“Why aren’t people more alarmed about this” We are. The vast majority of us are as alarmed as we can possibly be about this. Please assume that most people are doing the best they can to fight fascism offline too, and not everyone is able to openly post about it.

torn between wanting to write up a million words about the convention, start a new novella, start a cover illustration, or lay flat on my back and stare blankly at the ceiling as I pray for my energy to make itself known

THEY TRAINED THE AI ON ACTUAL WRITERS. YOU CANNOT TELL IF SOMETHING IS AI SIMPLY BASED ON IT USING PROPER GRAMMAR. IT STOLE FROM US!!! IT STOLE!!! IT IS A THIEF AND I WILL NOT EVER BE QUIET ABOUT IT!!!!

the kids were playing 'easter' at the park today and pretending to hide eggs filled with 'silver traffic cones' and it took me so long to figure out that silver traffic cones are hershey kisses 😆

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

Every time bluesky isn’t working I think about how the devs and ceo boasted about using AI to code lmao.

Happy International Asexuality Day! Have 15% off my itch.io store for 24 hours! You can buy my AroAce Adventures for just £1.70! 10 comics from the AroAce lens. I don’t want sex, I want to make epic comics for you guys to enjoy. Enable me! fionacreates.itch.io/the-aroace-a... #Ace #Asexual #IAD

I heard Brigitte read at Broad Universe at #norwescon and now I am so excited for this novel <3

1. If a kid is uncomfortable reading something they'll stop. 2. Gran read the back of the book and said no. All that's needed. 3. There are so many worse things kids could do than ready a raunchy book. 4. Those adults are the uncomfortable ones. They're protecting their own comfort, not the kids

I just really love writing stories and talking about writing stories and hanging around with people that write stories. It’s the best.

#norwescon was lovely. I had an incredible time with everyone, i felt like i did all the things and simultaneously missed 80%. @tkingfisher.com was a wonderful guest of honor and I am so glad I caught her reading because the upcoming mystery novel is hilarious.

One day I’ll finally get over my fear of being perceived and write the essay that lives in my soul about why the concept of “content” is the heart of the AI problem AI doesn’t make art but it fills space at a rate humans can only dream of

My book has sold out of the shop at #Norwescon!! It's not even halfway through Saturday yet!! I'm gonna cry!

It's convention day! My first Norwescon as a panelist. On quastiom: who replaced all my blood with anxiety juice

My book is out today! #booksky #books #horror #spiders #oneHundredThousandLivesAfterDeath

I did congratulate him for making it through three pages. Mommy writes stories that scare adults, he was being very brave

Son asked to listen to the story i was working on, insisted when i said it was scary, so i got about three pages in before it got to be too much. We switched to a kinder story that i wrote a long time ago. The witch was scary, but he got to the end of that one

Oh this is why it doesn't scroll 80% of the time I try to view someone's page. It's made by the sycophant engine.

okay so. coming soon 👀 (no, idk *exactly* when but like... all the stories are written! and I have one cover!) #WhyMonsterGirlsDontCry 📚🏳️‍⚧️ it's got trans & nonbinary characters! it's super queer! 🌈📚🪐 💜🖤💚 also very aspec! there will be 3 new stories! 🐺🎥🧸 www.kickstarter.com/projects/mer...

Speaking as someone who’s recently been given a writing grant for the first time ever, I can say that the amount of breathing room it’s already given me to focus on my work has been incredible.

Man, why is bluesky not letting me scroll when i go on somebody's page? I wanna see this person's stuff lemme scroll

I wrote some thoughts about B&N and Indie bookstores sadiehartmann.substack.com/p/the-enemy-...

so I'm stringing along this book deal scammer, trying to figure out the crux of what they're doing because it's a newer grift and I got time to play along, and clearly they're writing all their emails with chat gpt because dear god the level of sycophancy this thing uses with me is sickening.

Signed copies come with extra spiders. If that's something that interests you. #booksky #books #spiders #horror ko-fi.com/U7U0FCPVW/shop

go watch this thing my incredibly talented friend made it is so good

Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg! Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Here's my breaking up with Harry Potter essay comic- if you need some fuel to convince relatives or friends not to watch the new show, maybe this will help: redgoldsparkspress.com/projects/718...

I have a book out next week. It's about coming back wrong and continuing anyway. It's a love story. And the main character is made of spiders. #booksky #writer #books

A detail of my recent acryla gouache work, "Little Daisy" that will drop on #EveryDayOriginal this Sunday, while I am out of the studio at LDXP Tacoma 2026. (Hope I set the page up right this time...) #fantasycreature #artshop #originalart

I had another book offer #scam. This one pretending to be an editor with Hatchette book group who was giving the typical "glowing review" words without ever saying anything real. Asked if they were a bot and they stopped responding #author #booksky

Ideas seem infinitely precious if you've only ever had one.

I'm not mentally ill anymore today now thank u

You'd think with the advent of the internet, connecting people all over the world in a way that was near impossible before, people would have stopped believing that they alone have ever thought of a thing. We're all thinking stuff. Very similar stuff even. All the time!

okayiamokay. graphite on paper, 2020

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this is what happens when you let this much wealth and power concentrate in the hands of so few people nobody wants any of this but them and they’re the only ones who get a vote

Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “You can’t talent your way to writing. It’s built. It’s a built thing. It’s a made thing. So the real thing you got to do is you got to come back to that bad writing and you’ve got to revise.” Like James Baldwin said, “I’m not a writer. I’m a re-writer.”

My sweet boy (cat) has been eating again, and growling at his meds but not fighting them as hard, and today he stretched out belly up and slept in the middle of the family, and i am so so happy we have more time with this guy. He's not a good boy, but I love him.

right this way buckaroo

Last one, I promise

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

centipede bride

From paper cut outs to cover! My first copies have arrived and they look so nice! Come find me at #norwescon and get a copy of One Hundred Thousand Lives After Death. Available April 1st! #horror #writer #illustration

I love when writers take a personal experience like this and turn it into service journalism to help others. We published this a few minutes ago and already folks are letting us know that it's helping them. Big kudos to you, @nicoleclark.bsky.social !

Wow. Good to know. I usually use capitals in hashtags to make the easier to read

I signed a bunch of books for the #NorWesCon book shop today! Lost count of the number of spiders drawn. Definitely more than 20, but at least one per book <3

@nisishawl.bsky.social explains that the Middle Way is usually the best way to approach writing the other--neither as alien, or as just like the writer. It's a more nuanced exploration than the extremes. Join @laurafayeten.bsky.social and me for more Nisi on the Love Letters to the Future Podcast!⬇️