Describe your Bluesky account in a single image.

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Has anyone ever had chemistry like Donna Reid and Jimmy Stewart?

upstaging the other gay cousin by wearing Ferrero Rocher wrappers as nipple pasties

Merry Christmas. All I want is to be allowed to read this book today.

fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories from @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, @lmanusos.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, & @angelaliu.bsky.social ⚡🦇 don't want to subscribe to my free tiny letter? weird choice! but you should still read these stories, so here's the link:

Just sent a 4 minute voice note to a friend to rant and I know he’s going to be so excited to sit there and listen

It's Capricorn season, which means I will be turning a year older, I will finish my revisions, I will still not learn how to let people help or take care of me; I will not be taking questions. I will remain alluring. I will still not be able to fix my face when I'm not enjoying myself.

More art, more books, more music in 2026! I live for this stuff

Someone at work gave me a tin of those delish Danish butter cookies, or as I like to call them now "bloating diarrhea hell-fart cookies." (I'll be giving them away).

So yeah, all you need to do to get back into long reading stretches is find the right book. This is SO GOOD. The Disappointment by @scottjbroker.bsky.social comes out in March 2026 from @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🥰

The fragmentary > the complete

THREAD: I'm a college prof, & I've seen an uptick of students saying, "Why do I have to take this course if I already took it in high school?" Which, may sound like a legit gripe. However, it's not. Let me explain. Start here: "Why should a student take a writing class every year of high school?"

My bday was yesterday. For belated bday present, please consider donating (or at least sharing). Folks are welcome to match my $50! Love.

I am going to stop acknowledging the current literary genres and only discuss stories in new categories like “manic” “bucolic” “uptempo” and “jamming”

REFUSE! 💥

Listening to the Temu version of Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald's "On My Own" on Tidal. I think it's sung by Katti Fatelle and Marty McDowell.

Can someone bring me a Vintage Cola Olipop? I ran out and it's the only thing keeping me alive.

Bookstagrammers: I only read 300 books this year!! 🤮 Me (a practically brain dead writer who can barely bring himself to stand up a few times every 12 hours): Book? 🤕

I love this thread!

writing is funny. you write your silliest thing yet and then a reader tells you it is "really beautiful"

I'm going to need to put some latkes on my S.A.D. later.

I’m so excited for this benefit reading. I hope you can make it! Huge thanks to our former fiction editor @jonmcconn.bsky.social for the brilliant inspiration & legwork to harness AWP for community-building in this way. So thrilled to spotlight CHARM—a fantastic local literary organization!

bsky.app/profile/did:... Here is some (most) of my literary family from X.

Looking for a holiday book gift? I'd be honored if you considered She's Under Here: "A hurricane, elegant and visceral"— Luis Urrea. "Cinematic, heart-thumping detail"—NPR. "A genuine tour-de-force, blistering with intelligence and dark wit"—Erika Krouse. "Truly compelling reading"—Minn Star Tribune

Part of the unique joy of this collection was writing for other disabled people and creating crip kinship from afar. Thank you Mialise and @nervetowrite.bsky.social for this generous conversation. Read here: www.nervetowrite.com/post/an-inte...

oh this life of tears and giggles, sobs and great big guffaws

Cozy up with our DECEMBER ISSUE. 🎁 WORDS by @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Dawid Mobolaji, Grzegorz Bogdał, Derek Maiolo, & Tariq Thompson. ART by Eric Calloway. PLUS @allisonwyss.bsky.social interviews @wiswell.bsky.social. buff.ly/xfJzbi6

Ok! I got my first ever short fiction acceptance--from a dream journal!!!

I miss my Twitter lit community. It really didn't respawn here for me. It's ok. You don't have to defend Bluesky. I'm just saying it's not the same. It's not.

shoulda put this together in a more legible format. something more like this, probably.

I was so honored to write this appreciation of my favorite "lost" gay novel, Nebraska by George Whitmore, a hugely important novel to me and many others. Now available from @thesongcave.bsky.social in a gorgeous edition. Thank you @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social!

"A novel about the echoes of shame and the possibility of disrupting them." Read @rpmirabella.bsky.social on "Nebraska" by George Whitmore (@thesongcave.bsky.social). chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/16/i...

I was so honored to write this appreciation of my favorite "lost" gay novel, Nebraska by George Whitmore, a hugely important novel to me and many others. Now available from @thesongcave.bsky.social in a gorgeous edition. Thank you @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social!

I didn't read much this year. It makes me sad, but I was also writing a novel rather quickly. Still. I hope to put this phone down more often and get back to those long reading sessions.

Thank you @hexliterary.bsky.social 🌋😘😘

God, everything is so bad.

This article is a disaster and the headline is misleading. Yes, AI should be used to solve our most pressing problems and to handle massive computational analysis. But the problem is not a shortage of ideas. LLMs don’t generate “new” ideas, they parse what has come before.

Mmhmmm!

Was trying to think of the word “ennui” but could only think to describe it as “umami of the spirit”

The minute I get that Taylor Swift Ophelia song out of my head, I come across another reel with it and the cycle starts all over again.

Oh that? Yes, that is a sack of Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Filled Pretzel Nuggets snuggled next to me like a Teddy bear.

Betty Gilpin is the only person who should be on social media, and she's not.

My work week is almost done and tomorrow I head to a long-awaited writing retreat! It's my third annual writing weekend with the unmatched @rpmirabella.bsky.social! Hoping some of his genius seeps through the walls 🪄

The "I know my characters, finally" realization. I just thought of a line, and wondered who in my novel would say such a thing. This person? No. This one? No. Vincent. That's who would say it. Only he could.

I think this was the first piece of yours I read and it hit me right in the heart: then and now.

splitlipthemag.com/flash/1122/r... A little late for World AIDS Day. A story about lost books and lost writers.

splitlipthemag.com/flash/1122/r... A little late for World AIDS Day. A story about lost books and lost writers.

Reading Joy Williams is such a singular experience. Even if you leave a story puzzled, you have at least read something that feels new. Every small moment, no matter how mundane, is viewed through a distorted glass.