I really want to end the year on a bookish high but I’m standing in front of my bookcase and I’m bored. I will say that the book I’m thinking of most from this year is Elaine Kraf’s criminally underrated Find Him! People, read this book, it’s better than anything being published today.

Argh Chasing Homer was really frustrating, the multimedia aspect didn’t work at all, but I have Spadework for a Palace and The Last Wolf & Herman coming up next.

Update:

Belated Christmas presents: more bookplates

conscience is the wound, and there’s naught to staunch it

There are many FEMINISMS. That's the first thing. All feminists claim different lineages. There is no such thing as "FEMINISM."

bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression

Omg omg omg omg omg

The Grinch: dead at 37, got into the chocolate

We need more posts about reading books, holding hands, and worshipping the dark lord.

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[grows legs and walks on land]

Is there a book by a Canadian poet coming out next year that you’re looking forward to? Thanks. Trying to round out my 2026 TBR. #canlit

I know I’ve posted a fair amount about Moby-Dick, but I keep coming across astonishing passages, such as the one below when Ishmael visits the site of a an adult sperm whale skeleton given to his “late royal friend.” It’s as if Melville downshifts into eternal-classic mode.

It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk

I’m a trained social worker. I worked with cases of CSA and other horrifying traumas. I didn’t learn til 6 months before I burnt out how dangerous and cumulative vicarious and secondary trauma are. You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.

We can laugh at Trump’s radical left bullshit but Ford spouts the same stuff and we should be concerned. The call is coming from inside the house. #onpoli

baby's first embroidery project! from a kit but still!! went pretty good I think

You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check

In 2026 I would like to get to a mental headspace where I’m not thinking about MAID or else some other yet undeciphered method to kill myself. I need to stop. It only seems to provoke anger and indifference, which retrenches the suicidal ideation.

I'm thinking a lot about people who for no fault of their own are down on their luck. The government odsp disability payment doesn't cover people's expenses with the way prices have been rising

I like to read about outsiders and people who are unable to adjust to society. Ever since reading One Hundred Shadows I’ve been hooked on Hwang Jungeun’s work. #translatedliterature

i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun

My ghost story for Christmas is the underseen film The Awakening, about a post-WWI spiritualism debunker (Rebecca Hall) called to a traumatized boy’s school where her education and modern ways are a subject of uneasy fascination, and her beliefs are challenged by an apparently irrefutable specter.

A lot more horrible people need to die or go to prison in 2026. That’s all I want.

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world.

My parents’ sense of humour. 😂 Also, I told them not to get me anything but they still got me a book:

My Christmas wish for you is to find someone to love as much as Cricket loves ornaments

Reading The Stepford Wives chapter of SCREAM WITH ME and Eleanor is absolutely not fucking with trad wife influencers.

Reminder: You believe in yourself. You offer a unique perspective because of your life experiences. You are making a difference in the world. Your body is beautiful and strong. You are unique and rare and valuable. You are worthy of love. I'm proud of you

Can’t sleep. Reading and listening to Dua Lipa. Merry Christmas!🎄

still my favorite christmas post

Fine, whatever, this random cat is your new god of the winter solstice

Headcanoning the Grinch as aromantic and NOT asexual. He fucks, but he doesn't fall in love. That's Who stuff

If gen z hates millennials so much they should just kill us. Show us no mercy. Put us down like rabid dogs. Look at us, we wont fight you.

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke. A man gets trapped in the office slack, and that's just the start of the story. This book manages to perfectly balance the mundane absurdity of office life with the profound absurdity of the cosmos.

You've kept this giving circle going for SEVEN months. That's meant food, water, surgeries, shelter / tents, displacement needs, public health projects, and more for six families & a camp. Not nothing. Pure hope. Click "weekly" on a coffee: chuffed.org/project/hope...

The ruthlessness that comes from having no imagination whatever. —Agatha Christie, Crooked House

This is absolutely a Christmas movie, not because it's set on Christmas, but because it's about a family gathering so they can hate each other.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

The Butcher’s Daughter, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter & Victorian Psycho were all excellent, exciting & entertaining books that reaffirmed my love for horror.

"Told through letters, folktales, diary entries and more, short story collection Seasons of Glass and Iron from [...] @amalelmohtar.com is a restlessly inventive masterclass in speculative fiction writing." So looking forward to this one! Signed preorder: www.waterstones.com/book/seasons...

in case you wondering if Threads is still the home of the dumbest takes on the internet

What a stressful book. Lise has just DELIBERATELY left her passport in a taxi. This is the kind of thing I have nightmares about.

Oh, and if anyone was confused. You build houses for the unhoused. Not kill them. Thank you.

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. W. B. Yeats

There are many people who simply do not understand the stakes and either understate or overstate them. The issue is not that AI will replace writers or w/e: it can't. The issue is that AI will make our working conditions significantly worse and harm the development of new artists in our fields.

Getting older has just been a process of demanding basic needs. Not asking, demanding. And I don't care how I come off. Why are there homeless people in a rich country like Canada? People are numb. They have their jobs and their kids and they're just scraping by. They feel powerless.