this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

"There is no meaningful, long-term social value in keeping the peace for the peace’s sake." www.theflytrapmedia.com/holiday-holl...

Excellent miscellany of quietly profound advice from Help Me Hera. "If someone asks you to get up and look at the bird outside the window, get up and look at the bird outside the window."

CRAFT CHAT! Let's talk about one of my favourite craft techniques for fiction—the use of colour and shade! This blog post is a great place to start, and many thanks to Ingrind Sunberg for creating it in the first place.

What a lovely holiday treat for yourself, The Complete Astreiant. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

THE STRUGGLE IS REAL

Did you even ask the elephant if it wanted to be addressed? Can an elephant not simply exist in a room without The Man making demands of it

NEW YEAR WRITING GOALS: We're going to have 5 whole days of speakers, writing prompts, publishing professional office hours, community building, and more. Sign up before December 12 for a spot - and find out all about our programming here: wholeheartedwriters.beehiiv.com/p/programmin...

Definitely Fae. I've never been good at staying up all night so vampires sound exhausting. For an indie Fae book shout out to Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt Sharma. (Seasonally appropriate, too!) #AMoRaR www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

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this is how you lose the dish war

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We're not doing anything, why do you ask?

FYI!!

Was told today *again* by a library co-worker that COVID is now "just like a bad cold." 🤡 thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Love this so much. 💜

We should be investing billions into innovative ways like this to re-wild our cities and towns, rather than water-guzzling, BIPoC poisoning plagiarism machines.

Portrait of a cat who is not allowed up on the mantle, actually

The best summary of Moby Dick still

Actual footage of Joyce Carol Oates posting on social media

remember tuesday? that was 86 years ago

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Not my genre, but any #EdiBuddies interested??

Not For Use In Navigation by Iona Datt Sharma 💫 www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a... #AMoRaR

This smol baby *tucked herself in*

Hey pals, if writing in community with funny, wise, caring, and altogether incredible humans is your jam, from the bottom of my heart I invite you to join Wholehearted Writers Week. Applications close Nov 12! #Writers #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #AmWriting wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com/apply.html

The best thing you can do to help your favorite author is to pre-order 150,000 copies of their next book.

Every bit counts, friends. Please chip in if you can.

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

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Having lunch with a friend today, and when our hot young trendy server brought the bill she was like, "Do you guys read?" After talking books for a bit she said she had decided to ask us because she "could tell" we were "2 smart ladies." Guys, I'm giving SMART LADY. Made my day tbh

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

"What is life but what we choose, who we know, what we experience? Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it" anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

My friend Portia!!! 👇 people.com/portia-elan-...

Tell me how Carney's evil is lesser b/c this is Harper shit. Just b/c he's never OPENLY said that he wishes all queer, trans, disabled and/or BIPOC folks a merry "die already", centrists decided he was a fucking hero. Politicians will not save us, esp bankers because this? Is what bankers do.

This is such a lovely idea

Can't pick what to get with your free bookshop shipping? THE SHAMSHINE BLIND is a good choice if, for some reason, you're looking for a story about people toppling a theocratic conspiracy to energize you

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

Goodnight from Sylvie, may you and she have dreams of dancing cats tonight

Is it a writer's conference? Is it a literary festival? Is it a writing retreat? Is it a radical space for community, playfulness, and support? WHY NOT ALL OF THOSE THINGS??? #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors (P.S. Check out that lineup of speakers!) wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com

Time to reread the first two books in the trilogy, because The First Thousand Trees by @premeemohamed.com has dropped, woot woot ecwpress.com/products/fir...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

As Israel continues to intensify its genocide, please consider giving if you can 💙

Shout-out to all the women who aspire to be bog witches rather than beauty stars

Louder for the people in the back: 📢"Mutual aid at scale is taxation and that taxation should serve the people."📢

lrp: its like, sickening to watch the country be gutted like this. there is absolutely no reason to run Canada Post as a for-profit business, unless you're a politician who is being supported by people who desperately want that profit

I'm a longtime fan of @avilewis.ca and I just joined the NDP so that I can vote for him in the party leadership election. A small positive action instead of endless despair. www.avilewis.ca

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