my safe word is susan sontag

echoes in the rain by enya blasting at wing stop somehow feels like a very accurate auric representation of me

In her new novel Whidbey, @tkiramadden.bsky.social investigates questions of privilege through complex, layered, and even unreliable characters. Read the profile on Madden in the March/April issue: at.pw.org/CrimeAndCompassion

Beginning with an overview of the anatomy of the book proposal by looking at several different examples, this generator will be broken up into eight weekly sessions. Each week, we will be discussing and going over one element of the book proposal in detail.

i’m already covered in cat hair, i simply cannot have my own, too

serving cunt in my compression wear

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.

laundry reddit is lit bitch

hmm turns out that i’m at my best when i’m reading and writing a lot but idk i might give thinking about death all night another go before confirming

which timeline is the one where mariah releases her grunge album

it’s not a want it’s a need to get my cat a little y2k newsboy cap and iBook

curtseying before ordering at Panda Express

teacher can we quietly unravel outside today

it’s gonna happen. i’m gonna be the first ghost with knee pain

"I’ve finally arrived at a place of radical acceptance. I accept that I will be passed over, that I will sit untouched for hours, that someone will choose a lemon-lime option over me without a second thought."

new mia meme just dropped

"I’ve unpacked my rivalry with Coke. I’ve looked at where it started, how it was reinforced, and why I kept measuring myself against a version of myself I was never meant to be."

This is one of the best things I've read in a long long time. "I’ve finally arrived at a place of radical acceptance. I accept that I will be passed over, that I will sit untouched for hours, that someone will choose a lemon-lime option over me without a second thought."

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

This is hilarious and also, as a Southerner: PEPSI IS NEVER OK.

"I’ve unpacked my rivalry with Coke. I’ve looked at where it started, how it was reinforced, and why I kept measuring myself against a version of myself I was never meant to be. Coke, for the most part, represents nostalgia, but I am not responsible for your nostalgia."

This is brilliant! I need to be more like Pepsi. 🙏🏽

A masterpiece

perfection. damn.

@mlfaliveno.bsky.social and i could talk forever—here are 2,000 of those words from our conversation in @bombmag.bsky.social 🪵

is there anyone more drunk with power than the second a in marshmallow

Had the good fortune to talk a bit about Oldster Magazine with Kasia Pilat at The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...

took a (necessary!) break from working on my novel and am now getting back into it. time to get into glassblowing

meet ms. self-actualized pepsi! my latest, for @mcsweeneys.net 🥤

"I’ve been in therapy for a while now, and one of the things I’ve learned is that I’m not responsible for managing other people’s expectations—especially when those expectations were built around a different soda entirely." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

wouldn’t blame the cicadas for emerging and being like not this and going back underground for 17 yrs

my nervous system has prolapsed

enrollment for the spring book proposal generator is now open! 🌷 8 weeks in my class crock pot and you’ll have a proposal that’s ready to send out! sign up below ✍️ scholarships available!

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if there’s one thing i’ll do it’s cry about it

i won’t be at AWP this year so if you’re going pls smoke a cig outside the local dive in my honor

In New Yorker Humor, why this Waymo might be a better person than you. www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

my latest for @newyorker.com: a mild to moderate existential spiral 🤖

butthead and butthead

LA’s getting its first combination sephora-library-plant nursery! (tommy and i are moving in together)

i need to get rid of books bc i'm downsizing so i think i'll start by rewatching buffy

started a new work-in-progress (stress hives)

we’re still swooning from last night’s reading 💘 love to all our readers, the semi-tropic, and @skylightbooks.bsky.social 💘 see you in spring!

tonight!! 🪩🪩🪩

to every writer who is happy to be left behind by AI: party at my place! we’re gonna spend four hours agonizing over whether or not to use a semicolon or a period before deleting the two sentences altogether and giving each other bangs

ego death! at the disco

up in the club poppin Zicam

be our valentine this tuesday, february 10th at the semi-tropic in LA at 7pm for the winter installment of empty trash! it’ll be ever so dreamy 💌 see you there! 💌

“The things we were told to do or not do were framed as truth, not superstitions.”