I love the Chinese sense of humor so much 😊 Their joking take on the 一夫一妻制 (one husband one wife system): so she has a husband, that’s fine, she’s still missing a wife 😁

At this point tbh if someone beta reads and then never gets back to me with positive feedback I just assume they don’t like it 😭 Like Christine points out, it’s not actual feedback unless they tell you where they dropped off and why but… 😭

Never forget the poverty and how so much of poverty is by design.

for real though, sometimes when I *know* a friend has a book out but I can't remember the title, I eagerly hope they post again so I can jot it down for a library request.

Please suppprt Stitch if you can!

Europeans, I am on my knees here: no one is trying to say this is how it SHOULD BE; we are saying this is how it is. Honestly, I wouldn’t travel to the US for anything right now, let alone sports, but. You must not walk on freeways. Drivers will not be able to stop in time!

I get that it's 2026 and emotional regulation is harder than ever, but FFS don't be mean, sheesh

Dear Sellers Of Clothes, If it covers my hips, it needs pockets. Shorts. Pants. Skirts. Dresses. GIVE. ME. POCKETS. Love, Liana

On the subject of hatred for teachers who were evil, all my worst enemies have probably fallen to the ravages of time & mortality by now. May they rot in their graves & yet still know no peace. May their tormented souls be tied to the repeated memories of times they tried to break students’ spirits.

I know lots of people are hurting right now... But Jane is fucking awesome — if you can help even a little bit, I would be so grateful. <3

@blamblelore.bsky.social am I just not seeing the June outfits or is the Finch team taking the month off?

Bargain hunters, A Fashionable Indulgence is £1.99 today only! Definitely at Amazon US and UK, also at Kobo--check elsewhere, Books2Read seems to be down. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

I just saw a post about eating for your blood type and it says not to eat pork cuz it’s bad for O and guys, I’m Chinese. 🧐 Claiming O is the original hunter blood type with the longest history and then in the next breath going “but pig is bad for you, this animal eaten for thousands of years”. 😁🧐

Today I learned two things: some people think being “barefoot and pregnant” is a romantic thing and something to be aspired to… and that the full thing is supposed to be “keep her barefoot in the winter and pregnant in the summer so she can’t leave”.

I think this every time. Your menu options haven't changed, you lying liars. 😠

You need to be able to revise your own stories, and I can help you do that as effectively and painlessly as possible! www.patreon.com/posts/157271...

Being kind is a great way to live. Visiting mysterious libraries is a great way to live. Reading grimoires of ancient magic is a great way to live. Enchanting a mossy cottage to float through the forest in style and grace is the best way to live.

'not safe for work' when literally everything at every moment has turned into somebody's work

no one can stop you from creating nasty little recipes, forging new frontiers in fusion cuisine. you can combine doro wat and red beans & rice. you can put 43 cloves of garlic in it. it’s actually completely legal to eat a ton of spicy hard boiled eggs. the government has no power over onions.

I'm so glad Hailey's mom is better and that Hailey is making art again. She's done so much for the trans community in Brazil and elsewhere. But it sucks to be in a place where the smallest disaster can throw you back into dire straits. I am really hoping Hailey gets on a more secure footing soon.

So I am a super lightweight, 八字 wise, and that’s supposedly associated with being easy to possess and seeing weird shit. So I never place myself in situations where that might happen cuz dude I don’t even watch horror movies you think I wanna be in one?

Tell friend they might wanna message their loved ones first if they gonna stay and jettttttttttttt outta there.

I curled under the covers, stomach rumbling, ears perked for silence. Mouthful by careful mouthful, my bedside glass emptied. Still, the voices, the too-heavy clank of pots, water running. I pull the blanket over my head, willing myself to sleep, to a future where peace has descended.

Today I called animal services for a wounded bird, second time in my life that I’ve done this, but this time I was holding half a smoked chicken, and I dunno why but that complexity is really aggravating my autism. Maybe cuz the critical voice in my head thinks it’s almost performative.

As a musician: WTF is "10% faster or 10% easier" to make music. Aside from several of the more obvious ways this statement is utterly inane, the process isn't linear. Some songs come out in 30 min. Some take years. Fuck "content." I want to make art.

The work is almost everything and that's just how it is.

Goodnight, Dr Almeder. Thank you for everything. I hope it's exactly as weird and wonderful as you imagined.

I have complex feelings about astronomers and cosmologists calling what they do space archaeology, on the basis that it's looking into the past. That might be the etymology of the word 'archaeology', but it's not what archaeology actually is. 🧪 🏺

So y'all knew about the minty fresh menstrual pads, right? Personally I think they're a horror, but they're still selling for reasons. Anyway, I saw via YT adverts that the latest thing is now "cranberry extract and probiotics, in your menstrual pad, to pre-empt any infections" and y'all I have ???

will be posting about this a lot for the next two weeks!

I could listen to this man all day. All day. I just wish one day he could be orating on something more joyful and hopeful.

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

“I don’t need my book to be the most important thing that someone reads. But I want it to be a source of hope. If it reminds you that,as my mom says, the universe is bigger than the bad things that are happening to us, then that’s all you need to remember. I’m good with that.”🧪 @chanda.blacksky.app

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

Due process is the single most important right you have, because it's the one that protects all the others. No one has ever had their civil rights violated, their rights to life and liberty violated, without their right to due process being violated FIRST. It's why protecting it is so important.

Every atrocity committed by every government, every example of institutional racism and prejudice, every instance of mass murder, begins with a deprivation of due process and the idea that certain people mat be summarily judged unworthy of their humanity without trial. Every single one.

It’s not just me, it’s not just authors, it’s not even just disabled people, it’s society as a whole. No one is owed frictionless authorship. It’s not even possible, because authorship is about the words only you can say, and that takes work and time. That’s what we’re owed. The chance to try.

It’s ironic given how often people accuse us of being lazy, but it’s mostly the ableds that are so desperate for a short cut to avoid doing the work.

Semi-related and not a suggestion: I became massively less picky about food after I started cooking more. I couldn’t eat eggplant for the longest time — the texture just made me think of rot and maggots and I’d gag involuntarily. After I cooked with it, that somewhat magically went away.

That take is so unbelievably bad on all fronts. And if someone is so casually dismissing children and pets in this way, they probably aren’t safe people for disabled people either. Or marginalized people. Because once you get into “I decide who gets to be respected”, it gets real evil real fast.

People are gonna say I’m reaching and that’s okay, but my side-eye is for “never saw a full concert hall after that”, rarely seeing foreigners, and that old woman cracking peanuts.

I don’t super want to get into the weeds about politics, mostly because for my own mental health I haven’t been actively following the news, but I really feel that the president of Taiwan comparing Taiwan to Israel, presumably to suck up to the US in hopes of more firepower… what will history say?

*slides you a book* www.npr.org/2025/01/28/n...

Other people’s D&D games. No, I’m not kidding.

Okay so my own brother just “idk what biased sources you’re getting your news from”ed me and then “but October 7th”ed me so I’m just gonna go hide somewhere because I need to recover from the betrayal.

Apropos of nothing (RFK’s ARC of Taipei Story is apparently out), I am finding that maybe thinking Israel is evil for committing genocide is a niche opinion in Taiwan.

We are apparently now trigger warning for “bearing children and giving birth to sons” in Chinese web-fic now and genuinely… It might be time to go to only rereading because I fear the netizens have gone entirely off the rails in their entitlement over what people write.

Dear Chinese authors, I get you want to write “emotionless pure logic alien being; dub-con; non-con; sex sex sex” but could you fucking please not label it as romance when you explicitly warn for “alien has no concept of love”? Like please. For the love of genre definitions meaning some damn thing.

Is Big Tobacco still paying people to be at it because. Dude. I literally just learned yesterday night that one of the shop-uncles I knew as a child died of stage 3 lung cancer. I used to harass them unsuccessfully to stop smoking with “that’s another nail in your coffin” every time I saw them 🙃

For four years, I got to watch my 80-year-old grandma die of emphysema (COPD) after quitting smoking in her 60s. It took her that long to cough up enough of her lungs that she could no longer live. Smoking isn't cool or glamorous. Smoking leads to some of the worst deaths.