Accusing queer people of corrupting children is a tactic of violence to prevent queer youth from having mentors.

Still time to get those tickets Colubus

Honestly, less than a million dollars probably.

I've got seven days to sell ten tickets to my seasonally appropriate drag show at the bookstore. Let's get spooky. #Columbus #Ohio #drag

Imagine stanning a politician.

Far be it from me to defend a politician but, Kamala Harris is getting a lot of flack for saying she didn't pick Pete Buttigieg as her runningmate because she didnt think Americans would vote for a black woman and a gay man--and I just have to say, it's my homosexual opinion that she's fucking right

I haven't gotten a good night's sleep since this time last week and yet I must work(?!) ... This is unacceptable.

All tea, just because I think you're stupid, and boring, and I don't respect you doesn't mean I wish you any harm.

There are a lot of authors I love that I see people call boring all the time, and it really brings out the elitist in me because I just want to be like "WELL CLEARLY YOU ARE NOT EMOTIONALLY MATURE OR INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO APPRECIATE THEIR BEAUTY!" but I always reel myself back in. *growth*

Halfway through: it's one of the best haunted house novels I've read in years, and probably the best Rachel Harrison book since Such Sharp Teeth. I'm REALLY enjoying it. #booksky

I've spent a lot of time with punks, and I've spent a lot of time with hippies and what I've found is punks are often NOT A FUN HANG but have a good moral compass, while hippies are fun to hang out with but are often morally gray-to-bankrupt.

Waluigi Mangione.

I was suddenly reintroduced to Moody's Point, the 5-minute Dawson's Creek parody skit from the Amanda Show, and I'm sorry but the theme bangs so furiously that they should have called it Lilith's Fair. I'm putting this in the store playlist, idgaf.

Anyway, I hope we're all saving our empathy for someone who didn't denounce the concept of empathy whole cloth.

Don't forget, our big spooky Halloween edition of Reading the House Down is mere weeks away, on Saturday, October 4th at Clintonville Books! #Columbus #Ohio #drag #Halloween

Hi, hello, help. I'm 37, unmedicated, and I just quit drinking--and NOW I have decided that I produce drag and burlesque shows, so I have to figure out how to make friends with a completely new group of people, just rawdogging it with insufficient social skills.

Been engaging with a lot of feel-bad queer fiction lately, so this has been a welcomed change of pace... so far anyway! This could still go off the rails before the end!

I've been trying to condition my "spiritual" millionaire boss into accepting more guitar-forward music in the store. I started with Guided By Voices (which he actually said he liked), then we moved on to Superchunk, which he didn't comment on. Tomorrow I'm gonna test my luck with Coheed & Cambria.

"Proving Up" by Karen Russell "Bad Boy" by Kristen Roupenian "Half the House is Haunted" by Josh Malerman "The Head" by Bora Chung "Gone" by Jack Ketchum

I'm grateful for Cardi B going viral in a court of law if for no other reason than it reaffirms I can still be amused by something akin to pop culture.

Are things Kafkaesque anymore? Or are we strictly Orwellian these days?

Hey divas. It's my least favorite holiday. Celebrate by dropping by Clintonville Books and buying something to read for 20% off all weekend long. I'll be here! Laboring! #Columbus #Ohio

To the very old man who has been the only customer in the store for the past two and a half hours: please leave so I can poop.

New Plot Twist! just dropped! That more opportunities for Bluesky to call me a smut pedlar. Coming up on December 6th, I'll be joined by my co-producer Thrillda Swinton, alongside Kitt Valentine, Kritter Mortis, Ravae Chainsaw, and Scarlett Chaton!

lol do any of you all have any tips and tricks for fleeing the United States as a retail professional with no college degree, who is undetectable (so Canada won't take me) but otherwise in relatively good physical health?

I really like living in Olde Town East because it is gay enough that I saw a guy in a pup play mask riding his bike up Bryden (towards AWOL, one can assume on a Saturday night), but not so gay that my reaction wasn't less than delightfully surprised.

Matt does this bit where he's a single dad from Akron who works in IT who has found himself on Drag Race as his alter ego "Lady Squockley", and it cracks me up every time because couples are already annoying when they're at home alone together.

No, but fuck JK Rowling though.

A moment of silence for anyone who's tried to explain to a straight, cis, white person what a micro aggression is and why they're harmful.

Okay I just finished the first episode of Drag Race Philippines: Slaysian Royale and I have thoughts--mostly positive! This might be the first good anglophonic season of Drag Race in 2025! Spoilers ahead.

Facebook stays informing me of my own mortality: random guy I drunkenly made out with at Club 20 in 2017 is about to be a grandpa (he is not that much older than me).

There's definitely worse songs than "Home". There are worse songs that sound like "Home" that came out in the same year.

Harvey Weinstein jumpscare during the Project Runway season 3 finale. Watching reality show reruns in 2025 is... wild.

Ugh, just had to use my boss voice in the work group chat.

Omg this is going to be a big show. Emily Rath in conversation with @biancaprobably.bsky.social at Clintonville Books, Columbus OH on September 3rd at 6:00pm!

In case you cared, I am a Buffy x Angel gwrlie, not a Buffy x Spike gwrlie. Because I don't understand the "enemies to lovers" hype, but I do get "lovers to enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers to one of you finally moves to another city and you never talk again".

Any time I see a vivacious bisexual girl divorce her heterosexual husband I'm like "Girl, I know!"

Picking up a salad from Sweet Greens makes me feel so strange that I used to like... LIVE in the Short North, and walk around there every day, and go out to bars and restaurants that haven't been there for years.

I'm interviewing a romance author on Facebook live for work tomorrow and she is a lovely person I'm looking forward to chatting with... but I am not a romance reader... and getting through her books (which are perfectly well written if you like romance) is proving to be a challenge.

Also, in spending so much time in my room I've learned that my vent has been closed the entire time we have lived here. I just thought there was no air circulation to my room and my room only. This is a revelation.

Matt and I went to a drag show hosted by someone who's going to be in my October show and chatted with them for a bit afterwards, and now both that performer and Matt have Covid and I'm miraculously unscathed, hiding in my room until further notice.

Every truly ancient person in Columbus has written a book and wants to know WHY it is not on our shelves.

I've potentially gwrl boss'd too close to the sun and now I can't call off work without the whole operation grinding to a halt. This sucks.

I hope the fact that Instagram is showing me my own ad is an indication that they're also showing other people my ad... BUT ONE CAN NEVER BE TOO SURE.

(tonight at Clintonville Books).

Hello! PLOT TWIST! the sober, afterhours burlesque show I'm organizing for Clintonville Books in Columbus, OH is in a couple weeks and I'm HELLA NERVOUS because tickets are still PLENTIFUL. So, if you're not doing anything on August 9th, plan to be here. It's gonna be a good time. Link below.

Affordable housing, nutritious food, clean water, time off, the internet, breathable air, universal healthcare, quick and clean mass transit, and living wages are not luxuries. They're the baseline of human rights.

Going to Oberlin and being "from Ohio" are two very different experiences.

Whenever I see people post stuff like "Out with the gang!" And it's like 15+ people (gay are often guilty of this) I just think "I know not all of you like each other".