My mother has responded to my desire to make a lace tablecloth as if I told her I'm taking up skydiving.

Carcinization is real

My TBR list remains at 200+ despite regular culling because I have perfected my social media/friend group/life and am never short of book recommendations

There should be a Star Trek movie every two years and they should have indie film budgets and no explosions and almost everyone should hate them.

Sure, poly relationships can be complicated, but they can also be quite rewarding

Well, my options are to query agents even though the process is incredibly confusing and demoralizing or give up.

I actually love writing those little book recommendations because i try to keep each one in a single post. Figuring out how to describe a book's premise, vibe, and why it's worth reading in so few characters is like a little word puzzle game for me

It's important that you always shoot your shot, because you'll never know unless you try. Like my friend in our "bimonthly crafternoons" group chat just asked if anybody wants to go stand in a river and count glass eels next month and her problem now is actually that too many of us want to go

So, friends: I promised I'd tell the story. Now I shall. Let a (former) psych nurse tell you the true (gods help us) story of a night in a big-time NYC emergency room: and the arrival of The Man With The Bloomingdales Bag. (1/n)

🌈📚 Winter's Orbit by @everinamaxwell.bsky.social . #bookcover #coverreveal #scifibooks

Almost reading the greats. (my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books)

First official query sent! Just [UNKNOWN INTEGER] to go! #writersky

It is so easy to avoid buying books on amazon that sometimes I'm actually surprised when people mention doing it

Was going through old chats and found this incredible quote from a pizza guy who saved someone's life with CPR

I can't help but feel a whisper of culture shock any time I talk about how fucked up and fundamentally unequal the textual dynamic between two fictional characters is and folks outside my usual circles react as though I'm arguing AGAINST making it yuri.

Found out today that it only takes about 50 preorders from Barnes & Noble to stand out from the crowd, so if you haven't ordered a copy of PASHA THE STORM, now is a great time to throw a weird trans author a bone. 🫰🦈🐋⛵

smallstone 7 and 8 covers. caught up to the regular sized sunstone covers. while this small format editions are hard on my flawed eyesight i friggin adore how adorable the books look!

Here's the full cover art of @shantiland.bsky.social and my comic adaptation of @travisbaldree.bsky.social's Legends & Lattes! We've been working on it for the last year, and I'm so excited that it'll be available to cozy up with this fall 😊☕

kidnapping an elf is useful for fufilling a prophecy but completely useless for running local government. Also, killing your evil uncle means killing your cousin's dad and now she's siccing her girltoy on you. Oops. #chaospit

when you overthrow a kig you get a kingdom, when you overthrow a mayor you have to do a lot of tax fraud... #chaospit

kidnapping an elf is useful for fufilling a prophecy but completely useless for running local government. Also, killing your evil uncle means killing your cousin's dad and now she's siccing her girltoy on you. Oops. #chaospit

I am finally done with work and seder and can post my silly choaspitch stuff for april fools! huzzah!

how i feel trying to query this manuscript #chaospit

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

I forgot that querying agents is the worst part of writing a book, but since i am not the secret main character of the world, what other choice do I have?

I did this except it was a Floridian 7-Eleven and it was four years.

"Dismay" really is a fantastic word. It's like a conceptual onomatopoeia – "dismay" reads like a transcription of the sound dismay would make, if dismay made a sound.

You can just say "Apropos of nothing" out loud. No one can stop you.

You have to be willing to block for trivial reasons to avoid going crazy, but also to follow for trivial reasons to avoid curating yourself into a pit. Sometimes you have to look at a random like or share and be like: "Natalie, eh? Good name; fun to say. All right, let's experience Natalie's world."

more bulbas 🍅🥬🧄

Well, my options are to continuing writing at what feels like a glacially slow pace or give up. Where's that fucking picture...

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morning glory + sunflower bulbas 💫

I love the immediacy of present tense. I understand why some people think past tense is more natural but why use neutrals when you can use neons? #writersky

The manuscript is finished!!!! Now to figure out where to put the chapter breaks and learn how many typos one woman is capable of 😤😤😤 #writersky

Dschinghis Khan's YouTube channel has been posting digital remasters of some of their performances from the 70s and 80s; if you only know them from that shitty VHS rip of "Moskau" that went viral a few years ago, you owe it to yourself to check some of this stuff out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=InNO...

Killing stalking SPOILER I liked the series but I was surprised by the ending. I was expecting some lingering horror, a "The End?" kind of thing. Bum's death is most appropriate for a romantic tragedy rather than a thriller. It WAS thematically consistent, though,so maybe others feel differently?

@stjepansejic.bsky.social announces the next release in his Fine Print series with Volume 3 from @topcowofficial.bsky.social hitting shelves in April. www.comicbookyeti.com/post/love-go...

YouTube has been recommending me ten-minute-long videos of middle-aged men rolling increasingly absurd cigars lately. I just saw a thumbnail depicting what appeared to be a cigar approximately fourteen inches in length. I feel like if you're smoking a fourteen-inch cigar the subtext has become text.

Face reveal!!! Wrong answers only. This is the photo I show to new stylists when I'm getting a haircut

Drafting days are easy to quantify because it's all about how many words you get on the page. Revising days are harder. Sometimes I don't get through a whole page or I actually have less than I started out with, but the work I did was still important. I just can't literally count it! #writersky

My only personal reading observation from 2025 is that this was a crazy good year for series for me. Blue lock, apothecary diaries(light novels), doctrine of labyrinths, black dagger brotherhood.I usually struggle to maintain interest in a series so i'm impressed that these keep being good! #booksky

I regret to inform you that i had to bail on master and commander because i could not keep up with the sailing terms😔

Recommended Books I Read in 2026: 🧵🪡

I just feel like a trolley is far too cute a mode of transportation for the trolley problem.

Cat is out of the bag! Tor declined my suggestion to include in the blurb "sapphic Winter Soldier, but wizards"; however this is in fact the only accurate way to describe this book torpublishinggroup.com/call-me-trai...

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

If you put mistaken identity in your romance I WILL blackout and wake up with it on my TBR #booksky