Black cat sleeping on pale green bedding

Black cat curled up on orange couch

It’s my sweet Flora girl’s ninth birthday today, my earth day bb 🐈‍⬛🖤

I’ve been hearing only good things!

Thank you!! <3

"I swear sometimes I rose a fraction, / like the moment a kestrel hovers mid-flight / before diving."

Lovely piece by the lovely Katherine Garrison!

thank you! I've only been once for a campus visit last month, so really looking forward to getting to know the city!

anyway, really excited to share that I'm moving to Wisconsin this summer to start my MFA in fiction at UW-Madison in the fall! feeling immensely grateful for the privilege to spend the next two years writing, learning, and teaching <3

Learning to sew and just googled “french seam start bad bad or good good together”

Incredible story by the ever-talented
@bendaggerswrites.bsky.social!

if i ever come off as a tryhard and/or wannabe, please know that i am trying very hard and i desperately want to be

I talk about the weather too much, but how can I not when a sunny day slips in for a visit before retuning to frosty mornings for a while yet. How can I not when grass crunches below and unnaturally green buds peep from dull branches and the air is warm enough to smell of manure again. Almost sweet.

This has been on my list for so long! If not for a full on pick, I’ll definitely add it to the side-quest list

Book covers for: The Devil Wears Prada (Weisberger, Lauren), The One Hundred Nights of Hero (Greenberg, Isabel), Stolen (Laestadius, Ann-Helén), Crooked House (Christie, Agatha), Hamnet (O'Farrell, Maggie), The Long Walk (Bachman, Richard), Sisters (Johnson, Daisy), Sophie and the Rising Sun (Trobaugh, Augusta), The Nickel Boys (Whitehead, Colson), Elvis and Me (Presley, Priscilla Beaulieu), Bones & All (DeAngelis, Camille), All of Us Strangers (Yamada, Taichi), Queer (Burroughs, William S.), Eileen (Moshfegh, Ottessa), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (McDonagh, Martin), Nightbitch (Yoder, Rachel), Poor Things (Gray, Alasdair), The Double (Saramago, José), Desert of the Heart (Rule, Jane), The Kite Runner (Hosseini, Khaled), White Noise (DeLillo, Don), Call Me by Your Name (Aciman, André), Requiem for a Dream (Selby Jr., Hubert), We Need to Talk About Kevin (Shriver, Lionel), The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao (Batalha, Martha), No Country for Old Men (McCarthy, Cormac), The Cider House Rules (Irving, John), The Stepford Wives (Levin, Ira), Heartburn (Ephron, Nora), My Best Friend's Exorcism (Hendrix, Grady), Girl, Interrupted (Kaysen, Susanna), The Goldfinch (Tartt, Donna), A Room with a View (Forster, E.M.), Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence, D.H.), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson, Hunter S.), Atonement (McEwan, Ian), Fight Club (Palahniuk, Chuck), The Road (McCarthy, Cormac), The Color Purple (Walker, Alice), The Glass Castle (Walls, Jeannette), Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary), Wuthering Heights (Brontë, Emily)

What's your fav book>>>movie adaptation where you love both the book and film? My script-to-screen book club is about to start another round and I'm looking for ideas! Open to most genres, themes, fiction and non, etc. Here's what we've read and watched over the last few years (titles in alt text):

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Struggling lately with holding both joy and despair together at once. Harder every day to feel excitement, delight, pleasure of the smallest degree when the world is mean mean mean.

blue graphic with an outline of the United States. Red and white text reads: Call. National Book Banning Bill Proposed in US House of Reps. Tell your rep: Vote no on H.R. 7661.

We've had a day to pull a few things together, so here's a thread some more targeted info opposing the potential national book ban just proposed in the House of Representatives.

I fear bothering people to an unhealthy extent, like, there's this little mental nudge I have to give myself to *heart a stranger's post* online (amongst MANY other things). It's some strange irrational whisper that I might be bothering them in some way and it gives me pause what is wrong with meee

"This story is leaning too close to a stranger and laughing at things that aren't funny."

This story unfolds in the most sublime and devastating of ways.

Hand holding the novel Tinkers by Paul Harding

“I am a tinker; the moon is an egg glowing in its nest of leafless trees—“

lovely, whimsical, yearning, vast

Would've loved to go to AWP this year but I (a) spent the money on grad school apps instead (exciting news to share abt that soon) and (b) I've been down bad with an evil, evil cold this week, so I suppose I'm exactly where I need to be! I hope you're all having a beautiful time (:

Couldn't imagine a more beautiful, sun-drenched February day for drinks and Swan Lake with the Gals this eve <3

something about "...and then laid on our backs on the floor." really hits for me

"The growing moonbounce of his walk, his arms slightly levitating off the dinner table when we ate together."

Love love love this surreal and yet all too real piece by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social

Excited to be bringing four new @mooncitypress.bsky.social
titles to the @awpwriter.org conference: a new issue of
@mooncityreview.bsky.social and new books by @ifeoluwaayandele.bsky.social, @joelhans.com, and
@kimmagowan.bsky.social.

Today I'm thinking of February rain, tungsten-hued highways on early morning commutes, a Monster energy drink poured into a nondescript insulated mug so observers don't know you're drinking a Monster, chartreuse sweaters, magenta suede Mary Janes, the awful things, the awful people, and the good.

RIP Bud Court—Harold and Maude was extremely important to me as an insufferable goth child.

The pink skyline brushing along snow in the park across from my house this morning reminds me that the days will get longer again, that they already are.

Oh, I'm feeling anxious in my body, mind, and soul? More caffeine will definitely help !

"Now everyone’s heads are like wasp nests buzzing with alarm—the blustering abroad, the vengeance at home, the ever-metastasizing conspiracy theories."

Yet another haunting and deeply poignant story by the talented @jaimegill.bsky.social. I wish this one felt more like fiction.

Wow I’m so grateful for this community! Thank you Matt and Chris for including me here. Be sure to check out the full list!

Thank you thank you thank you @iamchrisscott.bsky.social and @mattkendrick.bsky.social for highlighting me! Seriously honored to be included here <3