hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

The Springs (April 2023)

United Kingdom (October 2019, April 2016, May 2018, September 2018)

A year ago, Helene ripped through Western North Carolina. We continue to live with her ghosts: half-demolished restaurants, slabs where business stood, torn up trunks, perpetually leaning trees, drooping power lines, washed-out bridges, and the list goes on. But we are WNC and we are still here.

Buena Vista Street (July 2019)

Jurassic Park (September 2024)

France (April 2023)

Echo Lake (May 2018)

Having one of these types of writing days myself.

Same goes for bigots and fascists.

if you don’t study it, it’s not actually happening, obviously! and just like with covid, the administration abdicate responsibility for the suffering and death on their watch.

Transportation (December 2023, December 2023, November 2024, September 2023)

Morocco (December 2023)

Exactly this. Once you cave to the bully, they keep going.

Storybook Circus (December 2015, March 2012, December 2023, November 2019)

On this #BatmanDay, I’m reminded of the time I was in Chicago for a meeting, and I got up at the crack of dawn in order to track down Wayne Tower from Batman Begins, before I had to be on the other side of town for my meeting. Good times.

Evergreen post for every writer ever

Adventureland (October 2022)

Japan (April 2023, December 2015, November 2024, October 2019)

Minion Land (September 2024)

Women’s health care has be ripped away. Non-white people are imprisoned, lost, and deported to who knows where. Black people are being lynched. Trans people are being erased violently. Our children are protect younger children from bullets. Disability protections are gone. None of this is “normal.”

The American Adventure (April 2023, April 2010, May 2013, November 2024)

Typhoon Lagoon (April 2017)

Anandapur to Serka Zong (December 2023, December 2023, November 2024, November 2024)

This is a THREAD of people NOT FIRED. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Avengers Campus (October 2022)

Well, if that didn’t bring me to tears and speak to my soul on a day it was most certainly needed.

Italy (November 2024)

Morning spent in therapy and then getting my covid and flu boosters for the year. I shouldn’t have had to get a prescription for the covid booster, but glad to have spent the morning protecting my mental and physical health!

Batuu (November 2024)

Downtown Disney District (October 2022)

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

my entire bluesky feed is people speaking out against political violence, meanwhile right wingers are foaming at the mouth calling for blood

Germany (November 2024, December 2023, October 2019, May 2018)

Toon Lagoon (September 2024)

Sad how much of a police-state Trump is turning our country into. Chicago canceled Mexican festivities out of fear of immigration raids. Ahh, the American dream having military occupation in several cities, enforced curfews, and threats of more to come.

Tom Sawyer Island (November 2024)

China (November 2024)

Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.

I need LEGO to create an Overlook Hotel Hedge Maze. I don’t need the whole hotel, just the hedge maze. Please and thank you.

Main Street U.S.A. (July 2019)

Harambe (December 2023, December 2023, November 2024, November 2024)

Norway (October 2019, September 2018, December 2021, May 2018)

I grew up in Florida, but it has become a place that I cannot recognize. Friends are reconsidering travel there next year to keep their preschooler safe from potential disease, just as I am doing with my faulty immune system. The heartbreaking part is someone else won't realize until its too late.

Another day, another whiner complaining that I use the singular "they" in my work, and of course they can go fuck themselves (you see what I did there) (also, gift link) wapo.st/3JEdPUv

Blizzard Beach (November 2024)

"Be loud for America" is a great line, tbh. I can picture it on t-shirts and bumper stickers, etc.

New York (September 2024)

During Jim Crow, many states mandated that anyone seeking to register to vote or apply to a state university had to have multiple voters/alumni “vouch” for their character. It was an easy if unsubtle way to maintain all-white (or mostly-white) institutions

Mexico (December 2021)