A cool result of everything having AI in it now is there are a bunch of buttons on every application that I have to be careful to never push, and everything takes five more seconds to load during which there's an animation of bonzi buddy thinking really hard

Did big boy adult things this morning now that we're moved in, got intake appointments scheduled with a dentist and a doctor's office that are both nearby even though trying to navigate finding in-network healthcare professionals who are LGBT-affirming is a nightmare, please clap

Okay, *now* it's a home

Getting into the interfaith family holiday spirit while we unpack!

Moving day! Officially in my Raleigh era ✨

Our reprint today is an unexpected connection between a sun and a hungry space creature. Check out "Eating the Sun" by @bethgoder.bsky.social here:

spotify wrapped once again calling me a slur

Gorgeous story "The men of the world had made it pretty clear as to which one of you was the movie monster." by @elijah.mea.rs smallwondersmag.com/piece/loving...

It's a new story day today! This is one of my most personal stories—a meditation on queer bodies and unconditional love that I really hope you enjoy. 🛸

New month, new story! I am so excited to have a piece in the latest issue of FFO, one of my very favorite magazines. Do you like queer stories inspired by myth? Petty goddesses? Ovidian transformations? Being sad? Birdwatching? “Ornithogonia, or Five Featherings” was written just for you! 🐦‍⬛

It's a new story day today! This is one of my most personal stories—a meditation on queer bodies and unconditional love that I really hope you enjoy. 🛸

The finest minds at the Hollywood Reporter trying to Surf Dracula the gay hockey show

This is why non-romance people need to read more romance, honestly: will-they-won’t-they is fine but it is not the same narrative as “they did and then they did again and then they keep going but eventually someone’s gonna find out and then they’re REALLY fucked.”

okay episode one finished and that all went from 0 to 100 very quickly 🙂‍↕️

starting the first episode of heated rivalry and my verdict ten minutes in is that some of this camera work is, uh, Powerful

Happy Thanksgiving! Who wants apple pie?

ok late to this for sure but ngl florence popped off with the chamber music versions

some good news: kim davis publicly ate shit, again

this is just to say

Need to be revising my novel and also revising an old trunked short story this month, which of course means today I wrote almost 2,000 words of something brand new which doesn't remotely adhere to my normal process and I have no idea where I'm going with it 🙃

MAMDANI: “While we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together.”

for no particular reason at all, may i suggest reading "the memory of you is contained in the crab rave" in @crepuscularmag.bsky.social this morning? www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...

a reminder to everyone to turn on your seasonal depression at midnight! cellphones should adjust automatically.

Happy Halloween! I can’t recommend you read this one while eating, but I can recommend you read it over and over for every other waking minute of your day today

it is such "go get a little latte" weather today 🙂‍↕️

which is to say hi yes despite what my rude brain says (the imposter syndrome has been awful lately), it's still extremely cool and humbling to that I have a queer cyberpunk story in Lightspeed 💜 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/to-a...

This weekend was a cute time :)

Dinner tonight! Maybe I'm kind of decent at this whole cooking thing.

Outside of school, I never really tried my hand at short stories until about 2022, when I took an unfinished idea for a novel and turned it into an 11k-word novelette that I very ambitiously started submitting to any market that would take novelettes (and racked up some *very* swift rejections).

I had a story come out today! If you think too much about fairy tale witches and also murder and complicated relationships, this one is for you. theorangebee.substack.com/p/tasting-no...

Ok! Think I'm finally in a place to momentarily look away from my shorts this month and really focus on my novel. So, put on some smooth jazz & banged out ~1.8k words of rewrites this evening—and sinking back into Parson's story didn't even feel like pulling teeth this time #AmWriting 🌈🚀💫 🪐📚

They are called writers

WE DID IT!! WE HIT OUR $11K STRETCH GOAL—we are officially funded for TWO YEARS! You all did that in FOUR DAYS. We're emotional at the resounding support for queer stories, poems, and art. Thank you 💜 AND we revealed a further stretch goal as well! 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

please help bean get turnt 🙏⬇ www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

WE'RE FUNDED! BASE GOAL ANNIHILATED IN FOUR!! HOURS!! We're full of SO MANY emotions. OTHERSIDE means a lot to us, and we're so grateful to everyone who wants queer stories, poems, and art to have more space to exist. Now more than ever, that matters 🪐🗡️ Now onto stretch goals?? 👀

Another story day for me! "Bad Advice" is available at @crepuscularmag.bsky.social today, and in 30 days if you don't subscribe (but you should it's cool over there).

HI YES WE JUST PASSED $2,000 IN 30 MINUTES?!? THANK YOU SO SO MUCH?????? WE'RE ABOUT 37% FUNDED!!!! AND if we get 6 more backers we unlock 1000 more words per issue due to a lovely anonymous donation!

GO GIVE QUEER PEOPLE MONEY TO MAKE QUEER ART

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep 1) The Late Roman Republic, especially the life of Cicero 2) JRR Tolkien, especially his worldbuilding and narrative/thematic interests across his body of works 3) Doctor Who, especially if I can get angry about it

Greensboro Pride!

love cannot be stopped it is the inertia of existence itself

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

Ok, somehow this week I've sold stories to two (!!) of my dream markets, so: I hope you'll read "Loving the Alien is the Easiest Thing in the World" in @smallwondersmag.com later this year & "Everyone Hates It When the Alien Shows Up at the Club" in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social early next! 🪩🛸

"I want the labubu movie, it's like Barbie but for nonbinary people." — @beryl.rubacky.dev just now

Rewatched Superman 2025 last night and I just really love how Jonathan Kent is allowed to be the mushy emotional one out of Clark's parents. Yes, that's a man you run into at Wal Mart, but even better, that's a man you run into at Pride wearing a "Free Dad Hugs" shirt. Of course he raised Superman!

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

Something I really admire about Otherside (and they haven't even started publishing yet!) is their commitment to an actual sustainable funding model where they grow based on what they're bringing in month-to-month rather than relying on like two weeks of all-or-nothing blind panic once a year