Wow, Stardew Valley is a decade old? So wild what an influence it’s had on the rise of cozy gaming.

You don’t get your official Old-Ass Parent badge in the mail until you’re trying to ease a child into bed and you accidentally wake them up with some part of your body cracking very loudly.

Might complete my auntie transformation and start carrying a tube of lotion around with me everywhere. In my defense though, it’s like -5% humidity where I live.

Both of my sisters were Girl Scouts, I know these cookie boxes used to be way bigger. Still got my Thin Mints though.

I just got invited to my first mom’s group, which feels sort of like being tapped for a very uncool secret society 😂

Was there ever any follow up on Curling Baby? I feel not enough.

I realized today that it had been over a year since I last backed up my WIP, so paying it forward as your periodic reminder from the universe to save your project.

Soul-weary.

Every jobs report is like look, we wrecked the economy, but we swear that’s a good thing

This halftime show is so much fun, bro. Like imagine not being able to enjoy this

These Super Bowl commercials are recession indicators

I know this dip recipe didn’t just tell me to grate a zucchini — how about I chop it into small pieces and we call it a day.

Somehow my baby has made it halfway round the sun already 💖 It’s cliché to call it the hardest, most beautiful endeavor I’ve ever chosen, but what about parenting isn’t a cliché? Constantly stunned, honored, and in love with being his mother. (And let’s be real, also heinously exhausted lol.)

Every four years I try to remember the difference between pair skating and ice dancing, and I always end up having to look it up.

My (non-Black) spouse was talking about something unrelated to me and said, “I just generally think Black women are right about everything.” And I was all, You beautiful, sanity-saving human, you.

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Why does the Messages app not have an Olympic rings emoji? Grave oversight.

You will have to man the plane yourself though the publisher will not be paying for it nor piloting it

We don't need book reviews. What if we skywrite the best lines from our books in the air? Everybody gets one loop-de-loop in the airplane

Curling Baby first official hero of the 2026 Winter Olympics

just make the thing 🎨 🎶 ✍️ 💃

A key point of why misogynoir kicks in so hard for media examples where a Black woman is portrayed as beautiful & desirable is because any situation in which folks are depicted as to be cherished, not just consumed/used, indicates a level of humanity assigned to them. Antiblackness abhors that.

here's what you do you just fold it in

Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her

Currently on the send kid to daycare > kid gets sick > adults get sick > kid goes back to daycare to pick up more germs adventure, and I get why this is a parenting crucible.

Changed the HVAC system filters for the first time, so I’m basically Rosie the Riveter now.

This has been a cuddle the loved ones extra tight kind of day for me.

I love it when you’re on the second or third or fourth book by an author and you can just tell how much more fully she’s stepped into her writing self since the debut. It’s honestly one of my favorite experiences as a reader.

It’s good I’m not in politics 😂 I would just be genuinely confused all the time at why figureheads seem so convinced they are the only ones doing something. Like, the other stakeholders on the ground have been in that room over there for ages openly working on this.

Every time I catch part of a wintery football game, I remember why I only ever played sports that get cancelled for rain and darkness and other wimpy reasons, let alone freezing snow.

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

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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.

Zero-G

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.