I have, perhaps, picked too many strawberries for one person to manage.

And again

Between Sunday and this morning, my raincoat has gone from "I think I should reproof this" to "I might as well be wearing cotton" 😭

I got real frustrated about the state of the scaffold conversation, so once again i wrote a newsletter about labour, danger, and being perceived. www.anxietyshark.ca/these-hands-...

Fuck the haters, this is why Larin is still in the squad

Garden report: the first peony is out. The colour is making me really happy.

I'm having one of those days where I think I would rather quit my job than attend a particular client meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning. I won't, because bills, but god do I ever want to.

Ah, summer. Where the morning coffee outside is disrupted by landscapers with leaf blowers, and lunch break outside is disrupted by a street sweeper.

My biggest gripe with a lot of fiction I read is that the protagonists could be interesting but everything gets bogged down in rehashing trauma plots & endless world building and babe, I got things to do, what is this book fucking ABOUT and why should I care about any of these 1 dimensional people?

I'm hot and tired and overstimulated, but I also found rainier cherries at the grocery store today so I'm taking that as a win.

This is a really beautiful novella, which I finally read last week. It will be a future reread for sure.

I really just want to work in my garden every day. Having to work a job instead feels unfair.

I know ebook licensing for libraries is expensive but it's frustrating to have had something on hold for months, you're finally the next in line, and then the license expires and isn't renewed 😭

The call took less than 10 mins and it will likely be fully resolved by Monday, so glad my brain agonized over it for a full week. Love that for me.

Trying to gear up for a fight with my health insurance company but, god, I'm just so tired.

The frost this morning is making me feel pretty chuffed about not putting my seedlings outside yet. (We'll ignore that earlier this week I was feeling behind with my garden wish list.)

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

Nothing in my own garden is blooming, but the tulips at the festival are putting on a show. #bloomscrolling

Hey looks it's me

Emails. Mostly.

Every day is a good day to look up with an expression of intense epiphany from a piece of art and say "Ah! I am not the target audience for this!" Repeat as necessary! Not everything is for you!

Oh god is it leaf blower season already?

teaaaa

Crying this morning over the fact that, having moved away, I am no longer my brother's go-to dog-sitter. (Having a real normal one over here)

Ottawa folks, does anyone have any recommendations for second hand furniture stores?

Ottawa folks, does anyone have any recommendations for second hand furniture stores?

🌊⛵FINAL DAY OF THE PROMO🌊⛵ The Drowned Heir is still $2.99 in ebook! grab it now! "They drown me when my uncle dies." jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/the-drowned-... authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/p/the-drowne...

Someone on my discord just said "schismaxxing" and I want to leave earth but also make someone in 2592 do a PhD thesis on it 😂

Please share as widely as possible. This is open to Palestinians anywhere in the world, published or not. Call for Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories! Pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

I hope the seedlings sprouting in my kitchen know how vital their growth has become to my mental wellbeing

I washed and put away my heavy winter coat over the weekend, so really I have no one to blame but myself.

I love this cover!

It's snowing again. My kingdom for a holiday to somewhere that's experiencing spring.

this is what actual literature discourse is like now

Kobo has a big all-genre sale, 3 for $10, Apr 1-30. Regional links: NZ kobo.com/p/april-buy-... AU kobo.com/p/april-buy-... UK kobo.com/p/april-buy-... US kobo.com/p/april-buy-... CA kobo.com/p/april-buy-... I'll link to mine in the 🧵 If you're in the sale, post a link + tell us about it! (No AI)

I was excited about the snow melting and getting to see my yard for the first time until I realized how many monstrous dog turds have been left for me by the previous occupants 🙄

If you're thinking or dreaming of the moon, let me take a minute to recommend Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl. Tonight was really the perfect night for this library hold to come through.

Devastated to report that I did in fact sleep better last night after exercising after work.

It's 9:30am and I have patched the grout in the shower, fixed the back of my bookshelf and replaced my doorbell. Rest? I don't know her. BUT, I am nearly done with my "do these things immediately" list, and then I can do something fun*, like grocery shopping.

we’re sooooo back

"Move-in ready" is a lie.

So I don't have any furniture yet but I do have this!

I've picked probably the worst day this week to drive up to Ottawa.

CANADIANS!!! Please fill this out and share it widely because HOLY SHIT. I struggle to drive on the freeway at night now because of the headlights.

One of the first things I'm going to do once I've moved is get a new library card. Maybe even before the furniture arrives.

Oh wait, it’s Friday the 13th, I can legitimately repost this! 🗡️

Anyone playing at Ironic-But-Not-Ironic Literary Snobbery in a world of book bans and right-wing censorship of history is a dabbler at best, and at worst destined to become part of the problem. They’ve already got one foot in the misogyny bucket, and will surely trip on it.

frankly romantasy is currently footing the bill for the rest of us by keeping a crumbling publishing industry afloat a while longer and you don't have to read the stuff to appreciate that it's bringing in readers who will eventually want to read more things, perhaps even in different points of view

I love* realizing I made a mistake on my 2024 taxes while trying to do my 2025 taxes. *I don't love it.

I have packed all but 10 of my books, but naturally I don't want to read any of those 10 books right now.