/my-volcano

~Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems: Black Rook in Rainy Weather

Feeling randomly attacked by this quote from my novel VANISHING MONUMENTS (which I highlighted years ago and someone liked on Goodreads today out of nowhere). A reminder I suppose that this novel exists, and is very good, and worth your attention.

The best thing about having a dog that everyone loves is that everyone gets conditioned to be happy to see me.

me soon, I hope

It's kind of crazy how much of life is dedicated to trying to convince someone to keep their body close to yours.

The bowling alley played Kid Rock and immediately followed up with “American Idiot.” I feel like we’re trying a bit too hard to be bipartisan

i was browsing a local bookstore's clearance shelf at 9pm when i noticed another trans girl next to me & couldn't help giving her recs (vox, housekeeping) before i noticed a copy of @jestintzi.bsky.social's bad houses & all but insisted she take it

When in doubt (about how much you are interested in being alive) the solution is often to just start writing another book out of nowhere.

Since everyone is sharing ""romantic"" art for Valentine's Day, here's a flash piece I published a decade or so ago, and which I still enjoy jestintzi.substack.com/p/the-many-l...

the day he saw god

Another snoopy commission

Pleased to report Martha Baillie's THE INCIDENT REPORT (2014) continues to absolutely slap, a 10/10 book, and hits harder now that I also work in a public library (and have met many Strange Fellows). Everyone should read it, it's an all-timer of almost strange fiction (which Martha does so well).

“We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism are all tied together. And you can’t get rid of one without getting rid of the other.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

Not to toot my own horn but...it's a pretty good horn. You should really hear it toot.

Visited MY VOLCANO at my local library today. You should support your libraries in these wild times (and also read MY VOLCANO, which I have heard can be a comfort despite that it is very much a book about Wild Times)

Please, to announce that I have started the next one and it is certainly harder thanI expected.

I am glad that I am a delusional novelist. I have been doing some major revisions to my new book, and before each I think "This will be a piece of cake" and then it ruins my life for WEEKS. The whole time it is ruining my life I'm thinking, "Well, at least the next will be easier."

Once again Writing Poems*. *Mentally Unwell

Ebooks are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. Pulp reading is reading. Adults reading YA is reading. It's all good, my friends. Don't let anyone tell you different.

What's cool: using an old phone as an MP3 player/getting away from streaming! What's not cool: seeing texts from like 7 years ago from people who don't like me anymore!

Nominate CV2, we are awesome

Bold to consider the problem with everything in my life may be "Me"

I feel like I should celebrate new years this year if only to celebrate 2025 getting the fuck outta my life.

Oftentimes the biggest hurdle about making coffee is that I have not yet had coffee (successfully poured coffee grounds directly into the water of my percolator instead of the basket this morning).

absolutely bonkers to claim that kidnapping people -- a crime -- somehow prevents crime. The way so many Americans seem to actively hate anyone who's ever had a run-in with the law is truly disturbing

This is not a drill: my next novel GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE will be out next fall.

Ahhhhhhh!

Snow

Underrated shirt design from when I designed shirt ("Worm Geometry")

If my name was HG Wells I'd probably go by Mercury Wells.

This is not a drill: my next novel GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE will be out next fall.

I wrote about Public Access from the perspective of a repeat player: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2025/10...

Currently in the "Crying while watching One Piece" stage of grief.

My publisher put up a preview of BAD HOUSES for free online, so if you want to read an excerpt (the first story in the book!) you can check that out here: arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Bad-...