ok free idea for anyone unless i write it and then its not: title "would you still love me if i was a worm", short story about a girl turning into a gigantic worm and not doing any of the useful feminine labor things for her boyfriend/fiance/etc anymore. also she gets really into dirt.

awwWWWWWWWWW

a lot of authors talk about wanting to write the representation that they didnt have in the fiction they read when they were a kid. and thats good. unfortunately, what i want is for everyone to experience the alienation i felt reading books as a kid. woe. estrangement be upon ye.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself transformed into an enormous Bug-type.

sending an email about a character description like "it is crucial that this guy looks like the most normal man in the world. i imagined him super regular" this isnt even a bit. i did imagine him mad regular.

got up at 7:30 to work out with my friend please clap

not that morristown is more special than anywhere else or anything but wtf. i was born there. ice get out of my house.

ICE raided a Morristown laundromat and kidnapped ten people including a high school senior. get these thugs the fuck out of our communities and then get them the fuck out of federal employment. then, ideally, get them the fuck in front of a court.

I really don't have the words. Sheila is a dear friend and I wish and her family all the best as she recovers. locusmag.com/2026/01/shei...

many things about our current age suck but i gotta say i do love that "doing laundry all day" means "occasionally shoving clothes in a machine and then going back to writing", as opposed to "backbreaking labor"

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

gritting my teeth and fighting for my fucking life to finish the last couple k of this book. i know exactly what needs to happen unfortunately i must write it.

Jesus Christ @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

hey what do people do with their ARCs. asking for a friend. who definitely isnt me.

:3 i showed my high school friends the page from my novel where i mention "a group of friends playing a video game we used to play together" and they all got a huge kick out of it, but also, immediately tried to start figuring out who was each character, lol. its not based on any of you!!!

It’s just bookspam hours now sorry everyone stop doomscrolling and look at my BOOK

author LIVE REACTS to receiving a MYSTERIOUS PACKAGE in the mail

vicious mockery “you would make a great lawyer” 1d4 psychic damage + disadvantage

trying to convince my partner they would enjoy law school and being an attorney, presumably because I am a malevolent force in their life

finally started watching pluribus and yeah okay, this is delightful. everyone saying this show is too slow is wrong :3

ok deep cut comparisons but in the discworld book "the truth" [SPOILERS AHEAD] one of the villains, mr pin, steals a potato from his co-villain mr tulip bc he believes the potato will allow him to reincarnate. now, donald trump's talk about heaven, and "gratefully accepting" the nobel from machado—

nice short stories you got there. would be a shame if someone suggests you turn one of them into a novel

Terrific piece on art, class, and The Algorithm. www.vulture.com/article/chri...

hiiiiiiii my publisher is doing another g i v e a w a y for SUBLIMATION on goodreads, so THROW YOUR HAT IN THE RING and TRY YOUR LUCK (until Jan 23!) 50 copies..................one of them could be urs..........

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

I don't like the death squads

[points at the top left-ish] thats me :3!

ENOUGH looking at posts i am going to get offline and make ALL DAY RED SAUCE and WORK ON MY BOOK instead of doomscrolling

it is a little funny that i didnt go the "do art / go get a visual art mfa" after college, like i had originally planned, bc i thought i didnt rly have anything to say. turns out i had a lot to say. just. you know. not through paintings.

If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

god the most compelling reason to write a story about everything becoming gambling would be that i could shoehorn in my "good money bad money" currency tag concept that ive been dying to use

everyone remembers where they were when posters madness jumped the platform barrier

using social media is like using a LLM, it feels like you’re doing something but you’re not actually doing anything. Treadmill ass antics.

watching my friends get mown down one by one by posters madness on a variety of platforms, proving that posters madness is platform-agnostic

I got a test run of bookplates in the style of a business card from SUBLIMATION for signatures and none you will understand the reference right now but in six months everything will become clear

writing a short story and disturbed to learn that i have a house style (i am the house) (the style is a sort of....sarcastic metatextual high-low situation with a specific narrative cadence and specific beats that crescendo into a high point.)

re: x, a bleak thought i had the other day was "wow! thank god i made my author photo a headshot and not the waist up / fullbody, its going to make it way less likely someone makes a deepfake of me naked."

jesus fucking christ, every day a fresh new horror huh

they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect

"Space Meets Sea" is our first theme for 2026! Come join this discussion of ocean depths and the space between stars. Our slate: "Freediver" by Isabel J Kim "Whale Fall of Yours" by M.M. Olivas "Fishing the Intergalactic Stream" by Louis Inglis Hall www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co...

A story about a fish.

[checking the likes/reskeets on the cantrip post I made before falling asleep] whole lotta nerds on this site, huh?

I've got a good feeling about this bank of mysterious fog moving against the wind to blanket our isolated small town.

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

"Uber for Dogs" is OUT "Theranos of <Whatever>" is IN!

re: vonnegut quote about art being Nothing against war, i think its more complicated than that, and that its actually impossible to figure out beforehand what the ripple effects of a piece of art/fiction/whatever will be. u just gotta throw a stone and hope. u probably will have no idea what happens

if u ever read my fiction and go "isabel what the fuck are you talking about" just know that i also dont know. what WAS i talking about.