solace #Dragonage #AlistairTheirin

you know when you finish a book and you just have to sit in silence for a lil bit (positive)? yeah...

If you take the good reputation you've gained over your career and trade it away to offer the veneer of authenticity to AI projects (and also presumably to collect an eyewatering check), please understand that there is a price. Unwavering support and respect is earned, not owed.

Die Dinge, die uns am meisten am Herzen liegen, behalten wir immer für uns. James Joyce

missing my sister already 😭

why is the first day back at work from vacation always a shit show?? i was legit excited to work and now im reminded why i go on vacation in the first place

playing tourist in seattle ☺️

when your old job is so toxic that you still have nightmares about it 6 years after you quit

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Lady Ambassador ✨ #josephinemontilyet #dragonage

finally back home!! just one more weekend out with my sister who's visiting then i can finally recharge 😫

more restaurants should let you grill meat over an open flame while you catch up with the girlies. 100/10

1. Incredible breaking news and a landmark ruling out of Colorado. The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that hospitals MUST not capitulate to Trump, and must continue offering trans youth care under state law. They found vague federal threats "speculative." Subscribe to support our journalism.

Thank you to my beautiful queen @cassandra-allegra.bsky.social for always being my ride or die in these kind of trips. This week was absolutely so fun and chill and the weather was blessing us for a good time. I love you my queen 💛

gonna miss yapping irl with my bestie 😭😭

if you want to know how the food scene in Vegas is like, we just ordered a loaf of bread stuffed with chicken Alfredo. it’s called a ‘fat baby’ and she was delicious

it’s a sweltering 91 degrees where im at right now…take me back to the clouds and rain 😭

the rhododendrons are in bloom too 🥺

A friend in an alleyway

more portland adventures

Florence sooooooon!!

i need to have a talk with 6 year old me because what do you mean my favorite movie at that age was fox & the hound??

i just had the most delicious bowl of butter pasta with cheese and I’m about to go ham on some tiramisu. my absolute happy place

the roses are blooming today 🥺

florence + machine soon….

Katara, my piece of the prize for an ATLA stamp rally at MCM London

i was brave and went to costco on a saturday at 5 pm 🥲

(on holdout priv twitter only 2 real life friends + 8 decade long mutuals whose names i still dont know following): god, ive fucked things up so bad i can barely go into public now without feeling intense shame.. (on bluesky which has no priv feature): apple boston jeans with the boost and the her!

lmao weird randos replying to my posts. that’s an autoblock 🙅‍♀️

the pitt having the success that it does is great because it exposes the realities of what healthcare workers in the US face today without all the extra drama (i'm looking at you grey's anatomy 😒) there's still drama ofc, but it's more grounded. more human.

I reviewed Fonda Lee's THE LAST CONTRACT OF ISAKO for the NYTBR: "The physicality of her novel — fight scenes that rattle your bones, descriptions of space you can inhabit and food you can taste — counterbalances what would otherwise be an unbearable, claustrophobic bleakness." Here's a gift link

stuck at work yelling at insurance companies, wish i was at home playing pokopia 😔

Women from distant places

savoring the last bits of cardigan weather before summer hits ☀️

pokopia update: all towns are about 50-70% restored, skylands being the most at around 75%. i’m still missing that damn iron plating recipe so I’ve finally resorted to pillaging the boat for it. palette town is still mostly untouched 😔

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

i've pretty much confirmed i'm allergic to salon gel nail polish so i'm devastated 😭

walked down the street to grab some coffee and ran into a corgi!! i love you seattle

A visibly emotional Anne Hathaway responding to a trans kid--who named herself Ella after Ella Enchanted, and thanked Hathaway for her courage as an ally--saying "Ella, sweetie, I want to make something absolutely clear: It takes zero courage to love you"......now I might cry too

i sincerely, truly, wish people at work actually read. "WE'RE NOT GOING TO SIGN THAT ORDER BECAUSE XYZ" well. if they read further down, they'd see my message that if they don't feel that this order is appropriate, then they can click the refuse button! it's as if that's *why it's there*

Dittomons are finally here! 🤩 I'm so excited and happy about this collection 🫰🏽 You can order yours through DM 📩 International shipping, everyone! ✈️ 🔹Limited stock🔹 As always, every kind of support is appreciated 🫶🏽 Thanks, trainers! [ #pokopia #clayart #handmade #ditto]

✨ leg ✨

i'm so deeply behind my reading goal this year & i'm normally a very fast reader but i'm really enjoying shorter reading sessions and letting the story marinate in my head.

can my mid 30s stop giving me new chronic conditions?? please and thank you.

i've been feeling icky lately but turns out it's just my good ol' friend, body dysmorphia 😔

This quote comes from a talk Ursula gave as part of the Portland Arts & Lectures program of Literary Arts. You can listen to the whole thing here: literary-arts.org/archive/ursu...

florence concert nails 💅