Going to be in DC for work in July — a whole week 🤪 a) would looooove to see some writer peeps 💚 and b) food recs. especially bagel places, bonus points if actually Good and/or Jewish deli and c) more food recs. shops! cozy places. please and thank!

received a poem from a girl for the literary arts magazine I started for my day job and man, feels good that kids are making art despite, despite, despite

received a poem from a girl for the literary arts magazine I started for my day job and man, feels good that kids are making art despite, despite, despite

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me.

🎶 wake me up before you go-go 🎶

🎶 wake me up before you go-go 🎶

It's just trauma all the way down! Then you make it into art!

The series finale of Dinosaurs was an emotionally brutal reflection on corporate greed and climate change, the entire family accepting the grim inevitability of death due to a handful of rich assholes making life for everyone else literally impossible. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changin...

Movie: Project Hail Mary (2026)

Movie: Project Hail Mary (2026)

from the makers of Depression, Bed Tortilla a plain flour tortilla that you eat, in bed

listening to the Project Hail Mary audiobook for my long work drives and man, this is definitely a case of “I’d hate this if I were reading it as an actual book” because some of the ‘Erm Actually 🤓☝️’ and ‘Er He’s Right Behind Me Isn’t He’ dialogue is taking me outtt

can i leave heaven once in there? If not, is it just a fancy prison?

Sometimes your breakfast is a hot dog at a minor league ballpark, and that's okay.

James out here doin big Online numbers, old Twitter could never 🌭

finally getting around to junk journaling / here’s my AWP “scrap” “book”

Happy Earth Day.

finally getting around to junk journaling / here’s my AWP “scrap” “book”

Voted YES today in Virginia 🗳️✅

Voted YES today in Virginia 🗳️✅

free will is great. I ordered a 10” round buttercream Stitch cake for work and nobody can stop me

me: (casually) what is it with the influx of evil lately

More like William Butler BASED am I right fellas

dyed my hair a deep brownish black :) (: just girly things at the end of an empire

I was crowded for space, and wished the other parts of my body to remain a blank page for a poem I was then composing

"In the future, there is such a thing as money. But there’s no such thing as your money. All the money is our money."

the only thing pushing me through this Silent Hill 2 Remake is going “Ermmmm, it’s right behind me isn’t it?” ☝️🤓 every time I hear that fuckin metal grate echo screech sound

in some deep work/life burnout pit right now, I sure hope a big New York style pizza can fix me

why the New Yorker publishes the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and then does not put his name in the social media post about his essay is absolutely beyond me, but anyway, the important thing here is that you should always read Hanif

We should have never doubted this man

The collection I'm querying is dark speculative stuff (more horror-leaning than my previous collections). (I am jobless and helping my family recover from a housefire so avoiding presses with fees) I do not have an agent 😔

I need to start submitting my work again, but everything is new and bad and scary and I can’t believe I used to send to 50 magazines a year

definitely a millennial experience to be introduced to the Mountain Goats via Adult Swim by way of “No Children” from Moral Orel

definitely a millennial experience to be introduced to the Mountain Goats via Adult Swim by way of “No Children” from Moral Orel

The Moby Dick Bluesky account reading the room rn

just finished the Phantom Liberty DLC of Cyberpunk 2077 and well

Was working event at my day job & was talking to who I thought was a cool goth mom only to find out she’s a MAHA nutjob. Full on telling me she doesn’t use any soy in cooking because it “messed with her sons’ hormones” like….how do you wear a black lace corset in public and sound like RFK Jr ☠️

Turn it on - Passions starts in 5 minutes. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

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People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

Finished The Chair Company the other night and it may be the closest thing we have to a true Lynchian experience in this current era of television

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Until we start charging $7.99 a month to look at it, we will never unlock the full potential of The Moon

the older I get the more I realize the ‘Obama chuckled. “You mean the Chaos Emeralds?” ’ fanfic quote meme is the most accurate depiction of 2008-2015 neoliberalism