"we only respond to manuscripts we're interested in. if you dont hear back in FOUR MONTHS its a no" just hit me with your car please

community college was a great experience. i took painting, mythology, victorian ghost stories, and some workshops that introduced me to Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction which I continue to find so helpful as a basic tool. traditional undergrad was a foul mess i flinch to remember lol

guy who passed me on the sidewalk mumbled "neptune" as he walked by

jeep just casually ripped a piece of art on my wall in half. i think she's some kind of radical.

12 of my remaining 16 open queries about to go stale & i've passed one year of no response from one partial, and over six months no response on one full. one publisher has been looking for five+ months. so theres still hope but not a lot for [REDACTED]

helping get a car unstuck from the snow for 4 hrs in the dead of night.... like microdosing being part of a doomed arctic expedition

sometimes i get in my head about being a bad teacher. but then i ask my students for an example of good writing and they say the dictionary. its very freeing because really.... its only up from here.

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You are allowed to whimper while licking your wounds.

im emotionally watching "harlan county USA" how r yall doing tonight

i was weak. and as always. my feelings 💔

late to the party as always but dolki min's walking practice fucks severely holy shit

Can u see all 7 turtles? #honu #nature #beach #scape #photography #love #zen #naptime #goodmorning #eastcoastkin #marinelife #herps

writing is a scam also.

one of the harder things about publishing is that writing feels inherently very silly. hello. here are the hundreds of pages i made up about some little guys. this is what they sound like. they are inspired by these other little guys, who are not real.

Bad News From The Zones (surgery)

broooo the form rejections for fulls r killing meeeee

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black-crowned night heron said trans rights

anyway. i dipped my toes back into qtcritique despite the terrible community that lives there. & i have been strong & havent posted anything that wld get my feelings hurt. instead i have become a little weird about getting five star reviews on my critiques. I Can Show You A Better Way etc etc

hate to see how ingrained terf talking points are in regular feminism tbh. a penis is not a fucking bomb. women are perfectly capable of being abusive. yes even to men sometimes.

asked for a cig outside the gay club last night. two lesbians (together) fought over who could offer me one out of their matching ("we're in lesbians together can you tell") cigarette cases (beautiful) (gay) and one shoved the other and said "IM the better faggot"

who are hearsed that die on the sea?

i think more men should be fat and hairy

🫣 does anyone have the energy or desire to read a queer, weird werewolf/ghost story set in the late 19th century at a life saving station? it is 34k words. im looking for feedback on characters+overall shape of the story (not on prose or time-consuming fiddly bits lol)

Vote On Where Spike Should Live Next

stayed = multiple overnights visited = one overnight purple= i would like to visit one day

Nothing can ever be the same

anybody here seen all of us strangers ?

which heated rivalry interview is it where someone recounts the russian monologue and the dialect coach says "he humbles me" about connor storrie ?

May this be a year of justice.

Top Four [new] books i read this year! phenomenal book crop

my new years resolution is to take better pictures of my ass. i will learn the angles.

together? in solidarity? is there anything we can't do: for those suffering in an increasingly inhuman justice system; for our trans kin targeted by this wretched government; for immigrants scapegoated by the callous and the cruel? for, in and through all this, ourselves?

bluh!

i watched the empty netters, and it was so so fun and also healing to see a bunch of straight dudes becoming fudanshi, but also yes. the things they did or did not notice were fascinating. eye opening. also one of them sincerely asked if you can do anal missionary.

the second and third pictures have destroyed my mind & soul. i am now sloggeth the undying.

looking back at my list and i read a lot of good fiction this year. may every year be so bountiful

WAOW 🥵

hahah what do u guys think ilya and shane's dad talked about while yuna and shane were outside?

the way that they talk about each other makes me feel like the dinosaurs getting blown up

and hudson talked about this some more variety.com/2025/tv/colu...