Got up with spoons this morning! I went to take a shower (a very tiring activity) and my dad called. I wasted 40 minutes naked on the toilet talking to a man who sucks all the oxygen out of every room he's in. He wouldn't stop talking to let me speak. He whined about wanting to move to Idaho. 1/

UGH you guys, my therapist wants me to try leaving the house again. Something something "it will be good for you" and blah blah "you need to find a way to recover your spoons" and like, babe, it takes 30 steps, each of which take spoons, to GET ME OUT THE DOOR. Ugh. Fine, but I'm not gonna like it.

I finished @amalelmohtar.com 's SEASONS OF IRON AND GLASS. Every piece made me see the world slightly anew; every word rebuilt palaces in my mind that I'd long forgotten. Her art is a gift, but so is the love that she reflects so fiercely in her writing. I am changed. Magic is real.

Be like Mary.

My slang oscillates wildly between current slang, 90s/2000s slang, and slang from before I was born. Someday I'll use rizz, gnarly, lit, let her cook, as if, and cool beans in the same sentence and my head will explode. Or gen z will assassinate me for blasphemy. One of the two.

Loving my trans friends is as easy as breathing, which is good, because being born into a body that doesn't feel like yours is the hardest thing I can imagine. Trans rights are human rights, and I will always help to make sure we have them. I only wish I could wave a wand and fix your pain.

Sometimes new technology is a good thing. I'm not one to stand in the way of progress. But AI isn't progress. It's designed to steal our intellect, our creative works, and burn up precious water to do it. The data centers alone are making people in my hometown sick. So they can go fuck themselves.

@haileypiperfights.bsky.social my friend was looking through my book collection to see what she wanted to borrow for her trip to Sweden. She came upon Cranberry Cove, and upon realizing it was signed, was like "I don't want to destroy it." But I'll lure her into my trap eventually.

While I have a macabre sense of humor on occasion, the human race contains great multitudes. We are capable of being appalled and horrified, and also having great whimsy and joy. In fact, we absolutely need that balance if we're going to survive.

It's kind of wild that our whole democracy has been based on the honor system this whole time.

If you're witchy and/or into occultism and ALSO love horror, might I recommend Craig DiLouie's EPISODE THIRTEEN? It's a great book on its merits, but it will hit different for an occultist, I promise. I've been spiraling for 24 hours, and I'm only 60% done.

Today my wife taught me what scomiting is, and I will never be the same. Screaming vomiting. I will never be able to stop subconsciously saying "Wallace and Scomit" intead of "Wallace and Gromit" for the rest of my life now.

This is what happened to me. I was a gig worker classified as an "independent contractor," so no one had to give me benefits or protections of any kind. Working 3 jobs, no insurance, able to be fired without reason, treated like garbage on all three fronts. Is it any wonder I had a breakdown?

Most days, I have to fight for my hope with dogged determination, because I believe that despair is just capitulation in a trenchcoat. But I want to believe in this sentiment, so badly.

We find so many amazing things when we look beyond what we can immediately see. This is spectacular. I love listening to @celestialblue.bsky.social geek out over it. She was an astronomy major once upon a time, and sharing this with her is so special to me.

Me today: "Musk has an obsession with the letter X because it's the coolest, edgiest thing he can think of. I hate that every time he names something X, we have to take it seriously because he has a lot of money. We collectively need to give this man a serious wedgie."

I know that I'm supposed to be angry about the Iran War, and I am. I know I'm supposed to be angry about ICE, and trans rights, and I am. Believe me, I am raging angry about it all. But I contain multitudes, and right now I saw that soda 12-packs are $14 in my local grocery store and HOLY SHIT

It should be said that some of the members bring their kids, so warn me so I can denote spicy material, please. (I want the parents to make their own judgments with their kids if they take an interest, instead of just reccing something and then the 12-year-old asks them what fisting is afterwards.)

My wife has lived long enough to play this song in a rural Walmart parking lot with the windows down, on Easter Sunday. (Shortly followed by Tears by Sabrina Carpenter.) We might be going to hell, y'all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtqj...

Now, I know I have indie authors in the house. I’m putting together a list of indie book suggestions for my book club, and every "indie book list" I find is just books sold at indie bookstores. Not indie published books. Now is a GREAT time to rec yourself or someone you love down below!

The one April Fools' Day joke I will accept is Dropout's announcement of the return of Dimension 20 On a Bus. That's it. That's all.

One of the true drawbacks of writing secondary world fantasy is that sometimes the character /really/ wants to say "JEEsus FUCKing CHRIST"

We all need some good news once in awhile.

@haileypiperfights.bsky.social Apparently I've been living under a rock, because I just found out what Queen of Teeth is about, and WHAT THE FUCK, GURL. (Why are your ideas so wonderful?) My wife: "what's your book about?" Me: "A vagina monster." Her: "What" Me: "What?"

My poor Luna scratched her sutures open, so now she gets to wear a cone AND a onesie. I'm sure she thinks we're punishing her. But even as I write this, she's climbing into my arms, wanting comfort.* *I sent this to my friend, who said "she's the cutest little flashlight!" and this is correct.

In college, I wanted to marry a man of color with blue hair, who was Catholic. Just to show my family that this was good, actually (and to make them angry and confused.) I married a white Californian woman who was raised Catholic. Do you think I should convince her to dye her hair?

When we know better, we do better. If we aren't assholes, anyway.

I know everyone is struggling right now. But our trans community is under attack, and it's not safe for some to stay where they are. Bianca is struggling to pay her gas just like the rest of us, AND they need to relocate AND medical bills. I helped with what I could, maybe you could too?

Shaindel does so much for the pets in our community. If you have anything to spare with gas prices this high, consider helping the families get these babies taken care of. I just got a good look at the dental prices of pet care, and as you might know, it is indeed B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

My cat might have an autoimmune disease. My wife was just diagnosed with sleep apnea. America continues to be *gestures wildly* I need to chill out. Should I watch The Thing with the wife tonight, or play Pathfinder and metaphorically kill shit?

*taps the sign again* Rich people are not demonstrably smarter, more competent, or better in any way than poor people. Most of them are dumb as shit and twice as useless. They're just more willing to exploit people for profit. That's it.

@celestialblue.bsky.social , in a world in which I could choose to marry you or Leon S. Kennedy, I would still choose you. And that's really saying something. I love you, Nicole.

Over on FB, my former college advisor is using her time to post AI slop of her dog. Stuff like "this is Ruby at the Oscars!" or "this is Ruby painted like a Warhol!" And I'm like "you're wasting my water and poisoning my neighbors for this shit?"

This. This is how I feel about AI. Especially knowing that the data centers are poisoning the people in my hometown and causing truly alarming amounts of cancer and miscarriage in a town of less than 4000.

PSA: I will be playing Coral Island until further notice, because I want to believe that community can come together to make great change, and that it doesn't only happen in mythical places like Starlet Town and Minnesota.

I think maybe my MIL doesn't get my sense of humor. She told us someone broke the lock on their storage unit, but didn't take anything. Me: "Rude. If you're going to all that trouble, at least steal something. Otherwise, it's breaking in PLUS bitter rejection." Y'all, she took me seriously.

Okay, so I can tell I'm losing weight because I just got these rings from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social and they're SO BEAUTIFUL but they sized them to an 11 for my fingers... and my ring fingers are officially a 10.5 now. Fucking rude, I tell you.

As more places enact harsh transphobic legislation, Keshet is one organization seeking to help by offering no-interest loans for up to $10k to LGBTQ+ folks in the US who need the financial support to relocate to a state with stronger legal protections.

Sometimes I think about how every story is a tragedy, and it breaks me. "If there was anyone to get through this life with their heart intact, they didn't do it right." My heart isn't intact, between death, distance, and watching strangers suffer here and abroad. But I do my best.

We've all been where my friend Gin is. Things are supposed to get better, things are looking up, and then WHAM. You get hit with more unexpected bills, and suddenly, you're drowning again and you don't know what to do. We can help, though. Even a little is grand, if you can.

If Trump was normal, I would go "that guy is stupid, insecure, and prob has a personality disorder, avoid him." Because he was born to money, has stumbled ass-backwards into power, and is surrounded by people who refuse to tell him no, he goes from aggressively irritating to INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS.

Just started @chucktingle.bsky.social 's CAMP DAMASCUS and man. As a neurodivergent, queer exvangelical with CPTSD from their family... I may not be healed enough for this book, y'all. Seriously, I may need to have a long conversation with my therapist about this. And extra snuggles with my wife.

@simguruninja.bsky.social I wish the very best for all of the Maxis team. This isn't your fault. You've done your best for us. But please, tell them their avarice will only be their downfall. First, the buyout. Then, the Marketplace. The Sims is no longer a safe place for the people who love it.

I have been an avid player of The Sims 3 & 4 through some of the darkest periods of my life. Thousands of hours poured into this game, and it is no exaggeration to say it saved me from suicide at least once. I uninstalled it today. I cannot support EA with its current decisions. No more. I'm done.

It's hard enough keeping my shit straight with the world being what it is right now, but my precious Luna, y'all. She's been having the world's worst allergy attack, and nothing we do helps. Now the vet is concerned that something entirely different is wrong. My heart can't take this.

I find it horrifying when writers brag about using AI to write stories knowing full well that the only way we evolved as people was through storytelling, it’s what formed society and taught us who we are and how to love and you all just want to throw our literal humanity away cause you can

Hot take: oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are viciously underrated. Oatmeal raisin cookies taste like betrayal.

I don't have anything useful to say today. But the world is shit and my cats are gorgeous, sweet, and funny. (All the info is in the alt text. Read the alt text.)