things i learned today about going to my local Nutcracker performance vs going to a big city performance: 1. affordable 2. hyper diverse 3. tattoos?? on ballerinas?? 💯 4. not many male performers so the opening party scene is 90% gender queer lesbian couples 10/10 would go again

Glad I saved this by @longwall26.bsky.social

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? My groaning does nothing to save me.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

DARK ROMANCE YES MADGE

if you have been reading me for, ahem, many years — you will recognize the dark romance/billionaire tropes i got to play with here. 😇

are you ready to step into THE PADDOCK CLUB for a game of Cat & Faust? 💕 professional heartbreaker 🏎️ OBSESSED f1 driver 😈 she’s after his rival 🔥 he’s after HER 🌶️🌶️🌶️ he’s into *what*…… my second F1 romance novel comes out July 14, 2026 & you can preorder today!! ➡️ madgemaril.carrd.co

This rules people.com/halle-berry-...

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)

Relatable Corvid

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

i was in the top 0.02% of his listeners this year

if you ate a costco hotdog, you may be entitled to compensation

The Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep ~ a Jack Abbot comic ~ 🦌 for my lovely @/ohwellyes who inspired this w/ her Halloween blurb (linked at end) cw/ blood & depictions of human & animal death I write scripts, not prose, so s/o to @neonheartbeat.bsky.social for the edits

I had so much fun writing this piece on culture as a Frankenstein creature itself. Thank you to @erinbartram.bsky.social for encouraging a more creative approach and structure for this film analysis of many iterations of Frankenstein culminating in @realgdt.bsky.social's brilliant 2025 creation.

i’m teaming up with my local indie downbound books to offer signed & personalized copies of my f1 romance SLIPSTREAM for the holidays!! order by dec. 15 to get it by christmas <3 🔗 & full details: downboundbooks.com/slipstream

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

I've seen a lot of #frankenstein posts today about how the scars on the angel statue match the ones on the creature and so compare the creature to a fallen angel, but I don't think he's a fallen angel I think he's an angel that victor, in his audacity and hubris, pulled violently down from heaven

Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi

Marker portrait of The Creature from @realgdt.bsky.social's Frankenstein!

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

She's here, she's beautiful, she's mine. 🥹 archiveofourown.org/works/74119031

“Procreation,” a Frankenstein (2025) fic. Elizabeth/The Creature Explicit. 14.5k. Complete. Elizabeth lives, the Creature receives a name, and they do more than enduretogether. archiveofourown.org/works/74321126

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

"The Lovers" #frankenstein

#reylo au where ben goes mhhhhhhh

I'd guess that 85-90% of American scientists would be ineligible for future funding under this law, maybe close to 100% in the R1 universities. So much for funding proposals based on scientific merit. Apart from being sinophobes, the people pushing this have no clue how science or higher ed works.

Researchers looked back at more than 1,000 cancer patients, including some who received a COVID mRNA vaccine around the time of treatment. Their findings excited them.

Scientists are trying a revolutionary new approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus and other devastating autoimmune diseases — by reprogramming patients’ out-of-whack immune systems. https://to.pbs.org/4oNrmJ6

You don't want to be an overworked dough 🥖

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

American PSA: don't do drugs, kids, they're bad for you! Canadian PSA: we locked the most insane people we know in a room with a sheet of acid and a box of puppets, here's all the worst deaths they could think of

Anyway if you want some distraction I did the thing where I write an entire fic around one sex-scene punchline and now it’s finished. Kanej; E, no warnings; 2/2 chapters. Archive lock. archiveofourown.org/works/735423...

“I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help.”

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

This is what they took from you

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

City of Sickos