It's the final day to back the Kickstarter and I'm feeling a little like the Big Bad Wolf here. $136 left to go to hit our fundraising goal. So, if you'd like to learn how Red Riding Hood's childhood friend became her mortal enemy, check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ecc...

One of the things modern Western masculinity has lost is the idea that men feel Big Emotions; that feeling Big Emotions and sharing them is part of being a man, and that putting yourself in the position to feel Big Emotions is, in a way, part of what defines heroic masculinity.

I would not be the writer I am today without @eccbooks.bsky.social There’s only a short time left to support his comic’s Kickstarter. Go check it out. You won’t be sorry. ❤️

Artemis II is already on its way home, no engine required. 🚀🌕 NASA’s Artemis II mission is riding a “free return trajectory,” a clever path that uses the Moon’s gravity to slingshot the spacecraft back toward Earth.

Today’s Ten Words are brought to you by Artemis II. 🌖 All of them, bringing all of us, farther than before. I am so grateful to exist in this irreplaceable moment. 🚀 #TenWordsProject #ArtemisII #NASA #Artemis #Moon #Space #TinyPoem

I tell my students that writing is an exercise in figuring out what you think; it's not a place to deposit what you've already worked out. If you step on a frictionless surface, momentum takes over and you just slide; there's nothing to interact with, which means there's nowhere to stand.

Eugene is recovering well, alert and joking and will go home in a few days. A big deal accident but we will be very grateful this good guy genius will recover.

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

a world without trans people has never existed and never will

@malevolent.ca series 2, Threshold, is off to an amazing start. I keep hearing John say, “Fence” over and over again. 🤣 his conversation with Arthur in the car on the way home gave me so many feelings. What a perfect mix of banter, suspense, and exploring emotions. #Malevolent #MalevolentPodcast

Another fantastic piece by @joehasanidea.bsky.social ✏️ I have three folks I share writing with regularly, and I’m very lucky to always get actionable and constructive feedback. 💚 #Writing #WritingAdvice

While I firmly believe in the power of redemption, this is how I instinctively view grown-ass adults who try to market their post-Trump professional lives.

I’m late because I’ve been sick, but I wanted to say happy Black History Month! Check out the thread ⬇️ for one of my favorite poems written by architect and inventor, Lewis Howard Latimer, in honor of his wife, Mary Wilson Lewis, in 1873. #BlackHistoryMonth

@malevolent.ca preshow was amazing and adorable, and the finale was so much more than I could’ve imagined it would be! Holy shit! Now I gotta go scream with people in the chat on the post show. 

Rest in beautiful, intelligent, kind, playful, peace, Catherine O’Hara. The world i’ve known is a far better place for having had you in it.

I think I love season two of #PercyJackson even more than I loved the first. Everybody did such an amazing job!

Every time I read, it’s an act of resistance, and an acknowledgment of all those who came before. Happy birthday Louis. ❤️ #WorldBrailleDay #LouisBraille #Braille

Who are these Ten Words for, but you and I? 🏳️‍⚧️ Never ready. Always trying. Standing here, finding ourselves in something. A poem, as a promise to create anew, every day. 🌈 #TenWordsProject #TinyPoem #TransJoy #Writing #Blind #Pride

The 59th episode of @malevolent.ca has been playing on repeat in my head since last night. Don’t think I’ve gone a consecutive 5 minutes without it returning to the front of my mind. 💛

Just published another article on the Substack, and after three tries I finally got the share formatting to work, woohoo!

These Ten Words, brought to you by my Google feed. 🍃 Rosemary. Three sprigs. A gentle simmer; breathe in the steam. genuinely at least four articles about this DIY thing today. 🙃 #TenWordsProject #TinyPoem #Nature #Plants #StupidInternetAds

Many of you are freaking out because you've done the math and it's going to be very hard to finish that manuscript by New Year's. That's okay. It really is. Targets are to help you get words on the page. No one will know or care that you finish days or weeks after your date. Just. Keep. Writing.

@malevolent.ca continues to be an irreplaceable experience. To witness Arthur and John‘s journey throughout the show has been a privilege. Watching tonight’s episode with everybody on the YouTube stream was delightful. #Malevolent #MalevolentPodcast

Baking banana bread with my mom, it’s a good day. 🍌 Known. From the beginning. Part of me; messy and beautiful. A lifetime in 10 words, and a good old recipe. 👨🏻‍🍳 #TenWordsProject #Family #Baking #TinyPoem #TheLittleThings

Gods below & above, do we feel seen by this passage or what🖤☠️

It’s been a little over a year since I wrote, “Here I hold, in my every breath, these ten words.” and a little over six months since I turned it into a #Poem for my #Substack. So, I offer it up, to comfort anyone who worries that their #Writing goal isn’t enough. 💜 #TenWordsProject

New rule: If you can look at a TTRPG table where everyone's having a good time and say "Uh, you're actually doing it wrong" or even "You're actually wrong about how much fun you're having", then I don't have to respect your opinions on game design.

These Ten Words remind me of when I was small. 🪟 Raindrops. Fingertips. Canvas and drawing, born - gone, in an instant. I still remember the cool condensation sliding on the glass. 💦 #TenWordsProject #It’sRainingIt’sPouring #Writing #TinyPoem

Normally, I like giving candy to trick-or-treaters with friends on Halloween, but the apartment gods decided it’d be more fun if I spent two hours locked in the bathroom. I’m grateful to my Landlord with his collection of skeleton keys, and that when none of them worked, he called the handyman. 💀🎃👻

Tonight‘s Ten Words are inspired by episode 57 of Malevolent. 💛 Shreds. A stranger, but also coming home. Wondering, what next? Each character and moment of revelation breaks me every time. #TenWordsProject #MalevolentPodcast #TinyPoem #Haunting #HappyHalloween

Alrighty. I’m still uncaffeinated, but here are today’s Ten Words! 💜 Everything a frost, seeping into my aching bones to rest. And now I’m off to continue reading The Rose Field. 🌹 #TenWordsProject #TinyPoem #WritingGoals #NeedMyCoffee

Finally got around to listening to episode 56 of @malevolent.ca My heart hurts, but I am as always, so profoundly grateful for the story. Thank you, Harlan.

I went #ApplePicking today at Park Hill Orchard in Easthampton MA. 🍏🍎 Besides the awesome weather and abundance of good fruit, they also had those classic woven wood baskets available. So, now I’ll have yet another vessel in my apartment that will most likely end up holding craft supplies…

There’s so much more I could say after finishing season 3 of #MidnightBurger but for now, I will leave it at, “Fangs out!”

I found @midnightburger.bsky.social while scrolling for podcasts two nights ago. I’m already starting season 3, and the show is delightful. A wonderful mix of goofs, genuine attempts at connection, and lots of science facts and theories That really scratch the nerdy itch. Highly recommend.

Howdy. For me, updating social media is a practice in overcoming anxiety, that self limitation, that corrective impulse. So, I will share my Ten Words daily writing goal here, somewhat regularly, and updates when an entry is turned into essays or poetry on Substack. Thanks for reading.

Trans Lifeline is proud to be partnering with Point of Pride to launch the Trans Health Survey🏳️‍⚧️ This is a national effort by trans people, for trans people to share our experiences and shape a future of affirming, accessible care. Join us by taking the survey today! bit.ly/TransHealthS...

It’s Suicide Prevention Awareness Month and, like every month, we’re here for our trans siblings. Here’s what we want you to know: ☎️ Gender affirming care is suicide prevention. ☎️ #SafeHotlines don’t call the cops without explicit consent. ☎️ The world is a better place with trans people in it! 🏳️‍⚧️✨

Standing on the beach, Cooled by the last of summer. Filling my pockets With weathered rocks and sea glass Until all I know Is a gently tumbled Joy. #TinyPoem #BeachDay

It's officially fundraising time over at @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social, and we're doing things a little differently this year. Help a pro-paying, deeply-progressive, 100% human magazine continue to thrive. We'll love you for it. gofund.me/ca0c2b7d

*breathe in* I am not a dumpster fire. *breathe out* I am a dumpster phoenix.

It’s August now, and it would be easier to say that I just forgot to post, but that would also be inaccurate. Between existing here, trying to start a Substack, and doing some non-writing related things, it’s been a busy/ overwhelming time. Here’s to a New start. :-)

As I expected, I read my introduction for the murder mystery party, and then it was a crazy free-for-all. The birthday girl guest, who the murderer was, though, so that feels like a success. 🥳

I wrote three pages of notes for the time traveling murder mystery party I’m hosting for my friend’s 30th birthday, and once I get through my silly intro, either we blaze through all the possible clues and red herrings, or things will immediately go off the rails and we’ll use none of them. 🥳🗡️⏳🔪⌚️🎂⏱️🧨

Meanwhile, this is the most Canadian headline I have ever seen. Never change, my friends. 🇨🇦

Same, medieval dudes. Same.

My Someday Garden Old glass, wobbly and opaque, light reflecting, dimly as I place it in the holes I have carefully dug out. Bottles, cups, glasses, jars, broken and unshattered, or smoothed by the sea, or gone cloudy from old paints, they all have a home here. #TinyPoem

Crawfarlow, what a cool word!

Spent a few hours sorting beads by color while my friend watched Little Shop of Horrors. Now we both wanna #NeedleFelt Audrey II.