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I just watched it, and it's totally entertaining. It's two hours of hot people having a great time. You need it, and you deserve it.

This happened at College Station, Texas. This school and town have a deep history of racism.

IMPORTANT: He confronted who? The person that didn't break stride or cede physical space to him. I can't remember it at present but there's a technical term for this specific racialized expectation.

Middle schoolers will walk a mile out of their way if it means getting to casually vault over a railing

Here's the live radio segment I did yesterday with WCPT 820 Chicago. Joan and I talked about book bans, about the beautiful book that is @redgoldsparks.bsky.social's GENDER QUEER, I gave three off-the-cuff book recommendations (incl. @librarianjones.com), and so much more. omny.fm/shows/joan-e...

Wow. Along with the awful covers and the attitudes towards romance, they think they can monetize/dictate fanfiction. Um, no?

The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD

Every 15 yr old girl knows she is prey. We are taught this at such an early age that it's just internalized but some grown women internalized it to the point of being able to normalize it and side with the predators. That's what we are seeing now. That's why we need to call out this shit.

Burning thr planet down just to avoid giving a trans woman a dollar

Check out the full list of workshops and panels for our Spring Fling Writers Conference! #WriterSky #AuthorSky #Amwriting #Chicago #ChicagoWriter #RomanceWriter www.chicagonorthromancewriters.com/spring-fling-1

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

All Kayla wanted to do was make rent. She ends up with the man of her dreams, who is filthy rich. A modern day plus size Cinderella story with a good amount of banging. Start with So Sweet. You wont be disappointed. 🍭💖 amzn.to/3TgyJuX #irromance #romancelandia #booksky

do any regency romances deal with The Mount Tambora eruption aftermath?

I am going to annoy everyone in my life now that i learned about the The Mount Tambora eruption

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

Megyn R Kelly!!!!!

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

Stunning. Archives are everything.

Children are children!

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

Some good news!!!

Teen Vogue did some terrific work. Great story here on Teen Vogue and how the Vogue/Conde Nast bosses seem like the "liberal" types who have been eager to use Trump's rise as a pretext to silence progressives/leftists they disagree with. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

I like that Pope Bob wakes up every morning and asks himself how he can kick the American Vice President in the dick

This happens to pro wrestlers as well.

The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.

There's no higher compliment than fanart/ fanfiction. Someone loved your work enough to put time and energy into it. Non-canon of course, the canon stays with me. It's massive. However, it would make my year to see fanart or fanfiction. Ship Ashe and Viola and I will find you, and I will be armed.

Millennials have to explain who Ken Starr is to our gen z friends

Wow I have not even clicked through to see who this is, but "we invented the idea of a romance series" is the boldest claim I've seen since that time someone claimed a book had invented oral sex in romance. 😂

I saw the most bonkers conversation on tiktok where people were arguing that Romance doesn’t need an HEA and authors were fighting for their lives in the comments trying to explain what a genre convention is. Again, trying to sell me a mystery with no crime and see what happens.

Speaking of 831stories. I saw this on threads and thought I should share because I am not only a professional author, I am also a fanfic writer. And this is a publisher, a creator, trying to control and profit from fanfic. This is predatory and disgusting. 831stories.com/blogs/fan-fi...

i'm going to say something even more salty: we have a lot of writers who aren't doing this because they can't. And they can't because they aren't readers themselves. They view writing as just another form of content creation that they will convert into views and then into dollars.

These roles were budgeted through June 2026. The librarians got an hour to pack their stuff and were escorted out like criminals. One of them is 61 and had worked at the library since she was a teenager.

oh hot diggity are we litigating the HEA again? I honestly think this topic comes up at least annually. What do you think? More than once a year? Every few?

Romance should evolve, but its so clear when people want the shine and financial benefit of Romance without respecting the genre, its conventions, or the readers. It's disturbing, but not surprising that we've arrived in a place where CRAFT DOESNT MATTER is a thing people believe.

So far I’ve had Elena Ferrante twice (phew she is DESPERATE to talk to me!), Ann Patchett, Martha Wells, and Frieda whatserface.

I paid 23 bucks for a general admission ticket to see Kent State play 😎 www.nytimes.com/athletic/679...

At the same time the NY Times was hyping Hillary Clinton's emails, it had a reporter with emails from Jeffrey Epstein that were highly damaging to Trump. The more NYT apologists try to minimize this the clearer it becomes that they don't understand why much of the public doesn't trust legacy media.

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

I remember not have to learn that much about the NIH. It was a magical time.

Every reader needs to understand the differences between a protagonist and antagonist — and we’re here to help with some recommended titles from our curated “The Importance of Setting in Historical Fiction” list. #ReadAllTheComics #LibComix #ComicSky #DigitalComics #Literacy

This is about the 831 Stories puff piece in the NYT. (I should have known better.) Several romance scholars were interviewed (myself included)…not that you could tell, given the complete lack of substance. Hrm, wonder why this was left out? Maybe because it doesn’t align with 831’s narrative?

Well... hell. At 91% raised in a few hours. I'm floored and humbled y'all. Thank you 😱🥰🥹 gofund.me/68950306a

while the shutdown is over, folks are still struggling to put food on the table and food banks are hard pressed to meet that demand. thanks to everyone (mostly strangers!) who has helped this get fundraiser to $2345 so far. 💞

I am honestly tired of the Epstein file jokes. Those emails aren’t funny, they’re a horror show that put on display exactly what kind of monsters have been running the show for decades, on both sides of the fence.