So the GTA contract is that she can play as much as she likes, right?

You know what I need to see today? I need to see your tattoos. Your pretty ones, the complex ones, the ones your most proud of. Big, tiny, don't care--if you like 'em, I wanna see 'em.

> cold crossed by an old wood stove > holding pattern, fabric smoked I'm excited to announce that my poem, "retail her," has been published in today's episode of the 4Lph4num3r1c podcast by @zoeticpress.bsky.social!

Sounds WAY better.

Congratulations! You deserve it.

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons image.

✅ Be told that we love a moray

I'm just using Word for creating a final file when submitting. Which is good! Otherwise, I might die of laughter while in the middle of a writing session. Look at my bear arms, friends. 🌈

The art is gorgeous! Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

I regularly rewind part of a scene when I get stuck, throw the old version in a doc, and potentially never look at it again. Sometimes, it's because I was going in a direction that I really liked, or had dialogue in it that I really loved, but it just didn't work for the story. #SpoonieAuthChat

The unheimlich manoeuvre is when something uncanny stops you from choking. In this essay, I will...

I'm feeling "under the weather" in the sense that the sky is crushing my head. Scattered thundershowers are apparently my bane.

My household also buys a lot of books each month, AND then I borrow more from the library. I support my local library and get to take chances on unfamiliar authors and genres. You want more regular readers; you don't want more friction against borrowing books.

I hate genAI. I do not use it. I've already dropped *so many* tools from my workflow because they added AI features. But my writing process is private. It's influenced by my disabilities. And I don't like sharing that information.

This is also reminiscent of artists being compelled to first show in-progress layers, and then when people started using diffusion models to fake those, being compelled to work on camera. The genai companies gobbled up our work and is still making us suffer to prove we're authentic.

What bothers me the most about the Emboss function is the implicit suggestion that an author should invite a person who's trying to harass them into a reader link that shows a ton of irrelevant data that a bad actor will use as additional "evidence" to justify continued harassment.

It's short-sighted as well as repugnant for the Author's Guild to go against libraries. What institutions are nurturing readers and making reading accessible for large numbers of people? Libraries are not the enemy of authors who want to make a living at their work.

Excerpt from Hedgie Choi's "Holiday." Salvage, Wisconsin Poetry Series, 2025: Resilience is a virtue in the worst world

Read "salvage poems" by Hedgie Choi in a way I've never read a poetry collection before Tearing through them All at once, like leaves in a forest that I'm running through trying to get away from the monster Which is also me Is that an odd way to respond to a poetry collection?

Thinking about the fight for queer books and the fact that in North America, there really is a slowdown in sales due to anti-queer legislation. I really like this article for focusing on the things that each of us can personally do in the fight against #censorship. bookriot.com/queer-books-...

This is such a gorgeous, layered piece of artwork. And I love seeing some of the process later in the thread!

Excited to submit to this anthology! I sent mine in - looking forward to reading through the many variations of demons and deals that might emerge in 2027.

I read up on Hippocratic medicine for this one. :D

"This short story I wrote is pretty cozy." "Uh huh. How much of your medical trauma is in this?" "Just because there's bloodletting—"

I really just tried to write "firrors" instead of "fears" today. I am going to need to do so much proofreading after this writing session...

Love it when bots pop up on posts about editing. "Demon stories especially benefit from structure and pacing passes—" Are you kidding. #salt

Current go-to method of getting Pride merch: 1. Local markets 2. Go to Etsy, search for sellers that are from my country, check if they have their own website

Going to type up the second draft of this demon story tomorrow. It feels good to have the first draft done!

In some fiction, there's this appalling wink-wink nudge-nudge insincerity I see in some portrayals of politics that's like nails on a chalkboard for me. I'm starting to think I can nail down a clear example using Sheev Palpatine in the prequel movies vs the Clone Wars cartoon.

Lilacs are one of my favourite flowers/scents, and—bizarrely—as a writer I keep using this very comforting scent as the basis for a whole bunch of my horror set dressing.

Pride month dawns grey and dreary in Calgary. Let's give June some colour. 🏳️‍🌈

reading #novelette submissions for @foofarawpress.bsky.social for our winter '26 issue and into 2027. gimme: -genre-bendy slipstream -female-identifying/nonbinary mc's -stories unafraid of addressing that the world is a mess -stories that explore creative solutions -every definition of hybridism

Pass it along - please let it see your pfp in its full sized glory.

When you double-check the publisher info for a short story open call, and it turns out they're based in the UK. 🎉 I don't need to hunt down and execute all the U's 🎉

Thanking my lucky stars that the threads of this short story are coming together as I reach the end. I'm sometimes throwing myself out into the dark with half a plan and a handful of hopefully-clever ideas to see how they might weave together.

Thinking about what it means for a story or setting to be "bleak" and what I personally like to read and write. Maybe it's a feeling? Maybe it's my own variety of nihilism shining through? If our story ends in tragedy, but the moments we had together as humans still mattered, is that bleak?

Ohhhhh I don't have to deal with switching between past tense and past perfect tense in this story, because the narrator can switch between present tense and past tense instead.

I really enjoyed this 100-word drabble about cyberpunk-style mutations from @annewilkins.bsky.social They're temporary! No downside... www.patreon.com/posts/april-...

Overexplaining, because I underexplained it in the last round of edits. (What's a bad habit you're trying to break in your writing? What're you doing to work on it? #WritingPrompt)

Looking up the applications of venesection (bloodletting) in Hippocratic medicine for a story about demons.

Having feelings over Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down right now. #music "Will you be there a-holding my hand?"

Sometimes I see a post go around from years ago made by someone who's boggled at the weirdest thing they've ever experienced. But it's the sort of thing I have kicking around in my garden. Odd feeling.

Damn, I was just putting them in a folder and forgetting about them. This is MUCH better.

I'm pretty sure I've had this feedback in a performance review, which in hindsight raises some questions.

Had an odd half-awake nightmare where a spider the size of my hand dropped from the ceiling over the bed. I apparently threw myself out of bed and turned on the lights before staring into space for a bit.

Once, I was told the amount of overthinking that a character was doing was very well done, and my friend doing the reading was glad they weren't the character. Me:

Listening to some Go! Child because Iove Ruinous so much and I bet they have some bangers. open.spotify.com/track/4VlfRv...

Alpha reader opinions on the narrator/protagonist of the current WIP appear polarized to either "Love them" or "Love to hate them" which... probably means I've done my job well?

I've been laughing at this for like 10 hours.