THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY just received its first trade review from Kirkus!!! 🪞 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews... THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY is a YA historical gothic with paranormal, psychological, and romance elements, releasing February 17th.

The House of Now and Then is about a trans man who rents a seaside cottage on Cape Cod for the summer after a messy breakup, only to discover that the house hides an extraordinary secret: someone from his past is behind each door, reliving notable moments from their history together on loop. 🏠✨

it’s funny seeing canadian media present zohran as a “democratic socialist” like it’s some shocking thing and not just the left flank of the ndp

If this man is spending 81 BILLION DOLLARS on defence, we'd better be getting some fucking armoured moose battalions or Canada geese modified to shoot lasers our of their eyes or I'm taking my tax dollars back. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Happy no thought November to all who practice

"The Liberals are exactly like the conservatives now but we don't have to talk to the dead eyed religious crazies"?

salad fork crosses the drawer to join dinner forks

“We hear you about the affordability crisis the country is facing. That’s why we’re slashing taxes on yachts, private jets, and empty rental units.” - the Canadian government, apparently

My latest newsletter is about one of my writing pet peeves. I *hate* it when a novel gives its main character a personal epiphany on page 300 that: a) could have happened on page 30 instead bc it was already clear b) is ridic embarrassingly obvious and surface-level buttondown.com/charliejane/...

All my thoughts and prayers to the people of Hell as they brace for the chaos of his arrival

“I just use generative AI to kickstart the process for me since writing is so hard!” Me:

People on here will post anything. 'Baseball games have 9 innings.' No they don’t. That isn’t true.

I am suddenly so glad the Expos aren’t around because I could NOT handled being emotionally invested in a baseball team it might well kill me

Screw it, I’m rooting for another eight hour game so the customers simply keep watching, as a treat

honestly bread lowkey hits when circuses are the vibe

Givin’g ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.

I need the Bluejays to win not for patriotic reasons but because there’s three hours left of my shift and customers are gonna be miserable if they don’t

PAINT ME LIKE ONE OF YOUR FRENCH-CANADIAN GIRLS

I like when they cover their mouths to whisper with each other, like they’re talking about boys that they like

"Reporting the thoughts of a billionaire as news is as grotesque as the amount of wealth they’ve been allowed to accumulate." newrepublic.com/article/2024...

Spoiler alert: it’s pretty damn impossible to live a happy life if you let yourself be ruled by the part of you that believes you’re fundamentally broken and awful

October 2025 Deal Announcements Adult Fiction Lin Darrow's Flicker City Phantoms series, pitched as a queer and cozy combination of the plucky mystery-solving of Pushing Daisies, the death-defying romance of Hadestown, and the technological world-building of THE MINISTRY OF TIME, in which an…

Happy New Florence + the Machine album to all those who celebrate 🔮

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O Great King of Ghosts How do we achieve queer liberation in a time when even the politicians who claim to be our allies throw in their lots with people who want us dead?

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

My body is a machine, and unfortunately it only drives stick

This article quotes the university president saying Lia was on the women's swimming and diving team, but she's not on this year's roster on their athletic department website. The NCAA banned her from being on the team when Trump first took office.

Your quarterly reminder that bullying the government works and we need to do more of it www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...

The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI. But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.

The Ford Government Has A Special Message For Ontario Renters www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78K...

Doug Ford once again showing the moral fortitude of a goddamn Kleenex 🙄

Power isn’t something corporations give us, it’s something we take back. And we can start with the auto plants in Brampton that were built with millions in public funding. It all starts when we organize together. Join us: lewisforleader.ca

Either a 2 or an 8 depending on my mood with very little in between

COVER REVEAL, and brrrrr ice ice baby ❄️!!! The Incorruptibles 2 is available for preorder now: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lightm... Cover art: @devinellekurtz.bsky.social Cover design: Tiara Iandiorio Publisher: @simonkids.bsky.social Editor: Kara Sargent Agent: @allielevick.bsky.social

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Having the sort of wealth and power that is associated with being a billionaire or a senior member of a nation-state government is known to cause brain damage. Radically decentralized methods of self-governance that emphasize equitable distributions of wealth would be more stable than our system.

A big lesson of the civil rights movement was that everyone has their own activism and we support each other. If you're a radical activist, you can draw fire away from peaceful protestors. If you're a pacifist and you see radicals fucking shit up, no you didn't. You didn't see a damn thing.

Why does the government need private jets is maybe a question we should be asking.

Sharpening my nails into claw-shaped for gender-affirming reasons (femme and vaguely feral-coded)

THIS WRETCHED BEAUTY is for the girlies with haunting psychosis and self-destructive tendencies 💖

Would you still love me if I was a wyrm

Just realized the book I started drafting could use Dear Evan Hanson as a comp, time to scrap the whole book I guess

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward. "We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

It’s really weird that crossing your fingers can both mean “I’m rooting for you” and “I’m lying to you”

We’re seeing time and time again how “lesser of two evil” electoral mentalities is that only encourage those in power to see how awful they can get away with being while fearmongering about the opposition How many times do we need to see it happen before we as a wider public learn this lesson??

YES I yearn for the return of classics remade as fun teen comedies à la 10 Things I Hate About You/She’s the Man/Easy A/etc etc

“On Bluesky robots get more sympathy from the moderation team than Palestinians and trans people”