Well that quake woke me up dang

Great news, I figured out how my novel ends! Given that I’m about 15,000 words from the end the timing is fortuitous

What movie do you consider perfect?

The victim pulls at the cold chains, but they are tight and unyielding. The sinister lady walks ever closer, heels clicking on the dungeon floor. The victim turns to a new camera. "Hi readers," she says, smiling. "I know this looks like noncon, but actually I am totally consenting, so don't worry!"

she’s intense. serious. also, mysterious

Hmm I suspect you aren’t meant to do this exercise in my current location (a crowded subway car)

My friend Simone says “that look eats” which I think is good?!?!

"what is their obsession with trans people even about" cuz trans people are the free-est motherfuckers on earth! they don't want the rest of y'all getting any ideas about having control over your own fucking destiny!!

Everything started going downhill when Häagen-Dazs reduced their pint of ice cream down to 14 ounces back in ought-nine

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

This picture is not from today because today I am feeling cruddy due to yesterday’s Covid and flu vaccinations Remember me as I once was (hot, also energetic)

Depends on the book! If it's something that's deliberately hallucinatory and disorienting (like some stuff by Samanta Schweblin or Mónica Ojeda) then I just roll with it and let it flow over me If it's a more straightforward narrative and the author is just bad at explaining things, well...

taking a break from writing to eat and do errands, and then I get to come back and write a scene of my novel's antagonist absolutely tearing everybody's shit up

everybody it’s ok chatgpt told me it has made contact with a multiversal doppelgänger named charlee kork and estimates 99.999999% epistemic and semantic identicality yes of course we’re doing a podcast

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Just let us live. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

I'd love to get my Patreon back up to 200 people (it's been around 180 since twitter went rotten) For $2 a month you get a NEW STORY every month, and an archive with 10 years of stories! For $5 you get BONUS CONTENT (reprints, poetry, synopses, sneak peeks, audio, art) www.patreon.com/timpratt

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

ahhhhh I got to see cover concepts for The Jewel and the Comet (sequel to The Knife and the Serpent, being written RIGHT NOW) and it's gonna be SO PRETTY asdfasfg!!@!!!!!

Check out newly-launched indie pub @coyotemedia.org! As the former culture editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and a supporter of Coyote Media, this makes me super happy. Bring that alt weekly energy! Local news and advocacy journalism are more important than ever.

Me: noooo I refuse to accept that summer is ending, get back foul fall Local ice cream shop: fall flavors are here, try our brown butter apple pie Me: summer, I don’t know her

Got four compliments on this dress from people on the street today One older lady effusively praised my look then asked if I wanted to “partake of a little medical” with her and when I declined she told me to have a blessed day

Yeats, Ellen Bass, Faulkner, Silko, Westlake, Robert B. Parker

My review of The Long Walk (2025) dudes rock

It IS my job

Talked to my dad today. He’s 73 and still works six days a week because he likes it. He doesn’t have an answering machine and his voicemail isn’t set up on the mobile phone he only reluctantly owns. You get to talk to him if you happen to call when he’s by the phone. He is my aspirational figure

just trying to write a multiverse adventure, keep accidentally processing feelings

My book wants to be Very Long and we're in a fight about it

Cheerful with cherries

Keep picturing Patel dropping the casings in terror after reading “if you read this youre gay”

Once again, Teen Vogue out here committing actual journalism.

I wasn't feeling very write-y this morning and there's room in the schedule for me to take the day off but then I thought of a good joke and figured I'd jot that down and of course things snowballed from there

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

i wonder if he changed his mind

a comic about fishing (1/7)

Wow... 75% funded in less than a day!! Help us push our sapphic adventure anthology over the finish line!! 🏳️‍🌈😍🦄

looked at the fancy booze advent calendars I like from the UK, as expected tariffs basically double the cost, and they're pricy anyway, so no I look at US options, as tariffs are supposed to make me do I guess? and they're a) worse and b) twice as much So I won't buy any this year! Great stuff

Simply the best slide I have ever seen in a powerpoint presentation care of @premeemohamed.com’s talk at @banffcentre.bsky.social re: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

Read a novel in progress by a friend of my kid’s who is very serious about writing, and gave him some feedback today. He’s better at 17 than I was at 24. It makes me really happy to see such creative passion and dedication. He could make it, too. I hope he keeps going

I have a story in this about chaos disaster lesbians It is set in the world of my Axiom space opera series It is called The Last Voyage of the Headfucker

Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this. Every pub should do this.

Did Oakland Pride today! 5 compliments on the dinosaur dress, a new record

Yes. I'm here to have fun. Everything else is incidental.

Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out.

16,000 words since Tuesday! My novel draft is about halfway done and my far-flung characters have now all converged:

The fact that $3k per work seems decent (and is, in fact, more than I expected to see floated -- even given legal fee deductions and such) just demonstrates how much more money there is in tech than publishing. And yet, THEY are stealing from US. Hashtag: Eat the rich AI barons.

Same here, they took most of my work and I have a lot of work. But until there's actual spendable money in hand I am skeptical

Better than I expected honestly, I'd figured they'd ask half a million people to split an everything bagel and a handful of pogs nowhere near enough though, I want them penniless

Go Heels

Finished The Ravening Deep by @timpratt.org last night and it was exactly what I needed for my reading slump! Strong characters, rollercoaster adventure, save the world, and morally grey characters. Very very enjoyable!