I don’t care about your legal name tell me your illegal name

i mean... if it's just more horrible things we have to know but that nothing's done about (and that the average person couldn't do anything about) and ruins everything only for those not responsible... yeah, i might be with you.

can we bring back secrets? like in general? like not the dangerous shit, but like.... i did not consent to knowing all the weird kinks and shit of like everyone with a platform.

you have to know how to love something ugly

i need to know what this one is and where to watch it...

Smoliv looking tense in the foreground in the back is a home engulfed in flames

someone give this man a press.

But then I crave a writing collective anyway, for a lot of knowledge and resource sharing across the board. There's just so much to know its hard to figure it all out! And socials is a big part of that.

i redid mine a couple years ago and might have made it worse 🥲 -- we need to like... make a small collective that pools resources to get us a manager or something who knows how to do this, like yo want to come fix us? We don't need a ton but like something.

I'm so bad at it when I almost had a book drop I got myself a life size skeleton (Hubert) so he could do the promo for me because he's just so much more lifelike than I am, but its so much work! And yes, too much perception!

Yeahhhh I had to turn my camera on for a call yesterday and have been trying to dig a hole for myself ever since, I don't know how people do it. Like... I know I should try harder/do better with my socials presence (especially on insta) but no clue how to go about it.

you're supposed to take pics of your face (do I HAVE a face??) I just try to remember to post if something new drops...

The longer I live, the more I become convinced that the only thing that matters in literature is the (more or less less irrational) shamanism of a book, i.e. that the writer is first of all an enchanter.

- Nabokov to Edmund Wilson, 27 Nov. 1946

I second this, how else will I know the drama?

You’ll survive but you’ll be funnier in ways that worries people

Let's get some book love going! Please tell me your favorite thing about your book and add a link of where people can get it 🥺😍

Or, if no book, shout out your most recent piece of writing!

Writing is fun!*

*If you literally expect nothing else from it!

all that to say:

find a writer whose work youre curious about then support that writer by buying their book(s) or the journals they appear in or the podcast they host or simply borrow their work from the library. & THEN, very importantly (if so inclined), plz write a review of their work. it helps.

Poetry fails, in each poem, to be as good as poetry ought to be-or as I somehow think it somewhere is, somewhere I'm not looking. Every flesh is flawed and poems are flesh.

– Donald Hall

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

Before I die, I hope to see a strange and beautiful world growing from the ruins of this one

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

just zombie-walking through the day, wanting to puke at everything happening, but forced to continue to do my silly little tasks like everything's normal.

napowrimo is just being too hard this year. it's too soon for me to already be hitting my panic button.

Norman Rockwell free speech guy

leave the moon alone

it really is, truly easter is an underrated horror-trope

I went to grad school at BGSU and on the walk from where we'd do readings to the bar we'd go to after we'd walk past this big house that had a literal canon on the porch and in an upstairs window an easter bunny suit on a mannequin just staring out the window year round. This reminds me of that.

kiss me like you tripped into my mouth as a joke in a sitcom or an anime and we're never going to be able to look each other in the eye ever again.

Thank youuu!!!!

Anyone who’s telling you that you HAVE to use AI or else you’ll fall behind is lying to you and/or trying to sell you something