The absolute best part of having a poor memory and also being a fairly prolific reader is that I usually get two shots at reading a book for the first time. 😂

Hey! Who out here is recommending SEDUCING THE SORCERER by @leewelchwriter.bsky.social? Because I need to follow more people with good taste and get more recs like this. I’m savoring the final chapter right now and whoo boy! It’s been a minute since I’ve been been blown away by a book like this.

PSA to showrunners and writers etc Sometimes you don't need to subvert expectations. Sometimes you don't need to come up with something the audience would never expect. sometimes getting what you expect to get isn't a bad thing.

I watch the bulk of ashleythebaroness videos, despite rarely sharing them. But this one hit today. And she's right! We're not dealing with some foreign ideology. We're dealing with a uniquely American phenomenon. fascism wrapped in our own flag

I love this book so much and you should buy it.

The company is like an evil vending machine, you put money in and it does what you want, unless somebody else puts more money in and tells it to stop.

I’ve spent the last three days reading Heated Rivalry fanfic, and I can’t stand the ones where they come off the ice after a game and immediately leave without showering.

I am NOBODY. I was a lowly Editorial Assistant at a publishing house for all of five years - one that had nothing to do with Damon - and even I have a story about him. His stink really got around.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

Murderbot is checking the perimeter. Ilya and Shane are going to the cottage. Even in the darkest times, our imaginations create places for love and safety.

I just finished TADEK AND THE PRINCESS for the…4th time? And was a weeping mess yet again. Damn you @alexandrarowland.bsky.social !

A stranger in a locker room once told me I had the most perfect ponytail she had ever seen.

HELLO???????

“It’s normal to feel conflict. You were part of something for a long time. You hate it, and it was a terrible thing. But it created you, and you were part of it.”

I want more than six episodes for the second season of Heated Rivalry. I mean, I guess six is fine if they’re all two hours long. It’s just…there are SO MANY scenes in THE LONG GAME that I need to see on my screen. And I think the response has been feral enough to merit it.

I just finished episode 5 of Heated Rivalry, and my body is so full of emotions I feel like I’m gonna split at the seams.

You know, it’s pretty stupid with long covid out there giving people ME left and right you would publish something like this, but then again, on par for you

FUCKIN FACTS 💯

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

A few years ago, I tried to do the “read holiday romances in December” thing, but I guess I’m just not that into the holiday subgenre. But I’ve started “indulgent reading” December, where I just read what I want.

Ugh. Fine! I guess I’ll listen to it again. Twist my arm 😂

~manifesting~

Not to be all, “I liked them before they were cool,” but I’m super thankful I’ve been obsessed with the Game Changers series for years. As I clutch my mm paperbacks (naked torso covers) AND my trade paperbacks to my chest and refresh my email to look for updates on my special edition hardcovers.

For those of you watching 🏒The Gay Hockey Show™️—aka Heated Rivalry—allow me to go on a neurodivergent rant about how Connor Storrie’s Russian language work is so stunningly perfect that it makes me feel like I have wasted a decade of my life. We begin with this chart and the worst/best vowel ever! 🧵

I guess I’d be remiss to mention since HEATED RIVALRY is making waves on streaming… I also wrote a gay hockey romance! Mine has BDSM. And came out juuust before hockey romance as a subgenre had its moment, which I’m totally not bitter about AT ALL. bookshop.org/p/books/stra...

Don’t worry! My brother brought my niece by to say hi and hug me and my SIL brought me dessert, so this holiday was officially A Success.

Family holidays always cause so much emotional strife. I appreciate posts like this more than is probably reasonable. 😅

When I first developed ME in a mild state years ago, my doctor’s knee jerk reaction was to tell me to exercise more.

The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.” Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵

Ugh. I’m doing my audiobook-time craft, but the POV character is literally getting his hand chopped off in my book right now. (I slammed the pause button as it happened.) I just can’t right now. I’m too poorly to shower today, I can’t handle dismemberment. Maybe a Murderbot reread?

Using the term “no ai slop” to lull us into a false sense of security about them being on “our side” while also being partnered with an ai firm is next level diabolical

One of the most frustrating things is disliking a reading experience *just enough* to make it unenjoyable, but not enough to DNF. I’m on book 2 of a 4-novel series and they’re like 170k words long. It feels INTERMINABLE.

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

the sense of incredulity and comic revulsion i get every time i see a cybertruck in the wild has not been reduced by even a single degree in all the time they’ve been on the street

“SecUnit, you need to get to Medical!” I checked the feed again; still no alerts. “What happened in Medical?” “You happened, you got shot.” Oh, right, that.

Given the state of the world right now, if you managed to write even twenty words this week about people being tender, or in love, or having rampant sex, or leading each other to a fade-to-black bedroom, I am proud of you.

Today is POTS Awareness Day. We’re raising visibility for POTS and orthostatic intolerance (OI), common in ME/CFS and Long COVID. Look back at this month’s posts & next week for more. #POTSAwarenessDay #POTS #MECFS #LongCOVID #OI

Me an international Art Police officer grabbing a thief surrounded by his spoils. "I have you at last! Jail for you! For ten thousand years!" Art Thief "But I'm using it to train my AI." Me. "Me, oh, sorry, be about your business. I'll close the door on my way out."

I have listened to this audiobook…I don’t know how many times, but “dozens” feels accurate…and EVERY time, I cheer at the final line of this section.

the thing about Fiorenzo is that it's less of a Hurt/Comfort 101 and more of a thing you injest when you've consumed so much Hurt/Comfort that you're basically immune to it and in order to feel anything you need prescription-strength maximum dose Hurt/Comfort regardless of the side effects

You guys saw the trailer right? youtu.be/ADi1iextoUM?...

I got busy and forgot to eat lunch and now I’m in that liminal space that’s too late for lunch and too early for dinner. This having to eat multiple times a day is a real racket.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

(You should never refer to the clients as targets; you don’t want to get confused at the wrong moment.) (That’s a joke.)

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

Oh! Hoopla borrows!! 😬

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