you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

not sure why the Louvre heist team didn’t hit me up…

the trick to never getting the Sunday Scaries is just constantly being a generic brand of Scared

if anyone was wondering how good I am at D&D, last night I summoned a fire elemental to fight other fire elementals, thinking “fire elementals are immune to fire damage, therefore they won’t be able to hurt my guy. I’m a genius”

are you a professional/consumer reviewer of books interested in a post-time loop mystery? Here’s an ARC request form!! forms.gle/esfaABD4dhn9...

irdk if highlighted quote posts work for promoting anything other than romance but!

hey rq before the goodreads giveaway ends does anyone want to enter to win my post-time loop mystery www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

okay clearly not

[trying to explain dubcon in a safe for work way] remember that one U2 album

The Seven Year Slip meets Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers in @katiefliesaway.com's 🗓️OUT OF THE LOOP🗓️ a wholly original time loop mystery. #ewgc #libraryreads Request on Netgalley: https://loom.ly/oUXWfDo

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imagining someone performatively turning a book around on their bookshelf only to realize it has sprayed edges and they’re like ah shit now what

so honored that CIINAT is 1 of 5 finalists for the @lambdaliterary.org award for LGBTQ+ Mystery!! Queer people are still queer even when they’re not experiencing romance! Some just aren’t into that, or are too busy crawling through air ducts while trying to solve mysteries!! tinyurl.com/3zpn8mrj

*stamps foot* i don’t care what you say i am mailing my foot

I looked into a disturbing island while researching an essay about nature. What I found was a media drama starting in 1996, one involving multiple apologies, story retractions, and personal grudges stretching over decades and into the present. Enjoy! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/monkey-bus...

OUT OF THE LOOP is available for preorder! Out 2/10/26 📆 #bnpreorder #bookrecs

thought I was driving behind a truck carrying three unicycles but it turned out to just be three bicycles with the back wheels in the bed. there’s no fucking whimsy anymore

There’s still a day and change left in our campaign — if you haven’t donated yet and were planning on it, there’s still time to pitch in! givebutter.com/Jr8Tfu 🌈📚

very helpful thanks so much

27 dresses but instead of dresses it’s polyester pajama sets

hope everyone’s ready to hear “during PRIDE MONTH??” after every minor inconvenience I encounter over the next 30 days

class is in session!

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

I hope everyone is READING today. I think today everyone should READ A BOOK. especially if it’s a LIBRARY BOOK ON LIBBY. especially if it’s ONE OF THE ONES I HAVE ON HOLD pls I need a little book to read on my phone—

TIME TRAVELER: can you tell me what month it is ME: may TIME TRAVELER: *heavy sigh* may you tell me what month it is

party 4 (28) u

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

I know italicized flashback dialogue hates to see me coming!!!

Friendly reminder to support your local independent bookstore this weekend! A slightly less friendly reminder to just not buy books from Am*zon at all.

I'm doing edits right now and sometimes I'll rewrite a sentence, look at it, and go, "oh okay that's why I didn't write it like that in the first place"

the kitchen is undefeated when u need to go look at three incorrect clocks at the same time

People say Shakespeare is a genius but I bet I could’ve written all those plays if I’d been born at the same time as him and had all the experiences he had and was genetically identical to him

it feels right that the first ever clip I saw from the John Mulaney show was the Chuck Tingle call

I want to be in a fake dating situation, not because I want to fall in love but because I love lying

One of the big reasons I decided not to become a personal finance reporter, despite 4 years of bilingual experience in retail banking, is the over-emphasis on personal effort and education instead of systemic issues and the importance of government policies and regulations.

social media rly fucked my perception of numbers, I’m out here like “ugh only nine thousand people watched this video” NINE??? THOUSAND????? that’s like all the people

Yeah I like Rowling. Rowling up on transphobes with my homies 😎

people are like “me spending a little money on this harry potter thing isn’t a big deal” but I feel like by that logic it should be pretty easy to like…NOT spend the money on it?? if it’s not a big deal??

said out loud “yeah I’m not really into prequels” while standing two feet away from a package containing my copy of Sunrise on the Reaping

gamechanger is BACK

Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.

all things considered, great time to steal the Declaration of Independence

they hate to see a bitch from new jersey winning

of course it's a senator from NEW JERSEY using the power of yap for almost 24 hours. god bless the yappers

it’s giving Lucy and Charlotte

I contain multitudes