If anyone ever asks, Pompeii is southeast of Vesuvius. You're welcome.

I baked a cake out of stress. It's a butter yellow cake. It smells divine.

cc debt is currently 🔪 me and my account is almost in the red, USPS prices are going up later this month and I have a BUNCH of new goods up for preorder and over 200‼️ items in the shop! michiums.bigcartel.com shares are appreciated !!

I am up to 4,800 words and still not done. I initially said "pages" and not "words" which would have been absolutely insane.

"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive."

I'm making gluten free meatballs who's coming by

This is the inspiration for my TV pilot/series. I love it.

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The manifesto is free to read after all

I can actually see the finish line with this damned draft. I spent so long stuck in Part 1 that Part 2 feels like easy sailing since I have big chunks of it written Now to like, blow up a mountain and stuff.

I *FINALLY* fixed my fucking honors project blog. Now I can actually get all the posts beautiful and I can post both my story draft and my research project when they are ready. JFC that's a weight off.

Tallest: Aleida and Nadura Shortest: Sabina, easily. The rest are middle of the road for their respective races.

If I tell a story about my son he’s in on it. That’s only fair. I’d also never post anything about him that I wouldn’t want published about myself on a major news website or on a billboard in Times Square. The tale of him as a baby passing gas is a fave in this house. Farts are funny.

Update: I’m stalked by Karl Marx, K-pop Demon Hunters and Taylor Swift.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

15 years ago my son was baptized. In a nearly silent church he farted like demons were escaping his body. This baby, not even 5 months old, was blasting out gas like an old man. It echoed. He’s always been such a goofy guy.

Me: I need to write Body: I have decided today is the day to feel like we've been beaten with a bag of hammers and rocks. Me: Okay then At least all essays have been written and I can spend a couple of days ONLY doing Honors Project shit

Karl Marx is stalking me

Cella: Learning how to live again. Her life was so heavily ruled by Bhaal's blood and she can barely remember a lot of it. Those memory holes may be self preservation. Either way, she is learning how to be a person anew in a lot of ways. Thank goodness for Karlach, Wyll and of course Halsin ♥

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Pearl, the short story: 95/100 Pearl, the screenplay: 100/100 Gemma, the writer: -10/100 needs sleep

I have to use PowerPoint to do a presentation Fuck

You may not think your presence is valued but it so is. I’m happy you’re here.

The Mamdani election night party live feed on PBS News is wonderful. Good music, people having fun... If I missed him speaking I am not sad, this is great.

NYC I’m so happy for you. (that’s a lot coming from a Bostonian)

I would like to not read stories about young people dying anymore please. At least not tonight.

Emerson College in Boston has a wonderful creative writing program. Classes also (nearly) entirely on campus, and campus has no parking. It is built for students to live there or nearby. The campus is also in downtown Boston. I figured this would be the case but man, did I want to go there.

Thank you I wanted to cry today

To clarify I am done with 1 out of 5 classes. 4 more to go that won't end until next month.

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

100% ON MY FINAL I AM DOOOONE

100% on my last math test before I do the final.

This magazine just fired all of their politics staffers

Can I get in trouble for wearing a shirt that has pretty flowers and reads "compost your enemies" on a college campus? Guess we'll find out.

The way Dave distills things down is so helpful in a world where everything moves so fast.

Recently my short story, Pearl, was awarded a "you passed this section of the class" grade in Creative Writing. It's a major award. gemma-babbler.com/2025/10/03/p...

If my anxiety could pick a fucking lane that’d by swell

Had to draw more Gale and Tara 💜

I also learned tonight that Trump really seems to want to be King Leopold III of Belgium in a bunch of ways.

Tonight's tangent: Learning the clicks used in Xhosa. What an exceedingly interesting language and I mean interesting in the best way possible. Absolutely fascinating and beautiful.

This guy and Withers from BG3 would get along just fine.

My ENG 102 professor just let us know we're doing CREATIVE NON-FICTION/HISTORICAL FICTION for our final assignment. The gods shine down upon me.

I'm very excited share a preview of my piece for the @lovemarriagebg3.bsky.social fanzine! ❤️ Look for it on December 13th! Morena Dekarios meets a bookstore owner, who catches her attention. ✨ #BG3Fanzine #DekariosFamily #SFW #MeetCute #Writer

I built a Corsi-Rosenthal box last night. That's a fancy term for an air filter made from a box fan and filters. I came downstairs and for the first time since we moved in I did not smell cigarette smoke from the neighbors. This ugly thing can stay.

Honestly, same

I wear this symbol on a grey baseball hat. I got it when I started iron infusions because I had finally been diagnosed with what essentially was a bloodless debuff from BG3 Someone just aggressively accused me of it being something to do with Charlie Kirk. What the fuck. Absolutely not.

young man harasses local grandpa on halloween night #bg3 #gortash #ketheric