I'm no good at code switching and I don't mind being an open book, but VERY occasionally I think of an absolute banger tweet that cannot under any circumstances be posted under my government name

Ollie is making us matzo ball soup... my true love and hero............

cannot believe I neurochemically rawdogged this day

I genuinely love it when we get a web form submission from a patron who misspelled their own name. whomst among us has not had a day like that

ANYWAY it has been a productive morning and I feel good

an important writing lesson I am learning is that when I go "haha it would be so uncomfortable if ______ happened, I should write it as a side story for fun," it probably actually belongs in the book

turned out a tight 1k this morning, starting and finishing one of the six short scenes that will now comprise the Hell Chapter. having time before work fuckin rules so far

a TV genre I have utterly lost my tolerance for in the last couple decades is "quippy law enforcement procedural." every time I see one advertised nowadays I want to flip a table

to do this morning before work: bring in the grocery delivery when it arrives, attempt to do a little writing, try to answer at least one (1) email

imagine being the first person in your society to see a penguin when your culture has no knowledge of penguins

hellworld // this is a deeply stupid timeline in general but this, right here, might be the most willfully boneheaded thing I've ever heard someone say

Ollie and I learned recently that there is a Jewish blessing you can say when you are marveling over a weird animal; it translates roughly to "blessed is He who varies His creations"

Our Asian small-clawed otter pup is officially on the move, eyes open, extra fuzzy, and full of squeaks. Behind the scenes, proud parents Sebastian and Pintar are providing gentle, attentive care as their curious little pup explores the world one wobbly step at a time. Stay tuned for more pupdates!

Catch my poem "No Kings / No Soldiers" in today's issue of Uncanny Magazine! (And while you're there, check out the rest of the issue!) www.uncannymagazine.com/article/no-k...

I need to stop waking up at five 😑

This is one of the best of these I’ve seen. It really almost got me.

the duality of man: "I hope people read my book" at the exact same time as "oh sweet fucking Christ people are reading my book"

I live for gossip about historical luminaries behaving like awkward losers

I'm going back to work tomorrow BUT I have my mornings free now so maybe I will be able to generate some actual prose based on the planning I did today

yeah.......

doing some outlining and y'all... the big problem is still the time skip the hell chapter WILL NOT FREE ME

realizing that a major reason I'm having trouble with the second half is that I really like the first half and I'm worried I won't be able to do right by it with the rest of the book

I will finish this book someday. manifesting it

genuine question: where are the romance novels that are not romcoms? vibes being less "cartoon people at a café table" and more "brooding on a moor"

Very weird and specific request: I'm looking for fictional portrayals of romance between a prison worker and a prison inmate. So far I've thought of "Orange is the New Black" and Kushner's "The Mars Room," but I'm wanting more examples.

those Arctic art residencies look pretty bangin' but I'm 100% convinced I'd be eaten by a polar bear

GREAT news we have added a new column to the chessboard and a new piece that can move any direction within a 4-square area called The Drunk

one of my actual New Year's resolutions is to stop spending so much money on takeout and it's a really wise and important goal but MAN, so often what I need emotionally is a warm meal

would truly love to know why I'm two-naps-a-day exhausted the last few days, because it's fucking annoying

Hamilton is Hamilton, but "here is an itemized list of thirty years of disagreements" is relatable to me as a petty bitch of old

just like the T-shirt says, my tummy hurts and I am mad at the government

Ollie is reading the parts of the book he had not already read and I can hear the pages shuffling and I may die of self-consciousness even though he is the nicest reader of all time

I have the time and the inclination to do some writing work today, I need to find a direction for that energy

Ollie has insisted that I share this because it blew his mind: there is no legitimate etymology for "wenis" meaning "elbow skin." It is 100% playground slang and an excuse to make dick jokes with impunity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenis?w...

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

took a nice stress nap :')

I have received only one (extremely helpful) round of feedback on my ms but I'm already like "maybe I should work on a revised outline" 💀

Frog and Toad looked into a mirror. “We look brave,” said Frog. “Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

can someone impose sanctions on us for our own good

always very cool to open up social media first thing in the morning and everything is on fire

we are back at our very cold apartment! I'm an irritating combination of sleepy and restless

I need you to know that by the combined efforts of six adults and a preschooler, 85% of this cheese is gone now

sending thing to friends, immediately panicking because now it exists outside my tiny ecosystem

where I'm at because I'm going to be sending my ms to a few more people and also Ollie is on the way home

BUT YEAH FUCK IT if we are mutuals and you are interested in reading about some chess dorks + willing to ask questions and give gentle feedback, DM me and I'll see what I can do 😱

to do: take shower, hug husband, help prep the cheeseboard, try to do some reading, try to get up the gumption to ask another couple friends to read my manuscript

the ice cream tastes more like sweet cream than toasted marshmallow because it needed a higher ratio of toasty marshmallow exterior to custard; that said, it does in fact own bones

ice cream is in the ice cream maker 😎 it is meant to be toasted marshmallow flavor and idk how well it will fulfill that brief, but it will be tasty no matter what

instagram for some reason is showing me TONS of videos of Pomeranians strutting proudly. I'm not mad about it.

OK, it is officially a decent hour to be awake, going to go have the traditional New Year's Day Irish coffee with my mom and then try to make ice cream 💪