yeah, look, fascism is "if you give a mouse a cookie." or, if you prefer, "if you let a mouse take a cookie on what it falsely insists are rational and/or moral grounds." convincing yourself that a few concessions will appease them is a trap; in fact, all it does is prove you're willing to concede

One more task for today: call your senators about HR 2616 The "Don't Say Trans" bill literally states it's "defending women from gender ideology." Cis women, I am deputizing you especially. Please make several phone calls to tell them to knock it the fuck off.

trans people will also continue to be around your whole life. you'll be sharing bathrooms & communities w/ us your whole life; we'll be there whether you know we're trans or not. this horrific moment will eventually pass but transness will not, and our memories of how you act now will also remain

Just snapped this up - can't wait to read! Loved Dylan Morrison's other books.

IT'S PUB DAY! So excited to say that SECOND HELPINGS is out now. This book is a love letter to second chances, deli food, Cleveland, food service, and of course queer romance 🌈💜🥪 I hope you love it as much as I do!

my new book, SECOND HELPINGS, is out tomorrow; what better time to show you the gorgeous cover for my next one? COMFORT READ comes out in october, and it's an extravaganza of fake dating, cozy bookshop vibes, hollywood chaos, an opinionated cat, and, of course, big queer joy 🌈 geni.us/1579-al-aut-ch

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Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

can't say it shocks me to see one history's most pathetic Divorce Guys cooking up reasons to beef with a movie version of our foundational Area Man Just Wants To Go Home To His Wife story

Rawbraining it

If you're looking for ways to support creatives, writing positive reviews of their work is 1. Free 2. Full of compliments that encourages them 3. Marketing they can reshare to promote their work 4. Just a decent thing to do, thank you!

this is a distinction i try to draw as often as possible: being trans is great! so interesting, so eye opening, so rewarding! a lottery win, both in terms statistical rarity of experience and how much unique joy it brings to your life! it is TRANSPHOBIA that sucks shit, not being trans itself

The real value of social media is being able to post something like "The ass is the father of the legs" and potentially have multiple members of congress see it

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

I think about this comic all the time.

people who love conflict are almost always more visible than those who hate conflict, bc the conflict-haters avoid conflict. however, people who hate conflict nearly always outnumber those who love it, and just don't want to fight about it. this is the source of many problems across much of society

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

The "out of the way swine" comic is great but this is the best comic strip of all time

Slightly diminish a book. The Perfectly Fine Gatsby

Liz Lemon, you should come to the Knicks game with me and this skinny French dude Tommy Chameleon.

we had to read Cold Mountain in high school and i'll never get that time back. the characters, the pacing, the setting, the plot, the way so much is handled, the way so much ISN'T handled, the stylistic choices, the ending: i hated it all and i still do today

the year was 2001, and i was at the airport with my family when i realized i'd forgotten to bring a plane book. i was 12, riddled with undiagnosed ADHD, and possessed of 2 younger brothers, one of whom was under the age of 3: to me, this was a kevin mcallister's parents in home alone level mistake.

Reminder: if you see someone stealing food, No You Didn’t ☺️

as a kid i asked my dad why saltines had those ridges on the edges. he said there was a little goblin at the factory nibbling the sides & that was just the way his teeth were shaped. 30+ years later it still makes me laugh. the finest AI slop in all the land can't match bespoke personalized nonsense

saw the trailer for this in a theater a few months ago; it made me so mad i snapped "GEORGE ORWELL IS REVOLVING IN HIS GRAVE LIKE A ROTISSERIE CHICKEN" at full volume, and was promptly shushed by an angry stranger. however, i was right and so is this review

I don’t “network,” I make friends. Other artists are not my competition, they’re my beloved peers and sources of inspiration. We all have the same goal; to share our art. I’m not gonna corporatize my human relationships with them. I am in my sandbox playing and I hope they join me.

For Earth Day, I boiled a whole lake for my clickbait farm

gaston used to hate eggs, but so many villagers said that they hated eggs the wrong way that he had no choice but to consume four dozen per day as a child and five dozen per day as an adult. when he dies of high cholesterol it will be the villagers who are to blame

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo “[Vetinari] listened with great care because what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out.”

I preordered a copy of this to go directly to my local books-to-prisoners program! They get a number of requests from trans people, and it's nice to have something to send that is joyous and fun. #BookSky

SECOND HELPINGS comes out may 21! it's fun! it's funny! it's queer! it's a low stakes good time in a high stakes bad time! is it impossible to promote a romcom while the world is uhhh like this? sure, but hey, by preordering you'd also be seriously helping out a trans guy (me) geni.us/1469-al-aut-ch

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Imo someone should probably do something

i've said it before and i'll say it again: i don't write like AI, AI writes like me. if you've been putting words on the internet since pre-pandemic times, you can (and should) say it too

If Tobias' story was weirdly resonant for you as a kid, this is a reminder to take your hormones today.

"i need to use AI to write the story i want" no you don't no you don't no!! you don't!!! there are only like 7 stories we even tell! we just tell them over & over w/ different details & people in there! if you want stories w/o writing them there is already a system for that! it is called! reading!!

"All authors are using AI now" Not true! A lot of us are using constant, gnawing anxiety.

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

my next book, SECOND HELPINGS, is now available for request on netgalley! if you like LOVE STORIES and RIDICULOUS SIDE CHARACTER SHENANIGANS and FOUND FAMILY and SIBLING HIJINKS and RESTAURANT ROMANCE and especially ✨ SECOND CHANCES ✨ then you're going to love this one 💜

it's trans day of visibility and i'm moving so just a quick post to say: being trans is a wonder, a delight, one of the best things about my life. bigots and transphobia suck shit but in spite of them being trans is an absolute, undeniable joy. what a gift to know this rare & beautiful experience

i write books fairly quickly, now. this is mostly bc i spent twenty years unable to finish a single one, learning how to write and how to unpick my imposter syndrome and self-loathing enough to LET myself write. if anyone tried to take those years of work from me i'd punch them in the mouth; fuck AI

hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action

in the end stages of a huge move, it's hard/weird, but today my friend picked up a giant sack of rice & slung it over their shoulder, not realizing it was open. rice poured out all over the floor in a perfect moment of slapstick 3 stooges comedy gold. sometimes even the hard shit is so goddamn funny

FUN FACT: You personally interact with dozens, even hundreds of artists and storytellers on this website every day who dedicate 0% of their resources to directly harming trans people. Many of them have comics, or albums, or podcasts, or even fantasy novels available for your guilt-free enjoyment!

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

one of my most consistent positions is that the broad coalition of people who are not fascists have a lot more in common than a lot of folks on every part of that spectrum will admit and I wish we spent less of our combative energy on each other

Every year, January to April, people accuse me of fearmongering in my reporting. Every year around this time, bills pass. And without fail, every year, the ratchet tightens. And now Idaho just passed a bill that could put me in prison for years—for washing my hands in a bathroom.

let's say you take a walk each night. one night while you're out, you see a corner of your neighbor's home burst into flame. no one else is around; you don't know if the homeowners are in. you can act--call 911, pound on the door, shout to wake them in case they're asleep--and you SHOULD act. why? 🧵

You didn’t fail any more than an ant caught in a flood failed. Society failed you.