Okay. Let's take a moment to talk about How To Be A Hugo Nominee And Come Out Of It Happy About the Honor. I realize this is relevant to like, twelve people. I don't care, those twelve people deserve my time. (You may have seen a version of this thread before. I do it every year.)

SCENE PARTNER is now unveiled and available for preorder!!! Releasing JANUARY 19th 2027 and able to be added on goodreads! PREORDER HERE: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818464...

my favorite ships:

First draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers the story.

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

I enjoy the way that in this photo our cats look like a hip-hop duo quite a lot of people quite liked in 1996 who have made a comeback record, done an interview with a broadsheet newspaper and are attempting to prove they are still serious and relevant.

The first line of this video is: "I'm suing my neighbors because they cut down twenty trees on my property..." That sound you heard was very lawyer going "ohhhhhh shit...:

Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of. Call your reps NOW.

LA! These kitties’ human passed away, and they need a new home! Please help them find one! Spread the word!

"Don't ship unless it's canon" you are truly are the weakest link. Back in my day we shipped characters that never laid eyes on each other. We shipped characters that didn't even belong in the same universe or franchise. Canon is a chain we threw off long ago

The Lord moves in mysterious ways but you don't have to. Use your fucking turn signal.

Owning cats will make it look like you don’t clean up after yourself. Why has there been an envelope in the middle of the living room floor for the past two weeks, you ask? Because it’s his favorite envelope, that’s why

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

Here's an alternative/additional action to calling reps to save our Forest Service - tell the brands who built their empires on public forest lands to speak out! They're bigger and have more power to push for this to stop. Flood their socials and direct emails. Remember, money talks saveusfs.org

AO3 put out a warning detailing what kinds of automated bot comments you should watch for, remember its AI doing these archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/...

"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

The Artemis II crew proposed naming a moon crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll, who lost her life to cancer 😭

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

#Artemis II - Special guest Astronaut ‘Nutella’ getting involved in breaking the Apollo record with its own flyby 😂🚀🌕

"Moon's haunted"

Everyone should have at least one hobby that frustrates them (knitting, mini painting, birdwatching) and one hobby that doesn’t (knitting, mini painting, birdwatching)

“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.

THEY TRAINED THE AI ON ACTUAL WRITERS. YOU CANNOT TELL IF SOMETHING IS AI SIMPLY BASED ON IT USING PROPER GRAMMAR. IT STOLE FROM US!!! IT STOLE!!! IT IS A THIEF AND I WILL NOT EVER BE QUIET ABOUT IT!!!!

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.

So this is why I dislike AI witchhunts. Yes, by all means go after authors willingly engaging with this crap. But we should be cautious when it comes to trad pub authors whose publishers announce big AI collabs like this.

nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: Office365 in spaceship nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

See also cats while you’re sleeping: mother is asslep? Mother is vulnerable to predators in her slep? I shall stand guard directly on her tit

I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????

An excellent writeup of the existentially terrifying House Resolution 7661. reactormag.com/what-to-know...

Call. Your. Senators. They just killed off the forest service. (Sorry about the substack link, I couldn’t find any other reporting on this) morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

This guy like "I've always wanted to be a marathoner, but I didn't want to run long distances. But now, with the help of this handy SUV, I'm crossing finish lines like there's no tomorrow! 😁"

a reminder that HR 7661, the national book banning bill, has passed the house education committee. the federal government is trying to tell YOU and YOUR kids what you're allowed to read. Call your rep NOW to tell them to vote NO on HR 7661 Action Link to share: action.everylibrary.org/callhr7661

Respectfully, I don't think cooking together is romantic. Please move tf out of my way

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

this is art

okay I love this

Call. Write.

This ends Monday the 23rd.

it’s honestly so fucked up that my novel won’t get written unless i sit down and write it. doesn’t it know i have episodes of 30 rock to rewatch and comment on

But seriously we are on the precipice of the demise of the USPS and too overwhelmed with crises to give it proper attention. The Constitution will not save it, the admin wants it dead, and Republicans in Congress are on permanent vacation. No one is coming to save it unless we show them it matters.

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

EVERY SINGLE PART of a lily is toxic! Petals, leaves, pollen, the water in the vase. You can celebrate someone other ways besides killing their cat. I worked as a vet tech for 10 years. Let me assure you, you don't want to see your cat go through this nightmare.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art) Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

So please, if you can, I’d love to have this thread list pro-Trans everything. Creators, craftspeople, writers, artists, activists…if you or someone you know deserves some celebrating, bring it the fuck on, okay? Post links if you can. Buy stuff if you can. They hate when people stand up.