You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Recs for gender inclusive books for a tween learning about puberty?

I 100% agree and would add that if you are hosting a holiday event and you do NOT have something festive, creative and delicious for your guests to drink without alcohol in it, you are actually an asshole don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!

Actually the question that occurs to me is "will you nominate him anyway even after years of people telling you they won't vote for him if you do, and then when you lose as you were warned you would, will you blame not yourselves but the people who warned you."

okay well this is one ongoing panic off my mind at least

finally available as a shirt!!!! 🦂🏳️‍⚧️

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Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Reminder this holiday season that donating to the SA sucks. Ignore the red buckets.

Being intentional in word choice/sentence structure/etc for my autistic main character and I just know people are going to read her point of view and claim I’m a bad writer bc it’s very plain and matter of fact 🙃🙃🙃

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Here to be very on brand and say Naomi Osaka’s mother is 🔥🥵

I’m at the point in drafting where I need to reread the beginning so I can make sure I nail the end and, hey! This book is pretty good!!!

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

New books by Regina Black, Mary Roach, AND Anita Kelly today!!!!

I’ve been quietly weeping for a half an hour as I finished listening to Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. My god.

you know i keep that thang on me (cherishing my wife)

Just finished our rewatch of The Leftovers and that remains the greatest finale of all time

Every @merylwilsner.bsky.social book is a banger and this sexy sapphic sports romance Cleat Cute is absolutely no exception. Incredible addition to my July reads

Reminder that I'm teaching a seminar with Writer's Workshops next Monday and we still have spots open! writingworkshops.com/products/a-g...

It was me! And I'm incredibly grateful to Felicia for educating me on Substack's issues. My newsletter is now available through Kit, instead. merylwilsner.kit.com/posts/update...

Every word. Bar for bar. Verbatim. All of it this feels validating seeing somebody put this in words I couldn’t. I almost died during that year but every thing he said is exactly how I felt during that time minus fighting the virus with no insurance and when a vaccine wasn’t in existence

The Devil Wears Prada 2 cast is a murder attempt on lesbians everywhere

i LOVE telling them to quit. put it on a voicemail. “hey this guy sucks and if you don’t quit you do too”

Doing a thing for a Pride thing

this is unhinged behavior, also people thinking about ranking cuomo should consider why he thinks they would be convinced by this…… (hint: he thinks you’re racist)

Authors in Conversation: Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond Today on the site I'm delighted to welcome Sapphic Romance authors Camille Kellogg and Susie Dumond, whose newest releases (The Next Chapter and Bed and Breakup, respectively) both release this month! Here's a little bit about each book, as…

There is so much history happening, if you're a future historian please tell everyone I said aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa thank you

my pride month hot take is that episodes of drag race should include qr codes during the queens’ runways so viewers can tip them

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

As a femme who mostly dates nonbinary folks, I am LOVING how @merylwilsner.bsky.social lusciously describes nonbinary bodies in My Best Friend's Honeymoon. So hot 🔥🥵

I saw someone say AI is useful because it generates ideas. My dude, I'm full of ideas. I have docs and docs marked under 'ideas.' I have outlines and fragments of stuff I might work on. Trunked stories galore. Even if I continue to write a novel a year for the next 40 years I won't run out of ideas.

Also reminder to romance authors that we only shoot ourselves in the foot if we try to play the "but we're not porn" game. Those of us who write hot/queer already get clipped on a regular basis, but nothing is "respectable" enough. Your turn WILL come.

This is a real life picture of me

the queers are taking the pitch perfect cast one by one and i think that's beautiful

I'm sorry I'm not done yelling about how fucking violent and cruel this policy is-- I just went by an encampment that was being swept to drop off donation and it was fucking crushing. Venmo @love-and-justice to pitch in for all our unhousend neighbors who have NOWHERE TO GO now.

The least you can do is support your local library.. get a card for your kids and see what services they have…that is a minimum

"Use AI or get left behind" ok, leave me behind, I'll be here in the library, doing actual research, citing real publications, writing my own words, not being replaceable by a bullshit artist algorithm that's destroying the environment.

It reminds me in the BEST way of mid century pulp erotica. Act 2 is a lot of love scenes, and VARIED, and while not every bit might be your thing, it sure does make one go 👀 kombucha face

MERYL'S ON HERE NOW you should follow them @merylwilsner.bsky.social

Person next to me on the airplane: just because you’re texting in another language doesn’t mean I don’t see that you’re complaining about being in the middle seat between two fat Americans. Hope you see me posting I’m next to a rude cunt (◠‿◠✿)

Pride month approaches and queer people are fighting for the right to pee in bathrooms again. Speaking only for myself as a raging homosexual, fight for me this Pride, allies. Do the heavy lifting so I can do a little less. Having to perform my humanity all the time is exhausting.

my most early 2000s-coded trait is that every first of May I like to spring Jonathan Coulton’s “First of May” upon at least one entirely unsuspecting person and just go “oh here’s a fun song I like with today’s date in the title, ha ha” and then sit back and wait for the response

This but as an audience? You want me to drop everything that I am doing and devote all of my senses to one thing that goes at a predetermined speed that I can't control which is slower than I could read the same amount of text? I might come back to it later when I have time (I will never have time).

MY BEST FRIEND’S HONEYMOON is out now! In this spicy romance, two lifelong best friends go on a nonrefundable honeymoon together and discover sometimes to find a happily ever after, you just have to ask. 🌈🔥