Me and the dikdik on my mug are pretty fucking shocked at the nerve of this spider. I'm trying to cohabitate and you're trying to drink my tea?

My power outage writing setup, for however long the battery lasts. If you know me, you know goal #1 is to write and goal #2 is to be a modern Ma Ingalls. I think I have achieved both today. Have I peaked?

I just finished reading Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman and woke up to severe thunderstorms, most of my town without power. My husband sent me to Costco for water and if you know the book, you know why I'm uncomfortable LOL

The rebellion begins with a lie, a locked door, and a girl who won't stop asking questions. WORTHY ONES is a slow descent into dystopian hell packed with overbearing AI, a morally messy heroine, and secrets and lies at every turn. New chapters posting now on Wattpad: tinyurl.com/worthyones

I am so excited to announce that the first installment of the Glassborn Chronicles is available now on Wattpad! Read EXODUS for free now, and keep an eye out for the second installment very soon! www.wattpad.com/story/394251...

My god, the phonics that I was hooked on against my will in grade school have messed me up. I just wrote "fast paste seen" instead of "fast-paced scene." Send the grammar police, I deserve it.

The novella is DONEEEE!!! I suspected this day would never come but I am so incredibly chuffed with how it turned out. Turns out I can still write even after a wicked burnout, hallelujah. Going to be publishing chapters daily on Wattpad while I work on the novel, and then both will be available

Writing contemporary fiction: “She made chicken parm for dinner.” Done. Writing sci-fi: “She made..." But does she even cook, or do they eat communally on Mars? What grows well hydroponically? What are the limits of what you can do with cricket protein...? 5 hours & 1 existential crisis later...

Sighhhhhhh Ohio representing the only way it knows how

I've been agonizing over the titles for my series for 4 months now and sometimes I just stop and think, Kim Stanley Robinson named his Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, maybe I'm overthinking it 🫠

The speed of Ellie & Dina's relationship #TheLastofUs

It's really weird that I'm now old enough where whenever I watch a documentary there's a good chance they'll tell me something "shocking" and I'll just go, "I know! I was there, I noticed at the time!"

Texts, emails, social notifications: nah, i think I'll wait about a week to look just in case somebody is trying to yell at me, even tho I've done nothing to expect that My new video bird feeder: JUDGE ME, EASTERN BLUEBIRD

I'm reading Mickey 7 and LOVING it but I'm so curious about the conversation between the production co and the author about the name of the movie. 1/2

I'm not Catholic so all this talk of conclaves is just making me want to reread Arc of the Scythe.

Thrift store score. I read the graphic novel adaptation of Kindred first and now I wanna see the nuance I'm sure Octavia Butler added to that little 💩 Rufus in the original. Have you read either/both?

What makes a DNF dystopian book for you? For me, it's insufficient world building. If you don't explain why we're in the hellscape I can't get invested in escaping it

"When we have enough loaves of white bread to crush them under our heels, when we have enough milk to choke us, we still won’t be happy in the least. But if we share things we don’t have enough of, we can be happy today." - Solzhenitsyn

If you liked Brave New World, but want it a little more biotech, try The Grace Year. Female control. Bodily autonomy. A system that gives you just enough to keep you quiet. #dystopianbooks

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“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.” — Thomas Sowell, economist, historian, philosopher

If you liked The Giver, you’ll love Parable of the Sower. Both follow quiet, observant protagonists growing up in a failing system and realizing survival means building something new. Bonus: they both have graphic novel adaptations! #dystopianbooks

The scariest part of The 5th Wave for me wasn’t the overt violence—it was the moment Cassie realized the boy nursing her back to health might be something else entirely - but she was too injured to run. Couldn’t confront him. She just had to bide her time. What's your favorite slow burn reveal?

Spent weeks wrestling with plot holes, red herrings, and emotionally devastating twists… and I won. The Glassborn outline is DONE and tomorrow I get to start drafting and ruining lives (fictionally... mostly). #dystopianbooks

"The world in which you can buy avocados all year & your iPhone keeps getting more powerful & you never have to live in fear of an occupying force is the world in which a group of people you'll never meet simply have to die." One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

One of the best examples I’ve seen of an object becoming a character: the knife in The Knife of Never Letting Go. It’s always there. Heavy. Emotional. Important. What’s your favorite inanimate-object-as-character? #booksky

"It is a hallmark of failing societies, I've learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist." One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad

You might be a little too much of a perfectionist if your outlining process involves a t-square and a tape measure. #authorsky

My own husband was giving me alpha reader feedback on my novella and I was shaking the entire time. Damn, adrenaline, I get it, this series is important to me.

I see #TheHandmaidsTale has added whispering for 90% of an episode to the slow extreme closeups of June's face for peak ✨️🎉🎶 drama

When I bring a library or second hand book home, my dog smells the hell out of it and we're both reading and enjoying it, but they are completely different stories out of the same book.

My scifi/dystopian tbr stack is really testing the limits of this wall mounted bedside shelf

Once I prayed in the words of my parents. But then my world expanded, and the words fell short of my reality. I pray in a different language now. #Foundation

Sad boy who looks entirely too innocent to be asked to go to his room during my conference call. Also pictured: hellhound who will scream at the top of his lungs the moment the call starts if he's allowed to stay here.

In my super-duper niche AU, notorious business card sluts Patrick Bateman and Laura Ingalls Wilder are best friends who spend all their time critiquing each other's printing choices.

Real life: technological innovations allowed housewives to leave the kitchen and lead full lives The Jetsons: Jane needs a robot maid because pushing the buttons is taking up all her shopping time

How it started vs how it's going There's just something so satisfying about printing a manuscript to make your editing notes. #scifi #dystopian #bunniesinspace

Quinta was raised to believe the rabbits were a reward. A privilege. A gift from Valence to the worthy citizens of the colony. It wasn’t until her twelfth birthday that she realized some never got to see them, and started asking why. The Glassborn Chronicles are coming soon!

Quinta’s whole life, she’s been told Earth is uninhabitable and the Red Planet is humanity's only hope for survival. She believes it... until the day she finds proof they're lying. #teasertuesday #dystopian #scifi

If you love your scifi with a side of slow-burn horror, Paradise-1 by David Wellington delivers. MurderBot meets Alien—a crew sent to investigate a lost colony finds something way worse than silence. What’s your favorite dystopian/horror blend?

Veterinarian Lira didn’t come to Mars to start a rebellion. She came to care for the colony's first 48 rabbits. But somewhere between the launch pad and the Red Planet, she realized something was very wrong. My Glassborn Chronicles prequel novella is coming soon!

Endlessly stimulated, emotionally numbed, always productive... a Brave New World reread hits different in 2025.📱

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Modern dystopias often show us technology gone wrong (Severance). Classic ones show us people gone wrong (A Handmaid's Tale). Which do you think is scarier?

Spent way too much time designing my Mars colony today—just me, some shapes in Canva, and the crushing realization that city planning is hard. Here’s a general layout of the colony’s living quarters + an exploded view of one sector for a closer look. Ready for Mars! #scifi #worldbuilding

My pen name and I were not vibing so I'm just gonna go for it with almost-my-real-name. Caution, meet wind. Hi again everyone, I'm Kaylin, about to be publishing as KN Tristan.

Lira is a vet, not an astronaut. But she’s about to travel 40 million miles to Mars with 48 rabbits—and a secret no one planned for. #TeaserTuesday

I've been binging The Great Pottery Throwdown as a cozy British TV refuge from *gestures broadly* and let me tell you, I was not prepared for the full frontal 🍆 in season 3.

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If you love Wool, check out Parable of the Sower. Both explore survival in collapsing worlds where society is rigid and hope lies in those willing to challenge the system. #dystopian