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.

A loooooooong (but good) work day, then an evening with the funniest lil toddler goober, then a few hours wrapping up astrology charts for some clients. Whew. That'll do for today. LOVE YOU. GO TO BED. 😴

Scene inside @fridaytea.com : Patron: Why does your baby have a leather jacket? Me: Because he was the Rum Tum Tugger for Halloween. *MAJORITY of teahouse spits out their tea laughing bc it's not just a slogan that this tea is for thirsty NERDS*

The family ofrenda is off to a good start and the whole apartment smells like marigold, coffee, mole poblano & calabaza en dulce. Feliz Día de Muertos! 💀🕯️🌼

Every $1 donation provides 4 or 5 meals from food banks. Even a donation of $5 right now can feed up to two dozen people. No, we shouldn’t have to do this. But we can.

Slots are full for the moment, but I may be able to open a few more by the weekend! If you know anyone wanting an in-depth star chart analysis, point them my way!

Big Three, communication planets, teacher/student planets, special cases (asteroids, etc.), and any stellia that appear. I finish with an overall summary of patterns and other items of note, and you get a visual chart as well. They're SUPER in-depth! 💫 Consider me your personal astrologer!

Here's how this works, for inquiring minds: Send me your birth info (date/time/location) as specifically as you're able, I run your chart, then type you up a pdf document (usually 5ish pages) analyzing any specific queries and detailing placements and their influence in several categories:

Taking on a few natal chart clients again! I have capacity for five right now. Full chart analysis in PDF with highlighted focus on any specific areas you want to question. $75 per, DM me if interested!

Gather round, Tea Coven! ✨☕✨ Freshly-brewed blog just went live! www.fridaytea.com/blogs/friday...

I have had my chart read by her! Highly recommend 💫

Taking on a few natal chart clients again! I have capacity for five right now. Full chart analysis in PDF with highlighted focus on any specific areas you want to question. $75 per, DM me if interested!

Getting yelled at by the threenager because I only let him have two lil glasses of oat milk and not infinite lil glasses of oat milk. I’m clearly a monster.

OOF. @riverssolomon.bsky.social this book is kicking my ass [affectionate]. I’d heard Model Home is THE hotness in haunted house books this year, but I was unprepared for the exquisitely uncomfortable style of language. This is so weird and grotesque and wonderful. Next level.

The original photo which inspired the incredible Jr. Pokémon trainer portrait! Commissioned the piece below for Tiny Tea Leaf’s third birthday last week!

Tiny Tea Leaf is learning to use his words a little bit at a time, which means he now doing magical things like saying "ta-daaaaa" whenever he throws something away or puts together jigsaw puzzle pieces.

Last year we were runners up, & THIS year the tea house already been nominated for every single eligible category: 🍵 Community Over Competition 🍵 Heart of the Community 🍵 Cross-Cultural Champion 🍵 Legacy Award Crew member Anisa has been nominated for an award: Team Member of the Year! SO EXCITING!

Nominations for this year's @intentionalist.bsky.social Awards closes this Friday! There's still time to get your nomination submissions in for any and all of your favorite Seattle indie brick & mortar businesses! intentionalist.com/intentionali...

Summer may be winding down, but we'll always have flowers in our teacups! What's the tea in your collection that most screams "summer garden?"⁠ ⁠

🌹 In my gaiwan: Summer in Seattle

Words my toddler has ecstatically more or less taught himself to read this week: Apple Dealer Euclid Bubble Bumblebee

I've backed this! So close!! Go support an incredibly kind and badass trans author, artist, and musician! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

we watched SHIN GODZILLA in an enormous theater that was entirely empty except for a man who brought a box of cereal and also a bow and spoonl for his cereal and also milk for his cereal 10/10 filmgoing experience

Oh no I bought “too many” books.

I get to actually escape the tea booth to attend #Worldcon as a writer today, and I’m making the most of it! Starting programming off strong today with a virtual panel on African (esp Nigerian) relationships with death & grief and how those views express themselves in SFF & poetry. 📝

when you’re being mean to me online, this is who you’re being mean to

post four characters you identify with 👀

Hey #sciencesky & more specifically #bugsky, what kind of cutie do we think these eggs on my sweet pea will hatch into?

Bookish checkpoint! 📖 Last book you read: Witches by Brenda Lozano 📖 Your current read: First Time Caller by B.K. Borison 📖 Last book added to your TBR: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones 📖 Next read: Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas quote with yours! #booksky #books

We're in the home stretch & feelin the heat. This week's mini goal is to make that progress bar say $55k. It's SO ambitious, but we're hoping to move the needle & clear more of our debt so we don't even have to consider going online-only again. We appreciate your love! square.link/u/La2AFWmg

Are you ready for #BookstoreRomanceDay weekend? Two days of virtual programming! 650+ officially registered participating bookstores (plus probably more that aren't on the list). You can save your spot(s) for the virtual events at the link. Bookstore map & list link in next post. bit.ly/45sEafo

Find your bookstore here: bookstoreromanceday.org/participatin...

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Hey I am... not really on TikTok these days so I'm pretty out of the loop, but it seems something may be Happening or Occurring over there

You know what's more exciting than apparently being the 16th bestselling ghostie book on Am*zon tho? Supporting independent booksellers by shopping at @bookshop.org 😈

Any artists available for commission who can do a junior Pokémon trainer style portrait of Tiny Tea Leaf? just caught him with his brother’s big ol 3D printed dragon around his neck and it’s SO GOOD.

The most annoying/adorbs thing I do as a Spanglish-speaking toddler parent is when Tiny Tea Leaf is eating, chant at him like it's sports: Qué sabor! Qué sabor! Sabroso! Sabroso! Yummy-yum-yum! Yummy-yum-yum! It's obnoxious & fun & brings joy to our house, I encourage you to join me in this habit.

Hey. Hey. Please don’t wait for an indie book series to be finished before you pick up the books. Just buy them. Don’t wait. So MANY indie series never get finished because the author gets zero sales on the opening volumes and gives up. Give them a reason to keep going. Buy the books.

Okay, well. Queer & especially trans authors of erotica and other content deemed 'nsfw' by major platforms, please drop links to where people can find your stories in the replies. Everyone else: Repost people's links. Stop worrying about the sanctity of your feed & help the most impacted authors.

“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs. Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

Hey, ask me how much writing I got done tonight!

Hey #authorsky, check-in point! How many words deep are you in your current WIP? What’s your final goal word count? 📝

Slowww convention booth day at work, so I’m ✨editing✨ between customers.

'ICE Block' is an app that lets users report sightings of ICE officials in their local area. The app says it doesn't collect peoples' location data, preserves their privacy, etc. A security researcher now corroborates that. www.404media.co/immigration-...

FUCK. ICE.

I’m going to do some writing today, damnit. So there. 😤📝

I've been anxious to talk about this because it feels so selfish, but time to move past that. I have a book coming out! "Who's Got the Power? The Resurgence of American Unions", comes out October 14th from The New Press. It's an optimistic book for perilous times. 1/

Haven’t been sleeping well for awhile, super bogged down in a mental mosh pit of small biz ownership, toddler parenthood and existential despair. BUT I’m going with my bestie to the opening of Seattle’s first romance bookstore today, so that should take the edge off a bit, right? 💖📚