In the past week: * Trans student murdered in WA. * PA man threatened to murder 20 "socialist" Democrats. * White supremacist in Tennessee shot Black man in attempted murder after calling him racial slurs. * Mosque attacked in San Diego mass shooting in apparent anti-Muslim assault.

So my student struggling with a writing prompt dropped an absolute banger of a quote: Courage is what throws you forward. Courage is what makes you want new things. Courage is what makes you push through yourself. Like, dude, in a decade in education that might be the best student quote yet.

Waiting for you

It’s a crime against literature that George RR Martin is the more famous writer in their relationship 📚🪐

Yard signs got me all fucked up, voted for a local roofing company.

Someday it will be finished, but today isn’t that day

Congratulations/Condolences: You have been accepted to/rejected Schrödinger University. Information about our offer may or may not be enclosed Please let us know your intentions as soon as possible—or don’t. Yours in uncertainty, #vss365

self portrait #furry #furryart #anthro #anthroart #art #traditionalart #bunny #bunnygirl #modeltrains

Will never stop saying this, in the face of AI, book publishing had (has) an amazing opportunity to double down on everything - taste & curation (acquisition), nurture writers, editorial rigour and integrity, quality production & copyright protection. If they lose any of this to AI, they’re fucked.

HORROR WRITERS! I WANT YOUR SOUL… I mean DEMONS! I’m editing another awesome anthology for Flame Tree Press. Spread the curse… blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Dude, my cat melted #catsofbluesky

1260 word sprint, this is the best writing day I've had since the baby came. Let's go, baby. #writingcommunity 🪐📚

🎶 all the cool kids hate gen AI 🎶

Mascara #furry #furryart

Trump's slush fund would give nearly $2 BILLION in taxpayer dollars to his supporters, including violent criminals. He's just stealing your money. There's no transparency, we won't know who gets paid, or how much. It's illegal and corrupt as hell. We're fighting it in court.

it took this country five decades for the surviving interned Japanese-Americans who were deprived of absolutely everything and imprisoned for no cause to get $20,000 in reparations per person. we are currently awarding the guys who did the Beer Hall Putsch five years ago orders of magnitude more

The best part: if you don't know who this man is or what is going on, you can still help! Man famous writer Man claimed to be all feminist, patriarchy smashing Man accused of sexual assault by EIGHT women Search man's name, block man's account www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act evil." Oh really? So the stuff you stole because you are a dystopian fucked up company has fucked up your dystopian fucked up company?

You’re trapped in the last TV Show you watched, where are you? I’m trapped with Mike and the Bots on the Satellite of Love. You know what. It could be a lot worse.

They're charging right ahead with making Trump the official head of American Christianity aren't they

Welcome to a new week of the #WeeklyPawmpt! We have some great ones this week. Come see what we have in store! ❤️

If we needed more evidence that the liturgy keeps us doctrinally grounded, here it is

IT’S ASCENSION SUNDAY I have held on to this meme for ages just for today

Don't let fear of cringe stop you from making the thing you want to make. Life is short, make something you love. You'll improve through the process. Someone will probably love and relate to what you made even if what you made isn't as good as you wished it was. Let it exist. <3

*Stares at the paragraph I wrote yesterday* Only a few more decades of this buddy, and we’ll really be getting somewheres #writingcommunity

Black and white TV is dying. Color TV struggles to be born. This is a time of Munsters.

Enjoying the note, actually - the link in particular is chef’s kiss

THEM: the Space Trilogy has old-fashioned traditionalist views of gender roles C.S. LEWIS: so the goddess of Venus is feminine but not female, because obviously gender is distinct from physical sex, also there are canonically seven genders, only five of which I’m going to explain in the narrative

the media's deliberate choice of ignoring murders of trans people also makes it ever easier for liberals, who have often find us inconvenient, dismiss the concerns of trans people, of trans women, by saying we're all moving to safe blue cities in blue states

I like to imagine he’s emphasizing the YOU here. Not giving permission to one particular couple.

The modern Republican Party would happily run Francisco Franco for a senate seat if he took a slightly stronger stance on media censorship

Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Curly Joe, and Just Joe.

This was exactly my reaction to several books in college/graduate school: On Beauty by Zadie Smith immediately stands out from that perspective. It’s always worth it

The big thing I regret about the decline of arts criticism is that everyone still dislikes things, but in boring, unthoughtful ways. We’ve sucked all the fun out of being a hater by pretending it’s not an intellectual exercise!

There's so much weird about this bizarre simulacrum of a human being, but the obsession with windmills as a threat to all mankind has to be in the discussion. Imagine if Dwight Eisenhower denounced trains in every third public appearance, or Jimmy Carter always veered off topic to condemn toasters.

I'm super excited to announce that the LSQ story archive is back! You can access it through Patreon (current issues, exclusive posts, and more) or Payhip (archive-only). All the details: www.patreon.com/post... #SFF #IndiePublishing

I love celebrating families that don’t fit the cookie-cutter idea of what a nuclear family should look like. Your family is what you make it! 🌈 ❤️ This is called 'Family Fun'

David Cronenberg meets Mary Higgins Clark

Know what? I’m coming in hot this morning: - Shemp is the best 3rd Stooge - Rice cakes are delicious and versatile - Graig Nettles should be in the baseball Hall of Fame - The style of Giallo film is great, but does not make up for basic coherence - Jurassic Park III is better than The Lost World

oh to be a creature splish splashing in the mud

For the first time since posting this, I actually sat down and started making it happen, the first time I've sat down with the baby sleeping and grinded out a writing session. Was it only a half hour? Was it only 500 words? But it happened, and somedays that's all you can ask. #writingcommunity 🪐📚

I'm not calling it IBS. I'm gastrodivergent

I very much want to know why that was cut. He has every right to say it and be heard.

I just saw someone compare AI slop images to ... commissioning human-made art. I ... I think I have to sit down.

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: Did you know that Club Med funded a sex-comedy promotional movie starring Jim Carrey, Alan Thicke, and John Fogerty?