The most Bluesky thing in the world is a bunch of neurodivergent sweety pies thinking James Bond would be cool if he was a different white person

Species are not owed survival and men are not owed children.

I actually feel like making art "about" climate change is extremely difficult because, as a topic, it's so incomprehensible, and books like Once There Were Wolves accidentally highlight how conservative Narrative is in its need to arrive at an "ending" w/ a note of at least ambiguous optimism.

My haha-just kidding-unless? hot take is that work that often purports to take on climate change as a topic is really dealing instead with the spiritual burden of aging, death, leaving children behind, etc. Like how most SF is really about spiritual themes, not technology.

Got that ADHD like

There's a poem to be written about how the D&D spell "summon wolves" will grow more and more melancholy as real wolves die and eventually go extinct, our children casting "summon wolves" in their games to call a pack of animals they cannot easily imagine. And then waiting

* lectures you sternly somehow using Carrie Coon's voice *

Just promised 3yo I would “always keep [her] safe from lightning.” But that’s a lie.

Roses are red Good sports never sulk

Many people my age now care for our parents, much as they once cared for us - how ironic!

Five o'clock on Friday, get this party started

While it can make for a fun, chill dinner party, it's kind of weird how often "artists and wanna-be artists talking to each other" often prohibits the actual discussion of art.

"I miss him so much it’s like someone’s pulling a healthy tooth out of my mouth, over and over" is the kind of line that reminds you your brain is just part of your body, and we build refineries for those bodies

hey yall I just found out what Thomas Kinkaide looked like

I love using AI to create products

I interviewed Luke Goebel about his new novel KILL DICK. We talked about L.A., the Illuminati, Breaking Bad Winnebagos, Bret Easton Ellis, Ken Kesey, hyperreality, and the perils of the art world. Hope you enjoy!

Reading Fernanda Melchor's PARADAIS (trans. Sophie Hughes), and have finished half the (albeit short) book in one afternoon despite (or because of) the lack of paragraph breaks & my ADHD. One of the finest living horror writers, I think, though not marketed as horror.

There's nothing I love more than reading a book for its politics. I don't care what the author intended, at all. I hate the author. My job as a Political Reader is to embarrass and, if possible, cancel the writer of a text. And cancelling is a real thing, as history has recently born out.

Entering the season of the year in which almost no short stories are set. The big family Easter/Passover set-pieces are done. The only stories set now, between Spring! and late enough in summer that the characters can "feel a hint of fall in the air at night," are written by sociopaths or the CIA

As a lover/writer of magic realism, I remain a truther that Magic Realism only really works in the context of colonial occupation and that white people like me should have to like pay a toll or something. Magic Realist internet flash is preoccupied with the magic, often completely fails the Realism.

HBD @davidnaimon.bsky.social! While like five eps come to mind, your interview with @katezambrano.bsky.social and Sofia Samatar for Tone is so fun and smart and just does so much for the idea of literature by reminding the listener how amazing good readers are milkweed.org/between-the-...

it's my birthday (tomorrow) so i am watching one of my favorites.

Had a thinly-veiled climate change-anxiety dream in which gravity was working less and less well every day and it was stressful. But the buried lede was that I was also working on a dance music album called Tolerance Break.

From AI to bacteria to weather to cars, humans are just like "Alright, let's teach it to kill me!"

with apologies to people who sleep in / are no the west coast / etc... doing a quick little pop-up call this morning. no theme, no max word count, but shorter tends to be better (as does "bolder," whatever that means) open for 50 submissions -Aaron havehashad.submittable.com/submit/35490...

It was at the Scorsese-like nostalgia for the mythical runners of old "who made long expeditions to the basements and saw the vast butcheries" that my pulse really began to accelerate into this

Easiest way to date a Le Guin book

Wake up to my "How Armenian folktales begin" Google alert going off like it's either the end or the beginning of the world

Someone explained the idea of a film "trailer" to me. Must admit I'm curious. A Chris Marker-esque misremembering of another artist's text? Fragmented, brief - truly how like life itself this...trailer. But what tractor-truck "pulls" the trailer..hm..(nodding, seeing it now): ahh, of course: time

Telling genre writer group about notes I get from my literary fiction writer group "-and then they're like, 'wait, is the Zip-Zop gun real? Will the reader be confused?'" Telling literary fiction group about genre group's notes: "-and then they're like, 'Twice as much zip-zop gun, please.'"

Promoting Dustin’s lyrical , easy-drinking book substack as a way to punish him

...Go Hide somewhere, keep your eyes closed, your mouth shut, and live off the rain and the dirt. -Tite Kubo 4:2

Googling "what do soldiers eat

Oh no! I've been betrayed by BLUESKY! Help! I traded irony for a desperately fragile feeling of superiority back in 2017!

lol I’m sincerely so emotional reading this. Is there a greatest living reader? Of course. Now guess their name. It rhymes with “bustin’.”

You get up early to write, I arise heavy in the wave-beat dark, make coffee, and kneel in prayer to the slick, wet, beautiful selkie-Christ

two little poems from Walkman that I wrote in Virginia during the dark pandemic summer of George Floyd, wavering between hope & despair

Imagine if Hamlet had been Catholic, what that would have done to, I dunno, Western Civilization? Now imagine if Cyclops from the X-Men had been Catholic. Fuck. Christ.

I don't think you can "convert" to Catholicism, can you?

I never miss any of Dustin's GoPro livestreams of him reading books. Tremendous stuff.

I don’t think film dystopias do a good enough job portraying what keeps people going despite their terrible conditions, and I think it’s related to a lack of introspection and curiosity about how enslaved people psychologically survived enslavement

What's great about A History of Violence is Cronenberg's gangster story doesn't bother with any of Scorsese's Catholic moral hand-wringing, he's just like, "Killing dudes rules, and it makes you fuck better. Go home when you're done and your kids will serve you nice food."

The JCU (Jesuit Cinematic Universe)

The funniest thing about Trump is the SO many people who are like, “Holy Moly Sweet Cannoli! I didn’t know people could lie and not feel bad about it!”

Mantasy is any of the 3 years-long adventure serials I would start-stop telling myself as a child anytime I needed to disassociate away from life: one of them was about a cyber ninja on a space-hang-glider, one was LOTR fanfic (I am Aragorn), and one was about The Red Lion (an Image-style superhero)

Mantasy is the third Book of the New Sun book (Sword of the Lichtor) but JUST the fucked up pageant wagon play that is a gnostic creation myth or something that those guys do as part of a hustle to pick up all the umbrellas and purses left behind when everyone is scared away

Mantasy is the Vincent Ward script for Alien 3 set on a creaking wooden satellite full of monks and stained glass

This is not a joke