Girls will be like"I needed this" and it's just an article about how hard it is to select a jury because everyone hates elon

My friend Kelly and I are launching a genre-writing educational community called The Rogue MFA, and while she's been posting for a few weeks, my first article is out! Follow along- we've got some neat stuff coming soon! theroguemfa.substack.com/p/how-ive-wr...

Happy Soul Ace Day to my fellow Black asexuals! Here is a primer on Soul Ace Day that I wrote this time last year www.intomore.com/culture/iden...

Couple's activity: enjoying your husband's horror as you read him dramatic journal entries and old poetry about boys who were mean to you in high school. Bonus points if you also have chat transcripts from the mean stuff they said to you directly.

Yay local radio and writing communities! kafmradio.libsyn.com/lit-radio-wr...

If I had a monthly 15 minute community radio show where I couldn't swear or promote anything and it also can't relate to literature/writing (because I was just on that one, which is why they asked if I was interested in doing my own show).... what should it be about??

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Reposting this for all our fellow writers out there querying in January. Keep your head up! A new year is a perfect space for new opportunities, and querying is one of the pathways to get there. :) #amwriting #amquerying #literaryagent #writingcommunity #fiction #writing #writerscommunity

Hey filmmakers! Don't f*ck up your film! Cat Del Re and I are launching a 2-day producing intensive with actionable courses, feedback, and templates, so let us know how we can cater it even more to your ACTUAL needs by filling out our interest form: forms.gle/D1kS9JiGDArk...

What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.

New FREE contest for writers of Romance/Women's Fiction/Romantasy — tinyurl.com/wdwcontest7 — Judged by Agent Christine Gross of FinePrint Literary, via @writingdaywksp.bsky.social. Winners get an agent critique of their work.

Remember, Scott Adams won't see your posts focusing on his late-career bigotry, but J.K. Rowling might.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

LOS ANGELES: ICE is in Atwater Village today

Tomorrow! RSVP so you can get in on this goodness!

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

I learned about the insurrection attempt live while hosting the first of my now annual NYR livestream sessions! People were breaking the news to us while we were live trying to talk about exercising more lol. Join me this Sunday again, so at least we won't be alone finding out the next fresh horror!

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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Let's set some better goals for 2026... together! www.eventbrite.com/e/goal-setti...

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

My annual NYR reflection post is up! I did pretty good this year, despite literally everything! Did you set any goals? How'd ya do? brisownworld.com/how-i-fared-...

Three Democrats (Cuellar, Gonzalez, and Davis) joined the Republicans to pass Marjorie Taylor Greene's federal ban on gender affirming care through the House of Representatives. It is repugnant that the federal government won't give people health care, but it will TAKE IT AWAY from trans people.

2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn: 1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business; 2. worry over small presses closing or paring down. Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀 IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:

Making this the 🧵 for publicity appearances for POPCORN DISABILITIES. Be sure to bookmark to find out where I'm going to be in promoting the book and the various great people who have allowed me to talk about the movie this month.

Sure, I wrote 60k words in November for our second annual #RoWritMo. Sure, I made more progress than I expected on a book I'd barely outlined before the month began. But, most importantly, I claimed every beautiful badge @abuchon.bsky.social designed for us this year, and THAT'S the real victory!!

I love that the only remotely creative part of AI prompts is too hard so they want a "make thing I want" button

Everyone stop acting weird and shocked about MTG. She has been systematically distancing herself from the current GOP for months and months. She has a plan reform herself under a new image ON THE RIGHT that’s not part of a sinking ship. She’s not suddenly changing her tune! SHE’S AN OPPORTUNIST

I have always hated the "but is it Art?" debate, because I think anything can be art, some art is just bad. But AI/generated art is not art. It is plagiarism, it is outright theft, it is cruel and extreme mining and exploitation of living artists.

When in Colorado...... bring them news & insights from the coasts! westerncoloradowriters.org/event/marchw...

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It's... ALIVE! Please donate if you can! Two horror shorts. One Team. Twice the production value... and blood. There will be lot's of blood. www.latinegrindhouse.com

It was such fun!

It's November, which means it's RoWritMo! I am starting further behind than ever before, but I did manage to finish *a* draft of my full outline last night, and I've officially logged day 1 with 2354 words and earned my first 2 badges, designed by @abuchon.bsky.social!

A good list for people in NYC to share about how people impacted by SNAP cuts might access some food: open.substack.com/pub/eboyle/p...

For Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I collected some of my favorite romance novels about survivors — from queer historical to contemporary rom-coms:

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We did it, Joe!!!

Update: this is finally fixed! Insurance called just to check in and I was like "well since you're calling...." and the new guy on the phone was like "yeah for sure." I voluntarily went on hold so he could ask his supervisor if there was a survey they could send me so I can sing his praises

Can I finish my book draft today, still get all my actual work done, and then give myself a full week to outline my #RoWritMo book for November? I've got about 4k words to go. Let's do it!!!

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

Sometimes hard conversations are actually lovely, even if you dread them for days and days on end knowing they're coming. And I'm almost always happier to have had them, even when they don't go in such lovely directions, even when it's hard and the pre-dread is dreading.

Happy #AceWeek from Sam and Pat Are Depressed. This episode was inspired by the constant annoyance (and potential hilarity) that is coming out to a therapist as a sexuality many haven't even heard of youtu.be/Xn4IGLHjTMQ?...

Disability on film is exclusively about white men. The numbers prove it. This is why I wrote POPCORN DISABILITIES. To look at the numbers, the portrayals, and what they make a disabled viewer feel about themselves.

Women don't like the vehicle

"women don't like the vehicle" oh my god

Apropos of nothing, asexuality isn't a porn term, but it is a professional identifier for me that I'm incredibly proud to have! I even made a whole silly movie about it! Yay, queer film! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeWU...

The car insurance guy I'm on the phone with to transfer our policy since we moved states is very uncomfortable when I point out how they keep defaulting to my husband's name even when I'm the one doing all the paperwork or was the first to sign. They even listed his name next to MY EMAIL