"Our culture is not your costume!"

The best part of this 2 hour video is that it's actually 4 hours when you and your husband stop it every 5 minutes to say "and another thing!" Also just a great video and worth the watch.

Eating my Cheez-its Drinking my water Reading my book I am *THRIVING*

In case anyone was wondering here you can find a list of the charitable causes the Tolkein Trust (and by extension estate) sponsor. You will notice it's mostly about helping refugees and basically nothing about being a dick to transpeople. tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Tol...

My MC really hates her job, can you tell?? #RevPitWaiting

I love my writers group!! @sampeil.bsky.social @prahajess.bsky.social @jenniferluce.bsky.social @fantasyscience.bsky.social @martha-eve.bsky.social Seriously if you're on the fence 👏join👏 a 👏 group! I've also been lucky enough to manuscript swap with the talented @drteyar.bsky.social!

New week, new requests. Manuscript Request Monday Take Some Time to Upload Tuesday Wake Up & Send a Full Wednesday Thank You For Sending a Full Thursday Full Request Friday Send Your Full Saturday Stayed Up All Night Reading, When Can We Chat? Sunday #writingcommunity #amquerying

Thank goodness that the LOTR movies came out before Marvel dialogue took off because otherwise we would have gotten something like: Aragorn: then I shall die as one of them! Gimli (directly to the camera): uh oh awkward!!! 🤣

This is a great argument against extreme wealth. Like 3 people from your past trying to gently tell you you're being a huge weirdo *should* end with you going to therapy or crying over a glass of wine. It should NOT end with you using your wealth to erase their identities and rewrite UK law.

I've got a Regency poly romance that I've been kicking around for awhile trying to figure how all the pieces fit together. I have an interconnected trilogy of contemporary queer romances brewing, featuring high school teachers who are less Abbott Elementary and more FX's English Teacher.

Omg this might be the hardest question.... Well, here are the authors whose work as stayed with me through the years: JRR Tolkein Mohsin Hamid Alexis Hall Ashley Herring Blake Jane Austen Kevin Kwan William Shakespeare (I'm a theatre kid, give this to me okay)

This is so disingenuous. First of all it's not "corporate" publishing. It's Traditional publishing. What this info graphic neglects to tell you is that if you self publish you pay all the up front cost. Whereas money flows to the author in traditional publishing. That's why royalties are lower. 🧵

Okay this one photo is literally the only proof I have. But my new conspiracy theory is that Daniel Radcliffe is the reason that Megan Thee Stallion is playing Zidler on Broadway.

You're so real for this OP

Loving the number of cats in today's #RevPitWaiting prompt!!!

So if you'd asked me this a couple of months ago I would have said 2 cats and a rabbit. And then the cat distribution system distributed some cats. Now I'm sort of embarrassed to say. But here's some cute photos. Fun fact! All my pets are named after Shakespeare characters!

"All I Want For Christmas Is You" but sung by a non binary drag artist and their precious elfling helper lol iykyk

It’s as easy as shutting your effin mouth! And did I mention… it’s free?!

How many television plot lines in the US wouldn't exist if we just had universal healthcare? I know, Breaking Bad. But it's a sub plot of Virgin River! The Netflix romance show! It was a season arc of The Good Doctor. Like we need universal healthcare now, if only to get some fresh ideas in TV.

NGL one of my writer pet peeves is when people use Romance, Women's Fiction, and Erotica interchangeably. What exactly do Heated Rivarly, Big Little Lies, and Ice Planet Barbarians have in common besides "these are books girls read"???

Oh, how I struggled with this one! I love this quote because it conveys the banter between my FMC and her love interests. I hope you enjoy it as well! #RevPitWaiting

THREE'S THE SEASON for cookies, Christmas, and steamy sapphic shenanigans! Check out my mood board for my manuscript!

Single POV Meet Charlotte Sanders-Stewart esq. Burned out tax attorney extraordinaire! Loves Christmas, fairy smut, and her best friends Dax and Jess. She might love them a little too much... So much so that it's going to put a damper on her plans to move out of Washington DC!

Hi y'all! I'm Alyse (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈Queer 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛Cat owner/ lover 🐇 bunny owner/ lover 🎭 theater maker and teacher 🧶 crafty crafter ♥️romance writer 🌎active traveler 😍😍😍 happily partnered Just generally happy to be here! Grateful for my writer's group who has helped me learn and grow!

I just yeeted a manuscript to #RevPit for the first time ever! I'm so thankful for my writers' group for convincing me to do this and for helping me prep! Seriously, just a group of incredible, smart, talented women supporting each other in their art! Love to see it 💕

The shade!!!!

Okay buckle up this is a long rant about niche theatre. For weeks, I've been wondering what is Daniel Radcliffe thinking? He's mounting "Every Brilliant Thing" on Broadway. I LOVE EBT. It's an incredible show with a beautiful message. For the unfamiliar it's a one man show about depression, with

Much has been said about Timothee Chalamet over the last couple of days. But he just reminds me of Troy Bolton at the end of HSM desperate to get back into the good graces of the basketball team. We all saw the trailer to Wonka buddy. We all know you're embarrassed to be a theatre kid.

Look at this yearner

The phrase "the children are the future", doesn't mean we have to listen to them now.

Favorite History: Richard the 3rd Fave Tragedy: Hamlet Fave Problem: Tempest Fave Comedy: oooh this one is hard either Much Ado or Twelfth night. I fully accept that I have extremely basic taste

Anyway 12/8 is a dumb time signature

#MSWL I love fantasies inspired by non-western folklore and cultures, and am on the hunt for C Drama inspired fantasy that captures a sweeping sense of history and high stakes relationships. Send me all the alternate/parallel history fantasies, Studio Ghibli-esque fantasies, and fresh worldbuilding

For my fellow cozy fantasy friends!

I'm so excited for RevPit this year! My writer's group has me hyped!!! I hope the editors are ready because this is going to be a strong group!

There are like 3 half finished data centers within 5 miles of my house. Don't believe the AI lies friends

The whole point of Heated Rivalry is that these men love a sport that doesn't love them. Then y'all are like "I can't believe they let Kash Patel hang out in the locker room!" I can't believe that you got all the way to the cottage and didn't understand why they had to hide there in the first place.

I love the terms "open door" and "closed door" romance. It does what it says on the tin. You either get to see the deed or you don't. But I've seen a rise in the term "clean romance". As a queer poly writer who writes stories inspired by my own community and experience, the phrase gives me the ick.

Not to be totally brain rotted, but I wonder if this is part of the reason behind Heated Rivarly's massive success. It's a rejection of this style and opts for a low budget show that focuses on intimate human relationships. There's little spectacle outside of the hockey and well other activities.

Hallmark Meets Poly: THREE'S THE SEASON Grieving lawyer Charlotte enlists her 2 best friends to finish her late husband's last wish: the Christmas List. When unexpected romantic feelings emerge she'll have to decide whether to risk her found family for a second chance at love. #QuestPit #W #A #R

This one is easy! Three's the Season is a queer romance with Hallmark Christmas vibes! Griveing lawyer Charlotte embarks on a Christmas activities marathon but when she enlists the help of her best friends she might just end up with a second chance at romance!

If the US can abolish USAID, we can sure as shit abolish ICE.

I love Virginia politics. I love that one weekend everyone is pearl clutching because what will our first lady governor wear to her inauguration if the state protocols mandate a morning suit. Then the next week we a senior state dem calling our dem senators cucks Our beautiful commonwealth

🧹 EARLY MAGIC 🧹 Mean Girls X Practical Magic With Surfing When a cocksure witch loses her magic to a cunning daemon, she hatches a plan to steal it back—betraying a grieving classmate who’s only just discovered the world of magic. #BluePit📖 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Q #F #YA #Querying #witch

If Andy Weir and Ali Hazelwood cowrote a novel, it would be CHEMPORTAL. In this sci-fi romcom with real chemistry, two awkward scientists living in an alternate Toronto must overcome their mutual dislike to save the world from starvation. #Q #A #SF #R #BluePit #BluePit📖

Currently querying CHEMPORTAL, a grounded sci-fi romance with real chemistry. Two awkward scientists battle time, doomsday cults, corporations, and their own hearts to save the world. - Enemies(ish) to lovers - Mistaken identity - Family and friendship - Not actually about portals

When marauders menace her village, an empath-scholar leads an odyssey across the climate-ravaged former US to retrieve a rumored key to peace, before her people are obliterated. Clan of the Cave Bear x A Psalm for the Wild-Built 🔮 #EarthMagic 🌪️ #CliFi 🌷 #Hopepunk #F #BluePit📖 #SP #Q #BluePit

DUNE X THE UNBROKEN Those born with psychic gifts are conscripted into a guild to defend their home mysterious strangers prophesied in visions. Even if it means submitting to a Guildmaster who would rather the city burn than admit defeat. "Monsters make Monsters" #Q #BluePit #F #AgentsGuide

THREE'S THE SEASON: The Agent Guide! Hallmark Movie but make it Poly ;) After suffering a humiliating public meltdown, a widowed lawyer seeks solace with her two best friends - only to be caught off guard by unexpected romantic feelings. Querying soon! #Bluepit📖 #W #A #LGBT

Meet the characters of THREE'S THE SEASON Charlotte: Overworked but not underpaid widowed lawyer After suffering a humiliating gingerbread themed breakdown seeks solace from her friends Dax (coolest queer in DC) and their wife Jessa-Lynn (OG cottagecore lesbian) Querying soon! #Bluepit📖 #W #A