book 2 first draft: done :)

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

Haha oh god, one of my followers alerted me that LATTE was up on NetGalley this morning and I was UNPREPARED 🫠 Anyway, A LATTE LIKE LOVE is available to request on NetGalley right now so go hit the button if you’d like to ask Daddy Berkley for an e-ARC www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

last night i was working through a plot issue out loud to my husband and got to the point where i was staring into space and muttering “no, no. stupid… then that would be the chapter that’s already written.” and it was like omg… this is how tolkien thought up gollum/smeagol

I remember someone saying that's how you know AI can never truly be a writer. If you tell AI to stop using em dashes, it'll stop. If you tell a writer to stop using em dashes they'll tell you to fuck yourself and that you can pry them from their cold, dead fingers.

Older piece but I’m still happy with it!

Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…

Rachel Marsh opened a new Tiktok account and this was her first post: “the olive to my anh @lilireinhart ❤️” #TheLoveHypothesis

huge day for the himbo community

recently realized that writing is how i communicate with the world (therapy💗) and now i’m even sadder for people who use chatgpt, or any of the art shortcuts. because like, this is why musicians make music and painters paint. this is how our weird little souls yell HELLO, I’M HERE, COME JOIN ME

i can personally attest that if you are experiencing any kind of a slump, this will pull you right out of it. i *devoured* this. if you've been waiting, let this be your signal!!!

Stickers by Antony Ho. linktr.ee/antonyho #JapanExpo2025

btw if anyone still needs convincing to read slipstream: meet lilah & arthur 🧡 (please note: hand) art by the brilliant @amburritoart.bsky.social 🦋💞

this feels like winning a pulitzer for smut

clocking in to defend “unlikeable” female characters whose decisions don’t just move the story forward but ARE the story

isn’t it funny how sympathetic, loving depictions of characters going through trauma and redemption and living happily ever after hurt no one, and always become hugely popular and make a gajillion dollars and have cultural impact lasting for years and yet we still almost never get stories like that

psst psst pst www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

I just finished Slipstream and am declaring it in the top three hottest books I’ve ever read. True femme solidarity, queer and neurodivergent FMC, and so many big, human emotions that make the spice pack such a punch. Hot damn, @madgemaril.bsky.social! 🏎️❤️

but does it work on rats

Thanks to CrimeReads and Lizzie Steiner for this wonderful interview, where I discuss Florida as a fallen Eden, the difference between poetry and fiction, and the three-act setup of certain Korean horror films that influenced FLORIDA PALMS. bit.ly/CrimeReadsPalms

Exactly. Loneliness is up across the board, but only one (1) subset of the population has the means and audacity to force the entire discourse around THEIR pain, and also claim it’s everyone else’s fault.

just wrote The Scene i’ve been hinting at for 35,000 words

It's wild as hell to me that people say that artists who write or do art for the masses are "pandering", and that with good art the artist writes for themselves. Fan fiction (outside of commissions) is the very essence of writing for oneself.

just let gargamel have the smurfs. who cares

“keep politics out of kids movies” disney in 1973:

my husband lowkey thinks we’re the most powerful internet collective of all time…… and he’s right

reylo sleeper cell, awaken

You’re laughing. Daisy Ridley’s irl husband is playing an Adam Driver stand-in in the movie adaptation of a Reylo fanfic and you’re laughing 💀💀💀

I WILL NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT THIS

the human brain was not designed to process all the layers to this

Her little split bun is definitely an homage #thelovehypothesis

It’s time for the Barnes & Noble preorder sale and A LATTE LIKE LOVE became available just in time to be part of it! From 7/8 - 7/11, all Barnes & Noble members get 25% off all preorders with the code “PREORDER25” - and if you’re a premium member, you get an additional 10% off! bit.ly/44wiSNq

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

Minjue Chen: “An early painting of some sort of concert confrontation.” #rujinu

You ever watch a film and just know it’s a seminal medium-defining work of peak interdisciplinary storytelling all you can say in the moment is “Ughaaaghaghaa” and then cry? So yeah everyone watch K-Pop Demon Hunters.

thank you Rolling Stone for letting me yap about formula one, sports romance, and my new book SLIPSTREAM!!!! (do i sound casual and chill rn) (i’m trying so hard) www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

okay we're gonna chase the dread away a little bit, here's my latest piece from the Oshamir Solstice Exchange, coz I can post it now! This was for @BusanBoys1013 over on ao3. Everyone stay cool/go outside today, whichever works <3

“Pop culture is also taking note. F1 the Movie, which comes out Friday, stars Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, and actual racer Lewis Hamilton […] in May, Simon & Schuster published Slipstream by Madge Maril, an enemies-to-lovers romance novel centering on the world of F1.” 😭 www.glamour.com/story/f1-is-...

『 I’ll Be Your Idol 🎶 』 #KpopDemonHunters #Jinu #fanart #art

Tiger & bird from Kpop demon hunters 🥺

DID… DID REYLOS MAKE KPOP DEMON HUNTERS??

reading Slipstream by @madgemaril.bsky.social with a glass of watermelon green tea. optimal way to soak in all the good that summer has to offer ☀

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

When my brain starts asking me if I’m gonna open another doc:

one day before falling down the rabbit hole for a new ship: haha this is a little delusional but let’s see what this 2 hour video essay is talking about

Don’t forget to breathe. Breathe in for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8. It signals safety to your nervous system and helps bring you back to centre. No matter the situation, we need to be regulated to think, to act, to not freeze.

Remember folks, women are too emotional to be president.

madge madge maaaadge I finished your book and I loved it!!!! @madgemaril.bsky.social

Slipstream by Madge Maril current fancast 🧡 🏎️ Will Poulter as Arthur 📹 Cailee Spaeny as Lilah

finally achieved my goal of emailing people stuff that makes me happy disguised as a newsletter 😌 substack.com/home/post/p-...