The "don't use em dashes in your writing if you don't want to be mistaken for being AI" thing is so funny to me because the way I use em dashes is so unhinged, no robot can every replicate that

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

TikTok has decided that I want the straight white Mormon mommy vloggers, which I do not. Did, however, mean the random '97 Romy edit to Silver Springs with no warning punched me in the damned face. Feel like that should come with a warning...

The full version of this song includes the line "a special kind of horny" and honestly...

And I love every one

There is no greater evidence of this week's Uncanny X-Men being great than the fact the Eldest Teen just quietly went "Oh damn" at the end 🤣 That level of enthusiasm is usually reserved for large fires or the Leafs not choking during playoffs...

Rogue Gambit fans are the most talented bunch of people, fr

Season 3 of #WheelofTime gave us some of the best fantasy TV since the early years of Game of Thrones and then Amazon goes and cancels it, even with a 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating. WTF? comicbook.com/tv-shows/new...

Man, I regularly say fuck Amazon and all, but cancelling #WheelOfTime has me saying it extra loud 😭 😭 😭

Man, the greatest writing high is rereading the fic that's old enough you've forgotten most of the details but not so old that the quality is below your current* skills. It's a little gift targeted at your niche AND weird likes. *After the last 18 months, it is above but that's another story

2025: Keir Starmer suggests that pressure on housing and public services is because of migrants 2020: Keir Starmer, "Poor housing, poor public services are not the fault of the migrants, they're political failure"

And now it's reached the even more fun stage, where I wish I'd made a different decision on every single front. Every single one. I would like to skip this step, just once. Trot right on through to "I wrote this? Damn, I'm good." Alas, this is the only way my brain learns shit.

“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

Very excited for this, and perpetually impressed I titled something in under twenty words. I fear I never fully escaped the 00s pop-punk title mindset... 😂 It's gonna be great though

Some writing projects are just Cursed. No other word for it. I've got one where as soon as I start working on it, something happens. And it's ridiculous stuff; family deaths or mystery illnesses or tech issues that shouldn't be possible, just an endless stream with awful timing. Capital C Cursed.

Really, Spotify? NOW? Not at any point when this would have been helpful? 😒

this is correct and also why I love Vimes. he's a bastard, he knows it, he is going to do his damnedest to point the bastardy in acceptable directions, but he is and knows full well that he is a bastard. all cops are.

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

You have to wonder what Mark Carney's other two wishes were after rubbing that bottle

Ooooo. This kept getting random release dates here (two weeks ago! No, May! No, July! Three weeks ago!) and The Child has been fuming. Might just win Mom of the Year with this news

It does not matter how many times I read my writing through, I will come back a week later and find a disheartening number of errors....

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

And honestly, at this point you probably don't even need the tags because it's one of three things and all of them are big Devil's Sacrament vibes...

I have reached the "Wait, did I say suitcase or duffel bag?" stage of editing and I am very glad someone brought me peanut M&Ms to deal with it.

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"I'm really good at estimating story lengths with enough data," I said. "Even with a 10% margin of error, I'm good." If they ever invent time travel, I've got a dumb bitch to go slap.

Friday nights are wild in our house. I'm hanging out and just hear one of my teens start yelling "NO! NO, YOU CANNOT READ MY MOTHER'S X-MEN SMUT!" repeatedly. "YOU'LL BE IN OUR HOUSE! THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL." Apparently friend is plotting to quote every E-rated Romy fic until one strikes a nerve 😂

What we all wanted with Gambit and Rogue in the X Men 97 series💖💀 #Marvel #Xmen #XMen97 #xmen #rogue #gambit #gambitxmen #gambitandrogue #happynationaldogday #love #gambitxrogueforever #characterdesign #comic #inkart #digitalart

The Giver finally dropped. Apparently all The Youths were stalking Spotify at midnight 😂 Soon as it showed up, middle kid came running to tell me. Still won't accept my list of lesbian country songs though...

@roguegambit97.bsky.social MUAHAHHAAAAAAAA #xmen

Been too unwell to write, so I started the new season of Wheel of Time. s2 was an upgrade from s1 and I knew it was setting up some of my fave plotlines, but I did not expect to get sideswiped by how damned *interesting* the writing choices are proving to be, and the casting continues to be fabulous

one of my favorite things about Farscape is how trying to describe the plot of any episode of Farscape makes it sound like you have fully detached from reality. not in a "I'm describing a work of science fiction" way, but in a "I mixed pot gummies and Robitussen" way.

Inspired by the current Uncanny Xmen run by @gailsimone.bsky.social !!! #xmen #marvel #rogue #dannisart

Most of the time, I am a competent writer. I may wail and gnash my teeth, but I know what I'm doing and how to fix what's gone wrong. Not as good as I want to be, but operating at competent. Other times, I conclude I had one good story in me and spent it on porn. 😭 A noble pursuit, but damn. FML

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

We are continuing our XTAS watch, and every time The Kid sees Apocalypse they cheer. "It's the Ultimate Weirdo, and he's gonna bring Gambit back." No amount of pointing out *Gambit isn't even dead yet* will dissuade them 😂

I've always felt that X-Men is best when the stories are human and the central theme is when a community meets and supports your needs, you become your best self and make the world better. #uncannyxmen continues to scratch that itch. Not really #xspoilers but tagging just in case

An astoundingly misleading column by Colville. Firstly, ignores that there is already a 10 year route to ILR, shown to be massively damaging all round. Ignores many dependents also earn, and can't claim support from the state, and the grooming gangs line is frankly just a dog whistle. 1/

Rogue. Copic on bristol. Winner of the latest “Hey, Who Should I Draw?” poll over on my Instagram. Thanks for taking a look! #rogue #xmen #marvel #comics #art #mutant #illustration

👀😍🔥 I refuse to implicate myself further.

Rogueby.. Rogby??? Yes. #xmen

I did not always love X-MEN (vol 2) in this period, but it did not lack for strong character moments. This was *the* X-Men moment of the early/mid 90s.

Kid is feeling vindicated one of the fixation questions they've had about The Outliers came up today. Maybe they'll stop suggesting I tag @gailsimone.bsky.social every issue to ask now... 😂 UXM#9 was great for pulling at threads already laid & characters to create my fave kind of story. On to 10!

That's not a Roman Beaker. THIS is a Roman Beaker...

Walk a mile in these Louboutinsssss ✨ (I’m sorry)

Oh ho ho, I spy some familiar names 👀

I would like to go an issue of #AbsoluteWonderWoman without tearing up at this point, actually.

some buds act like it is so hard to love but it is so easy. you just do nothing. in the absence of all things, we just love. it is what we are built to do. just strip off everything else, all the baggage, and love is underneath