eat a big bowl of cherries and chug some milk too that’ll really show ‘em

WELCOME TO “ZOOM BOOK CLUB FOR HATERS,” it is going to be a great fucking time. bring your friends

"Great art isn’t supposed to be easy. While it’s easy to fetishize the trope of the struggling artist, art results from failure overcome by determination. The artistic ego, in asserting itself, is a human action. When we cede creation to the machine, we are not making art."

There are SO many great things up for auction @romancingthevote.com. Edits from good editors, agent critiques (including the fab Rebecca Strauss at DeFiore among others), author brainstorms, a Middle Earth map purse, a 3d printed shell lamp & so much more. www.32auctions.com/romancingthe...

THEY BLOOM AT NIGHT x HOLLOW Invasive plants took over the United States. Queer teen Cora and their aunt guard the scientists charged with stopping the botanical pandemic, but Cora’s crush, a scientist’s assistant, jeopardizes the cure by speaking to blackberry brambles. #queerpit #ya #d #h

slutty little glasses >>> creepy consent-violating surveillance state glasses

Today I went on @kpbssandiego.bsky.social’s Midday Edition to discuss my latest report for Times of San Diego about the history of hate groups in San Diego, & how this history ties directly to last month's attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego. Click below to listen! www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...

In the latest Rebel Ever After, I caught up with @thatames.bsky.social about her new sapphic romance IN HER SPOTLIGHT. We talked about how Amy wrote all of the competing power dynamics of a fling backstage in post-#MeToo theater. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/2Zig...

Guys I love libraries so much

new chapter drafted including a first kiss last night; letter for fighting book bans drafted this morning; back to more kissing book drafting

You can do this too!

Not a week goes by that the existence of this wonder by Nicole Deal doesn’t pep me up some doleful morning

billionaires don't deserve breath

A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE (2023)

me, author of two books where fantasy popes and priests get stabbed and punched in the face: aw papa says keep writing☺️

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

the entire case is a sham to set precedent for imprisoning people who oppose the fascist government but guys you gotta understand: if they can do it to us and our friends they can do it to you and yours. I am pleading for empathy and outcry cos this is so dangerous and scary.

THIS IS A INDIE COMICS ISSUE ! ITS A ZINESTER ISSUE ! ITS A FUCKING COMICS INDUSTRY ISSUE ! CARE BECAUSE ITS FUCKED UP AND IF NOT THEN CARE COS THEY’LL COME FOR YOUR COMICS / STORIES / ZINES NEXT.

🚨 ICYMI - DES WAS JUST IMPRISONED FOR HAVING ZINES IN HIS CAR!!! 30 YEARS FOR HAVING SELF PUBLISHED MATERIALS THE GOVERNMENT DOESNT LIKE!!?!? WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE CBLDF AND ACLU?!? 🚨 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

hey it's anti prime day want to buy a ya in dual second person pov about choice and consequence and restorative justice and teen boys' obsession with fragrances and body dysmorphia and friends who tell you you're shaped like a breadstick??

No one should mistake that not only did the vast majority of these defendants do *nothing but show up to a protest* but several are trans women who will now spend the rest of their lives being tortured by the state. This was targeted. This was a show trial.

God how awful

To All A Fair Summer Solstice, whilst darkness reigns.

Curled up with a new BritBox sub thanks to Nonna and half a Costco cookie thanks to David and having the best Saturday night

They couldn't capture the culture by producing great works, so they're doing it by edict and censorship

oo yeah super sorry we kinda stopped doing "consequences" or "the greater good" type stuff, society is now more or less just a series of abstract mechanisms that give your money to a pedophile club

“Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries.” | Current Affairs www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...

Veronica Mars, and not just that last season (I didn't watch)--from season 3 I was asking whaaat the hell are they doing

how a lil forehead kiss from your beloved feels

I’ve written so many library scenes and librarians because Giles’ library impressed itself upon young me as the ideal place, and the man with the books as who you wanted in your corner❤️‍🩹

I love outlining and hate outlining. Every four hours I'm like "OH MY GOD THAT'S IT YES" and then I have to figure even more out again but better and look back at myself yesterday when I thought I'd cracked the whole book like "you fool, you were like a little baby, you knew nothing"

The River City school board has pulled out of the Freedom 250 concert

Nowe! What do we wante? Tyme travel! Whenne do we wante it?

The Ladies’ Auxiliary Society for the Classic Dance have backed out of the Freedom 250 concert, due to a conflicting event with a different conman

Summer break, I’m on the home WiFi and back to menace you all

🗣️The value of persons,🗣️however, does not depend on🗣️what they achieve or produce🗣️

The sweet vindication when the librarian comes back to the desk with the book YOU KNEW you hadn’t even checked out that they were sending you overdue/payment notices for so you politely ask them to check the shelf before ponying up $35😮‍💨

Hope you had a great long weekend! Time to get back at it! Last week, HR 2616 grabbed some book banning language from HR 7661 & passed the House. What is HR 2616? Don't feel bad if this is the first you've heard of it because Republicans moved fast on it. Here's the deal...

Ruling Class: *Kills us* Ruling Class: *Kills us* Ruling Class: *Kills us* Ruling Class: *Kills us* Ruling Class: *Kills us* Ruling Class: *Kills us* Ruling Class: *Kills us* Ruling Class: *Kills us* Working Class: *Kills Them Back* The Media: "Wow, the working class is so violent and barbaric."

Leo repeatedly blasted the concentration of power and data in the hands of so few in the private sector. "It is not enough to invoke ethics in the abstract; robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users and a political system that does not abdicate its responsibility are required.”

Ich knowe. It ys tough, righte? Plese take care. Peraventure it ys tyme to make some tea. Remembir the goode thinges. Thei will happen agayne bifor you knowe.

oh I don’t observe may the fourth I have my own holiday

If A Prayer for Vengeance isn’t in one of those book cover/red carpet roundups tomorrow—

WHO COULD'VE PREDICTED THAT

Kyrian (volunteering to hold parts of Alesta):

Sometymes evil doth seeme so powerful that the heart groweth sick. But ther ys comfort yn the fact that evil ys an aberration. Our default settinge ys lovinge each othir and lookinge out and takinge care. We smyle at children. We give somebodye bus fare. We share advyce. Kyndenesse ys braverye.

Lego + pasta + crime, what more could you ask

I’m so glad for all my friends to have fun this week at LATFOB and BookCon but I have zero fomo I’m crying with relief to finally have a weekend to stay my ass HOME I’m attending CouchCon you can find me nowhere

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