A vital piece of trans allyship is actually in supporting children's rights to bodily autonomy from the out. Someone is complaining their child wants to cut their hair short or grow it long? Point out that it's the child's hair. Why shouldn't they have it how they want it? Why is that parent upset?

Just today I saw a romance writer post an AI generated promo pic featuring a jacked up hand. Like it’s bad enough to be using it in the first place but you can’t even be bothered to upgrade to the kind that can do hands?? Like not to give it credit, but it can actually do hands now.

If you were born in the US, and your parents were citizens too, you've likely never even thought about not being a citizen. Your citizenship just ~is~. Now take that away. Would your citizenship be contingent on your race? Religion? Gender identity? "Good behavior?" Education? Income? Politics?

The people who want to end birthright citizenship also want to repeal the 19th amendment. They want to prevent Black people from voting. They want to criminalize queerness and they don't think trans people are human. They despise non-Christians. They've got ideas about citizenship, none of them good

Listening to The Ancients (this pretty neat British history podcast) and as it turns out the popular idea of “the burning of the library of Alexandria” is grossly exaggerated, so I’m feeling a lot better about that specifically.

Just three sales needed to hit my Pride month goal 1.5 hours to go CAN WE DO IT???

I’m going to be an ornery insane bisexual and point out that when queer people denigrate m/f romance by straight women, they’re erasing all the marginalized voices who write m/f and probably ignoring that queer romance can be racist and misogynistic. As if the Gender of it all is the only issue.

My husband is on 2 different hockey teams. Both teams are playing each other in the championship tonight. So him and the other players who are also on both are going to switch to the other team halfway thru. And more than half the ppl playing win no matter what. This has happened before lol

I'm far from the first person to point this out, but declaring birthright citizenship void means that the vast majority of Americans have no provable citizenship at all. Which I imagine is a feature for the fascist Republicans since it puts everyone at the government's mercy.

I’ve just never seen anything like this before. You’re telling me these people’s families didn’t even come? You’re telling me Turning Point didn’t load some rubes into coach buses for this? Were they supposed to? Did they forget?!

The 4th book in my post-apocalyptic romance series, Traveler, is available now on KU. ❤️ #romancebooks #romancelandia #writingcommunity #booksky

Didn‘t do a Father’s Day-themed post bc I’ve been away, but I’ve been thinking of my characters who could be described as fathers. Possibly my favorite is Sebastian from Wanderer, who begins his fatherly duties of eating all of River’s gross leftovers on the 1st day. #writingcommunity 🌶️📚 💙📚

MUST BE NICE

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?

He grinned. “Now that you mention it, there is something I need from you, doctor.” She narrowed her eyes. “Not a doctor.” “Close enough.” “I’ll get you a glass of water.” Before she could turn to walk away, he hooked his finger in the gusset of her underwear. #WIPSnips #romancebooks #booksky

He grinned. “Now that you mention it, there is something I need from you, doctor.” She narrowed her eyes. “Not a doctor.” “Close enough.” “I’ll get you a glass of water.” Before she could turn to walk away, he hooked his finger in the gusset of her underwear. #WIPSnips #romancebooks #booksky

If you want to know why both corporate Democrats and Republicans are freaking out about DSA on the TV, this is why. We’ve been living under a 50 year lie that good things are not possible in our politics and it only took six months in a major American city to show that it was a bipartisan scam.

People can say what they want about 2000s “dad rock” but I just happened to hear a random dad cover band playing “Here Without You” by 3 Doors Down, and it went so incredibly hard. A banger and a half

GUIDE: Welcome to the Great American State Fair! TOURIST: Incredible! And which state are we in right now? GUIDE: (violently shaking their head) Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

This is a new favorite book of mine- so beautiful, so tragic, so heart breaking, so hopeful, so bisexual. What more can you ask for. #booksky #writingcommunity

Meta always gives me ads for cat toys and they‘re always like, “look at your cat. Destructive. Depressed. COMPLETELY checked out.” And it’s supposed to guilt me into buying the toy but it’s just way too funny, like sorry but I can’t take linkedin style messaging for cats seriously.

Didn‘t do a Father’s Day-themed post bc I’ve been away, but I’ve been thinking of my characters who could be described as fathers. Possibly my favorite is Sebastian from Wanderer, who begins his fatherly duties of eating all of River’s gross leftovers on the 1st day. #writingcommunity 🌶️📚 💙📚

Low-budget, under-researched colonization of foreign planet goes seriously sideways who saw that coming? OK, maybe you think you've read this one - but not like this!  -Marjorie on Amazon https://f.mtr.cool/tmgwrbqxsv  🌶️📚 #alienromance #booksky

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“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.” - OCTAVIA BUTLER, born on this day in 1947 in Pasadena, California

I think it's okay to cry when setting up things like newsletters.

ARC reviews coming in for this are extremely kind. I am extremely grateful. Please check it out if you haven't already! ❤️ #writingcommunity #romancelandia #romancebooks #booksky

...when I met you, I trusted you. I can’t explain it. I never trusted people for no reason, even before, and especially not men. But I guess I could just…I could tell how much you cared about these people. And you were all a real ragtag group back then, you know. #romancebooks #writingcommunity

ARC reviews coming in for this are extremely kind. I am extremely grateful. Please check it out if you haven't already! ❤️ #writingcommunity #romancelandia #romancebooks #booksky

western history:

Weird between-the-lines admission in this that she doesn‘t like swimming and possibly never did?

After charging 15 people with "Antifa" crimes for participating in rapid response networks, federal agents are pepper-spraying people outside the Federal Courthouse in the Twin Cities right now. They want to establish an autocracy. Everyone's freedom is at stake.

The current vice president shouldn't have "a new book out." That's not a thing that a guy with that job should also have.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

I’m not even remotely looking forward to Platner as a senator but i am looking forward to seeing this stone cold monster who has the blood of countless women on her hands losing, ending her career in humiliation and disgrace.

Ok so I actually think it’s probably not poison ivy but you should still read Teaching the Witch

In honor of me having what I think is poison ivy, allow me to present my witch romance novella in which the MMC gets poison ivy doing a witch’s yard work for her- she insults him while she heals him but then they make out later so it’s fine. 🌶️📚💙 #romancelandia www.amazon.com/Teaching-Wit...

joe rogan won’t see your mean comments about his steroid induced head shape problems but i will and i think they’re all very funny, keep posting them

Is he crying? What's happening here?

all those guys on the front lawn of the white house tonight are there because it's not their weekend with their kids and i think it is beautiful when men sync up their custody cycles

We’ve got the Onion Newsvan circling the cursed UFC fight outside the White House.

"I was six years old the first time Mom threatened to sew my mouth shut." -Royal quadruplets fighting for a throne -Swords w thyroid batteries -Cyborg horses -Muscle Memory Injections -Contagious ghosts -Kaiju skeleton castles ebook - geni.us/tfiati audio - geni.us/tfiatiaudio

Was reading some fan criticisms of the new Evanescence album, and the top complaint can be summed up as “she ran out of words.” Easily the funniest and most scathing writer criticism I’ve ever heard. if I’m ever giving ”she ran out of words” vibes someone please tell me. #writingcommunity

Honestly I am always so busy thinking about all the downsides of American infrastructure and car culture I forgot there are at least a few upsides.

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After the tarp went up to try and stop the “Berlin Wall” moment, Cliff Owen of the AP got the iconic 📸 shot. 🇺🇸

New Evanescence album is just banger after banger after banger. No skips

however much you hate billionaires is not enough