Love it when my reading list accidentally resonates. Reading two books back-to-back about an unnamed female protagonist exploring a swampy wilderness with three other people where the lines of sanity and logic are blurred.

Toyotathon started as a pagan holiday

Happy Christmas, friends! Whether you celebrate or not, I hope today is good to you.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones Hands down the best book I’ve read this year, if not this decade. I read it in October, and I’m just now coming out of the book hangover.

Take the survey to tell SFWA your thoughts on AI’s place in SFF. You don’t have to be a member to take the survey!

I just want to see cute planner layout inspiration for the girlies with day jobs 😩

The Fayetteville Public Library displayed art by local artist Sarah Spence this year, and I was so glad I got to see it. Her Swan Lane series in particular is stunning.

“It’s inevitable; adopt it or get left behind,” is something people say when they have no actually persuasive reason for you to buy what they’re selling.

it was I think better when there were ways for people who hate being on screen to make a creative living I don’t think it’s an improvement that we’re creating a culture where everyone creative also has to be hot

I am beyond excited to be co-chairing the Rhysling awards with @jordanrhirsch.bsky.social! Glad to be celebrating speculative poetry and speculative poets.

I hear we’re sharing our publications wrapped. 2025 was, poetry-wise, a good year for me. I was able to share over a dozen poems through several journals, including my dream haiku journal. I hope that some of these poems were able to bring you joy this year.

I talked my book club into reading Sarah Gailey’s Spread Me, and today’s the meeting. Wish me luck.

Yesterday my caller ID said an incoming call was from my mom, and for a brief moment, I wondered if the latest iOS update had added a ouija board feature. It was her former employer, and the caller contact immediately immediately made sense, but god, was I disoriented for a few seconds.

Fast and Furious 1851: Pequod Drift

I was (foolishly) hoping that the iOS update would make the typing issues better, but they are somehow worse???

It’s just past 9:30, and I’ve turned on the kettle twice, promptly forgetting to make tea each time. It’s clearly going to be a great day.

It’s going to be a rough day—if you have cute pets and pictures/anecdotes about them, please share those here ❤️

giant eldritch ladies! architecture! cannibalism! gender! all this and more can be found in:

Post a book quote that you love. “Still, what else could I do? I had to try. Sometimes you get a miracle. Mostly you don’t, but you still have to make space for the miracle to happen, just in case.” -T. Kingfisher, Hemlock & Silver

It is not a bad thing to occasionally consume art that challenges you.

Had a dream last night that was the usual mess, but at the end, I was watching a giant polar bear walk toward me, carrying a volcano like a snailshell on its back. “Welp,” I said to the person next to me, “that’s either a god or a Pokemon.”

“Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.” -Maggie Smith, Good Bones

I have so many projects in the pipeline for 2026, and I cannot wait to share them with you. 2026 is going to be a year of building community among poets 💕

I hear we’re sharing our publications wrapped. 2025 was, poetry-wise, a good year for me. I was able to share over a dozen poems through several journals, including my dream haiku journal. I hope that some of these poems were able to bring you joy this year.

Got home to find the largest flock of blackbirds I’ve seen in the neighborhood settled in the trees of my backyard, all chirping up a storm. I would have been much more excited about this if I hadn’t come home early with a migraine.

Art museum 🖼️ Soft piano 🎶 Winter cocktail 🍸 Perfection

Insert a movie into another movie: 2 Star 2 Trek

We’ve reached the point of the year in which I always forget that I need to walk out the door early to scrape ice from my windshield.

Wonderful news! Glad to see poetry recognized by the greater speculative community.

The siren song of the rack of lamb at the butcher counter calls to me 🤤 gonna need some volunteers for a dinner party soon.

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THE CHEETAH CAM DEN 2 https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/cheetah-cub-cam

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

Know this: if you ever come to my home for charcuterie, I will provide you with more than a paltry ounce of cheese. You will be given so much cheese.

Don’t even get me started on three goblins @alicreagar.bsky.social @chrismckeever.bsky.social

Trying a gluten-free version of my holiday staple rum cake. Since marrying into a gluten sensitivity, I’ve reserved the rum cake for work parties, but I miss making it for family events (and I’ve stopped going to my own family events 😬), so I’m going to try to make it gluten free. Wish me luck!

This seems to be a good time to note that I'm still hoping that we will have a Special Hugo Award for Best Poem in 2026!

I have whiskey. I have a seat near the stage. I am ready to listen to some literature.

Reskeet with a time you looked cool

It is rainy and thundery and dark, and I should not have to leave my house, my cat, and my books.

Wondering what are the BEST science fiction and fantasy books of 2025? I got you covered! Here are ten fantastical books that rocked my world and keep snagging in my mind. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Discovered that my blender is broken while cooking the first soup of the season 😫

please trust me with your potions and spells

Sorry I'm late, the autumn leaves instilled in me a simultaneous awe of nature and piercing remembrance that all things end.

I will need a little Christmas two weeks from today and absolutely no sooner.

I may be tired, but my notes app is full. So many glimpses of beauty lately.

My local distillery is doing Twilight themed cocktail classes tonight, so you can expect me to be so obnoxious about it

If the history of SFF literature is at all of interest to you, you want to read Trace Elements. Jo and Ada taught two courses using the working draft as the textbook, and they were phenomenal. I learned so much in those two semesters!

Got to spend the weekend in community with other poets, and I am going into the week feeling invigorated.

Experiencing writer’s block? Try being trapped in a villa with Lord Byron! You won’t regret being trapped in a villa with Lord Byron.