another beautiful day 📖

Beloved, don't pull down a 'no' when a 'no' hasn't been given yet. Stand with confidence and ask for what you need and let THEM tell you no, don't you pre-decide that it's already a no.

First full day of residency. I feel like I’m locked in and I’ve already gotten so much done within the time I’ve been here. #poetry #blackbooksky

Had a lovely mushroom risotto overlooking the marina as I draft this erasure poem in my tiny writer notebook. Give me this in more countries and time zones. #poetry #blackbooksky

woke up in a little bit of paradise

I’m staring at this mf and it’s staring back at me. Yo wtf I just want to lay in the bed and watch my Hulu. 😭

Y’all there was a crab in here. I think I killed it. 🤧 Am I sleeping tonight? Probably not.

me & self timer against the world

✌🏾& 😘

Hey faves! Many of you know that I launched my bakery, Nana's, last year & a lot of you placed orders! Sadly I had to close down earlier this year due to financial hardship but I'm not giving up! If you could donate to or share my fundraiser, it'd be a big help! Thank you! ❤️ gofund.me/94efc2068

Juneteenth celebrates the date of June 19, 1865, when enslaved people of African descent located in Galveston, Texas, finally learned of their freedom from the slavery system in the United States.

Daily reminder that looking up words while reading is a good thing. It means you're learning.

I am what I want - S!mone

No hot island flings for Costa Rica. Le sigh 🥴

I fear if they ever brought a voice note feature on here I’d actually be more annoying and talk more. Just talking for the sake of talking and blowing hot air.

There’s something to be said about being self aware and actualized enough to know when you are toeing the line of overcapacity. Being able to turn down or redirect things because now is not the time and you don’t have the bandwidth is just as important as it not being in alignment with you.

What’s a couple to a trio?

I'm doing online and in-person book events to promote my new novel Love Is A Contact Sport, published 6/16/26 on @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social. I hope you will join me. Love Is A Contact Sport, a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, Contemporary MM romance out now. bit.ly/FrederickSmi...

I ain’t going back and forth tonight

Black like THAT!

Love Is A Contact Sport pub day is here - Tuesday, June 16, 2026, @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social. Love Is A Contact Sport is a Black, Queer, Second Chance, College Reunion, Contemporary MM romance novel. www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/love-i... #BookSky #BlackBookSky #LGBTQBookSky #Romancelandia

starched and steamed

Me and confusion play patty cake. No one wins.

Idk Edna… I like a good cape or cloak {BTS}

If you don’t understand why the screwworm is such a big deal. Allow me to give you a crash course. First, what is a screwworm? A screwworm is the parasitic larva, or maggot of the screwworm fly, which burrows into and feeds on the living flesh of warm-blooded animals and humans.

Stomach hootin and hollerin and I’m crying out to god to help me with these hard times 😭

First can I hop out the helicopter Might spin the block if you on my roster

Hurricane by Infinity Song is poetry and honestly I’m kinda mad I ain’t write something like this first omg

Cute infatuations maybe. A little more rapport and I could see crushes burgeoning.

Got me some pasta

Baby break a sweat Don’t get tired yet

Starting out with a smooth one liner? Excellent. Basically falling off the digital earth after that? Not great for you. Cuz I’m not going to try and force you to talk to me. Sorry. I’ll make some attempts then move on.

I kinda want some pasta. Right now.

Are you sick of me? Yeah bih I’m sick of you I match your energy So whatchu wanna do?

Woke up to an email saying I need to go to Austin for this casting. Chi lemme start looking at hotels.

And then I’m hormonal too it seems 😭🥲

Now who told me to come home at 1:30. Now I’m up staring at the ceiling. 🥴 should’ve came home at 12.

Optometrist says the eyes are still medium. I only have to squint at some of y’all, kinda.

Do they make it look easy or do they mask the difficulty really well?

Storm, Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Colossus (add: Archangel)

Yes. The only thing about Magneto that’s tough is his methodology. I can get behind the ideology. With Charles I think sometimes he’s a little too idealistic to not come back down to earth and reality. Peace and coexistence is great but in the words of Emma “they will always hate us”.

Cyclops, but really neither

Imma say gold

Technically Jean Grey I guess… but Storm’s right there too

Storm, Jean Grey (She’s the strongest telekinetic c’mon)

Using the previous answer… My reality manifestations could work on a planetary/cosmic level. I could write or draw cosmic events into being. Rewrite rules of time/space. Fundamentally change the law of reality. Maybe not even be beholden to using a creative medium just sheer thought.

Okay what would be really cool is either A) my thoughts become tangible manifestations of reality (reality warp) B) anything I did creatively became tangible manifestations of reality-drawings, poems, etc (reality warp)

Already said Storm so…