Calling horror writers: Do you have a 2500-6000 word short horror story about film, filmmaking, or watching movies? You have until July 1st (Canada Day) to submit. Samara is rooting for you! #HorrorWriter horrortree.com/taking-submi...

Rereading one of my top five books of all time: Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury’s sentences come in two forms: brief and simple, or “what in the hell was that mess of words?” and both are delicious. Not one out of place. A master class in “every sentence has a job.”

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this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

Whatcha reading this week, #booksky? My currents: 🎧 Her Body & Other Parties 📖 Bunny 💻 Vampires of El Norte

Me: “do you want pancakes, waffles, or scrambled eggs this morning?” Little Leaf: “COFFEEEEEE 👹”

The good? Most bills got paid. The bad? Because someone ghosted on a substantial invoice, I have no income coming in to cover medications, appointments, and groceries. Anything helps. And pay youre fucking freelancers. ko-fi.com/tinychaosmouse

aaaaand my nesting partner's account is sub-$100. payday is thursday. Oh, we are proper fucked. Please, please, if you can help, anything is better than nothing. I have no idea how we're getting meds and groceries this week. Everything is too much.

I’m finally reading American Psycho, and it’s so deliciously unhinged, omg. 😂 #booksky #horrorsky

LAST CALL! Preorders close at midnight PST for this summer’s “Defeat the Dungeon: the Complete Dungeon Crawler Carl Tea Flight” sampler box! Full release of all individual teas in the lineup to come this July!

We just hit 678 preorders for this round. We’ve NEVER seen demand on this scale for a new line. With the original run of 200 boxes, we’re at almost 900 total sold. 😱😳🤩 Ok, Crawlers! Hell yeah!

More Chicanx horror lit, yes or yes?

If you’re for the status quo regarding US’s treatment of its Mexican population and/or in favor of detention facilities (death camps) and/or pro-deportation and/or flip about the US role in LatAm destabilization, you better keep your ass out of any form of cinco de mayo celebration tomorrow, I stg.

Gathering tomorrow May 5th at 5:30pm at 16th and H NW in DC to hear from folks who have survived the camps, mark each person currently held and demand freedom and justice.

Anyone have more “Mexicans in Space” recs for me? Fiction or non-fiction! I loved Mexicans on the Moon I loved Operation Bounce House I loved Dune (but not how the space Mexicans were portrayed) Do more space Mex books exist? Or movies/TV? 🇲🇽🚀 #latinsky #booksky #filmsky

AI rots your brain. Writing with ChatGPT is worse than writing shitfaced after a pub crawl.

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I said this before the campaign started and I'll say it again now as we go into the final week of the campaign. I'm sorry for spamming your feeds with Kickstarter promo posts. The best way to shut me up is to hit the goal. 😉

Dear GOD, toddlers are fast and inventive.

Oh ok, a DIRECT callout. I see how it is. 😂

Heads up, weirdo writer friends!

How often do you get to actually experience a game with the person who wrote it? Not only that, Josh is a great person to be sitting at a table with. If you want a full experience of the game, this is a great way to do it. I did!

Finally reading @claymcleod.bsky.social’s “Acquired Taste” and all I can say is WHAT in the baby carrots, axolotl, tubby wubby nonsense is this. 😂 This is why I love short story collections. So much room to play, a million tone shifts and weirdnesses.

It's National Library Week, fam, which means today is a GREAT day to get a library card. 🔥

Seriously it’s like there is a giant chunk of tech people who don’t understand that when you’ve learned how to write, you feel proud, you look forward to doing more of it, you cheerfully neglect your other work just so you can write more

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

This is not a joke. Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction will be an ongoing series! And we’re open to submissions for the second volume starting today: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

Ok #LatinSky, how many Mexi cultural Easter eggs can you spot in this photo? How about in the ingredients list? bsky.app/profile/frid...

Getting more Mexicanly unhinged as I age and I'm extremely into it and not sorry at all and no one is stopping me. Toooootally unrelated, keep your eyes on @fridaytea.com tomorrow.

"Spring is here!" The little bird exclaimed to the Cherrywood Knight 🌸🌿

Hey #Seattle! Support our Baristas. You can join a picket line or, you know, just stay away from Starbucks. There are tons of small, locally-owned coffee shops you can switch to until Starbucks agrees to treat their workers fairly.

Friendship is magic. My buddy @chronopunk.bsky.social told his mom I was having a rough week due to the break-in at work and subsequent stress, and she MADE ME A SHAWL. 🥹🫶 It’s so soft and colorful. Much needed pop cheeriness for my March.

$200 billion a year would enable a universal basic income of about $500/mo. That would essentially abolish severe poverty in America. Poverty would drop by about a third, and because the downstream costs of poverty are about $3 TRILLION a year, that would be a return on investment of $800B a year.

Looking for something you can do to help authors you love (like me)? Ask your local library to order our books! Not only does this support us, it also makes it easier for you get your friends to also read the books you enjoyed! Then you can talk to them about books! Libraries are great!

It’s true.

seeing Chavez’s legacy be swiftly and correctly decimated is a powerful reminder that we as a society could, actually, hold people accountable when credible allegations are made that they are child molesters

Important.

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

Solidarity with Dolores. Solidarity with all survivors. Solidarity with everyone who has felt that they have been forced to stay silent. Solidarity with everyone feeling especially impacted by all of this news. We can build a better world. We can. It begins with telling every truth.

The feral toddler is the snuggliest, sweetest, biggest-eyed need machine this side of a Siamese cat.

A food systems horror and Weird fiction anthology would be dope. Dark, scary, and strange stories about the growth, production, distribution, sale, and disposal of food on a large scale. Could be rad!

My contribution to #StPatricksDay festivities, from the bottom of my half-Irish-American heart: Fuck the system. Fight the oppressors. Global land back. Free Palestine. Pogue Mahone. 🖕

Working from home with a preschooler is like Me, opening my computer: "Hey Tiny Tea Leaf, mommy needs to focus on some work for a little bit, can you do your own thing?" Tiny Tea Leaf, stomping around me in circles: 🗣️🗣️🗣️ "THE ANTS GO MARCHING ONE BY ONE HOORAAAAAH HOORAAAAAH!"

If you've been thinking about giving the Bookstore Romance Day tea blend a try, now would be a good time. Sending love & comfort to @teawitch.bsky.social who seems to face an endless parade of crises. www.fridaytea.com/products/boo...

My body is like 80% Shoumei after this morning’s tea bar tasting and it’s such a sunny winter afternoon viiiiiibe. Estoy tan chillaxada. 🥰

Getting very into CDMX style new wave cumbia right now. Anyone on #latinsky have grupo recs? 💃

My firstborn is TWENTY today. What. 🤯

I was raised by herbalists, my parents met in Star Trek Club in high school, and I literally taste feelings & ideas. I was always destined to start the first fandom tea company & infuse witchcraft into custom teas that taste like people's fave memories, d&d characters, etc. So niche, so inevitable.