The thing about this weather is that my hair loves it. I may be in pajamas and unfit for another human person to view but my hair has decided it's going to live its best Disney princess life

I promise there’s still good news out there even in this extreme heat 🫡

We are only ONE ADD AWAY FROM UNLOCKING NEW ART BY @nalou.bsky.social!!!! Who is going to be lucky add number 50!?!? 😭 #BookSky #QueerReads 🌈📚💙📚 www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

02 Jul 2026

Mamdani, please turn off Time Square. You're the only mayor who seems willing and charismatic enough to do it

SCHISM HAPPEN! www.npr.org/2026/07/02/n...

Breakdown over, time to lock in and write a good book See you all in September I guess 🫡

So btw my book's real bad and before you say something like "oh but would you say that about someone else's book" the answer is yes because 1. I'm a snob, 2. I'm an asshole, and 3. The book is not good

I am like actively furious at the state of this book. It's a mixture of embarrassment and I want my money back But I shall persevere

I opened my WIP to start rereading it for revisions and I've been struck with such psychic damage

Vatican response! the gist is “they excommunicated themselves by doing this” and they quote a lot of the nastiest little jabs interesting to see where they call them “the Lefebvrists” and not the Society of St. Pius X, positioning them as a cult of personality rather than a legit-sounding order

SCHISM WATCH SCHISM WATCH

To add my take to the massive pile: I think this is why the current trend of remaking everything is a terrible call. You’ll never cultivate a new audience if everything you produce first entered the mainstream when that new audience did not yet exist.

Rent is short. Work's changed payroll cycles (we were recently sold). Really, really need at least $100 or am up a massive fucking creek. paypal.me/chelseathras...

Normandy's Ascent

Blocking people who seem reasonable but post genAI in any form. At this point they don't care

Witnessed two Scottish football fans wearing Brazilian jerseys. It was magical

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

As much as I love the World Cup, I hate when people say “the World Cup proves we would all get along if not for our leaders,” because it absolves us of all accountability. It is up to us, the people, to hold our governments accountable for their actions.

Today's the last day of Pride and I am 2 adds away from my goal of 50! Considering this book is my most queer book to date (from the romance to the worldbuilding to the party), it'd mean the world to hit this milestone before tomorrow. #BookSky #Romancelandia 🌈📚 www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

5-4, to reiterate the most milquetoast meaning of a Constitutional amendment that was win soaked in blood, tells us we have to figure out how we are going to get to impeachment. No other remedy will do.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

5-4 on Birthright Citizenship means it can go down in the future with a different composition of the court.

THERE IS NOT ACTUALLY A WAY TO MAKE A WOKE HAYS CODE AND YOU NEED TO STOP ACTING LIKE THERE IS

Healthcare has to be one of the 2 most important planks to run on in 2028. It has to be Improved Medicare For All or bust. Single payer that includes vision, dental, and mental health for ALL. Go to war with the insurance companies. Tie healthcare to everything because it is tied to everything.

I don't really like the Pirates of the Caribbean movies after the original trilogy (they're fine, whatever) but the visual of mermaids swarming like piranhas is cool as hell

Rachel Maddow learns about weeding at #ALAAC26.

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

I know Vegeta is strong or whatever but if I had one outfit and it was a blue onesie I’d be at least a little humble.

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

Perfect Blue (1997) #animationtidbits #sakuga #animation #2danimation

How much can you improve in a year? 🤔 I wanted to challenge myself so I redrew a piece that I made last year and tried to apply everything I’ve been studying since! I believe it paid off! Full video here: youtu.be/lpq3Issuhpc?... ⁠#ArtProgress⁠ ⁠#ArtistonBluesky #Illustration #LinaBeeArt

#LGBTQWriteAThon Day 26: I've been so lucky to already work with two dream cover artists!!! 😭😭 @zoebadini.bsky.social created the most stunning cover for my dark epic fantasy debut that deserves ALL praise! @sylleth.bsky.social created the yearning cover of my dreams that I can't stop staring at!

My neighbor is singing A Boy Like That from West Side Story

False Face Fawn 2nd in my Glass Animal Mask series! The initial design had glass antlers but they looked too bulky so I replaced them with Lily of the Valley. I'm particularly happy with how the white flowers on her back looks like the white fawn spots #fawn #fantasy #painting

My books don't all share the same vibes, but what they do have in common is a kind of hopefulness that even when things go wrong, when the universe is against you, when the bad guys win, you aren't alone and you can get through it. Also, puns. So many puns. And butt jokes. And smooching. Enjoy!

Now we head to an alternate Miami where everyone can do magic, so of course there are competitive reality shows about it. Two nerds have crushed on each other for months, but she hates his himbo alter ego, and they must TEAM UP to WIN and maybe SMOOCH a LOT! candleinsunshine.com/books/witch-...

READ WHERE PEACE IS LOST I AM IN YOUR WALLS, REACHING MY GHOSTLY HANDS THROUGH THE INSULATION, AND SHAKING YOU TO READ THIS BOOK

Fault Tolerance closes out the Chilling Effect trilogy with giant robots. So many giant robots. Did you hate the end of Voltron? Me too! Have a book about it. Also this Julie Dillon cover? With all the cats leaping into space? This is not mere vibes, it happens! candleinsunshine.com/books/fault-...

Prime Deceptions is like Chilling Effect but more streamlined and ridiculous. Come for the space mall shootout, stay for the anticapitalist takes, PTSD, and deep awkwardness when your estranged mom meets your alien boyfriend. Also, increased psychic cat times. candleinsunshine.com/books/prime-...

IT'S SO GOOD Y'ALL

Preorder Valerie's book! She's a fantastic human and writer!! 💕

Valerie is one of my favorite humans ON THIS PLANET so you should go read all of her amazingly fantastic books, okay? Okay. 🖤 #BookSky

*throws up the bat signal for anyone who loves slow burn yearning with a pathetic MMC worshipping a smart, traumatizied FMC (from his knees)* WE ARE ONLY 5 ADDS AWAY FROM UNLOCKING NEW COUPLE ART REVEAL ON GOODREADS W/ 6 DAYS TO HIT IT TO MEET MY GOAL. #BookSky www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

I accidentally grabbed the wrong drink from the cafe and can never show my face at that location again

Two kind souls told me they added my super queer upcoming fantasy romance to their TBRs, meaning we are only FIVE adds away from my next goal of 50 total adds. Which is so amazing and unlocks couple art from Nalou Arts! You know you wanna do it. 👀 #BookSky 🌈📚 www.goodreads.com/book/stats?i...

I don't think y'all understand how happy I am that Josh Johnson is posting on Bluesky regularly. I have not stopped thinking about this since he posted it

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

The vote or die contingent is mad that people voted?