Too many shitty people grew up being told to “be themselves.” That’s not good advice for everyone, folks. Some people should try to be like somebody else.

radar beeping as this gets closer to the house I realized I was gay in

bluesky post: having a bad day reply from a random account with a strange name and a bizarrely written, politically-focused bio with an emoji parade in it: “every day is bad day IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!”

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

In America they demand you not mourn people the state doesn't like while getting you fired if you don't mourn the president's favorite podcaster

the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me

“One Battle After Another” is the movie of the year baltimorebeat.com/one-battle-a...

every night I pray for the young people in my life who cut ppl off for "no longer serving" them to grow up

the other half of this that I've never really gotten over: this all but explicitly amounts to valorizing being "asleep". people are really out here wielding "I have no idea what's going on, historically speaking" as a credential

we must abolish ICE

If not fascist, why fascist shaped?

i wrote a novella it's about longtermist vampires, doing too many drugs, and socialism it's available right now merrittk.itch.io/vampirocene thanks to @slimyswampghost.bsky.social for the killer cover art

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

i love being an adult n my friends are: girl who cheated on her man but they live together so they worked it out former nun in a manic episode group enemy we tolerate because there's a long history the ex boyfriend we gave immunity to pet virgin gay boy from a strict family swingers

proof of life btw

Well don't I feel stupid

born too late to behead a guy with a xiphos, born just in time to ritualistically exsanguinate a 34-year-old man who calls himself "based adolf groypler" in the shadow of a burned-out costco

i’m just a boy. standing in front of a nonbinary gendered individual. asking them to accept this single, nonthreatening adult responsibility without having a meltdown

Morning walk

I’m coining the term Midlands Surrealism for when you describe something very specific and mundane so matter of factly that it comes out of the other side into the fanatical

No, people aren’t whining about the kids not being horny enough. That’s a malicious misrepresentation and you know it. People are whining about the kids echoing socially conservative and toxic views on depictions of sexuality in media, because the ability to publicly discuss sexuality is crucial.

Please don't call it that

It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.

was biting my nails near the climax of @scumbelievable.bsky.social’s exhilirating Black Flame and then audibly yelled “RODNEY DANGERFIELD?”

Us not being able to sell MANHUNT suddenly makes a lot more sense this past week

taking my own life

between conan’s role in “if i had legs i’d kick you” and connor o’malley’s role in “maddie’s secret” i truly believe we’re entering a golden age of horrid irish americans in New Weird

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Hey, good news, they can be stopped, they will be stopped, and you're going to help stop them. (This post is not about voting or calling your congressperson.)

You’re going to get a lot of rejections and agents will ignore your emails and there will be naysayers around every corner and you’ll get 1-star reviews that are attacks instead of reviews. None of that matters. Keep going. Stay focused. Put in the work. Don’t quit. Go write.

everybody is misspelling my name rn & then mispronouncing it & then arguing w me when i correct them what the hell

new short story coming out soon (threat)

one day i’ll get revenge and jump in my cat’s lap while she’s in a meeting

The absurdity of "you sling words for a living, therefore you must become a video influencer" is becoming more and more salient

hey gang the penis inspector is here. no no he says it’s not weird

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It's well known that Bowheads live to be 200+ years old but here's a bonkers thing that we didn't realize until we had Nick on the pod - that means a whale alive today could potentially have been alive before whaling started AND they lived through the decades of whaling & the century of recovery🤯

When people say "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear." the correct response is: "I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."

🎃 more details later but we we will re-open for GHOULISH TALES submissions September 15 - October 15. nothing longer than 5k words. payment 10c per word. an emphasis on "fun horror"—however you interpret that. let's get spooky, ghouls. 🎃

i'm not interested in some sort of disneyfied unsexy LGBTQ+ community being preserved. that's not us. that's not our history. you can't take the "sex" out of "homosexual". i don't give a crystal shit if you can still steam "love, simon". the freaks and queers i know are making porn.

lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner

Elias Vance

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

As for Hulk Hogan, he was always the villain. But he was a great example of how villains are sold as heroes, to us impressionable kids. He was a gutter racist, an enemy of journalism, a great talker and showman who couldnt wrestle, and an American hot dog-coloured fraud. He was a warning, in a way.

"No amount of cheering will cause [Hogan's] desiccated, drug-addled corpse to 'Hulk up,' turn back time, and re-insert you into childhood. But the return to childhood is what the impulse to fascism is always about." www.thehandbasket.co/p/hulk-hogan...

Is there a top shortage or have you internalized the idea that being the receptive partner makes you inherently incapable of harm and lets you off the hook for developing communication skills or basic care and regard for the other party

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