"why not both," she says, gesturing at you from her house by the graveyard as she explains the beach boys to you

Editors, rise up.

we are at BROOKLYN BOOK FEST Table # 437!! Come say hi!

Listening to kids on the train eagerly explain their understanding of the MTA to their moms: "as you know, mommy, the 1 train doesn't go THAT fast"

Think instead about the little cat who has to spend so much time with her long white furs

The way it feels right now: the government is background terror and all the immediate things that I can't stop thinking about keep pulling focus from it, and then I remember it and all the paralyzing fear related. It's exactly like having a monstrous debt; you just have to keep not thinking about it

Pop quiz hot shot the biggest dangers according to interpersonal psychotherapy ~ARE~ A. Grief B. Change C. Conflict D. Loneliness E. Combinations

Man I don't even think I have standpoint epistemology for my own perceptions and conclusions

All hail the best patent drawing ever

n1: cults/spiritual bypass n2: fame and money and art integrity n3: if you'd just finish your game n4: what if i became a space therapist n5: what if we danced realizing that the great theme for me is just going to be "how can i be okay," then a big list of things that mostly won't let you be okay

Y'all anecdata.substack.com/p/theory-of-... (by @emializh.bsky.social )

i am not working today and can do anything i want today. i will sell this house today

One of the TOS episodes i'm up for rewatching most is "Bread and Circuses," a megadumb low stakes episode full of Fights but which also has a beautiful sad long scene where McCoy and Spock have it out over Spock's terror of intimacy. the kind of weed that only grows in the cracks of a long sidewalk

This is the first day in so many days that I Haven't Had To Work Tomorrow

Very tired she works the door at the ABSOLUTE PLEASURE event / sometimes I wish I just worked door. I loved being a security guard at the Texas department of transportation in the year 2005 and I love working door. Also this event is very very good!

THROUGH THE DARKNESS OF FUTURE PAST THE MAGICIAN LONGS TO SEE ONE CHANCE OUT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

Cool life hack: write horrible things about yourself but just screen shot them before you post them. Create a little alternate 2D universe of only venom where no one but the 2D counterfactual people goes.

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It's a business. the thing sold is the idea that if you send them $50 or w/e, they can make trans people go away. If they win, you won't send them $50 anymore. So they don't want to win: rather they want to surf your frustrations, pushed along by an endless wave of moving draconian goalposts 🌊🏄‍♂️🤑🩸

Banger alert

You guys whoa: I'm drawing a fun comic book. What if instead of being tired and sad and thinking about how the noose is closing around us all...I worked on it

We watched all the president's men and it was straight up quaint. Wow your chief of staff administered a $25,000 slush fund to damage Democratic political opponents; Mark Felt gurgling FOLLOW THE MONEY! and 50 years on the tr***y-hate factory is pulling like $800 bil in small dollar receivables

Is the reality that so, so many people are glad he's gone that difficult to bear, guys

I regret nothing, I don't apologize, kiss my ass.

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

This was a hell of a way to remember that I have a writing deadline for something really really cool that I care about this weekend!!!

This is the first night since I can remember that I haven't had to do anything, be anywhere, or prepare anything. Other than all the things I have to do, be, prepare

the cool thing to realize and keep coming back to: you do not actually as much as you wish, have the power to feel nothing i am going down the lists of people i know and thinking about how all of them are pretty good so if you are feeling awful about yourself know that you disagree with my LIST

The thrill of seeing former coworkers at your former office which has free pizza sometimes, of remembering you bought a protein bar days ago you never et

I reblogged this yesterday but I was still in kind of a fugue and didn't have a moment to say how much I appreciate it, how thoughtful the edits of my rambling answers, how it surfaces the scrappy, personal things in art I love. The screenshots are all raw teenage madeleines; I love this; thank you

It would help if I could sleep

On the a/s/l book tour I did a mini trans open mic in the small Michigan town where my parents live. and they and my sister came. and we listened to a teenage trans girl tell us about how transition had reconnected her to her faith in Jesus Christ. Because that is how much, to her, it meant.

TONIGHT please come through!!!

New byline! For Stop Caring, I spoke with @jeannethornton.bsky.social about her novel A/S/L and its roots in the ZZT community

It would really suck if one died and felt really hopeful about it, maybe this will be the end of capitalism at last, but then you found out that God was just a corporation. The tetragrammaton is the ticker symbol. Everyone has to climb

If anyone knows a therapist who has capacity for new clients and isn't evil I would really like that about now

200+ pages into a second draft, I'm thinking again about how the world of a novel (and the voice you write about it in) ideally gets stronger and stronger as you write. A problem I'm always thinking about: The day you're truly prepped to start writing a novel is probably the day you finish it.

MONDAY, 7PM: Excited for our @bkbookfest.bsky.social ⭐Bookend Event⭐, cohosted by the Franklin Park Reading Series & World Trans Forum! Readings + panel w/Amie Barrodale, @zefrrr.bsky.social, Chet'la Sebree, and @emializh.bsky.social, 🍻happy hour🍷 until 8pm +📚raffle! tinyurl.com/3cdj3ure #Free #BKBF

EVERYONE STOP cheese wheel of cheeses

Just the fucking word, man

I dunno I just think that if you want to claim a person is trans you should have to come up with at least one person who has ever interacted with them in any way who thinks that's true

Cool working weekend 🕶️

Thank you @poemsbymisha.bsky.social for sending me this beautiful craftQcon T-shirt ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 🕯️ 👕 🕯️

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

Today's drawing / I usually don't post these; they're basically Substitute Therapy at this point while I try to find a new one so I can stop posting at night. But I'm fascinated: I planned a different caption, but realized in lettering that the character would not be able to form these thoughts

Noting that there is a very excellent launch party planned for this book at 3 Dollar Bill next week! I will be working the door for the first part; please come through and say hello 👋 🦇 👄 www.eventim.us/event/ABSOLU...

Just got off the bus. Driver waved wistfully at me. This is my last post everyone; it's been great, have a rad night ❤️

Third person just joined us. Now it's a riot

Pfft okay whatever some newb just got on. Sure, I guess I'll share my municipal yacht; sit yourself down

The psychological intensity of being the Only Passenger on the bus for like 20 stops