I have a new story out! And I'm so proud of it! I hope you like it as much as I do ✨🎺🥤 Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!

Y'all. Masking is important. I have never stopped masking. I light up when I see a well-masked space, because it means I can have more confidence in my own mask. But using every opportunity to shame people for not masking...is not helping.

I just remembered that as a kid I used to play this game I made up called “poppy field” wherein I had to get from point a to point b without breathing in too much poppy vapor and falling asleep. Inevitably, this meant making little nests on the floor and napping dramatically in them.

chocolate covered skittles pop’d

Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.

Tonight the 12 activists aboard the Madleen have been kidnapped in international waters and taken into custody. Reliable live updates from Al Jazeera, for those not wanting to rely on algorithm to keep them up to date— www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Half-figure of a Young Woman #artbots #klimt https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/1351216

Tomorrow at 3pm UK/10am EDT, I'll be chatting with Dr Jane Draycott @jldraycott.bsky.social about her book Fulvia: the Woman who broke all the rules in ancient Rome It'll be recorded if you miss it! www.youtube.com/live/6hnNHnS...

Look at this gorgeous bookmark my friend Emily made me to match RAVISHING!! True friendship, I tell you!

So deep in my butternut squash era honestly

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Okay, let's talk a bit about my book! I've said a few times that it's about Rome but Not Like That – what do I mean? The popular idea of ancient Rome is incredibly powerful – ask 100 people to summon up an image of ancient Rome and I bet most could and also that their ideas would be quite similar.

I joined a million dollhouse miniature crafting groups on Facebook and now my feed is a million times better and I’m considering buying a glue gun.

Yesterday's conversation about the Herculaneum Papyri with Michael McOsker is now out on Spotify too! #AncientBlueSky open.spotify.com/episode/6het...

This episode has everything: smuggling, scandal, Sappho, a disgraced Oxford prof, & a 🔥 takedown of everyone's least favorite 'hobby' store. Check out our AWESOME episode on the extreme & illegal lengths collectors go through for papyri #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #AntiquitiesTrade #Papyri

The way I feel about Shy Girl by Haute & Freddy as a song is exactly what I felt in 2021 about Chappel Roan’s Pink Pony Club—“darn, this little artist is so obscure I’m never gonna be able to convince people to play them at dance parties”

Listen I just wanna sell a bunch of books and then dedicate myself to the passionate world of making bespoke dollhouse furniture. That is my dream for my life. Writing stories. Carving tiny things.

Okay but Sinners was instantly my favorite movie by about halfway through.

Today’s update is I watched all of Dying For Sex, ugly cried about how much I love my friends, and insisted Charlie nap not on a pillow, but on my lap, because I’m incapable of letting him out of my sight. 10/10 show, loved it.

I’m happy to announce that the chapter my advisor and I co-wrote for Women and the Army in the Roman Empire is now available for purchase on Cambridge’s website www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

It’s been a little while since I had some good airport serendipity, but today I sat down right across from one of my favorite former students and their mother! It’s wonderful to see a talented kiddo grow even more cool and enthusiastic!

Asked the grocery store cashier if I was gonna regret buying sushi on 3$ off day and they looked me dead center nowhere near my eyes and went “nnnnnnnnooooo?”

Charlie has named his sourdough starter “Yorgos” because “there’s some kind of organic chemistry in those movies, but it’s not life as I recognize it.”

I am being an absolute household terror about the fact that Charlie is reading my most recent draft. He’s on page forty one. He thinks it’s “really great.” But three pages ago he said, “it’s good!” What is the truth? What changed? Doesn’t he know his the opinion I care for the most?

I just know all the algorithms are off, because how could it have taken me this long to find out about @elodieharper.bsky.social’s new book?? And also regular social media reminder to read the Wolf Den series because it’s SO good!

There is some much awful going on right now. This is my silver lining. Never did I think my research looking at women's role in ancient medicine would be so timely and (I guess) controversial. Give this @mythsbaby.bsky.social episode a listen and stay tuned for more! #AncientBluesky #Archaeology

Is there nowhere in the Twin Cities where a gal can custom order a reasonably-priced cookie cake to congratulate her fiancé on his chess.com ranking? It’s like there’s no room for whimsy anymore.

Taut Line by Vasily Kandinsky, 1931 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137871

In some ways this is a very normal month wherein my depressed ass is struggling and struggling per usual, but in some other ways, this is the best month of my life, the one with the highest likelihood of my life suddenly changing, and I am really enjoying the little zip of every day in it.

It’s so bright with snow here that it looks like dawn outside.

No problem! One of my favorite things to say on this topic is, we were practicing compassion and empathy before we were even homo sapiens. This h. erectus skull is toothless, with reabsorbed sockets. That takes YEARS, and it meant someone was chewing their food FOR them. Now THAT is CARE.

I found the secret livejournal I kept when I was fifteen and the revelations are delicious. I was very into a girl named Alexis. Who was she? No clue. Zero memory. Don’t know where my yearbooks are. Also, apparently, I role played as Artemis Fowl in a livejournal multiverse community.

Please, if you have the spoons. Contact your reps, however insufficient and corrupt they may be. Medicaid cuts are truly life or death for so many of us 💔

I really can’t WAIT for this book!

While I am laid up with a mild but irritating flu, my lover, my very best fiancé, wanders the darkened house, singing to himself from something in his headphones. It occurs to me: oh, I’m so very, very lucky. I would be sick every day, listening to your little warbles. Your sweet mumbles.

We’re at Queer Writes today at the Machine Shop. Come say hi and spin the wheel for a blind date with a poem!

Last night Charlie pitched “guy who puts #believewomen after every tweet” and I know it’s been done but I still think it’s so funny. Like, “man eggs are expensive #believewomen.” So cryptic. What did the women say about eggs? Can’t get over it.

YES! Chuck, where do you live? Can you call your Senator?

I’m back on my tiny kitchen bullshit. You know, I hate cooking with my whole heart, but give me a tea candle and a miniature stove, and I would spend all day creating a feast for the centipedes in my drain. I would do very little else tbh.

Dug the first novel I ever started (40k words before abandonment) out of my drawer and made myself outline it to the end. I’m stir-crazy and depressed enough to make it a challenge to myself to finish, so, stay tuned.

www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ti... more tigers in the webtoons...

Calling November 2025 as the best month this year in advance!!!!

As legal battles over Trump’s executive orders play out, here’s what to know about the history of birthright citizenship. ⤵️

Charlie and I have been eating eggs like they’re going out of style, which with this Georgia news, they basically are. We’re enjoying every kind of egg. We’re savoring and taking notes. It’s like 2019, when I traveled like crazy—except this time I know what’s coming.

I swear to GOD this is gonna be the year I get news good enough to buy a box of chocolates from the insanely fancy place dad got for Christmas one year only and has shown up on my Facebook sponsored ads ever since.

A gorgeous thing happened this year: my everquest guild came back. Which means forum roleplaying came back. That’s right—I’ve picked back up a character I made when I was 15 and am writing collaboratively every day, baby. It’s early 2000s internet all day.

Charlie’s officially on his second ever Covid infection and GIRL I am CATASTROPHIZING and also deeply bored hanging out away from him until i develop symptoms/he stops having them.

My wife writes about the body especially chronic illness and the navigation of bodies in existing systems with her forthcoming novel coming out next year! www.eshani-surya.com/short-writing

I was sooooo excited to say we’d conquered Covid Christmas, but it looks like it got Charlie last night, which means I’m probably not far behind. Sigh!

Happy Hanukkah! We didn’t have a menorah here. I hope everyone is having a restful day!