My boyfriend didn’t appreciate my shower loofah pun, guess he needs more conditioning

I haven’t read House of Leaves but I imagine it’s like reading the label of a Dr Bronner’s soap container (unnerving, weird, unhinged layout)

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Werner Herzog:

achieving a hot bog body summer by getting a tan via the anaerobic processes of being buried in the peaty wetlands

I haven’t read House of Leaves but I imagine it’s like reading the label of a Dr Bronner’s soap container (unnerving, weird, unhinged layout)

One nice thing about living alone is that storing plums in the icebox is a pretty low-risk activity

AAAAAAAHHHHH

achieving a hot bog body summer by getting a tan via the anaerobic processes of being buried in the peaty wetlands

🎵 “I send a pestilence and plague Into your house, into your bed Into your streams, into your streets” 🎵 youtu.be/GJleW4TCQM0?...

Fairy puff! Postcard from my collection, mailed 1912.

I guess I should get back into writing again, all my post AWP mojo dried up in this hot & muggy DMV weather

Once again, any donations or shares of this post are deeply deeply appreciated!

Given all of the recent genAI discussion, I wish to repost this.

sleeper cell agent just activated in me with that “ooieep ooieep”

literally wrote & had a whole essay published about King’s weirdness abt Jewish characters. justice for Stanley Uris 🫡 it’s not scholarly enough but one can dream

The best superhero is Swamp Thing because sometimes Swamp Thing wanders around a planet a galaxy away as he has an existential debate with a copy of himself he made out of azure soil and sometimes Swamp Thing fights dracula at a gas station

If you're not writing a book, you could just start one

THE OCARINA OF TIME REMAKE IS REAL 2026

2026: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 2003: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1991: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1982: I am struggling in a

You used to go to websites and they would have guestbooks that people would sign like it was a bed and breakfast

In April 2021, I tweeted something along the lines of being hot, single, and eating cream cheese. Moments later, James slid into my Twitter DMs with a pic of his cat and hummus. He booked a flight to visit me that June. Happy 5 year anniversary (and also birthday!), @jamesyates.bsky.social ❤️

Dinner tonight with @hcohen.bsky.social celebrating 5 years together. The world is terrible, but we keep each other afloat. When we're laughing at a stupid meme so hard that we can't breathe or aggressively elbowing each other to point out one of the cats being cute? That's what it's all about.

In April 2021, I tweeted something along the lines of being hot, single, and eating cream cheese. Moments later, James slid into my Twitter DMs with a pic of his cat and hummus. He booked a flight to visit me that June. Happy 5 year anniversary (and also birthday!), @jamesyates.bsky.social ❤️

Gonna miss her so bad 😭

Got interviewed by one of my favorite writers @anniejowrites.bsky.social for one of my fave places Short Story Long @aaronburch.bsky.social

nothing hits like a soft pretzel with cheese at a weekday minor league baseball game

nothing hits like a soft pretzel with cheese at a weekday minor league baseball game

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

Compared with me, a tree is immortal

I’m gonna dune it

Finally got around to reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and dude it is a Work

Finally got around to reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and dude it is a Work

new meme template just dropped: baby float

Happy Pride Month to my magnificent LGBTQ friends and my magnificent LGBTQ enemies 💜

playing stardew valley in 2020: hehe this is so cozy and fun! I’m living my farm dreams 🥰 playing stardew valley in 2026: even in a virtual world, humans cannot escape corporate fascism. I am severely limited in redistributing community resources and toppling a decades long gerontocracy

playing stardew valley in 2020: hehe this is so cozy and fun! I’m living my farm dreams 🥰 playing stardew valley in 2026: even in a virtual world, humans cannot escape corporate fascism. I am severely limited in redistributing community resources and toppling a decades long gerontocracy

if you are "using AI for writing," you are not writing. i do not know how to make this any simpler

The Superman Sunday newspaper strip from May 31, 1942. Featuring the origin of #Superman.

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

When was I radicalized? The moment the cops told Pee-Wee that they would not help him find his bike.

AAAAAHHHHH

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

got another submission for the literary arts magazine I’m running for the day job. In a world where ai tech bros spew melty brain word vomit, it feels good to read a short story by a girl excitedly using onomatopoeia as a paragraph opener

me:

sorry I didn’t acknowledge receipt of your email, I was laying down in the mossy bog and letting the earth-rich peat reclaim my bones

sorry I didn’t acknowledge receipt of your email, I was laying down in the mossy bog and letting the earth-rich peat reclaim my bones

It’s really frightening.