Remember in elementary school when we all stood in a circle and held a bit of the big parachute? We spread out evenly, each lifting our own little part, and together we made a beautiful rainbow dome? Right now, we’re standing in a circle around the world. Keep holding your part of the parachute.

Trans friend, I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you. You have my heart and my sword.

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“To not acknowledge the unique effect of a racial slur is a form of indifference to the suffering of others. The problem of being indifferent to the suffering of black folk while also imploring folks to have empathy for Davidson cannot be understated.” — @nubluesnick.bsky.social

I can't remember whose memoir said it, but Motown Records existed because of the Detroit public school system and their commitment to musical arts through the 70s.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Happy lunar new year ! 🧧🐴 I had so much fun drawing the year of the fire horse - using a much deeper, bolder palette than usual 😍 #happynewyear #illustration #kidlitart #yearofthehorse

I made a partial payment, but the rest of my rent needs to be paid off in one lump sum ASAP and I still need about $1,950 to cover just my rent. I’m really getting desperate and I don’t know what else to do. Any help and shares are appreciated!

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

To Libraries, You introduced me to some of my favorite stories, became a place where I could write my own, and hold worlds of knowledge within your walls. Thank you for being beacons of what an ideal society can be by creating havens and free resources for all! I owe so much to you. ❤️Madeleine

Happy Valentine’s Day from Raff & Essa, the main characters in my upcoming cozy fantasy! The romantic tension between life and death is unreal 😮‍💨 ❤️‍🔥 Bisexual chaos wizard + grim, beautiful Culler of souls = 👀 💋❓ Tarot card commissions by @point-maitimo.bsky.social #booksky #romantasy #cozyfantasy

Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.

PLEASE PAY ATTENTION THIS STORY THIS WOMAN SHOULD NOT BE ROTTING IN A PRISON CAMP (no one should be)

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe doesn’t have mortgages, landlords, an HOA, or rent, and neither should we.

I think a lot of the AI disconnect happens due to people not understanding what the purpose of art is. Books are seen as products with a list of elements, but what is storytelling without intention or human connection? You can make a “sandwich” out of cardboard & styrofoam but it won’t nourish you.

Meet Essa, my clumsy Culler (reaper of mortal souls) who is hardcore struggling with having a flesh form for the first time. She’s a total fish out of water (both physically and socially), so I gave her a lot of my “I don’t think I ’get’ being human” feels. #WIPSnips #CozyFantasy #AdultRomantasy

Stardew Valley 1.7 update will have two new marriage candidates omgggg

Charlie Jane joyfully talked about a huge range of books for WaPo, and now yet another outlet celebrating diversity and curiosity in fiction is lost. Definitely sub to her newsletter, because it's a great read every time.

Hey, so, reminder that Libro fm offers an audiobook subscription that supports indie bookstores.

Introducing my bisexual disaster wizard who charmed one of his teeth to sparkle every time he smiles. I’ve been so pleasantly surprised by how many real-life people have been charmed by Raff, and I can’t wait for you all to meet him next year! #WIPSnips #CozyFantasy

We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.

Hey, so, reminder that Libro fm offers an audiobook subscription that supports indie bookstores.

Please speak up for Rodney. A year in an ICE camp is beyond comprehension. Public pressure works. If enough people speak up, a life may be saved. Many of the deaths in ICE custody have been due to medical neglect… let’s make sure Rodney isn’t one of them.

Introducing my bisexual disaster wizard who charmed one of his teeth to sparkle every time he smiles. I’ve been so pleasantly surprised by how many real-life people have been charmed by Raff, and I can’t wait for you all to meet him next year! #WIPSnips #CozyFantasy

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Editing essentials

sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive

Generally disinterested in getting into celebrity gossip on here, but I’m still not over Alec Baldwin outing himself as a McLennon truther in this, the year of 2026.

To love is a deliberate action. It’s the choice to open your heart, your mind, your eyes…to welcome the joy and the connection and the pain. To love another, to love this world, is courageous, and it’s necessary for our survival.

General strike this Friday! To protest ICE and the people being kidnapped and killed by this fascist administration.

I’m in!

All the traits that you have been taught to value and look for in special individuals - courage, intelligence, strength - are actually collective traits. There is no genius or hero coming to save us from our problems. We solve them together or not at all. Socialism or barbarism.

It doesn’t show up in the captions, but she’s also offering them food.

We’re not cooked, we’re metamorphosing

Remember in elementary school when we all stood in a circle and held a bit of the big parachute? We spread out evenly, each lifting our own little part, and together we made a beautiful rainbow dome? Right now, we’re standing in a circle around the world. Keep holding your part of the parachute.

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I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

I’ve been going insane the past couple days (for obvious reasons) but was also sick of seeing all the ai slop. So I channeled my energy into something productive and drew this. The Simurgh is a benevolent bird in Persian mythology similar to a phoenix in the West. Free Iran!!

Ban bombs, borders, and billionaires, not books! Stories (and the power they contain) should belong to everyone! Cutting off access to art means stifling what makes us human, especially when the biggest targets are marginalized voices. @authorsabb.bsky.social

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

CW mention of suicidal ideation (generally, in fiction) My least favorite trope of all time is when someone “heroically“ sacrifices themselves because the world/their loved ones would be “better/safer” if they were gone. Especially when the “threat” stems from an innate quality of theirs.

People act like Twilight was the grand “girlification” of vampire stories when the bulk of Dracula is literally about people swapping diaries and having sleepovers.

Sending my heart out to my trans friends and followers today. You are seen and you are loved.

I think the short answer is, it’s the most fun I’ve ever had. I always loved creating & have been writing since I knew how to. Bringing something from my imagination into the world, as well as engaging with the products of other people’s imaginations, is pure, human joy. Nothing else like it.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

Thinking about Jewish friends starting off Hanukkah with such horrific news, thinking about the students who have now been through multiple school shootings, hoping for a world that takes radical action against gun violence and refuses to accept this reality as inevitable.

i love "Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE" so much he's so perfect