I used cornstarch for the first time (?) and now I feel like a monarch, thinking about the many things I could thicken

Orange tufo for easter

A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne. Very cute, good flow.

Happy #Caturday from Bowie

Writing question: When I write short stories, I try to put a lot of earnest heart into my writing. Now I am trying to write a novel, and I am wondering about the tone. I feel like holding the same level of earnest heart for so long would be exhausting to read. What do you do the rest of the time?

Broke: I am scared that bats will get in my hair. Woke: I know that bats are highly sensitive flyers who actively avoid getting in people’s hair. Bespoke: I want bats to lift up my hair in braids and fly me through the air. 🦇 🦇 🦇 🦇

5 shows to get to know me -Supernatural -Steven Universe -Taskmaster And then loop to the start and watch them again

The dude directly in front of the Artemis plushie has a Sailor Moon lanyard so that is probably his. Fucking beautiful.

Bruiser the- in his past life a stray but now rules the ranch- is living his best life.

Well my nose won't stop running, which is the only part of me to get any exercise in recent times.

Intellect is pleased to present Journal of Fandom Studies 14.1! Including ‘The scapegoating of the Angry Video Game Nerd' by Matt Foy Fan Studies Network North America Fan Studies Network SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/jfs/browse

Having a cosy Easter weekend? Need a read for a quiet afternoon while the Bank Holiday Films are on the telly? Why not treat yourself to Bones of Contention - a caper inspired by Ealing comedies about monks stealing the bones of a tired, increasingly exasperated saint? #booksky 📚🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 #medievalsky

my next book, SECOND HELPINGS, is now available for request on netgalley! if you like LOVE STORIES and RIDICULOUS SIDE CHARACTER SHENANIGANS and FOUND FAMILY and SIBLING HIJINKS and RESTAURANT ROMANCE and especially ✨ SECOND CHANCES ✨ then you're going to love this one 💜

My new book for @mcfarland.bsky.social is available to order! If you don't want a copy for yourself, or can't afford one, it's also a great help to request that your library purchase the book! mcfarlandbooks.com/product/news...

Finished reading Charmed and Dangerous by Shelly Page. Such a cute book! Lesbian fake dating, magical mishaps, and just strong writing. Wonderful escapism. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753107...

Making an effort to post more about the books I love to counteract all the negative shit lol

I'll be at #PCA2026AnnualConference next week, co-chairing the Dime Novels & Series Books area and presenting in the Disney Studies area about the Newsies book! We have a great roundtable with book contributors followed by a screening of the '92 film. Please come join us! 😊📰

everyone give your pets a little kiss on their little heads for me thx

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At 4am the crummy chocolate is more chocolate than crummy

he looks so innocent when he's asleep

I'm really happy I get to know @notquitehydepark.bsky.social and delight in her creativity, insights and kindness.

Progress!

Gave a Zoom lesson today about nonbinary genders, to Education BA students. I love doing that so much! #TransDayOfVisibility

Happy trans day of invisibility. I am hiding in my bedroom. Please don't perceive me.

Please tell me about a fan work you're excited about these days? I want to fall in love with a new fandom.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 96380: If you want to convey someone's accent, just mention they have an accent. Use dialect words or phrases, or regional patterns of speech. You really don't need to write out all their speech phonetically.

Vegan miso soup to help with my sanity

Most scholars agree that misogyny, racism and transphobia are real, intersectional and bad.

History is not a settled field. We remain in discussion, debate, and research on every event in the past and are likely to forever remain uncommitted to one singular “true” version of the past.

I loved Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon. It is unapologetically feral, and surprisingly funny here and there.

Made onion and cashew soup for lunch, and wanted to brag :)

Please please please can we stop amlifying anything Potter? Even when we share about it to say we hate it, it brings more hype, more views, more money to it.

Portraits of a doofus at golden hour

You didn’t fail any more than an ant caught in a flood failed. Society failed you.

This event looks so good! sites.google.com/view/constru...

HERES TO THE WRITERS

Pickled lemon is a fantastic invention. Someone looked at lemon, and said "do you know what this is missing? Some sourness" And they were right!

Soup for breakfast again. I think I like this better than oats.

Eid Mubarak to those who celebrate! Since it’s also the #transrightsreadathon, I want to share this poetry collection, Blood Orange by Mx. Yaffa, a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. It’s beautiful and raw and reminds us to take care of our communities and take pride in ourselves 📚🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙

Some of my faves: Bitter and Pet/Akwaeke Emezi Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars/Kai Cheng Thom The Deep/Rivers Solomon and others When the Angels Left the Old Country/Sacha Lamb We Are Mermaids/Stephanie Burt Magica Riot/Kara Buchanan The Heartbreak Bakery/Capetta Deephaven/Ethan M. Aldridge

I’m a trans woman who wrote a chaotic queer epic fantasy with a transfemme protagonist, forbidden magic, and things going very wrong very quickly. Fractured Rune is on sale for $2.99 for the Trans Rights Readathon. #BookSky #QueerBooks #TransAuthor #EpicFantasy #FantasyBooks #TransRightsReadathon

My next book on #TransRightReadathon is Witchlore by Emma Hinds us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Can I just say on behalf of myself and a lot of institutional academics I know, please please please just ask - we'd be delighted to send you anything we've written (up to and including our latest shopping list). Someone wanting to read my work makes my week.

Sunday Snuggs

Me: (looking up from the book I'm reading) I am disappointed, but not surprised, that the lead here is heterosexual. @jrblackwell.bsky.social: Its important for fictional characters to have faults.

I read a lot of adult books and books involving sex. But I think Richard Bach was meant for adults more than those, and that one Gerald Durrell horror story scared me for years after reading it.

Wow 💜💜💜

Put on some dad rock and found 57 papers to read for a paper I want to write