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.

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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

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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.

anyway MY esoteric interests are "watching transit youtube," taking trains, reading nonfiction about the drug trade or weird food networks or whatever, rancho gordo beans, indie ttrpgs, and making twine games (s'been a while tho), korean corn

this article is a good example of what i mean — literal kids work the orchards where the bulk of our oranges/lemons are grown, earning a piece-rate that can work out to less than minimum wage, and i genuinely don’t know what you or i can do about it even if it disgusts us. that’s shame

i gotta stop writing about the society of the spectacle. fucked up that i was born at a time in history where we went sicko visuals reproduction of visuals etc mode and now like half my fiction is about being Seen or Seeing.

ok a bunch of people followed me yesterday so Welcome To My Posts. theyre bad except for when theyre good. mostly theyre about sff writing/publishing and also whatever is happening in my life. also very lite politics shitposting occasionally. my fiction is better than my posts. except when it isnt.

opened spotify on my computer for the first time in a while, was confused about the playlist called "psychological warfare" and then abruptly remembered that was bad music to play really loudly on a speaker facing my neighbor who kept throwing weeknight parties. i dont think i ended up doing it lol.

in a just world, january 6 would only be known as "wow if true launch day"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a just world is no longer possible. but everyone should still go listen to wow if true, available wherever pods are cast.

an important survival mechanism that I’ve developed to help endure the pressures of modern social media is forgetting everything I’ve ever posted the second I hit post

ok y’all have some real specific hobbies and interests, i need to become more esoteric asap

it’s a normal story for normal people

Returning to your novel manuscript-in-progress after a couple weeks away

ok i could write the last chapter of my book, which is already late, or i could Answer My Emails, OR i could play bg3 as my fanfic oc. which way, western man.

"do i put "esq." on my wedding invitations" a very real dilemma i experienced.

“the work of governance in the age of algorithmic content” (sung to the tune of “the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction”)

sharon how could you do this to my notifications

u heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.

"What leftists don't understand abour liberals is that—" You snap awake. The year is 300,000 B.C.E. A member of your group of hominids is about to figure out how to structure sentences with recursion. You must stop this from happeninf by any means necessary

every time i consume media i ruminate on how my actual calling might have been "making long review posts about media."

there is only one korean they should be listening to and its me. (sorry i just wanted to make a joke on your post).

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

sometimes reality makes my job as a science fiction writer feel dumb as hell. What do you mean I’m supposed to iterate on the current situation. Have you looked outside. What am I supposed to say about this. It’s too stupid.

"I have eight copies of 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' for sale, $30 each. But I have a standing 40% off discount for military cadets and teenagers in Texas/Florida/Oklahoma. For your own protection, they come wrapped in the book cover for Sean Hannity’s Live Free or Die." buff.ly/OlpTNPh

We had a good run

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war