Looks like I'm going to AWP March 4-7. Anyone I know in the Baltimore area wanna grab coffee or something while I'm there?

Just read "Hazel and Christopher" by @caseyplett.com - the first short story I've read by a non-classmate since starting my MFA in poetry - and just Jesus Christ. Jesus fucking Christ.

I'm drunk off a bottle of sparkling wine at like 3pm today so ugh AMA and I'll answer

This is hot California does poutine?

👀 from Sara Hovda's "Forgetting at the End of the Century" 👀 Issue Eleven countdown 🪓 9 days until launch 🪓

I met a screenwriter in my MFA program tonight who's aware of kaizo and speedrunning, so I showed him my JokerShellOK run, and his face turning from amusement to disgust will fuel me for months.

Essay Idea: Plato's Allegory of the Vagina: Looking Beyond Compulsory Heterosexuality to the real world of the Queer.

How many craniums can @carrarium.bsky.social carry? And if Carrie Carrarium could carry her own cranium, say a crate of them, how far could Carrie Carrarium carry them, that crate of Carrie Carrarium craniums?

:)

Okay nevermind one more I did so well this morning omg

I'm running JokerShellOK for this. Very happy to take part in some small way.

Hi btw I'm planning on doing another shovdathon (4!) in June, after I finish the spring quarter and before I head to SGDQ. If you want to see information or give thoughts on games for incentives, etc. please come by my stream and type !shovdathon4 in chat. twitch.tv/shovda

One more makeup shot before I just take it as status quo and no longer need to show it off every time lol.

Little bit better on the makeup today

Can confirm. Especially if they're over the age of, I don't know, 40.

A lot of things going on in my life right now. I've returned to therapy, I've put together what will hopefully be my first book, and... I'm returning to makeup after like five years away. I currently look like I let a toddler get to me with a marker, but we'll get there little by little.

Ready to discuss poetry today let's go.

After a meeting with one of my professors today, I'm ready to start sending my manuscript out to contests in the coming year. Here's hoping, here's hoping...

Blue Prince: the most enjoyable way to lose your goddamn mind.

Hey Girl Work by @zefrrr.bsky.social is amazing and everyone but also especially trans women should read it.

I finally hit my goal in JokerShellOk tonight. I cut 1m 20s off the run in one swoop, dying just 9 times in the whole hack and ending with a 14:29. I think I'm done grinding it for now. Thank you @nowieso.bsky.social for the incredible game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Jf...

getting things moving for that anti-ICE pop-up speedrun event. i made a poll to help us decide on dates. FILL THIS OUT ASAP IF YOU'RE INTERESTED strawpoll.com/Qrgew44JXyp

Hi I don't normally post going live things on BlueSky, but I thought I would for my first full stream after AGDQ. I'd love if you came and said hi. twitch.tv/shovda

If you ever feel like saying hi to me but are scared for some reason, please say hi. It makes my day, and I'm just another dumb bitch anyways.

More than a half dozen trans women at agdq or soon after said something along the lines of how I was the first positive example of a trans woman they ever saw. I'm not crying, you're crying.

Also also, there were so many pretty trans women there, and I'm not ever going to go for the purpose of attracting anyone, but I mean I would like to lose some weight and stuff and maybe do that.

Also, it should be noted that a 22-year-old shovda having just watched Siglemic do 70 star at AGDQ would be just baffled to know she'd go on to perform cannonless at an AGDQ at 35. Just, fuck.

I'm at the airport. I want to thank everyone sincerely for one of the best weeks of my life. I am so grateful to have met friends new and old. I am honored to have finally been able to perform a solo run at a mainline GDQ. And having (technically) five runs total is beyond my wildest dreams.

I'll be leaving AGDQ tonight, 5:45pm. Please come and say bye and stuff if you see me around and so desire. A buffer day before teaching seems smart.

I drank a bottle of wine at dinner AMA

I'm seeing a couple posts about this, so I thought I'd say something. Yes, GDQ staff asked if I could find a way not to show Free Luigi on my SD card menu between hacks. I offered to delete it if I could get to a laptop quick, but they said they felt it was enough to put the blocker up.

Yeah so they said if I finish too early I could play another hack so I picked Oop! All Fortresses by @marsampear.bsky.social and once the SM64 relay I'll have done five runs this AGDQ technically lol.

Why has there been someone (different each time) really loud in the practice room from 8-9am each day. 🙃

Lol

That ghost house was lucky and stupid and thank God it only had to happen once lol.

If you want to see me this AGDQ, practice room. I have four runs. Practice room.

Let me never become the kind of person who takes for granted having even one run in a Games Done Quick event. It is a hell of a combination of skill, perseverance, and luck.

My essay on Thorsonn's romhacks + metamodernism, was included in a round up of good video game writing from 2025 today. My first and only critical games essay lol. Thank you @unwinnable.com for publishing it and @critdistance.bsky.social for including it. critical-distance.com/2026/01/01/t...

The JokerShelling will continue until morale improves.

16:17 in JokerShellOK tonight. Gonna fight for the 15:xx over the last 4 days before AGDQ. Here's hoping.

I don't know why these things come to be, but you can now buy a butt pillow with my referral link: shop.thebuttresspillow.com?ref=rbxsajlk

@seckswrecks.bsky.social is the most normal person to have a conversation with.

Hi yes I'm doing a few things next week for @gamesdonequick.com at AGDQ 2026. Between 2 and 4 runs depending on incentives being met. So, uhh, please help me do all the runs. :)

Finally hit my goal for JokerShellOk as I prep for AGDQ. I put up a 16:49 just now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLGZ...

I learned today that the protagonist of Quest 64 has a name. Based on the game's graphics and reputation, as well as everything else I know about it, I just assumed he didn't.

A Hungarian poet translated a poem of mine into Hungarian and published it in the magazine Prae. I now await a physical copy of the magazine to see it in the flesh.

Making the rare going live post here because I'm going to play Tiny Bookshop. As a real-life poet in an MFA program, this should be a good time. hi @tinybookshopgame.com twitch.tv/shovda

A friend of mine made these for my birthday yesterday. I'm in awe.

It birthday.

Except for confirming order with my advisor, my MFA thesis manuscript is done, and I'll start sending it out to contests and publishers in the coming year.