My buddy's ditch weed and a manga on this Saturday morning lethargy 🫡 10/10 Akane Torikai has me fucked up. Check the trigger warnings. This is a complex drama with NUANCE. Reminds me of Sayaka Murata minus the surrealism.

Being on Bluesky is watching people with years of experience doing community care work get lectured by people whose biggest contribution to the cause is ruining their family's Thanksgiving.

The frustrating part about being American and navigating Healthcare in the setting era of Medicaid is that so few people understand that your taxes pay into your annual premium on federal plans. So yeah, you're paying double now with a private plan, while the tax man lobs another bomb at kids.

This is how you champion your peers 🙌

For me out was One Piece and a Cadillac marg from the corner taqueria ✌️ We vibin t'day.

✨ NEW RELEASE ✨ 🗡️ fantasy novella ⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals 🏹 gallant knights 👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom 🪾 enchanted plants and forests 🥀 romance and friendship 🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR 💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-... 📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

I don't know who i follow that's into bears but I'm really upset these bears aren't bi and their aren't for me. But liek. Sirs. Respectfully. Yuns fine.

My new company sent me a little care package through Diversity Press, and idk I'm kinda ready to drink the kool aid. 🤷‍♀️ They've been taking pretty good care of me so far.

He didn't get to the moon but he got his crew home, and that was the more remarkable task. www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna223...

I need more stationary in my life. So purty.

Like 11 years ago I got married to this dude, right? We had an awesome honeymoon, did a 5k mile road trip around the American West, went to a bunch of parks. We stopped in Vegas and I played on a Dolly Parton 'Jolene' themed slot. So I hit the jackpot, made a pact, and now I have a wife. 😁

I am d y i n g. Meeting other Puerto Ricans is always a riot. 50/50 chance they immediately don't like you because you don't fit their ideal image of a Puerto Rican. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀

My publisher released four of my novels with new gorgeous covers by the great Yuko Shimizu. They’re calling it the LaValle Quartet though each book stands alone. Just look at these things! They’re in bookstores now. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/LVQ/t...

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

I'm really tired of authors breaking the stellar pacing of their novel for the Cambellian slog of the hero turning to their family in some way and being disappointed. For a lot of reasons. But mostly just because of the slog. 🫠 It's a hard thing to get right.

Day 1 A majority of my training class are black women. 20000% we're underpaid. Any job I've had with mostly black women we were hired specifically cause black and Latin women get paid dirty cheap. 😩

Writers imagining their stories before bed to fall asleep: Fantasy – Ah, adventure Sci-Fi – Ah, space Romance - Ah, true love Horror – Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, monsters Erotica – Ah, monsters

Gd SCALPERS! *flips table*

another reason to love the library: sometimes you find little gifts in the form of forgotten makeshift bookmarks 😭💖

My first day of Agriculture 101, my prof/dean lectured that Americans spent 4% of their budget on food. It was an out of date stat from the 80s that R liked to use during ag lobbying. That estimate was updated in 2023 to an average of 20%, with people on the low end of the curve hitting 36%. USDA

My partner just uttered the most loving words a person can utter: “You have too many books. They’re all over the place. I’m gonna buy you a new bookcase.” He’s a good man Savannah, a GOOD MAN.

I start the new gig Monday; it's my last weekend of being unemployed. 🎉 It is not my dream job, I will be woefully under-employed, but It Will Do™️. Please, universe, deliver unto me a sugar donor to take me Back To Work Shopping. 🥺👉👈 This company sent a cubicle-in-a-box to me and my desk's too smol

How it feels zoning out and imagining a vivid scene of my characters in my made up world

Before there was Booksky or Booktok or BookTube or w/e, there was this tall ass lanky blerd at my local Borders that always gave me the BIGGEST SMILES and excited book recs every single time I walked in the store. Booksellers are MVPs. I think about that man a lot and I hope he's doing well. 💕

Me: You're my favourite character I wrote. Character: Oh cool, so I get the best lines? Me: No, that's for the villain. Character: Right, then I must get the coolest powers. Me: No, that's for the side character. Character: ... What do I get? Me: A creative interpretation of my suffering.

AFN Korea, early 1990's. I didn't have PBS access state side, something about the cable in my area. Only got PBS exposure at friends' or school. Until we were stationed on Osan. AFN broadcast an after-school PBS run with Arthur, Reading Rainbow, Magic School Bus... I ran home to catch it all. 😭

Got paranoid 'cause the vet kept saying she could smell The Void was AMAB the minute we walked in the door 'cause, "they have a distinctive smell to their pee" and she KEPT mentioning it. So anyway that's how my new car triggered some weird gender dysmorphia and got his first bath all in one day.

losing your job or your partner losing your job when you’re a disabled person in america is a catastrophic event, man

Most BlueSky users can sniff out inauthenticity here, and inauthenticity is being here simply to shill your book. Authors on social media sell their books by being about far, far more than their own books.

Welcome to #WomeninTranslationMonth! For the 31 days of August, I’ll be posting a free-to-read story a day by a Japanese woman on social media, along with a biographical snippet. Feel free to read along! Find the "calendar" for the whole month on the RJL website. 👇

Thou shall not pick fights with propagandists at 3AM, Yvie.

My reason for being on Bluesky isn't to sell books. I have no idea how many books I've sold being here, I don't track it. I have, however, bought books from people on Bluesky. I love talking to fellow authors and readers about writing and book things. I love shit posting. That's why I'm here 😂

3 of my current reads are pick ups from Bluesky. 📚💬📚💙 The Country Under Heaven by F. Durbin Vanishing World by S. Murata The Lost Legion by H. Turtledove None of these i picked from marketing posts, threads, or groups. They were found in CONVERSATION with other users or reading essays.

just gonna plop the thumbnail about linkedin removing its policy against deadnaming & misgendering next to the thumbnail about linkedin losing federal contracts because of “woke” and stack them right on top of the thread about the “preventing woke AI in the federal government” executive order.

The void creature survived the vet's office, and the verdict is in: the void is a neutered, year old grimalkin! Got his annual vaccs and rabies done, and we're all agreeing that he was likely dumped. He's gaining weight and looking better! We're calling him Morgan Blackhand. Morgue, for short.

The idea that you have to love yourself first before other people will love you is always a lie. A hyper individualistic lie meant to keep us isolated and unhappy I learned how to love myself by finding people who actively demonstrated over several years that they thought I was worth caring about

I'm not sorry. I blanket block military PFP accounts and career accounts. I'm here for queer and disabled vets and brats; you career fellas can go elsewhere and have plenty of spaces.

Some advice from when I was working at a private university: Yes, call, email, write letters, etc. now. But most private universities have some big fundraising week or month that is very important to them. That's when to hit them again and keep their lines busy and systems flooded.

"Your dick will go full Bartleby the Scrivener on you" is my new literary curse of 2025. Ty Sir Scalzi for another phenomenal gem.

morning mood

“an unidentified woman with red dreadlocks" snuck into an empty N train at the Broadway station in Astoria and drove it for one stop at four thirty in the morning, presumably just for the sheer joy of it, before vanishing, and I would just like to say congratulations

Got my copy of Murata's latest translated book and I'm looking forward to diving in this weekend 💕

We utterly fail at rescuing cats. Fail in that we're taking the little shit to the vet today and welcoming the little monster into our family. Broke as hell but we'll figure it out. I say this with the utmost vehemence while she makes biscuits on my shoulders. Stupid cat. Stupid biscuits. 💕

The baddie who stole my heart.

The news is not helping 3 year old Yvie who was convinced giant Tremors-sized worms were responsible for the hurricanes in Guam. I really gotta write that book.

Had an incredible pain episode that cut my first workshop retreat short. 🫠 Just now climbing out. Glad to have colleagues who are supportive. Relieved to have my usual group starting back up. Excited to get my new insurance going and get back to therapy for this poor excuse of a spinal column.

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An editor or literary agent. I don't have the network capacity but if anyone wants to hire me to be a little consultation goblin and be your secret talent cultivator while you take all the credit hmu. Let me fade to the background n watch people i enjoy soar. That'd be my bliss.

Made it to the evening session of my writer group's summer workshop cram. 💕 Got most of the concept for my next project ironed out and started a rough outline. As a natural born pantser, it took me a long time to learn how to outline and even longer to give it merit. But it helps! Need a title...