On a post about the J6 mob and similar groups, and mistakes re: forgiveness and unity, I posited that we need to go by horror movie rules, and I stand by that. Note: The closest I have come to political office is Dragon Age: Inquisition. This is basically fanfic/wishcasting.

Turning the Civil War from "a tragedy, brother against brother" into "The Good Guys Destroyed The Bad Guys" is necessary. It is absolutely essential. The fourth grade class I attended in the 1990s sang Dixie every morning and we need to completely stomp that out.

I like that Dark Woke has a patriotism rooted in the Civil War. We need this.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Fully embracing my cringelib normie wine aunt era and admitting that I’ve had “This Is What It Sounds Like” in my head for the last 8 hours or so.

Just eyeing US Healthcare in Cynical Romance Novelist and wondering if marriage of convenience is going to become a trope in contemporary novels now.

In re: a visual novel storyline that I kinda hate: dude, it's the apocalypse. I'm sure there are things about which I could care *less* than your mommy issues, but I'm having a hard time coming up with one.

I haven't created any, because I lack tech skills, but boy howdy have I *downloaded* a bunch. Removing Gale's beard and Harvey's mustache is only the start...

And the point is that you're *not* doing it Looking For Relationships, because Looking For Relationships comes off as creepy, desperate, and inauthentic regardless of gender. You're doing something you have a genuine interest in and thus developing a social life.

Dating app discussion has entered the discourse again, and on the one hand, apps are truly hell, but on the other hand, two out of the last three times I slept with a guy I didn't meet online, one turned out to think people were "too mean to climate change skeptics."

More writing life: being deeply frustrated by the extensive security of modern morgues/graves. Goddammit, why is it so hard for a hypnotized guy to get himself an unauthorized corpse and not know something's up the next day? Pine boxes and loose earth used to be good enough for us all!

A friend linked to this and I love it so much: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/fand...

Dangers of living with a writer, part #17, in which I announce "Well, time to kill some teenagers!" before picking up my laptop, making @sdschap.bsky.social's day more interesting.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

"You need to read books outside your comfort zone!" "Honey, if I want to do things I'm pretty sure I won't like...well, Worcester has a lot of singles bars."

The mid-list-sf-author-to-cult-leader pipeline is also established and profitable, come to think of that. Sure, eventually you die of benzos in someone else's RV, but who doesn't?

Job search: 50% applications, 50% wondering how crowded the Etsy Witch market is these days.

If your organization pays only in crypto, you should state that at the start of any offer. Some people may be fine with that, but IMO even the non-scam versions are inextricably tied to the worst type of techero, so that’s a hard no from me.

Also have COVID, so NyQuil and I decided to watch an episode of "Lady Lovelylocks," which I was obsessed with when I was six. It's...I would say it's not exactly timeless, but I don't know that it was ever time*ful*.

Meanwhile, on chat: "Hear me out. Maybe what this country needs is hot naked people explaining basic civics while they get it on. "Schoolhouse Cock," if you will." I am open to investors. As it were.

Mentioned on LinkedIn a while back, but other social media might be useful: I'm looking for a job! Editing or writing, ideally remote (I have elderly parents in PA and a long-term partner in the UK) but I could totally come into the office a couple times a week when I'm in MA, from $70K a year up.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

The great thing about regular Mayan-calendar-style end-of-the-world BS panics is that they provide great excuses for why A Paranormal Thing happens around a particular date. And if that date doesn't work for you, there's always another mystical shenanigan to use.

Reading "Paperbacks from Hell" again, and this time wishlisting a lot of the books. There was a certain charm about that back cover copy that ended in an ALL-CAPS iteration of the title: "Only one man could stop the menacing wall of oozing SLIME!"

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

“I can fix him” but the way Fonzie fixes a jukebox. This is basically the plot of Pride & Prejudice (albeit the fixing is unintentional), which is why it’s one of the few redemption arcs I like.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Listening to podcasts taking down anti-drug weirdness about people forcefully pushing drugs on you or slipping LSD in your food/drink or whatnot *and* podcasts discussing classified history shit: "...so basically the lesson here is don't party with the CIA."

Boyfriend has independently come up with “Castle Greyhawk-Tuah,” and I am proud of my influence.

I wish nothing but bad things for JK Rowling. Resinstate Jessie. Fire Aaron

Listening to a lot of true crime and requiring a moratorium on calling people "Dr. Death," no matter how homicidal and murdery they are. We have like a bakers' dozen of those motherfuckers and it makes titles confusing. Although it does give me a fun idea for a betting pool.

I would wear a "Jezebel spirit who uses filters on all her videos" T-shirt.

Dems should fight on every front. If Texas steals 5 seats, Dem states should redistrict 30 GOP members out of their districts. We should insist DOJ release the entire Epstein File. Not only shouldn't we bring knives to a gun fight, if they bring pistols, we should bring machine guns.

Just finished "How to Sell a Haunted House." First of all, absolutely recommend. This is my fourth Hendrix novel: Horrorstor was cool, Final Girl Support Group had a cool concept but I had trouble following the plot, and Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires...

Being stroppy on the weekend, in re: my recent repost: I am sympathetic to the disappearance of third spaces and the increasing time/money/medical pressure of end-stage capitalism that make it more difficult for anybody to make friends these days.

Also, some motherfucker named "James Frost" posted about how what, should cishet dudes just be aloooooooone foreeeeever unless they can match "social standards of acceptability," and...that is in fact how it works for every single gender, yes. "Social standards" vary from subgroup to subgroup...

So the thing about giving young men advice on getting laid from a left-wing perspective: in the abstract, it's a good idea. I'd certainly welcome attempts and might make a few myself. On the other hand, any left-wing advice on the subject is going to involve putting in actual, non-gamified effort--

Bestsellers Georg, who receives 7-8 figure advances for his books, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Explaining "interrogating the text from the wrong perspective" to the boyfriend, fell down a fanlore rabbit hole, now tempted to construct a fantasy cosmology based on early-2Ks fandom nonsense. Actors have "duplicate souls" that can replace yours! You can marry fictional characters on the Astral!

I wonder how much the convention of only the first one or two sex scenes in a novel being explicit influenced my mid-twenties tendency to lose interest in a guy after we’d been banging for a couple months. 😉

lol based gf (ex gf)

“Don’t call because it won’t work” => MasterCard and Visa both have started saying things to get people to STOP calling. Whether “we escalated and are expecting a policy update” or “here is a boilerplate statement we read to our callers” If they didn’t care, they wouldn’t be deescalating us

The Itch/Steam thing dropped off the trending tab. Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls. If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.

Create NSFW art Porn is not evil, sex is not abhorrent, pleasure is not a crime Even if you don't agree with all kinks doesn't mean they should be allowed to censor art This is why we have tags and the blick button, not megacorps deciding what we can and cannot like Always resist oppression

Because I'm petty: mentioned Cursive People over on Le FB, and a friend who's an actual doctor was like "...a written prescription? In cursive? JFC. If the entire Internet goes down or we lose power, I write in block printing. Obviously."

Cursive People arguments get really bizarre: "What if you have to read a prescription? Or a birth certificate? Or the back of a painting?" Well, I'm not a pharmacist, a genealogist, or an art historian, nor am I involved in some sort of bizarre Agatha Christie drama...

AND WHILE WE'RE HERE: Testing on memorization of names/dates/etc is bullshit. It's 2025, and except for a very weird off-brand Saw scenario, if I need to know exactly when the Battle of Bull Run happened, I can look that up.

Thinking about it: a lot of my problem with subjects like cursive or PE or math (or the way they were taught in the US from 1987-2001, in fairness), is that education doesn't differentiate between: