to create is to love

LOOK WHAT CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY! Fuck yeah. It's a thing I wrote. 2026 is the year of the doll. 👻😈🤙👰💅🔪

I had tickets to WorldCon 2020. It was going to be my first international trip. Then the pandemic happened. It can't replace that WorldCon but if it's in Brisbane, that means I (and many others in the Southern Hemisphere who missed out on Wellington) might actually be able to attend!

Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement.

Updated ArtemisTimeline.com with about 100 photos from the new drop! You can click "new crew photos" if you just want to see the new ones!

I still like the early 2010s hipster millennial aesthetic

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

Cursed spaceships, haunted dolls, and zombie wives... oh my! Being an author is so much fun.

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Artemis II today.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

I can’t wait for tomorrow, the day of the jaunty lying

Bluesky gets a screenshot of my tumblr because I can't do italics and strikethroughs here.

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

Every time I hear men talk about destroying this planet so they can travel to a dead one, I think about how miraculous the existence of Earth is, and how capitalists should never be permitted to make decisions about space exploration.

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

no i am aware that im the worlds greatest author so it would be a huge determent to the world if i did not share my art. youre welcome world. what is just as cool is that YOU are also the worlds greatest author, or artist, or chef, or painter, or dancer. whatever you want to be. so share

I went to a romance bookstore in Brooklyn (it was fun!!) but all I bought was straight books because all the stories in the LGBTQ section were cutesy and positive. and I literally want to read books where all of the main characters are horrible people

Fuck it. Be a hater. One star that book. Throw popcorn at the movie screen. Boo! Hiss! Vow never to shop at the sponsor of today's video. You don't have to be nice all the time. Sometimes, you can be the problem, and that's a beautiful thing actually.

I'm at the messy-handwritten-manifestos-about-the-state-of-things stage of between creative projects.

She's a Doll! She's also on NetGalley.

My friends put nautical themed temporary tattoos on my arm and now I'm a sexy pirate.

Being a hater on lover day is actually iconic. Clarisse Loughrey, proving media criticism is an art form in 1000 words or less.

some VALENTINES DAY CARDS for the buckaroos. tag a bud who proves love

If you really want to learn about AI hype, please read about my many excellent cats

'New Dinosaur' is the first box I'm ticking off my 2026 Bingo card and I'm so happy. Hedgehog Iguanodon, you mean the world to me. 💙

Me and my freaky little zombie wife book. 💙🧟‍♀️

She's a Doll has finally got some clothes on! No more a coverless manuscript. This book looks like a *book*.

Look who's got a little orange #1 sticker on Amazon:

I saw Markiplier's movie the other day, and you know what? I'm so glad this loud, beautiful internet dork got to make something he loved for fun. I'm doubly glad that it's out there in the world, making money, being fun.

I bring a 'we are six minutes away from nuclear armageddon' vibe to the party which is often unappreciated.

#21 😎 That spaceship book o' mine.

"Horror books have too much cannibalism." WRONG! All other genres don't have enough cannibalism. Frankly, horror isn't even exemplary in this subject, but at least she's showing up to class.

Everyone's posting their end of year reading wrap ups, best of 2025 etc, but hell, there's still a few days left! This race ain't over until it's over. Maybe the last book I read this year will be the best.

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...

I am never leaving tumblr because where else can I do my science?

All the best writers in the world have (secreted away in some drawer, or cloud, or a03 account) the most terrible, corny, mccheesemo shit you've ever read... and I reckon that's beautiful.

Of Monsters and Mainframes is in the Goodreads Choice Awards scifi finalists AND on Waterstones list of best scifi!! In 2022, when I started writing this goofy spaceship vs. Dracula idea, I remember thinking 'no one else will like this, this is just for me'. I'm so so glad to be proven so so wrong.

Just found out about the trio winning the nobel prize for medicine, and thank god, 'cause I needed some good news today. Possible treatments for immune disorders, cancers, organ transplants, and arthritis? Insane. This is amazing.

People who say I should use AI instead of writing my stories piss me off so much. I have been sharpening this stick since I was wee. I ain't putting it down just 'cause you think another stick is sharper. Fuck you. I like my stick.

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Was going through my photos and found some old pics of me playing in steam. I was 30 in these pics, but I've always loved playing in steam. Best part of going to railway museums: the steam.

This week has been a bit bumpy. Actually, really bumpy. Too fucking bumpy. I've been feeling those bumps, is what I'm sayin'. But, on the plus side, the librarians on tumblr found and old post of mine and they've been sending me a lot of highly strange messages (my favourite kind).

Let's freaking go. 🥳

THE MOON! The moon tonight is so beautiful. Not even a whisker, just a whisk. So new she's practically premature. No, I did not take a photo. My phone is from 2017 and occasionally turns super hot when she gets scared.

You're never alone. Your gut bacteria are with you always.

I've reached my drop down menu limit for the day.

We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel. The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040. The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.

My brain is so stupid. I love it so much. I get drunk on 0% beer. Why? It's 0%. I know it's 0%. But somehow, knowing that it's a placebo doesn't stop it from placeboing. I taste the silly water and so I get silly. Stupid, foolish, lovely brain.

This whole 'there might've been life on mars' thing has me crossing my fingers and toes like a little kid on xmas eve.