A real opportunity for malicious compliance here

It really jumped out at me in In Cold Blood when the book discusses the Clutter family history. I think Harper Lee at least wrote large parts of that section

parts of this book are way too aware of postpartum depression and women’s interior lives for this not to be somewhat true

marked safe from glasses & bangs aesthetic

West 4th to Carroll St F train leg of this trip to Brooklyn is the uncoolest I have ever felt

I really wish some of these agents in fandom spaces would think to ask authors not to pull & republish their popular fanfics but instead ask if they are, or have thought of, writing an original work

There is a connection between the previously-self-published Shy Girl AI novel that was pulled and all of these reworked fanfic novels, and that is that publishers think it’s more profitable and safer to ‘flip’ successful projects instead of investing in original work.

this is like when I asked the IKEA help bot for pieces for a shelf and it sent me a picture of a chair. It was not even an IKEA chair

why does the mask at the top have laser demon eyes like the Predator

It’s the grift life cycle. In Bridget Read’s history of MLMs Little Bosses Everywhere she ends with the cottage industry of former Mary Kay sellers becoming business consultants to other former Mary Kay sellers and encouraging THEM to become business consultants to former Mary Kay sellers

a rare situation where I just want the nepo baby to go run his irrelevant business nobody asked for in peace. Yes go launch your Yerba Mate brand with your bros

wow cancelled ❌❌🚫

a woman singing into a microphone with the words wait they don 't love you like i love you on the bottom Alt: a woman singing into a microphone with the words wait they don 't love you like i love you on the bottom

when there's competition to sign scholarly monographs

Despite the weird AI disguises they used to hide the minor children (not needed at all), the FLDS Trust Me docuseries on Netflix is legitimately very good. Excellent narrative pacing & structure, a lot of empathy, an interesting parallel between the various kinds of callings the characters all feel

I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will

Struggling with the work/WW3 balance.

Gus, I feel you

#can we #at least get #long discursive hashtags #if we have to endure #everything else

notebook from Girl Noise Press, a composition book with several photos from Buffy the Vampire Slayer collaged on the cover. Behind it is another notebook that is bright pink

writing project that I’m using to procrastinate on working on my other writing project with is getting to the ‘having its own notebook’ phase

this would be a great episode for the new reboot of X-Files

“experts are dubious”

conversely, I like April because it's when The Hibernation begins

I think we should let him have this one

Also your book is stressing me out @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social…why did we make the physical internet all in one place

Screengrab from The Storygraph showing that I’m currently reading 6 books. Preview images: Kink Ed. RO Kwon; Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Read; Underground Empire by Henry Farrell & Abe Newman

It’s the time of year where my currently reading pile gets real ADHD

can’t claim any credit—gift from my stepdad to my husband!

my hand holding a coffee cup on my lap on my couch, wearing a blanket. On the tv across the room is a true crime show with a shot of a bunch of money taken as evidence

first day off in 11 days; not moving

that sounds useful

…dollars?

The thing they don’t tell you is that many of these wacky concoctions are only available in VIP lounges you have to pay extra to access ☹️ I was so excited to try all the Queens specialties at Citi Field but most were paywalled