sabrina carpenter singing islands in the stream w the muppets has healed me in ways i did not know i needed

North Carolina completely covered in snow after our major winter storm this weekend.

Today we launch our Feb ‘26 issue w/ new stories from @christinehanolsy.com @elijah.mea.rs @thomasprice.bsky.social Christopher Blake & Christopher Degni & a reprint from @samanthamurray.bsky.social Cover art by @owengent.bsky.social Get your copy here! www.flashfictiononline.com/product/flas...

Tell me five classes you took in college: • Language Change • The World of Alexander the Great • Conversational Latin • Roman Politics & Persuasion • Love and Sex in Ancient Rome

FINALLY got to grab a lunch tray from my favorite barbecue place for the first time since moving back to the Triangle and folks, Heaven is a place down by the railroad tracks on the edge of town with a yellow awning and the lightest, crispiest hushpuppies you ever ate

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - DECEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 stories by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @rj-sterling.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @jamesbennett.bsky.social @ellisnyeland.bsky.social & MORE!!! www.patreon.com/posts/149417...

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Mood in minneapolis right now

so yeah uhhh hi uhhhh PODCASTLE u guys how crazy is that!

Transit-oriented Peruvian chicken. That's the skeet

Slightly diminish a game The Sim

please stop what you're doing and go say hi to @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social's little roundfaced dogs RIGHT NOW

I love a lot of Miyazaki films, but to me, My Neighbor Totoro has always felt like the cinematic equivalent of being a kid home from school, tucked in under a blanket with a can of ginger ale and a bowl of chicken noodle soup

welcome back 2015 tumblr i guess

Alright let's play some hockey 🏒

Was over at a friend's house earlier this evening to watch British New Year's coverage and, you know, I was a little surprised when they dropped the Queen's body from the top of the neon screens in Piccadilly Circus at midnight, but I guess if that's their tradition then I have to respect it

With what's likely to be my last short fiction sub of 2025 out the door this morning, I thought I'd share some stats. I'll try to put a more comprehensive write-up on my blog tomorrow, but 2025 was a good year for getting my stories out into the world, with 6 acceptances and 75 overall submissions!

There's a used books & media place about halfway between Raleigh and Greensboro we've been stopping by as we go back and forth and we traded in some old things for store credit and scored a used Blu-ray player and some really cool physical media with it

Obviously you just let Viggo Mortensen scream "fuck!" as loud as he can when he breaks his foot kicking that helmet

5 perfect movies • The Princess Bride • My Neighbor Totoro • The Green Knight • Everything Everywhere All At Once • Rear Window

the post apocalyptic vibes of getting lunch at a panera bread

ABBA playing in the Chinese/Mexican fusion restaurant, life is good

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 🙂‍↕️