At last count I have 16, including this one! ⬇️

Periodic reminder that if you don't like writing, you don't have to do it. By which I mean find another hobby, not outsource the writing you claim to be doing.

I have a fine selection of bug memes.

Being able to talk about your craft with any degree of depth or complexity is about to become a very important skill, it seems.

“Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive” by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social from @othersidespec.bsky.social, “The Things You’ll Wish You’d Known” by @kkoopman.bsky.social from @smallwondersmag.com, and more short fic recs from @mariahaskins.co

AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:

Working on a new piece; thinking about star thistles, how in the western US they are an invasive and noxious weed that readily takes over land that has been disturbed and degraded. or something.

My parents read my writing--my mom is a poet and understands the work that goes into writing and publishing. Aside from that, outside my creative circles, not really. I have a few friends who know I write, but most have never expressed interest in reading any of it.

This is your periodic reminder that many prescription medications, especially psych meds and meds that treat heart conditions, can dramatically reduce your heat tolerance. If you're struggling right now (I know I am) please be gentle with yourself.

One day I will learn not to swallow my meds with fizzy water but today is not that day

In addition to physical media like books, DVDs, and video games, you know what your library probably also has? - a library of things - help filling out government forms - sewing machines - recording equipment - national parks passes - specialty crafting equipment - digital preservation tools

Know that libraries count things. How many people have cards, how many times a book or DVD or CD is checked out, etc. And then we take those numbers to our internal staff and say "look, people want this" to justify purchases, and then to local govts to say "look, we need to stay open".

Finally, bluesky reaches its apotheosis: ONLY alt text

Being in your 30s means your biggest opp is a household appliance

Contract signed! My sapphic vampire/viking/nuclear semiotics story "This Is Not a Place of Honor" will appear in a future issue of Otherside! ❄️🧛‍♀️

how to oneshot 95% of media discourse

habemus schism

The scale of disinformation about trans people is breathtakingly painful. These moral panics are orchestrated by institutions that seek to normalise transphobic segregation. We must continue to challenge media, political, legal rhetoric that erodes trans lives under the guise of “defending biology.”

20lbs today 💪 In previous attempts at regular lifting I always maxed out at 10lb dumbbells. Progress feels really, really good.

Back on my bullsh

- hot as balls out - not enough material to finish my knitting project (and shipping costs more than the single skein I need) - sewing machine mysteriously not working after a very expensive servicing (and I have a garment that needs to be finished for an event a week from now) 🙃

As someone who experiences Catholicism as a spectator sport this has been quite the morning

evergreen

Eye appointment today which means I can finally get new glasses and maybe stop having migraines all the time

Twisting and Bitturning ✎: brush pen and colored pencil

we are really struggling. if anyone can help and repost that would be amazing. if you send anything, let me know and I would be 100% willing to write a 500-1k ficlet or poem or something for a character/ship/whatever in return. please, we really need assistance.

Met a new friend this weekend

I heard they're widening the gyre? Hell yeah. I heard something is slouching towards us to be born and it has like, slow thighs or smth? Based imo

pov: waiting for that sweet sweet petrichor

At 30% currently!

guys i just found out about this thing called "journaling." it's like posting except only for you.

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Hey it’s Make a Terrible Comic day! Be nice to yourself or else #makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026

We're doing quarterly subscription drives now! Which means that the memes will continue until m̶o̶r̶a̶l̶e̶ subscriber numbers improve. Ok, or until the first of next month when we release a new issue. But you should still subscribe today! store.smallwondersma...

call your friends cute! call them hot! say i love you! fuck me dude ive spent twenty two years thinking i had to be polite about my friends when you should frankly be a little in love with everyone youre close with. they matter to you. let them know it

the problem with watching an ur text anime like Utena is you start to realise everything is Utena. And also that nothing is hitting the heights of Utena.

Contract signed! My flash story "To the Android I Saw Get Pushed onto the Tracks at the Archives Metro Station" will appear in a future issue of Orion's Belt 🤖

Book club scam email in my inbox this morning, absolutely gushing over my incredible writing in *checks notes* the entirety of Small Wonders issue 22

Had to physically restrain myself from going "I'm always saying this" out loud in the theatre today

4/4 🛡

Incredibly, I managed to accomplish both these things. Now I'm allowed to...work on something new? Big if true

Agenda for the day: - clean something - finally finish rewriting this story

I actually don't think we should be babyproofing fiction for the lowest common denominator

Once again, next month's bills are haunting me. I have until the 16th of July to pay off the biggest one (the bulk of this goal, at $350). Any extra just helps to keep me out of the red. Appreciate you all. Stay excellent to each other~ ko-fi.com/hyenalope/go...

On the day the horseshoe crabs came.

New personal painting. Inspired by the scene in Fantasia that I feel like I’ve built my entire art style and personality around.