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Psst… Guess what I can finally talk about? Hemlock Saga Book 3 Book 4 - Same world, standalone book

It looks like I’ll be starting voice lessons soon! 🤞🏻 Being in a musical has made me realize how much I’ve missed singing, and I’m really enjoying the way my range has expanded. Plus having more vocal control is a net good in acting! #TheatreSky

I am stage manager levels of over-prepared for this show and it’s all because of my 8 y/o 😂 Every time someone needs something, I have it. I am Mom-level prepared #TheatreSky

Enter to win 1 of 15 ARCs of The Hearth Witch's Guide to Spite & Spellwork! (Visit via browser, not the app--the giveaway doesn't show up in the app) www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

This is super cool, and echoes what I kept saying while investigating urban meteorology - work with nature, not against it

Hush, now. 😄

Here's what you get if you pledge to my sticker club before May 1st! patreon.com/naiveheart ko-fi.com/maybarros

The shit I write is only getting weirder and I freaking love it #WriteSky

It's almost #internationaldarkskyweek! All week long I will be sharing tips on how you can cut down on light pollution. Plus, over on my Substack, I'll give more in-depth information and tips!

Please please PLEASE show support to all of the Iranians in your life right now. Here’s a starter pack of all of the amazing Iranian artists and creatives I know!! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Why does my tea taste like pickles???

My 8 y/o wanted to make food today so with minimal help she made me an omelet for breakfast and just finished profiteroles from scratch and damn, they’re good As first mostly-solo projects go, these are pretty impressive!

I wanted to spend the morning working on my newsletter. Instead, I'm on hold with the insurance company 🤦‍♀️ (nothing bad--just getting info updated that they've had wrong for...years...)

A chatbot is always going to produce a statistically likely sentence. It is always going to tell you what's routine, likely, "normal." It will not help you break out of cliche. It's MADE of things-already-said. It cannot say anything particularly new.

Is it too late to nominate this thread for a Hugo

Nope, not an April Fool's Day joke. We've got a great deal today on a graphic edition of the US Constitution. Ship it to your senator as a reminder, leave it in a Little Free Library, read it to reassure yourself that you aren't completely losing it. Microcosm.pub/dealoftheday

Thank you, past me, for setting time limits for the worst of my mindless scrolling

Interesting how when people say "What is a [name]" instead of "Who is [name]", the name is almost always that of a POC. Gotta get that dehumanization in.

To recap my week in #writing: -looks like I'll probably be teaching that workshop series with Adult Ed in the fall! -revised a flash piece -started a new short story -received a super helpful and encouraging agent rejection 💜 #winning

2 more weeks of regular rehearsals, then tech and opening I’d be a lot more stressed about the state of the show if I weren’t approaching it as “this is a fun thing to do with my kid” instead of being artistically invested #TheatreSky

Not me absolutely forgetting what time school dismisses today It's only the same time as every Friday all school year long for the last 4 years... 🫠 #ParentSky

Just Musing here…

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

Until cis white dudes stop pretending the world is out to get them versus they're the ones fucking over the rest of the world, they are "at arms' length until exhibit 101 understanding of their actual place in the privilege tier" for me. Cis white women, not far behind.

"Help me," the duke said. "My physicians can't say what ails me, but I've lost all pleasure in what I used to enjoy." The witch examined him, and paused over his hand. "Nice ring. It is new?" "A recent gift from the king. Why? Is it cursed?" It was made to dampen cruelty. "No," said the witch.

Posting this article as a reminder why SpaceX's idea of putting yet a million more satellites into orbit MIGHT not be such a great idea. And this only covers ONE of my problems with it. www.melaniermeadors.com/blog/space-j...

I just submitted a poem to an anthology that a local nature conservancy will be putting out This is weird Do I call myself a poet now, too??? #WriteSky #ButImAWriter

I can apparently call myself a playwright now, but I'm having some trouble accepting this new label #WriteSky melissaburkart.com/2026/03/12/l...

This is not the place to tell me that Americans aren't doing anything about this because we're docile cowards. Americans are doing a lot about this and you just don't know because our media isn't talking about it.

I feel some kind of way about people saying that we are docile cowards when we are being shot in the streets and teargassed on the regular and the response so many have is to figure out where they can go to add their bodies to the list of those willing to die to try to stop fascism from taking over.

The US has, in slightly over a year, torched what was once one of the best repositories of legal talent (the DOJ) in favor of...uh...total hacks now struggling under an impossible workload made all the more impossible by an administration that is acting without even the faintest color of law.

I just ordered bookmarks. Bc with workshops and all, I want to be able to hand people something so they can look it all up more easily My kids have been fascinated watching me tinker with the design. 8 y/o turned to me and said, "It's like a BUSINESS." Yes it is, kid 🤣 #WriteSky #ParentSky

Who would want to believe in a god that doesn’t believe in dinosaurs?

Starting a list of MOSTLY random speculative poems from 2025, partly for Hugo Award consideration, mostly because we could all use a touch of beauty: Bella Chacha's "Orbit Decay," a poem that might be about a relationship, or might be about a star, or both: www.heartlines-spec.com/orbit-decay-...

Oof. I’m still waiting for my publishing client to pay me for the work I finished. In the meantime, I have to pay for my necessities, and travel to visit mom at the nursing home. Everything helps. 🙏🏼 ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman/

on this International Women's Day, i support women's rights but also women's wrongs.

The kids have gotten over their sick. We parents have not. This is some circle of hell and I do not approve. #ParentSky

Phenomenal piece.

Hey, hey, are you going to be at BookCon? BECAUSE ME TOO!

Oh my gosh oh my heck, last day of Winter teas, last day of Spring sale, last day before the teas in this thread retire to "secret menu" status!

I've never done a proper #BookReview before, but I wrote one for @melissacaruso.bsky.social's THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS In the early days of parenting, I felt so disconnected--I just wanted to see myself in a story. Damn, I wish I'd had this book 8 years ago melissaburkart.com/2026/02/25/b...

Millennials everywhere are waking up this morning having flashbacks to the last time an incompetent moron pulled this shit. Whatever’s in the Trump-Epstein files must be really bad.

Issue 7 is now live!

Extra good I had that coffee late this afternoon. It has powered me through a BONUS! hour of driving (after 4+ hours earlier), then stuffing party favor bags and tracking down our supplies and decorations for my younger kid's birthday party tomorrow But now Sleep

24 hours to go until the new issue goes live. We just put it to bed and sent the courtesy copy to all the authors. Can you believe we're already up to issue 7???? Crazy.

Hey #writingcommunity need some ideas for tomorrow’s #UnhingedPit? Here’s a few, and you can search the tag for some great ideas, too! If you have questions, now’s the time to drop them in the comments ⬇️