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i cooked a paella on the beach!

going to the texas coast with family this weekend and i have plans to cook a paella on the beach 🥘

an important rite of passage for the speculative fiction writer: my first rejection from clarkesworld

my contribution to this zine was a tale of what happens when cm punk meets a gentleman called broccoli rob who’s on a quest to make the world’s greenest relish. you know you want it.

pro wrestling is so weird and interesting because it’s the only artform that evolved entirely out of scamming people. the only thing similar is professional magicians, except being a magician has much less of an athletic element

watching D.O.A. (1950) and “luminous poisoning” is an amazing phrase

the stoned chef has made japanese chicken curry rice from scratch

also, have you internalized patriarchy in such a way that you feel like you aren’t good enough or deserving enough to be a man? more likely than you think. guess how i know.

purchased a set of three sizes of exercise bands in 2023 for doing assisted pull ups and i’m pleased to report i’ve finally switched to the middle one from the biggest one

i don’t know if it’s cursed or holding back a curse but when i moved into my house the only thing there was this orange rosary hanging in my bedroom closet. i have never removed it just in case it was there for a reason.

eating popular corn and watching CASTRATION MOVIE while waiting for my edible to hit. truly an epic saturday

the stoned chef has made moo goo gai pan

each time my grandma demands that i find more large print danielle steel books for her, i shed a tear for the fact that she refuses to use an e-reader bc she would love kindle unlimited

if you get stoned on 4/20 when it is precisely 69 degrees a genie comes out of your pipe and says “nice”

obligatory haircut day photo

in case you forgot, this video exists youtu.be/JKV7WUM-Ots?...

the stoned chef is making biryani again

it’s goblin time

maybe they weren’t that far off after all

*lingua ignota voice*

i’ve got a new cozy fantasy story called “the slow nod of trees” in the first issue of @altarlitmag.bsky.social today. a bit of a meditation on connection, nature, and the cycles of life, inspired some by my beloved @camelliagrass.bsky.social and her spiritual wisdom. altarlitmag.com/issues/

it’s taco sunday

that fuckass section 31 movie

make a band more gay: sleeping with members of the same sex

so @xgray.bsky.social and i met on livejournal (way back in 2001) so as you would expect we say this CONSTANTLY

time for another very normal day in a very normal country in a very normal world

happy easter 🐣 youtu.be/WSzmCbEnfqg?...

watching TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. for the first time in forever. most 80s movie ever in the best way possible. score by wang chung?! willem dafoe looks like he’s 12 years old

tonight the stoned chef is making chicken biryani

artists (of any sort) - do you have any tattoos of or related to your own work? if so, i’d love to see them and know more about them. to start, here’s one i have. it’s a representation of the ending of my novel YOU WILL SEE THE WAY AS EMPTINESS. to explain it further would be spoilery.

IF ONLY WE COULD RISE

Dursting is from the same parts of the country as warsh rags

i'm glad the submission grinder is honoring me today hehehe thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com

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my tdov hot take (as a trans lawyer who has argued and won before the texas supreme court): please fucking stop taking impact litigation to the u.s. supreme court and other similarly politicized courts if you can avoid it. it is not the fucking 70s anymore.

trans day of accidentally becoming the most visible trans person at my company (making the company tdov post on teams)

good morning

watching BREAKFAST ON PLUTO. saw it in the theater when it came out. only movie i ever saw in the theater by myself because i felt irrationally compelled to see it for Gender Reasons. not sure what the film’s rep is these days but i’ll forever love cillian murphy and this movie for cracking my egg

this is a good post but also unfortunately i have the kind of autism where if somebody mentions guernica once my brain repeats “TAKE THAT, GUERNICA!” in the voice of franklin sherman as a constant internal echolalia for the entire day youtu.be/ZOZTDP8Ff9w?...

when i started trying to publish my horror stories, i had a stupid little goal to one day have something i wrote in the little all horror bookstore in my small town. it turns out they stock FEARMOJI now! i did it! @slashichorrorpress.bsky.social

went to a lovely outdoor dinner party celebrating spring and ate the most amazing ravioli

neurosis reforming with aaron turner replacing scott kelly!!!!

not me wearing my pelican “smoke weed do crime” tshirt to the endocrinologist because it’s my only clean item of green clothing

stoked to learn i’ll have a little story in the first issue of @altarlitmag.bsky.social !

haircut day, like we do

i want @bryanfuller.bsky.social to make this movie

i’m seeing a lot of people sharing the falsehood that individual trans people can be arrested/jailed for using the correct restroom in public facilities in texas. this isn’t true. the institution that owns the building can be fined and sued under the law. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...

cammy’s heart is one of the most beautiful things i have experienced, and we are all blessed when she chooses to make the immense effort to offer us such a raw piece of it. please read and vote. 💖💖💖