He looks like an old school Mancunian who never got over the Hacienda closing.

Today I did laundry, wrapped presents, and ate different food resources, removing them from circulation for others

<333 honored

I loved this interview <333

Today is it 🖥️ THE MOST STOMACH-CHURNING, UPSETTING, THOROUGHLY CURSED BOOK OF THE YEAR 🖥️ 🕳️ It's the end 🖥️ THE YEAR'S GREAT WORK OF LITERARY HORROR 🖥️ 🕳️ That's it. No more 🖥️ THIS BOOK IS ABOUT YOU WE ARE ALL DOOMED 🖥️ No more. Last day to pre-order deluxe pack of PERSONA @ravineangel.bsky.social!

Keep it light! Idiot!

I downloaded a small talk app to try not to be a weird freak alla time. You are supposed to notice things you and another person have in common and also to "keep it light," like don't talk about scary memory. How are we?? Lotta UX in this place. But I guess really there is lots of UX everywhere!

Dear sincerity website: how scarily not functional my memory is getting is something I need to somehow be functional enough to do something about in 2026; thanks in advance. Also resolved: two ponies

Short story about a libertarian jerk trans woman in tech who backed the wrong basilisk and is living in the long shadow of consequences but still unable to admit it. Strong Pat Hobby vibes? We'll see

Imagining what it would take to get them all to sign their names in the basilisk's book. Would you have to impersonate a herald of the basilisk, sent ahead to cull the wheat from the chaff? Do they have intuitions about false prophets/antichrists in this regard--like can u back the wrong basilisk?

Real Question: what is the active ingredient in a book? Forget the chewable fruit flavor of prose rhythms and like that; what is the constituent element of a book that will fuck you up and maybe shatter your life?

If you feel like you can really do nothing but surrender to the void sometimes that is what you must do. Lie on the floor defeated until the floor tells you it is time to get back back. That's it girls / Feel the four of swords burn, girls

fav thing about camping is how it teaches you to value drinkable water again. then you get to a house and all this clean water comes out of a tap and you’re like holy shit

The lesson of 2025 is that it doesn't matter how tired I am or how late I am or how angry people are or how bad I am at getting back to everyone I know: if I do not make time to meditate, do body things, and write, all those problems get worse. You do not escape the finger trap by pulling harder

Reading through some old journals

Sometimes it's hard to react to the news bc being a kid led you to expect nothing better, hope for nothing. Then you learn to hope that the next generation of kids won't have to go through what you did. And then you find it hard to react to the news. I'm so sorry / so angry out here in the wasteland

It really is stunning that no one's written a better Christmas song since 1987.

I LOVE EVERY PART OF THIS

My parents fucking hated the computer. They thought the future of pornography was the ansible

The number of hours of life I have spent paralyzedly worrying about whether it is allowed to ask people how they are doing or whether the exact right time has passed to allow responding to a message--that is how we measure a _kalpa_, o child 🌌

D-moralized

In d minor, the saddest of all keys

:( we just watched the new spinal tap. It was better than it needed to be; he cared; he always did. Worst news; RIP :(

On the bus passing the Subway that became a GameStop and then became a Subway again / by turning, turning, we come round right

www.rockpapershotgun.com/whats-on-you... A/S/L is now RPS official! Thank you for telling me @zbill.itch.io and for writing this @nadyalev.bsky.social <3 (also for my favorite explanation yet of why THE FOLD is so good!!!)

Honestly?? Advice from Space (novel 4) is NOT this (I tried! It needed more trauma.) but it is my evolutionary step toward this. Novel 5 = Jeanne's Apollonian era, plus monsters

Columbia and Benoit Blanc are the twin angels pointing the way forward from the trouble-carvéd plains of the trauma plot

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i started keeping a "why am i so deep-in-my-body scared to ink comics" journal a few months ago and it has inspired me to go put on a rotten movie and try to add a bunch of stupid boxes and jars to these clean and noble counters. to make a messy and gross little spaceworld

The trouble with straight people is they do not have to question their desires. The trouble with classicists is they just paint a tree

When I am sad I will watch Duck Soup and that is how it goes for me

dear @sohopress.bsky.social is there still time to get the quote "A proper novel, like the Victorians used to make" added to the paperback?? thanks in advance (also aaa cat <3)

q: conan what song about the weekend is best in life a: www.youtube.com/watch?v=08yx...

Starts today, NYC, don't miss it!

Lydia Millet once told me "when in doubt, tinker"—don't try to plow ahead when things aren't flowing, go back and refresh your relationship to the material. For me, this often looks like typing instead of handwriting. Today, I move from notebook to typing for the first time on this new project.

<333 thank you @cara.city for being here for old technology imbued with occult spirits (and this book!)

Seeing Mortal Kombat (2022??) in a theater for the first time after the vax, and it being just awful, but everyone so grateful to be together watching garbage (also having forgotten movie etiquette and shouting at everything)

I keep wanting to have a take on today's socialization discourse, but I'm worried I'll make a nuisance of myself and do harm. So I keep deleting it. O_O

Realizing this song has the same plotline as all three characters in A/S/L (one of NPR's Year's Best btw gee wow you should check it out!!), and maybe also all my books. Maybe actually just all books

I'm excited to announce that I've accepted a comics co-editor position at @therumpus.net We're looking for original literary fiction and non-fiction comics that feel personal. Bonus if it's hand-lettered (the path to my heart) 😘 No AI Pays $100 therumpus.submittable.com/submit Pass it on!

The term “unskilled worker” was invented to make it seem normal that people working 40+ hours a week are still living paycheck to paycheck. It’s not normal AND it’s not acceptable.

In my twenties my first Writing Job was as a copywriter for an SEO broker; writing bulk page view bait about dog breed, technical analysis, and HVAC repair paid my rent/food for years. So I feel a queasy urge to tip my tradesman cap to this next level slop! www.royalblueheating.co.uk/09-165240-le...

dear Morning Crowd!!!

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One of the grimmest longcovid stories I have is how I spent weeks putting together an elaborate Creative Capital Grant application last year for Advice from Space and then had a flare-up and completely forgot to file it (she said, finishing another app; let this be the string about my finger :///)

hey goodfolks i am teaching my DISCOVERING CHARACTERS intensive again with @tinhouse.bsky.social ! Come through please on January 17; learn with me from my strange and wonderful power-points <3 tinhouse.com/product/wint...

jeanne is born free, but everywhere answering emails

Well if it's Joey you're lookin' for Then I can give a little more