For far too long, this country has been governed by people who were either unable or simply unwilling to post brief videos of themselves being bitten multiple times by snakes that they had just picked up for some reason,

We're in the single digits! THE WEDDING by Vandana Nair will be available in 9 DAYS! With advance praise from Matt Young - author of EAT THE APPLE - you can preorder THE WEDDING right here: bit.ly/4gNXvgd @susanschulman.bsky.social

how the most dangerous thing is to love

I think it's absolutely beautiful that people are booing AI cogsuckers at their college graduations. The kids are all right.

I wonder what the old man wants with this lump of foul lard

When I used to write for The Guardian, every time I wrote the word “meow” the editors would change it to “miaow”. It used to really get on my wick. Don’t try to make my cats sound like your upper middle class London cats, you fuckers. My cats did not go to your posh cat schools. They say “meow”.

I keep internally singing "DEPRESSION!!!!! THE PAPA!" like that's how fiddler on the roof actually goes

In case you missed it, I wrote a whole story about the Brady Bunch and Greek drama and Wonder Woman and E.A. Poe just for you, you know, just to see if I could lastsyllablelit.com/canis-ex-mac...

Everybody's always trying to get me to do anything BUT write my effing book

WHY INDEED

Looking for evocative, title-like phrases about animals that @adamalsirgany.bsky.social can exuberantly shout at complete strangers several years from now. Got any ideas?

The fun thing about writing is you have to do it forever

I am in that strange limbo my employing institution likes to create between the end of final grading and the beginning of TOMATO GIRL SUMMER and I hate it

Am reading a history book in which the author keeps referring to a 5 year period as a 'quinquennium', and while I realise this is technically correct, I am also aware that this is the kind of thing that puts people off reading scholarly texts.

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

You should write your book now so you can write it without having to write it for the rest of your life after that

Every time I start to type "bluesky" into Google to get here, it thinks I'm trying to Google "boys' love" and I find that hilarious

Check it out! @prettyminotaur.bsky.social was recently interviewed by Book Companion where she got to talk about history, writing short stories, and HORSE SHOW! buff.ly/xDECoTH Treat yourself to HORSE SHOW right here: buff.ly/y5dcb3d @susanschulman.bsky.social

no simultaneous submissions? in this economy?

My favorite thing is when you stop petting a dog and they put their paw on your arm like, "we're not done here."

I simply can’t believe Congress and the cabinet are sitting around, totally fine with what is absolutely demented behavior from the president.

never forget when the Easter Bunny sent Teddy Roosevelt to the shadow realm

"Once unleashed into the grassy yard of a narrative, even the most well-crafted canis ex machina will set to roaming the perimeter, snuffling out plot holes like loose planks in a fence line. It’s in the trope’s very nature to test boundaries, to slip any collar an author tries to buckle on."

got myself a new game 🙏

Has anyone ever, ever received an email that began with the word "Respectfully..." that was actually respectful? Asking for a friend.

Today I'm sharing one of my favorite Internet rabbit holes: The Museum of Aquarium and Pet History. moaph.org

"Once unleashed into the grassy yard of a narrative, even the most well-crafted canis ex machina will set to roaming the perimeter, snuffling out plot holes like loose planks in a fence line. It’s in the trope’s very nature to test boundaries, to slip any collar an author tries to buckle on."

This rarely-seen Glass Octopus was caught on camera. The clear sea creature was filmed by an underwater robot during an expedition off of the Phoenix Islands more than 3,200 miles northeast of Sydney, Australia. Original post

"the tears of things" is so damn epic i feel like i have to hype U2 like they're some new indie band you should hear just put aside your feelings about that ancient apple itunes debacle and listen... www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4pB...

If you have the AUDACITY to play video games on "easy" or "story" mode... I want you to know that I think that's a perfectly acceptable way to enjoy a video game that you paid for because you're supposed to enjoy your favorite pastime any way you like. Real life's hard enough. Enjoy your hobby. 🫶

📚️Current TBR Stack: Ring of Earth by William Woolfitt Palace of Deception: Museum Men and the Rise of Scientific Racism by Darrin Lunde The Art Thief by Michael Finkel Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social) Man-Size in Marble and Other Horrors by E. Nesbit

📺️ Currently Watching: Pluribus Fear Factor: House of Fear Dickinson

Up next in our #SFWPAuthorRecs is @prettyminotaur.bsky.social, author of HORSE SHOW! Swipe to see what Jess is currently up to! 📖 Currently Reading: The Stories of John Cheever My Wonderful World of Slapstick by Buster Keaton The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

Add a little green to your bookshelves on this #StPatricksDay with books by @pagankennedy.bsky.social, @lizprato.bsky.social, @prettyminotaur.bsky.social, Lindsay Barry, & George Shipway! buff.ly/d6JIAqu @susanschulman.bsky.social

No one: ... Absolutely no one: ... My brain: LONDON NEW YORK PARIS MUNICH EVERYBODY'S TALKIN' 'BOUT MMMMM POP MUSIC!!!! TALK ABOUT! POP MUSIC!

I ran out of unbuilt legos so I built another IKEA KALLAX and it's kind of the same thing?

you know you wanna find out how the brady bunch is related to edgar poe. you do. you just don't know that about yourself yet.

I just learned that the fiction writer Marly Swick has passed away. She was a dear friend and generous mentor, and the world is a far darker place without her.

happy women's day! why not celebrate with Girl Violence? I write a lot of Girl Violence :3 it could be said, as a matter of fact, that Girl Violence is the primary focus of my work tinylesbianrobot.itch.io www.amazon.com/stores/Kay-F...

AWP Photo Dump, in Achronological Order III: Amidst a vicious battle for the next books of @danhoyt.bsky.social & @prettyminotaur.bsky.social, Andrew Gifford & Miette Gillette catch me sneaking a photo of the @mazebooks.bsky.social buttons on Miette’s jacket and my own doomed fate is sealed…

What an interesting writer @prettyminotaur.bsky.social is - I never know quite where her facts end and her fiction begins - but I don't care - this playful provocative piece that ranges from Aristotle to the Brady Bunch is a delight lastsyllablelit.com/canis-ex-mac...

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn. The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’ Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’

Read my newest story, CANIS EX MACHINA, over at @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social ! lastsyllablelit.com/issue-vi

With all apologies to Woolf and all the casualties of both world wars, “I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times”

I am writing about eels and discovering it is rather easy to reach linguistic satiation with the word "eel." eel. eel. eel.

I do not have a taco, but what if I did.

also @tacobellquarterly.org just followed me back and it finally feels like blue sky matters now

yesterday i got steroid injections in my spine which was scary and also halfway through prep I realized my (south asian) doctor had to peep the ill-advised tramp stamp i got in my 20s and it's in SANSKRIT and holy cultural appropriation batman but he naturally said nothing as the professional he is