today i discovered my personal version of hell is having a root canal while christian soft rock plays on an endless loop

i have to have a root canal tomorrow and i need you to tell me honestly how bad it’s going to be

FUCK YES

your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Exciting project, & thrilled to have Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social as progenitor & reader w/ me on this project / @icefloepress.bsky.social Remember to think of "Marginalia" in the broadest of textures: dislocation/ alienation (at the margins); the margins of the text, inlay in a book, etc.

i have to go to the store today and i swear to god if i hear ONE SINGLE NOTE of a christmas song i am going to spontaneously combust

GOOD DAY TO REMEMBER THE WAY WE MEASURE TIME IS ENTIRELY AN INVENTED CONSTRUCT, HAVE A NICE DAY

for halloween next year, i'm gonna go as a sexy version of the little farmhouse in the field from the vision test at the optometrist

i bought a metric asston of candy and had few trick or treaters and to be fully honest i am not mad about this situation

the true heroes of halloween are the people who are brave enough to put costumes on their cats

if you do not want your candy corn i’ll take it

NEW: The states with the highest proportion of people relying on disability benefits are West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama — all states that lack their own aid programs for workers to turn to amid federal cuts.

DO YOU REALLY NEED SEVENTEEN BLOODY FANGED CLOWNS IN YOUR YARD i know it’s halloween but some of us like to sleep

am i having a nervous breakdown or do i just need a snack

turning on my notifications after three days off of work, crying, weeping over my keyboard

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

i always play the game in the ad for royal match bc i like to crush a king

please

my greatest strength and weakness is that i fully lack the ability to be chill about anything

left a video message for my best friend after i had oral surgery this morning and the transcript was like “aheujb ddmmmmon vove you besteeeee”

heyyyyy i've got four poems in the latest issue of @loverseyepress.bsky.social about being a woman in this apocalyptic hellscape, including this one. you can visit the poems holding my rage here: www.loverseyepress.com/post/4-poems...

advocating for radical acceptance of the fact that if you live in the same house as a cat, there will always be some fur on your clothes

just in time for spooky season, a new issue of @screendoorreview.bsky.social full of hauntingly good writing

told my hairstylist that i could handle styling my hair and how i regret my hubris

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

today i broke a tooth eating french onion soup fml

i can be SO TIRED and then i get in the bed and instantly my brain is like SURPRISE!!! REMEMBER FIFTH GRADE

in a parasocial relationship with my cat

is there anything i can do to get more steps that does not involve moving my body

oh dear christ. this whole episode of gbbo is about meringues? what have they done?!? what horror has paul hollywood wrought

i need my cat to get a job, two years of freeloading is enough

Many people don’t know that CVS stands for the top three purchases there which are Coke Zero, travel sized Vaseline, and Skittles

I want to know just enough of every language to recognize when someone is talking shit about my outfit

DO NOT fist fight a goose, you will LOSE and you will BLEED and they do not even have FISTS

Finally achieved a lifelong dream, sorry to all my haters who doubted me

i have tried the dubai chocolate and the tiktok girlies were right, that shit is divine

the overwhelming feeling of doom when you have to style your hair by yourself the first time after getting a haircut

my best friend is at a fine dining restaurant and sending me photos of everything she’s ordered and this is the most excitement i have had in MONTHS

listen, as someone who wrote a memoir that was so intensely TMI person it was probably insane, i TOTALLY get the impulse to call a memoir a novel. HOWEVER. if i have to read the “personal life” section of your wikipedia page to find out what’s actually going on in your novel, that gives me pause.

at any point the pile of books on my bedside table could tumble down and cause an earthquake with several aftershocks

looking for a bog witch to turn me into a frog

KATABASIS IS RF KUANG’S BEST BOOK AND I AM WILLING TO FIST FIGHT ABOUT IT

i would be such a good writer if books did not require tension, character development, or settings

Friday night massacre at the CDC per the New York Times.

tiiiime to go to bed until i wake up at 3 am to my cat doing something ungodly like the demon summoner that he is

me to my coworker during the meeting: do you have games on your phone

the singer of “monster mash” is an unreliable narrator, we have no evidence to accept his assertion that it was indeed a “graveyard smash”

working on an immortality spell just to get through my to-be-read pile

damn my nobel prize brackets are totally busted already