Today has been tough, so here for the record are the lyrics of the "X-Men song" I sing my son. To the tune of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer You know Jean Grey, and Cyclops, and Storm, and Rogue. You know Gambit, and Iceman, and Beast, and Toad. But do you recall... The most famous X-Man of allll

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In new albums by Florence + the Machine and Lily Allen we see two different reflections of feminine rage in the year 2025 and how the Trump era is convincing women playing by the rules no longer serves them. In this essay I will.....

If your day needs brightening, here's my cat losing a staring contest with an otter puppet. Twice.

Sparrow is an awesome artist and kickass bookseller/barista at one of Seattle's best bookstores. If anyone is able to help out with recovery.

My child was thrilled to learn today that with greater bed size comes even greater bedsheets.

September was one of my better months of writing this year with 10,007 words over 14 days. Not a bad report for @gywo.bsky.social

Made the "mistake" of going to my fave local bookstore to buy birthday presents on a T. Kingfisher release day. Couldn't resist buying a copy of What Stalks the Deep. So much for the resolution to just read what's on my shelves. Wish I could say I'm sorry, but @tkingfisher.com has me hooked.

Florence+ The Machine serving Patti Smith and releasing a Halloween album is giving me LIFE

I hope you all read this from me.

So so excited about this Hugo win! This was possibly the thing I was most excited about nominating and voting for this year. I loved Between Earth and Sky and you should all read it!

First time at the Hugos, let's go!! #worldcon

I'm so excited this story is out in the world! It's one of my favorites I've written to date and got me connected with the amazing folks at @dreamfoundry.bsky.social

Apparently this week marks 5 years with the most foolish of cats. Happy cativersary Pippin.

This is a bleak timeline, but thank goodness for Alexandra Petri

One of my favorite stories I've written to date is about teenage witches who practice in a suburban Chicken Express, and it's finally being published!! Here's the amazing cover that looks awesome and is hilariously mismatched with the tone of my story that's in it!

Today my 3 year old asked me to sing him an X-Men song at bedtime, so on the spot I wrote Wolverine the Grumpy X-Man to the tune of Rudolph. Why even sit down to write today? I've clearly hit my creative peak for the day.

Very excited to see Angi by Nibedita Sen in @morningtransport.bsky.social nominated! It was one of my 2024 favorites and Hugo Noms!

Thank you @thestranger.com for covering the backflips my brain was doing to figure out where the heck the season finale of The Last of Us was supposed to take place. You missed me spending the 2nd half of the episode yelling about how Ellie would have had hypothermia from her time in The Sound.

Reminder to self and others, you are not an endless productivity machine. Getting stuck sometimes is supposed to happen

The dystopia is getting to me. It is not getting to my pets.

Starting a giant thread of recommendations for #BookBingoNW2025. I'm also trying to read the Hugo nominees this year, so special recs for that in each category! @seattlein2025.org

The only coverage of The Last of Us that matters www.thestranger.com/tv/2025/05/1...

Excited we made it out to May the 4th Star Wars trivia today and managed to come in 3rd! #maythe4thbewithyou

This is absolutely perfect. No notes.

It was almost impossible to move in Seattle Center today. First sunny, 70 degree day of the year and a whole lot of fed up people. Love this picture for the perspective that was impossible to get on the ground.

Reminder: love is real The panel where @chucktingle.bsky.social and TJ Klune talked about punk, hope, kindness, and told some.great stories was one of my highlights of #eccc2025

As much as we remember the people who enabled or caved to fascism growing in our country, we should also remember the people who fight hard against the evil

Interrupting my own doomscrolling to bring you this weird little guy from our trip to the aquarium today.

This is a public service announcement with guitars. 8 days left to listen to International Clash Day on KEXP. The community, resistance, and music have been giving me LIFE this week. Streaming Archive | KEXP search.app/erfQHPd92QLz...

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

I found this encouraging on a dark day.

"Tragedy is inevitable. Fortunately, so is joy." Next up on books inspiring my joy and resistance, Bury Your Gays by @chucktingle.bsky.social This was a wild, violent ride about saying fuck you to capitalism, AI and the algorithm, and art as commodity.

My first month of @gywo.bsky.social I wrote 12,513 words and wrote 15 of 31 days.

Going to start posting the books I'm reading to make me feel better or at least sane during this time. Up first a re-read: "Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like minded people building it up to a roar"

Just go to help chat and tell them you want to return any Neil Gaiman books you have. I didn’t even have to list the titles. Zero questions asked, they just returned the 3 books I had and issued me credits.

My favorite tea shop is SO CLOSE to selling tea bags and I'm very excited. Sharing in case others would like to support an awesome business by drinking delicious tea on the go.

This is it. This is the Internet in a nutshell right now. Complete existential dread, but dick jokes.

Repeat after me: just because someone has one kid DOES 👏NOT👏 make it ok to ask when they're having a second. For all the same fucking reasons it's not ok to ask people without kids when they plan to have one. No one's family planning is any of your business and it sure as shit isn't small talk.

Signed up for @gywo.bsky.social this year. Yesterday that made the difference between "it's been a busy day, I'm not going to write," and 300 new words. Going to finish a draft of this novel this year if it kills me.

Start your New Year with a beautiful story!

The time of year for cats in Christmas trees has arrived

It's 11:30, I'm still freaking out and I don't know when I'll be able to sleep. I have been skeptical about a Wicked movie for 20 years, but I just witnessed an absolutely fantastic Wicked movie. 1/?

A neighbor posts poems on her garage regularly and this is the current poem. It spoke to me and given the wall of AHHHH I walked into here today, maybe it will help others too.

well, everybody, this is going to suck, but we’re going to follow the blueprint of every monster movie with a 2 in the title: take a little time to disbelieve that this is happening again, then use what we learned last time to fight hard, protect each other, and survive for as long as we can.

"But you know the wonderful thing about where a person comes from? You can take it with you. All the folklore. All the magic. All the legends. They’re there for you, if you know how to invoke them."

This dumb app is so much better than the other dumb app.

The Wicked Lego set is amazing, but I don't know why this Target ad thinks this is a toy for a twelve year old boy. That's clearly a toy for a 36 year old woman who sang The Wizard and I at her school talent show in 2006.

Anyone else play the game where you look at Submission Grinder and get excited when a piece is pending with a market for longer than their average because maybe it means they like it and it's getting extra rounds of review? Then they send you a form rejection and you're extra sad? Anyone?