Sir are you all right

i have failed at finding the exact post/thread but thanks to @feliciadavin.com for inspiring this idea

first on the docket for me: chapter 7 of The Making of Paris by Russell Kelley.

a thing I proposed on discord which I’m super excited about: one-chapter-of-nonfiction-you-own book club. so: once a week (or more, I’m not your boss), pick up a nonfiction book you have on hand and read 1 chapter. doesn’t have to be sequential, doesn’t have to be the same book week to week.

I wish I didn’t have to do this, but I have no choice. I need some financial help to pay my rent and bills ASAP. You can also support me by buying books directly from my ebook shop as well: ko-fi.com/A356F63/goal...

Good news, y'all! I start a new job in early January! Yay! Beyond relieved at the prospect of a regular paycheck again. The bad news, I won't get a full paycheck until the end of January when February's bills are already due. Help? 💜 Thank you, friends. gofund.me/0aa47e25f

this sale lasts until January 1!

have been meaning to read this one . . .

this book is KILLER. just the scariest most beautiful fairy tale.

Plastic surgery is gender affirming care. Hair growth hormones? Gender affirming care. Electrolysis or laser hair removal? Dick pills! Gender affirming care. Birth control? Gender affirming care. Estrogen for perimenopause or menopause? Guess what that is!

ALL OF US MURDERERS is on cheap on Amazon today! Get your Gothic second chance romance for £/$1.99! (I have no idea how long for or if it's going to other sites, sorry.) www.amazon.co.uk/All-Us-Murde...

this whole thread is great.

KNIVES FOR ALL (also this thread up and down is v. cool)

I would love to see us lend considerably less oxygen to rage bait in 2026. Like just say no.

basically whenever I try to help an instacart shopper in a romance language I am speaking something which I would describe as “Espantugançais” or “very drunk Latin.”

I would feel more embarrassed about this if I hadn’t had a customer approach me last week, open box of merchandise in hand, and say, “I tried one of these protein bars and I don’t like it. What should I do?” friends, I am *fried.*

Local mustard here is just like the best if you have space for another. Not whole grain but very course ground. Lusty Monk. lustymonk.com

ARTICHOKE.

ARTICHOKE.

my one fun food thing this Christmas: trying to replicate the textures/flavor balance of a delicious salad I had in New York. base: shaved fennel. dressing: balsamic, maple syrup, mayo. accoutrements: chopped hazelnuts, finely diced tomatoes, pickled avocado hearts.

We had a mustard fairy tradition in our house for years after there was fancy mustard in my son's stocking & he said it was a gift from the mustard fairy who we must honor by eating more mustard.

also a confession: I bought another three-record set of a different recording of Il Trovatore. it’s still good!

about that.

the socks: they are washed.

I have decided that today I shall wash my new christmas socks.

this is . . . something I have encountered.

my mom sent me so much mustard for christmas.

This is a free series starter and great fun. Posh thug and hacker take down the bad guys, with sweet and hot trans m/m romance, plus social.commentary. I've just read about five in a row.

wendell berry QUESTIONNAIRE

WRITING. MUST. OCCUR.

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ICYMI!

Well, this is absolute perfection. 😂 Make your day better. 👇

rivals-to-lovers rohamance please

what if queerness is the absence of compulsion

As a kid, the things I was taught about sex included:

Pale Fire. worth it.

!!! Also in some cases it means milk/cloudy—cataracts in the eyes are often described as azraq

this is one very personal reason I read and write romance, to explore what a joyful and curious approach to sexuality can look like.

Thought du jour, applicable to many situations right now: maybe people who require constant appeasement aren’t worth tossing your stated values and jumping through flaming hoops while navigating constantly changing goal posts. 🤔

one of the things being a romance reader has taught me is that purity culture (all sex is bad) and porn culture (all sex is salacious/emotionally hollow) are just two sides of the same coin, and it's really not worth fighting with either group of people.

Chance The Rapper covered it during his Tiny Desk Concert in 2017 and I was never the same.

The theme song for this book is "This Will Be Our Year" by The Zombies. Belatedly I learned it was from an album called Odyssey and Oracle. Have some links: www.amazon.com/Alignments-W... books2read.com/u/bPAL6A xanthippe42.itch.io/the-alignments Portrait art: www.instagram.com/julesjuliiet/

The Alignments is out today! I'm so excited to share this weird little fever dream with you all. Thank you to everyone who helped make it possible, especially my writing group and @eliotedits.bsky.social. A special thank you to @klud.bsky.social, who provided help with the Breton.

Horseradish. Add horseradish to any and every savory meal (esp mustard) and it'll burn it right up.

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an option for blasting one’s sinuses back into well-being!!!

I made a noodle-elixir cure-most concoction years ago composed of: Thai Kitchen's Bangkok Curry rice noodle soup packet, more curry powder, spinach, too much nutritional yeast, additional soy sauce, and sriracha. It really beat back most minor colds and body aches.