Back in the office today but some of @wendles1967.bsky.social pumpkins came with me to cheer up my desk

Average experience of watching terror fans talk about the book

Had an 18 hour travel day on Wednesday, going from door-to-door from @shinyopals.bsky.social flat to my apartment, but have now slept lots and updated my budget and am about to do every single laundry. Really good to be home where my cats are

Being sick on holiday is one of the stupider experiences you can have, because you're fortunate enough to be on holiday and unlucky enough to be sick. Sulking to the opening notes of "Celebration" type of experience

During tonight’s Trick-or-Treating, our 3-year-old got more and more excited. “More houses! More candy!” Until he suddenly looked to the sky and shouted (verbatim): “Can I eat the moon!?” Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t, little one. Be the cosmic horror you want to see in the world.

One does enjoy being in a theatre crammed with three tiers of queer nerds

A joy of sharing space with friends on vacation is watching the variety and volume of snacks on the snack table inevitably multiply (I just like it when people I like are together in a space)

hi! maybe you remember me from the menu i made for my cat, which hit surprisingly big a little while ago. i made some menus for other people's pets in exchange for donations to pro-trans organisations. now i'm doing it again, but for food banks. please share! more info downthread!

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

have you heard of this new thing where you are allowed to be angry and to express it? and that it's not an inherently violent or dangerous thing, to be angry? Yeah turns out they actually launched this at least three or four decades ago I just never got the memo. Self-respect DLC is out too

I genuinely think it's important, politically, to read good news items. Believing that the better world is possible, and seeing evidence to shore up that belief, can be important for resisting despair. Medical breakthroughs and stories of liberation and justice are both a part of that, for me

On the other hand, I had a couple pounds of the last of the blue (Jupiter) grapes of the season in the fridge, and last night I made grape juice for the first time*. There's a pint jar of deep purple nectar in my fridge now *childhood experiments with wild grapes and just soooo much sugar aside

I've spent the last several months filling up my spare time with Activities and Plans and Friends. (Inherently valuable and it forces me to stop working at my ostensible day job.) But my apartment is a disaster and I'm away from home for most of Oct 20-Nov 5 for work followed by fun & I'm STRESSED

Don’t tell anybody but this is @pinehutch.bsky.social’s real name 🤭

who would win: loop earplugs or the indefatigable screaming and thudding of living downtown during the university's iconic party weekend (the loops might actually be winning. as for me and my misophonia, we shall remain in the ancient stalemate)

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Stimulants making you feel relaxed and ready for a nap has to be the funniest thing about ADHD.

I'm genuinely not too fussed about writing rejections; having submissions rejected is just part of the process. I do get a little put out by the frequency with which 'we promise to tell you either way' publications and contests just don't actually do that

All-day headache and tummy hurting syndrome and a quite pushy colleague/client who is clearly trying to pin something on me and an inbox full of requests like 'can I do this thing that doesn't exist and isn't possible' so naturally I have retired to my chambers to look at The Horrible Screen

"old man yaoi" is a meme at this point but i do think it's sweet and important to write indulgent fantasy about queer people in their middle and late life finding or keeping love 💚 and older people are hotter, sue me

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

Maybe a new tattoo will fix me

when i say “use me” i mean “to my fullest potential, the way sam raimi uses bruce campbell”

Feel free to crib whatever you like from my email

the cadence of this one always gets me

I've been using an eReader for well over a decade - 2012, at least. I'm currently on my third one, which I've had for several years, and which just demonstrated the truth of its IPX8 rating by going through an entire bedding cycle in the washing machine and coming out seemingly unharmed

ok i absolutely hate to do this but i'm only going to get paid once this month and i'm starting to freak out a little about october rent ;; i will HAPPILY send free copies of my ebooks to anyone who can toss a few dollars my way. no pressure at all though i know times are fucking rough.

Feathercloaks. #fae #darkart #fantasyart #artistsonbsky

anyway today I saw a picture of the library on the Queen Mary 2 ship and whimpered with longing

leisure travel booking is soooo immovable object (my giant hips and chronic pain and height) vs unstoppable force (economic reality)

delighted with these two stickers from @lydiajoypalmer.bsky.social 's Patreon that I found in my mailbox this evening. thanks friend!

a good fit is so important

Catching up on Maintenance Phase and so pleased that we get a seed oila episode but listen. Listen. If I — as a Canadian — wanted to convince you all to eat engine lubricant I would simply look at you with my big eyes and sweet face and say 'plllleeeeease 🥺🚗🛢️🛢️'

I have just bought a truly ugly pair of running shoes and I'm not even a little mad about it. The gifts of middle age

I’m grateful, humbled and overwhelmed that I met my goal and will be signing up for classes next week. If you would still like to contribute funds which will go 100% to paying for my ballet shoes, leotard, and covering the GFM transaction fees, DM me for my PayPal deets. Receipts will be posted. 😘

A reminder that the Notes from a Regicide ebook is still on sale for three bucks from Bookshop. Kindle edition is the same (and it seems Amazon has named it one of their Best Books of the Year So Far). They don't sell hardbacks at "fuck around and find out" prices, but! bookshop.org/p/books/note...

Was possessed of a need to sing along to all of Metric's Old World Underground, Where Are You Know? tonight and couldn't figure out why until I realized that it's move-in weekend and my university town is crawling with collegiate twenty-year-olds (so, naturally, music from when I was, too)

Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to go to Hanging Rock. "Fuck it," said Mrs. Appleyard, "Picnic at Hanging Rock."

Ad for cassette of music for your "walk-woman," from a 1996 Imperial Queens & Kings of NY, LI, & NJ newsletter. Working on this for an upcoming online collection from the Center, New York's LGBTQ archives. Full name and address redacted for the creator's privacy; hope she's still singing out there.

ME: I wish I had a way to separate terms in a written series or otherwise distinguish grammatical clauses THE EVER DILIGENT COMMA:

Notifications that would have blown me away, age 6 (it's an unofficial account and I have never posted anything about l'hockey so this is very funny)

I've been a severe nail-biter most of my life who stopped around a year ago. In that time I've learned that fingernails are mostly good for scratching itches and causing unbelievable amounts of pain when they get jammed or caught on something (yes, I keep them short!)

The Dreamer — 🖼️ Prints www.inprnt.com/gallery/helv... 🃏 The Wormsong Oracle Deck helveticablanc.bigcartel.com

Also had a work dream where I was being vaguely threatened, professionally, because of the thing that went wrong before my vacation. I responded by yelling back with a Galadriel The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings (2001) voice and waking up. Growth

A week of chill times with wonderful people in beautiful locations has fixed me (woke up from my post-travel-day nap and made dinner instead of ordering in)

I've always wanted a tattoo of some Bilibin waves. Tonight I got to stand on the beach and look at the North Atlantic with people I love and admire, in the very last light of the day, and watch these beasts roll in

Thank you Florence and the Machine and David Byrne for giving us Everybody Scream and Everybody Laughs in such short order