Probably a super long shot, but I don't suppose anyone has a tattoo artist/spot they love and want to recommend in the Denver/Boulder area?

Trying to understand how it’s possible that was all only the first full week of 2026.

So deeply appreciative of anyone trying in times like this. If online activism is a part of that for you, wonderful, make waves. But also validating those who for mental health, safety, or other reasons choose to have those big conversations and do the hard work in less public, more direct venues.

Some reads I enjoyed last year! I'm glad I mixed in a lot of cozy books to even out the heavy ones. (Mood readers represent.) #booksky

Kicking off 2026 with my latest: www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Photos from today's rainy walk (thread): Rose. #bloomscrolling #photography #flowers #FlowerReport #PNW #rose

Welcome to January in Colorado, where it's sunny and *checks notes* 64 degrees

The color gold plays a big role in my WIP, so claiming this as good writing energy.

Baby’s new +/- list from first ever travel: Likes *Back-of-seat tray tables — 8/10, fun to move up and down, less so for the person whose chair it is *Bumpy plane landings — 11/10, shriek-laughter worthy Dislikes *Bag drop — 0/10, diaper blowout zone, watching mom and dad wrangle luggage is boring

🎄 in the deep sea

Have cycled all the way through holiday anxiety into holiday exhaustion, really hoping holiday zen is next up.

Two very human, difficult, and beautiful documentaries that I'm glad I got to experience this year: -StaceyAnn Chin's "A Mother Apart" amotherapartfilm.com -Andrea Gibson's "Come See Me in the Good Light" andreagibson.org/documentary

There really can’t be too many activities with a greater “feels cool / looks ridiculous” discrepancy than destroying a level on Beat Saber.

We’ve had one real snow so far this season and now apocalypse winds. Cool cool cool 😬

I was going to make a reading goal to finish Toni Morrison’s work (I’ve read most of her canonical books, but still missing others). I think I need to wait until I’m less sleep deprived though, so I can better appreciate her craft skill.

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I love when you’re listening to a podcast and can tell the hosts are truly friends and just having the best time. Whether it’s nerding out to some shared niche fixation or riffing off each other’s humor, or anything really.

Women writing horror: @sadiehartmann.bsky.social & I get down & feral in the LA Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/fera...

I suppose technically my baby is a month or two past being a newborn, but I dunno, *squints* seems like he's turning out fine without chatgpt.

My top music this year was half KPop demon hunters, and the rest was an odd mix of country, 2000s pop, and instrumental/classical.

The fact that my baby sister somehow convinced our parents to participate in family-wide secret Santa over usual gift giving I think definitively negates all of her arguments that she doesn’t have special persuasive powers as the youngest. Either that or shows how tired everyone is lol.

I do see life in terms of seasons. I feel like I’m just starting to come out of an intensely internal one (that probably started with the pandemic) and orienting a bit more toward connection.

NOW OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS If you published speculative ecofiction this year, we'd love to consider it for ECO25 💚🌿🐾🐚🦋🌿💚

Next few weeks are about to be a journey, whew.

I see it’s time for Running Up That Hill to get stuck in my head again.

It’s wild how much can change in a year. Last Thanksgiving, both my grandmother and my father-in-law still walked the earth, and I’d just gotten a positive pregnancy blood test. Today, I’m gently holding the memories and savoring my last few days of parental leave with the cutest little muffin.

The Community of Writers at Olympic Valley was one of the first conferences that took a chance on me as a newbie writer. Their funding has taken a big hit in the current environment. If you donate now, you can get your donation matched! communityofwriters.org/donate/?mc_c...

There is no productivity timer more urgent and effective than the baby is napping.

From the co-writing session today... What if you took all of the books you've read, life you've lived, wisdom gained, and then reached back in time for the audacity you had when you were younger? What could you make if you borrowed that self, now?

I told our discord yesterday that Trump was not prepared for the most charismatic man in politics.

Before home ownership: Knows absolutely nothing about home maintenance. After home ownership: Still knows nothing about home maintenance but goes to Lowe’s on the regular.

Please help @lpkindred.bsky.social stay in school in these difficult times. He's a great person who's had a rough go and deserves all the good things. www.gofundme.com/f/keep-lp-in...

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

I have a lot of academics in my life and it sounds like trying to teach in the age of ChatGPT is near impossible. I wonder how it is trying to teach composition in particular, just…how?

So sad to hear about Alice Wong. May we honor her by not letting her words be forgotten. Go pick up her books

No aurora sightings for me this week — still on the bucket list — but some lovely sunsets.

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The full audio story of Wax and Full Circles by @stefanicox.bsky.social is out now! The story was edited by Isabella Kestermann, narrated by Xperience J, and produced by @lianxiarose.bsky.social. You can read or listen to the full story here: www.khoreomag.com/fiction/wax-...

I always say that hard work buys you a lotto ticket, but luck still draws it. Plenty of really talented people will never ever find success. There are things you can do to buy additional lotto tickets like making connections and showing up, but luck will always, always be a factor.

Some of the best advice I ever heard was from @silviamg.bsky.social who said that you shouldn't set goals that require other people to do what you want. You can write a book. That's a goal. You can't control whether anyone buys it. Other people have free will.

Interested in #RosalindFranklin? With help from her family, we published an anthology of stories in honor of her work and struggle, edited by @bogiperson.bsky.social and featuring stories by authors whose names you will recognize! Give it a look? For you or your local or school library? #Booksky

Every time I put coconut oil in my hair, the dog comes to sniff like, “I don’t know why we’re making piña coladas in the bathroom, but can I have one?”

Temps might be dropping, but supporting your indie bookshop will keep you hot 🔥

It is refreshing to have a good news day.

This is why we do the work. Academics study and theorize so we can impact material conditions for the better. Understanding the family policing system and its roots in anti-Blackness, slavery, and family disruption is so necessary to refusing to criminalize Black & Brown mothers today.

My baby fights sleep with every single fiber of his tiny body until literally the second he drops into unconsciousness, good lord 😂

The full text and audio of my story Wax and Full Circles is now up 🎉 Thanks @xperiencejay.bsky.social for setting this to your voice and @lianxiarose.bsky.social for the clear and detail-oriented audio production. @khoreo.bsky.social is an impressive crew! www.khoreomag.com/fiction/wax-...

You will either be completely cleaned out of candy on Halloween or have gobs leftover, there is no in between. (Currently sitting on a mountain of fun-sized candy like a chocolate-obsessed dragon.)

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same