Freedom for some and not all is not freedom at all. And once we start excluding certain groups from the protections of their fundamental human rights, we not only forfeit our own humanity, but we forfeit the guarantee of freedom and liberty for all. Each one of us. We stand together or we fall.

Today is a great day to celebrate autistic joy and that's all that I have to say about that.

If this week had you mad and taking action against censorship, might I recommend finding a way to join the fight against book bans? Readers: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/ Authors: @authorsabb.bsky.social

Excuse me I'm sorry but HOW am I supposed to function normally after finishing Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid? I just. EXCUSE????

Me reading yet another dystopian news headline from this past week:

I have *never* used ChatGPT. Not once. I’m not saying I’m better than you… oh fuck it, I’m better than you.

really weird to have to promote a book while the world is on fire but also it is a job and any way my book comes out in paperback next week, it's really funny and also has a lot of very relevant things to say, please buy it or request it from your local library

keep trottin

The name ‘Tiffany’ is many centuries old. To many people, it sounds like a stereotypical name for a Valley Girl in the 1980s. This has led to a phenomenon called “The Tiffany Problem,” which describes things that sound anachronistic, but actually aren’t.

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

I have bought a lot of fabric from Europe and all of this just sucks SO MUCH.

Agent friends: I zoomed through the audiobook of VERITY VOX AND THE CURSE OF FOXFIRE this weekend and it was great and had everything I want in a YA fantasy. Cool witchy magic! A fun voice! Cozy, but still important stakes! SAPPHIC!!! If you have anything like this, send it my way? :) #MSWL

Agent friends: I zoomed through the audiobook of VERITY VOX AND THE CURSE OF FOXFIRE this weekend and it was great and had everything I want in a YA fantasy. Cool witchy magic! A fun voice! Cozy, but still important stakes! SAPPHIC!!! If you have anything like this, send it my way? :) #MSWL

Wouldn't it be cool if in response to Kpop Demon Hunters being the most successful animated movie of the year/all time/whatever companies paid artists to do cool original projects and more shows and movies and more stability in animation and design. Hahahhahahahahahhaha man. Oh well!

Me halfway through (finally) reading Holy Terrors yesterday: huh, I haven't been punched in the soul with feelings yet, but I know it's coming, I just know it... Me, sniffling at the end of the book now: THERE IT IS. @what-eats-owls.bsky.social Vanja's story is just so incredible, thank you.

I really need my fellow Americans to pay attention to this, especially considering how small businesses abroad are suspending shipments to the US.

Tapping the sign.

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

for my birthday today the greatest gift would be to get closer to my goal to funding service dog! share to help get a guy a cool dog that can help him navigate the Horrors

pro tip: People will tell you to speak up for yourself as long as you continue to echo the version of your experience that doesn't jeopardize their ability to perpetuate the myth of the industry

have some good news

Slightly diminish a band: Imagine Lizards

Hello dear Swifties if you would perhaps like something else to preorder during this time, may I interest you in this adorable book I edited? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/784286...

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

I read this recently and it was very good, the art is lovely! If you like both spooky ghosts and Legends & Lattes, I suspect you will also like this. :)

Graphic novel/comic artist friends, any advice?

JKR and others are utilising the law to their benefit, and I'd suggest funding one of the best organisations fighting back - the Good Law Project - which takes donations: goodlawproject.org/campaign/tra...

If you're in the US, you can enter to win one of five finished copies of my upcoming holiday anthology, FOR THE REST OF US! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

so much of enjoying art is looking for the artist's fingerprints, the handholds they leave behind in their work for you to follow. but when you observe or read anything ai-generated you learn to intentionally ignore these hooks because they are just mimicry, leading nowhere and meaning nothing

Everything is on fire, but, there are still books! I'm still looking for books! Agent friends, send me your books? www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/ca...

Stay alive and make things

uhm actually all friends have benefits

Huh. Something shook really hard, heard my parents say "what was that, an earthquake or something? Haha." And then...

If we're doing groceries and take-out discourse, here's my take: Man-made famines are crimes against humanity. If you can help the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, please do. Donate dollars. Call your reps. Share their story in your communities to invite help.

heads up #SDCC:

Sick of everything being Orwellian or Kafkaesque. I demand more Scarrylous situations, where animals drive vehicles and run small businesses.

It’s also a war against comics and picture books. They receive a ton of censorship merely for illustrating the existence of, say, two male penguins who raise a chick together. Comics are routinely targeted and have been for decades. But we keep fighting!

having a really bad day, but one thing that always helps is feeling like i'm making tangible moves towards sustainable accommodations for my disability – so let me share my gfm! about $4k to go! i think about this every single day and can't wait for the way this will change my life in a big way

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

And evergreen reminder - watch the documentary Street Gang if you want the receipts - that it all started from supporting Black and brown children. What serves the underrepresented serves all.

490000 more reasons not to use GenAi for your art needs

Reading @nebrinkley.bsky.social's latest newsletter and just going OMG THIIIIIS the whoooole time.

I know I'm from New Jersey but the thing that really irks me is that... Massachusetts taxed their rich people. It worked. The rich people didn't flee. You're really gonna let Boston beat you at this game, New York? BOSTON??? www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

Georgia! Make sure you vote tomorrow! I want my electricity bill to go down 😭😭😭😭

hello, it's nonbinary people’s day. Did you know I'm an author & illustrator of graphic novels and gamebooks, a nonbinary trans guy, and also: All my published books so far have a genderqueer/ nonbinary main character, or main love interest? they do. here they are #books 
#IAmNonbinary

trying to remember what it was like not being tired all the time

This is a marvellous deconstruction of the Scene That Makes You Cry Uncontrollably. Happy Bastille Day.

MURDERBOOOOOT. 😭😭😭

*cries in NJ bus commuter who can't vote* PLEASE New York friends!!!

I am profoundly glad and grateful to finally have a publishing job that does summer Fridays, but I'm gonna need them to shift into October or something because it's too hot to do anything fun!!! 🫠🫠🫠