- Survived being laid off & unemployed for 10 months - Applied to over 100 jobs - Got a job doing something different but VERY fun! - Read 140+ books - Learned how to sourdough & baked many delicious things - Sang karaoke in front of a whole bar (who am I) - Joined a gym and started swimming

Relationships are a lot like dreams. They make sense when you're in them, but afterwards you're like, "what the fuck was all that?"

My dad just said that the dinner rolls I made were the best dinner rolls he's had since his grandma's as a kid 😭😭 I have been bestowed the highest honor.

“Write to the market.” You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.

Good Day! View Of A Church-Yard Entrance In Winter by Edmund Koken 1862 Oil on Canvas Private Collection

Happy Winter Solstice! Beer can, pinhole camera photos of the Summer to Winter Solstice (2024) and the Winter to Summer Solstice (2025). You never know quite what you're going to get with these photos, set the beer can pointing towards the sun at hopefully the correct angle and wait 6 months!

DA BEARS

Just saw someone on LinkedIn say they use GenAI for "complex synthesis work." What complex synthesis work were they doing, might you ask? Building a recipe plan. I'm actually. I can't. COMPLEX. SYNTHESIS. WORK.

This is a really heartening conversation about Trump's failing grip on, well, everything. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, I do not regret to inform you we are going to win.

the trans panic, legislation of transmisogyny, etc. is not "distracting from the epstein files", it entrenches the sexual abuse. transphobia towards trans kids always entails sexual abuse, by families & states. one of epstein's first victims was a trans girl, ava cordero, who was not believed

solidarity with trans people and death to fascism

Finally put up the Christmas tree today. And also baked some bread.

fish out of water #art

not that it will change their votes at this point and this has long been the case but henry cuellar, don davis, and vicente gonzalez should probably not ever know another moment of peace. henry cuellar: 202-225-1640 don davis: 202-225-3101 vicente gonzalez: 202-225-2531

I want to spend time in my world, with my characters. I want to develop the book like a relationship, with a significant investment of time and energy. And to be quite frank, I'm only interested in consuming art that was ALSO produced with that level of care and effort.

RE: Mark's post in the image: People who talk about creative endeavors like it's an efficiency problem do not get art. I don't WANT to write a book in hours instead of years. I want to sit there and labor over every word and phrase. Over my characters' motivations and responses. That's the POINT.

it's never too late to let yourself be creative. there's no age limit, no entry level requirement, none. for all of humanity, creation is our sacred right.

I cannot stress enough that most ppl don't ever even think about calling their reps. I talk to ppl in my fam about it and they go "Huh? What?". But your reps work for YOU. They need to know what you actually care about. When we call in big numbers it ALERTS them, cuz they rarely hear from us.

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

The really fun part about having an awful episode of vomiting, outside of the usual fun of vomiting, is straining your lower back. I am so ow. Walking is unpleasant.

Woke this morning at 5 AM to throw up. Still feel like crap. Everything in the news is awful. Can we skip today and try again tomorrow?

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Please at least check this out and share with anyone who might be interested—every little bit of support helps and this project is amazing!

Amazon is stealing our rights as authors. Tell them to give us the ability to opt out of their new AI bot feature. Change the new AI feature Ask this Book - Sign the Petition! c.org/pg5FsZpfhf

With my dad and brother in Chicago to meet up with some extended family. I miss it so much here. It's hard to not feel depressed visiting.

Deeply missing Chicago and my old apartment and my old job today 😞

I know it's difficult to be creative when we're just trying to survive. But it does matter. Whether you make things professionally or as a hobby or even if you make something that you never show to anybody. It's good for the human soul to create.

"Cloud-soft, our animal floated through the room like slow music. You were still crying, phone in hand, when its pink mist spread and put us to sleep again. And we saw our underwater heaven." Read 'To Sleep In Seagrass Beds' by @angelvleal.bsky.social inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-to-s...

If you canceled Disney+ over the Jimmy Kimmel thing this is another good reason to cancel Disney+ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/b...

Today is the last day to preorder Opus (full name: Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina) before it releases tomorrow! The novella still needs 8 preorders to hit goal (so extremely unlikely) and 11 for me to handmake bookmarks. But...why not try? anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus

KOSA is back along with 17 other dangerous censorship and surveillance laws that congress is trying to ram through. CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM —no KOSA —do not repeal Section 230 —no online digital ID laws —no age verification laws CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet

A few days ago, I woke up with All I Ask of You from Phantom stuck in my head. Now me, my brother, and my dad cannot stop singing it.

Four days until Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina (aka Opus) releases. 10 preorders needed for goal. What can I do to convince you, random internet denizen and/or raccoon, to purchase my trans self-discovery novella? anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus

Update 3: Nimue has been picked up from her brief hospitalization. No obstructions or poisoning or anything serious. Got meds for diarrhea and nausea. Will hopefully be better soon. Just...par for the course with a PICA cat 🥲

Update 2: she is showing some New symptoms and I am on hold with the vet now T_T

Update: she seems to be doing okay. Not 100% - mostly been sleeping all day but she's eating okay and is now getting a little more active.

I have now twisted my ankle while trying to get the foot of snow off my car. Today is going GREAT.

Cat trapped herself in bathroom overnight. Chewed on a the spray spout cap of a bathroom cleaner. Unsure if she consumed anything else but... She's not acting 100% normal, though managed to eat all her food and hasn't thrown up... So, I'm just in anxious monitoring mode now.

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

I knew when I made this meme that this would happen...

From "Vorace", a very short indie film by Pauline Mauvière & Charles Ouvrard (France). >> www.catsuka.com/news/2025-12...

Important bread update for you all.

I am not the biggest fan of Thanksgiving as a holiday, but my dad, brother, and I do make a little feast and this year's was probably one of the best I have had. We had a duck instead of turkey. I made some sourdough dinner rolls. My dad made his family's elite taffy apple salad. A happy tummy.

And every time this discourse goes around, every author I know is like "ask me for a review copy!" Most creative people are broke as shit and some of you arguing in favor of taking their work anyway right now are also creative types who should damn well know that.

All right. Let's try this. Piracy is also a consent issue. There are books on that archive that have been rewritten since. There's juvenilia that people don't want out in the world. But it's there, and they can't stop it. It's like if people kept sharing your most embarrassing picture.

The leftism leaving people's bodies like cartoon ghosts when people say "artists need to be paid" and "don't steal books."

2 ongoing convos are dovetailing rn: 1. a holiday shopping $ blackout aimed at big business; 2. worry over small presses closing or paring down. Let's talk direct action: YOU CAN DO BOTH😀 IT'S VITAL TO SUPPORT indie pubs that encourage risk & diversity. Here's a 🧵 of em you can support directly:

If you're buying gifts for the holidays, maybe consider supporting artists, writers, creators. Gift someone a Patreon, commission an art piece, buy a book, purchase handmade jewelry, etc. Your support means everything.

Happy day! It's my favorite numbers day!