I hate this new Apple update. Everything looks so cartoonish now. Put it TF BACK.

I put some of my older content on Gumroad. smgrady.gumroad.com/l/ScatteredT...

Does anyone here use Gumroad to sell anything? How has your experience been with it?

Again, I say: TLC will pay for their crimes. youtu.be/Nr8WFOKTVy8?...

I’m really hard on myself at times, but at random moments I realize I’m a damn good mother. I need to keep that in the forefront of my thoughts going forward. My child is THRIVING. Not just okay. Not mediocre. THRIVING. And that’s something to be proud of.

INSTANTLY pissed off

It’s crazy how wanting to be an author & actually sell books automatically means becoming a social media content creator. I can’t just say, I wrote this book. Here’s what it’s about. It only costs $4. Do you want to buy it? Noooo I have to make reels & carousels. Behind the scenes content. Wild.

I know I’m late, but I’m so happy about the swag bag people got for standing in line outside of Target in the middle of the night. It was really poetic justice.

Baked Mac

In the House

America in a nutshell. Fix system issues? Absolutely not. Dress it up & make it look pretty? Yes. Same way they’ve been selling “The American Dream” for so long to be people who can only see us from afar. Meanwhile we are SUFFERING

Today is when I found out that Simmone Missick (All Rise & Friends & Lovers) & Karen Pittman (Forever) are two different women. They’re not even related. Supposedly. Has anyone ever seen them in the same room? Cause Shelby = Lola but Shelby does not = Dawn is hard to accept.

Watching Eric Jerome Dickey’s Friends & Lovers thinking how 1 of the actresses was just in another reimagining of a book I loved. This is absolutely not true lol. Shelby is not the mom in Forever on Netflix 😂

"Cellphone records showed that two days before the purported attack, her co-conspirator searched online for 'zip ties near me'"

There are a multitude of dissertations that one could write after watching Seeking Sister Wives. TLC will answer for their crimes one day.

I’m taking 2 undergraduate courses right now. How do I have 11 tasks to complete this week from those 2 courses? ELEVEN!! in one week. How is this even a thing?

Everything art related I’ve tried to outsource comes back as being clearly AI. Outside of my book covers because I personally know the artist. It’s sad man.

Cookies and cake.

2am-5am is the BEST writing block for my brain & simultaneously the WORST time in regards to everything else I have to do throughout the day.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

I love Law & Order, but truth be told, they should have never past season 1. This is criminal 😂😂😂

1st time watching Hollywood Divas. How is Golden acting like Lisa beneath her for doing reality tv….as they are currently filming a reality tv show 😂😂 I just want Lisa to ask her the OBVIOUS QUESTIONS “what do you think is happening right now? What do you think we’re doing here?”

I spend way too much money at @chickfila.bsky.social & they decided to help me solve this issue today. How could it have hurt you to let me charge the device I needed to jumpstart my battery? I didn’t ask anyone to fix my car, jump it, or anything like that. I needed to charge a battery.

I never thought I’d say this, but I miss living in the south.

It's not that you come from privilege, it's about how you use that privilege. Once you contend with that, you won't feel the need to be defensive about it.

I have never faltered on this stance.

Over 21,000 people downloaded the 1st book in my series over the weekend. It’s on a free promo & I have to wait to see if any of them read through the series for the promo to be profitable, but this still feels like a win. 21,000 decided to give it a shot. That’s something 😌

I was encouraged to do this lol. My mom would leave early in the morning and forget to sign permission slips sometimes.

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Trying to find a city to move to in the US is like trying to find the coolest spot in hell to cry in.

How do you look somebody in the eyes and sincerely say that you’re thinking your wedding will be $60k, on the low end? Mind you, the couple in question has half a job and 9 children between the 2 of them. #LoveAfterLockUp #LifeAfterLockUp

The overlap between early pregnancy symptoms and period symptoms is criminal.

Great PSA

What’s the point of all these senate hearings? We don’t need more proof that these ppl are incompetent. We need them to be held accountable and removed. But that doesn’t happen. Sooo, is it just a show? Am I missing something?

You would never get married at any other location of genocide. You would not name streets and shutters after any location of torture. The Whitney Plantation focuses "on the brutal labor and stolen freedom" of enslaved people. Visit there if you want an accurate plantation experience.

I’m convinced these guys are related in real life.

This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

This Indie April has been so tough across the board, it seems. I'm seeing so many authors struggling to get sales. So let's have a boost thread! Drop your books below and maybe if you can afford someone's, have a browse and comment if you pick one up! Make an author's day! 📚💙

The “We reclaimed it” argument doesn’t hold up for me either. The word is seeped in hatred and violence.

Feel so bad bc I just woke my husband up to kill a worm. BUT it’s really the worm’s fault bc why would you come in here disrupting my household at this time of night??

There is no honor in making others struggle solely because you did. Persevering through difficulty is worth celebrating, but is worth even more if you can lessen the burden for those who come after you, especially those less fortunate, less privileged. That way lies glory.

Someone told me that my writing improved their mental health and I just 🥹🥹🥹🥹

I don’t think I ever knew this. One weekend of sleeping outside and using porta potties isn’t bad enough??

This is from a scene set in 1905. Who knew it was also the future

When someone finishes your book 48 hrs after it’s released & asks when the next one is coming out? 😳 Ma’am, I am still recovering from that one. I appreciate the love the though! 😂

The amount of adults just now accepting that designer labels are a scam—bc of the Chinese ppl telling us on TikTok—is alarming. There’s nothing wrong with paying a bit more for quality, but paying 10x plus more for a name is ridiculous. No way u thought there was a legit reason that purse cost 12k

It’s taking me forever to get through this book. It started to pick up, but now I realize I just don’t like the main character. The rest of the story is okay.