I'm a simple person I have coffee in the morning then eight hours of crippling hunger that I attribute to tiredness then a terrifying binge of scrambled eggs

i am constantly burned by the romance smut genre bc every single blurb says the characters have breathtaking chemistry and then the interactions are like, "hey girl u r my girl and no one elses girl"

Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds is the winner of the Letteri Family Prize for Creative Nonfiction with her hybrid and poetic work Our Bark-Skinned Bodies, and Stephenjohn Holgate is the winner of this year's Modernletters Fiction Prize with his rich, poignant novel about three generations of Jamaican men

do u think people vote national / act / nz first bc they just see old cranky people and they are also old cranky people

sometimes I miss Twitter but then I remember once a person saw one of my posts and then commented that they had gotten permission from their maaori friend to be offended by it on their behalf

best book lists of the year in nz should be renamed to "all the books published in nz this year except for one random omission"

the new boomer fb obsession is the "pakeha Maori" a recycled invention when some Pakeha were naturalized Maori by being Jake sully type saviours or pakeha 'slaves' taken by Maori It seems we have gone from trying to understand history and supremacist legacy to writing new fictions with Ai very cool!

ey miss pantograoh punch sm

I think u should be shamed in the agora if u as a bookseller r publically recommending Donna tartts goldfinch in 2025.... .. any other inspired picks u got there......hey I bet no one has heard of the handmaid's tale yet

had a dream i was dating one of those terrifying alpha men & he asked me "who do u belong to" and I said "the state"

watched an episode of Alone where a guy four days in caught a catfish & then made fish head soup & when he ate it it made him gag then whenever he thought about it he would gag & the next day he tapped out bc of "mental health"

some recommendations for the current half price THWUP sale for books published before 2022 yeayah

my sister has a bf after a long terrifying casual dating era of bassists & men aspiring to be bassists & is discovering the joys of relaxed hikes, cafe breakfasts, hanging out with a person who wants to know things about u

every day i pray a vice article doesnt find me

colonisation is so shit like what do u mean u stole the option to seek out other foreign relationships that could have been beneficial and peaceful???

being asked what ur blood quantum isnt offensive to me its like when a baby calls u ugly what am i supposed to do yell at someone who shits their pants every day

i might be nicer to peiple than i should be like why am i trying to unpack a stranger's guilt at the book signing

kia ora the scene form my book that is highlighted in this article contains sexual violence it's important we make the distinction between rape and sex bc users of violence will purposely try to blur that line rape is concerned with power - this act of violence is sexualised* but it is not sex

my sister has started to use AI in her messages to me (it's obvious) & admittedly it has made communicating w her easier

if i had a penis i would go to glory holes with small hats, feather boas or googly eyes stuck to my meat just to break the ice

there are bigger fish to fuck in this world but it's nice to quietly complain on the Lords Day

the anthologies with Maaori titles are getting out of control like are u not embarrassed? not even half ur contributors are Maaori??? & ur pulling out te aka????

had the "talk" again today where my partner asks me to stop putting dead animals in boxes for him to find tbf i put a dead mouse in an old computer mouse box so it's on him

the amount of people who miss out on knowing beautiful rangatahi because they can't relinquish power over them...........fk

some people think of their cats as their babies, my cat is my flatmate

running my non binary venture at a loss for proof of concept

every month i lie in a ball writhing in pain for hours at a time & when i ask my Dr if i can pls have hysterectomy they say omg no u need to have atleast 2 babies - _-

saw someone use the grape emoji to describe the sexual violence in my book & i want to say please just say rape when you are talking about rape

im seriously begging everyone to read more than "the book of the year" u can read a book a month if u r a slow reader & ur just not???

notice my not subtle gesture at.....the ways of survival..... and what that might look like.........in an urban setting........ where you don't have easy access to food...............................

yes - and u will also see an influx of young people who will be exploited for cheap labour / accommodation which is v convenient for small business owners and slum lords 🤔

im sorry to the lovely paakehaa ladies that i marched to the bookstore tables at awf to buy other people's books..... sorry but also u won't regret my choices...... i was a personal book stylist for one sparkling moment....

have I nailed it..?

Harriet Walter was sat a table away from me....... and I just noticed there is vomit in my hair..........

I remember in primary school reading animorphs for the first time & thinking a kid must have written it because there was no way an adult could have written that good a series

when will short lists and the long lists finally relate to height

i like that the paakehaa accent sounds like the speaker has too many teeth that's a fine thing

do people know the revenge fantasy genre well & have recommendations for me? any form works film, book, play, etc i am looking for guidance!!!

Last nite I tried to convince someone that the pope was a bouncer in the 40s in Argentina & they were like o sure he was I was like yeah it was the golden age of tango & they broke a chair on my head

didn't have any sultanas so just diced apples and some chunky ass homemade marmalade in the dough & now I have a better version of hot cross buns yehaw i love u jesus christ

I have three parking fines now can I petition the council to waive them on the basis that I'm just forgetful as shit

poorhara isn't a play on the word pōhara it's a diachronic change anyone who is accusing their cousins of stealing on fb spells it with an r

just heard thousands of eels tried to migrate to the ocean last night but misjudged the swell & have died sending my thoughts and prayers to the eel community today 🙏💭

when i see people calling barry keoghan ugly i remember someone saying i would look like him if i got lip filler

also happy trans visibility day to the trans People who are terrified of being visible bc ahhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

welp turns out i do have to be at the Ockhams to see if i get best first book should i go back to jester costume idea or a homage to mcr

OK why isn't Talia at every festival she's like a very funny, very cool Maaori oracle

sorry the last concern i have for this country is whether it's writer residencys have longevity every one of them is in a colonial home that glorifies some random paakehaa family's settlement on the land & bc we're all desperate for the few opportunities to write we all have to ignore that awkwardly

I haven't watched all of severance yet but is it all driving toward the point that systemic violence is achieved by cutting up the entire job into small pieces & separating each part of the factory line so no one sees how they fully contribute to it bc if they did they wouldn't do the job

i think plot is only truly impressive if it manages to be funny