thank you so so much for the nomination!!! it’s genuinely an honor, & it’s important to note that working w @the-engine-idling.bsky.social rules

🎶 Butterfly in the sky.. We're thrilled to nominate for the Monarch Queer Lit Awards! @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social Darryl de Prez! @thelarkcalls.bsky.social! @meaningruiner.bsky.social! andrea lianne grabowski! Eden Chicken! Daniel Sheen! @godstained.bsky.social! @sarah-bricault.bsky.social! 👏 👏

hi!! if you're in SoCal (or simply love the idea of going out to LA) - we're doing a show for Hollywood Fringe!! R+J at the Hollywood Fringe has been a wonder to work on; we're so excited to show you what we've got - check us out! www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/113...

Afraid of Heights by boygenius might genuinely be one of the most beautiful songs ever written, btw. if it matters. (it does to MEEEEEEE)

There’s a lot of terrible in the news lately. Throw your heart into what brings you joy. What makes you feel lighter. What eases the ache and the terror even a little bit. The brightest parts of my life, lately, have been unexpected magick. And that makes us stronger. And that helps us to fight.

shoutout to whoever it was at the 2019 Women’s March who wrote the “American Courage, Not American Carnage” sign — that sticks me with me forever

🍒🍒e(i Issue 5: Trashy Daydreams is LIVE! 🍒🍒 Our #spotlight is on E.M. Lark @thelarkcalls.bsky.social ! Check out their work at https://buff.ly/419TYkT! #poetry #poetrycommunity #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

Listen I know shit sucks but PLEASE find the things that make you happy and keep doing them. It is not frivolous. It is how you survive.

🍒🍒e(i Issue 5: Trashy Daydreams is LIVE! 🍒🍒 Our #spotlight is on E.M. Lark @thelarkcalls.bsky.social ! Check out their work at https://buff.ly/4ho8Zqk! #poetry #poet #poets #writingcommunity #indielit #indiepress #indiemag #writerscommunity

hey did you know that this book’s gonna Rule and that @naomifranq.bsky.social is incredible and her art style is phenomenal and she’s also a wonderful writer and — [forcibly dragged off stage] PRE-ORDER TIME

It's story time! From @01firstsecond.bsky.social Steve Foxe and myself, Archives of the Unexplained: Unwanted Guests is available for preorder now, with an exclusive discount thru @barnesandnoble.com between now & Feb. 7! (Making a Rewards account is free!) Cover WIPs and notes below 😘

The whole audience screaming “A minor” has me CACKLINGGGG! I know Aubrey is in the middle of his room HYPERVENTILATINGGG 🥴😭😭

good morning!! thank you to @the-engine-idling.bsky.social for putting together this wonderful throwback issue!! i've got two pieces in here - "POV: Ferris-Bueller-Gender-Euphoria" and "fuck me softly with a chainsaw" - that I'm genuinely proud of. pls check out the whole issue bc wowowowow

💋 ANNOUNCEMENT & GIVEAWAY!! 💋 A celebration of indulgence & nostalgia, e(i 5: Trashy Daydreams is now available on our website! You can find it here: engineidling.net/current ! FREE to read/download/share so have at it! Let's applaud our fabulous contributors! ⬇️

Here's some additional starter activities to help yourself Do more instead of just Talk. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Coming back to tell y’all @haymarketbooks.org has a whole bundle of books on Palestine that are free 99 and Light in Gaza is one of them! U can get it here! 💙📚 #Booksky

Now more than ever 🏳️‍⚧️

🌸 CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE RELIEF FUNDRAISER 🌸 I will be donating the proceeds of my fire poppy & California dogface butterfly stickers and postcards to organizations helping out the people of Los Angeles who are displaced and have been affected by the fires. 🔗 below! Reshares are immensely appreciated❤️

less hours at work means More Silly Writing Time, and by feckin George i'm gonna do it. shake my brain until it all drops onto a page aaaaaaaAAAAA

me, presently feeling a bit lost: should i get another degree

oh no you must have misheard- I’m non-ethically monogamous. I have a partner in crime.

For SoCal friends, Here is a list of resources for shelter, animal boarding, free items, and distribution hubs. These places can also use donations (e.g., food, water, masks, and blankets). Please consider donating if you can. For more info, visit Instagram: mutualaidla

got an acceptance for issue 5 with @the-engine-idling.bsky.social !!! so so excited for ✨trashy daydreams✨ to drop, and can’t wait to share my two pieces with you 🤌🏼

The Yankee Candle index is rising again

A play started in the first act must eventually come to its conclusion. This literary rule is known as Chekhov’s Play

what if i wrote a brand new TTRPG lol

jk i got rejected 💖 c’est la vie

sigh. i have to write the lorebook i want to see in the world (and by world, i mean book/book series that i have been unsuccessfully working on for forever).

of course Pink Pony Club is my top song this year. genuinely what else would it be

me about every poem i've written: "so, this was really fun to write and based on the worst thing that ever happened to me"

biting my hands off at the very real prospect of getting a dream job. also biting my hands off bc who’s to say what will happen

think of everything you could accomplish with an invincible body and arms that become swords

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

both mortified and entertained by how much i can still rattle off by memory about the Don’t Worry Darling public mess. i am a genius i am so stupit

i read Bury Your Gays on a library copy and now i wanna own it sooooo bad, i wanna make notes in it and highlight it and go AAAAAAAA in the margins. so maybe i will do that soon, thanks @chucktingle.bsky.social <3

they should pay ME to be there (person who witnessed the Jake Paul v Logan Paul rap beef online as it was happening)

RAÍCES Texas has a wishlist of supplies they provide to immigrant families. You can buy them dish soap, shaving cream, even car booster seats. click.everyaction.com/k/97052365/5...

i have much much love for this book, and what a year to get to experience it too — read it vote for it get a lil silly about it on the internet Thank You So Much 💖

[yelling over club music] Do you think we’re ever truly forgiven

As a former library worker: - Your library can get u free audiobooks through the Libby App. FUCK AUDIBLE ALL MY HOMIES HATE AUDIBLE. - You can also get language learning apps like Mango for free! - Covid tests? Masks? Narcan? FREE? Check your library! - Need a power tool? LIBRARY.

lets trot

I want to follow more people here as I want to stop using twit... if you're queer/trans, disabled + big on disability justice, a musician or artist, silly.... hello

Reminder that some of the hotlines people are sharing for crisis conversations 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬, regardless of what your wishes are. These ones won't. Add'l notes in the 🧵

i live here now lmao, you will not see me on that damn bird app

can you tell i missed having an extra social where i can just say shit and it does not matter at all