I just got the news. My grandpa passed away today at 2:30pm.

I have just received my first wishlist submission and it is Every Single Bit as wonderful as I knew it could be. This morning has me kicking my feet like a giddy school girl! Do you want to send me my second wishlist sub? Guidelines are below: www.scyllapublishing.com/anthology

Happy Pride Month, you absolute freaks! Just a reminder that Salon Sinister is queer as fuck and if you don't like it, we'll gut you. Groin to gullet. In fact, if you try and mess with any of our queer compatriots, we'll pop your eyes like grapes and write a poem about it. Try us. PLEASE try us.

My newest book, WE ARE MADE OF US, is now available for preorder. 🫶✍️ It’s about family dynamics, facing inherited trauma, and reclaiming motherland. It’s part memoir, part guide, and part hospital stories through my decade of chaplaincy. Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796363...

this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨

“Is this character straight-coded?” said nobody, ever, because being straight has never had to hide behind symbolism and subtext to show up in our media.

5. to every ace who was raised Christian and got SUPER ANNOYED when some youth pastor tried to make you the poster child for chastity in high school as though they’re the same thing: you were with me watching movies when his tires got slashed and we didn’t leave the house all night, Officer

4. to every transmasc whose button-down shirts finally fit right: SLAY, KING

🏳️‍🌈some special Pride Month shout-outs to a few of my favorite categories of LGBTQIAs🏳️‍🌈 1. to everyone for whom this is your first out Pride: congratulations, we love you, we are so proud!!!! by law you should not have to pay for drinks all month. try this on your straight friends, they might buy it

The buzzy success of multiple horror things right now — Widow’s Bay! Obsession! Backrooms! and that’s just right now! — should be a message to film/TV folks to set their sights on the bevy of excellent horror novels out there. I say this selfishly as a writer, sure, but also as a reader of them!

I want Hollywood to make a movie where a person with chronic pain that was denied medical care from their insurer, kidnaps the CEO and makes them experience all the same pain.

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Nobody sees the 4:00 am works outs. Nobody sees the hours of meal prepping. Nobody sees the time spent in meditation bettering myself. Nobody sees any of this. Because I don’t do these things.

To celebrate Pride Month I will be teaching young queer people recipes and hacks to survive the cost of living crisis, like turning rich people into salted pork.

Media literacy, amatonormativity, and talking about Obsession (2026): Person #1: A love story without romance is a horror. Me: A romance story without love is a horror. Person #3: A romance requires love dingus 💀 otherwise it’s not a romance. Me:

“Lord, you have made me for war, and I have no idea what to do with the gift of all I was fighting for.” One of my favorite poems. 🔥 ⚔️ 🙏🏼

Okay so I read the whole of the Pope's latest encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas", the one the internet is calling the AI Encyclical, but it's about a LOT more than that (of course it is, it's over 40,000 words). Here's a thread of quotes...

"War is never Inevitable. Weapons can and must be silenced, for they do not resolve problems but only increase them."

"forge bonds of fraternity built on listening, an open demeanor, making time for each other and even wasting time together. For if we experience authentic encounters with others, with those who are different, strangers and migrants, it becomes much more difficult even to imagine war."

"We must all, therefore, examine our conscience regarding the words we use, the prejudices we have and the explicit or implicit aggression that lies within them. We have a real opportunity to contribute to the common good each time we speak"

"grace does not magically eliminate conflict, but instead it inspires active resistance to evil and an astonishing creativity in doing good."

"Finitude, when truly accepted, does not diminish us but opens us to recognizing the face of God and others. Indeed, precisely because we experience limits - vulnerability, suffering and failure - we can recognize the inviolable dignity of every person, both our own and that of others."

"Our relationship with life seems to be in crisis today. Everything that appears as a "limit" -incapacity, illness, old age, suffering, vulnerability- tends to be seen primarily as a defect to be corrected, rather than as a reality through which our humanity matures and opens itself to relationship"

"the danger is not so much that a person may believe they are communicating with another person, but rather that they may gradually lose the very desire to form genuine human connections."

"Solidarity is expressed when each person, [...] takes part in the life of the community - by staying informed, engaging with others, making their voice heard and contributing to public decisions and choices - while also assuming real responsibility so that the common good is achieved"

"Solidarity, then, is the concrete recognition that the future of each individual is connected to the future of all;"

"the earth's goods - soil, water, air and natural resources - are given by God to the entire human family to sustain the lives of all, and [...] every person has an inherent right to the use of such goods, both now and in the future."

"as long as there are people in the world who are excluded from the development befitting human dignity, the Christian community cannot be content with a theoretical proclamation of peace."

Just bought it. It's a wonderful anthology in memory of the talented @chaoticauthor.online founder of #horrorwriterschat. #booksky #amreading

Look what just arrived in the mail!! Congrats and thank you to @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social and #HorrorWritersChat for putting this together in honor and memory of Matt Mason. It looks wonderful and I’m excited to come by the fire (candles lit at home) to read everyone.

having an always sharp chef knife that has no issues dicing or chopping veggies or cutting through meat is better than sex tbh i dont make the rules if you have never used a sharp chef knife that does everything: you should buy a nice one if you have: you understand

Of all the people to possess, the spirit chose you...the least you could do is visit them.

Me @ a particular scene in Aromantic Frankenstein.

Spent a good chunk of my day enjoying the outside, and meanwhile CB3 is a tiny little inch away from hitting 6,000 Canadian dollars -- which happens to also be our halfway point!!! No big promo today but if I go to bed with that I'll be thrilled www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...

he just misses his mum #goodomens3

What an exciting ToC! In particular I love to see “Six People to Revise You” by @jrdawson.bsky.social and “An Asexual Succubus” by @wiswell.bsky.social in the lineup, both truly striking stories by fellow @starsandsabers.bsky.social authors! 😍

I think I need snacks, wine, and a good horror film.

DID YOU KNOW that I wrote a short story about an aroace fisherwoman who is immune to sirens’ illusory magic due to her lack of attraction, and the aroallo siren she forms a lifelong deep platonic bond with? If this sounds like your jam, please support the Common Bonds 3 Backerkit if you’re able!

Possibly my favorite thing about physical books over all other types? Their very presence is a reminder of their existence, a reminder to read them, and a reminder to revisit their pages. All in a way that doesn’t require looking at a screen or risk the myriad of distractions from digital life.

Went to the library to pick up one hold. Came back with two novels, two graphic novels, and two movies. I ❤️ libraries. #booksky

“Shapes of Love helped me breathe.” Wow. ♥️

the way I heard someone’s misinterpretation that Bear and Nikki were ALREADY dating in the beginning of Obsession (2026) 💀

Gossiping with my friend (a nun) about the unrealistic things in the latest show-with-nuns-in on TV ("It's so unrealistic! They're shocked by mobile phones!! Ridiculous!!" She says to me. By text. From her mobile phone. That she, a nun, owns.)

Easy: The Lottery. First thing I read as a kid that opened me up to the moral possibilities of horror. Read it in middle school. Though I didn't think in those terms in middle school. #HorrorWritersChat

Some emboldened white men at the beach one after the other were unnecessarily aggressive to me. If I were not with a friend at the time I would have cried. Why are people like this. I know I’m sensitive but no seriously, why are people like this.

We will never know or properly appreciate how many lives have been saved by librarians. The right book in the right hands at the right time. Astounding.

They left the Children's Day fish up. They're so summery flying in the wind.

The people who make the art you love (comics, movies, video games, visual art, music, books, etc.) are rarely paid living wages to do so. When they unionize so that they can finally properly advocate for themselves, feels like the least we can do is signal boost their efforts.