My labradoodle maddy (very cute) sitting in my living room. I'm holding up a postcard with a cute cartoon dog and it says "attention chien gentil". Maddy looks like she's smiling and saying "oui je suis gentille"
Attention:
Big thanks to @short-reads.org and @autumnhouse.org for asking me to read at their event this weekend and printing these mini-zines of my story! They are kitten-approved.
Have you read Liz Moore? The God of the Woods is such a great literary slow burn. Totally different setting but similar to Tana French.
A picture of a packet of instant mash mix titled "smooth mashed potato"
[Sade voice 🎵]
You’d have to line up two hours early to get in!
I couldn’t believe how many
people were there!!
AWP feats of strength. At least half of those steps were while looking for coffee.
don’t doomscroll.
read a chapter instead.
I wrote this piece for anyone who tried to do virtual school with a screaming kindergartener during our most recent snowpocalypse.
“Broken pipes, broken furnace, broken will to have a functioning society.” By @halliepritts.bsky.social
Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/why-are-we-c...
the argument that AI somehow democratizes art relies on an assumption that it's artists (defined in this case as successful content creators) who are presumed to be withholding tools/talent and are therefore the cause of inequalities inherent within capitalism, rather than capitalism itself.
Same. Had it queued up in my audiobooks this whole last year.
Love this one
A collage of fourteen butterflies from my 2025 garden, top to bottom in three columns: Common Buckeye, American Lady, Pipevine Swallowtail, Cloudless Sulphur, Variegated Fritillary, Common Checkered-Skipper, Pearl Crescent. 2. Diana Fritillary, Giant Swallowtail, Red-spotted Purple, Gulf Fritillary. 3. Monarch, Queen, Question Mark butterfly. Northern Cross Timbers ecoregion 29a, 2025.
Happy New Year! 2025 was a shitty year in most ways, but it was a good year for butterflies. These guys (and you guys!) saved me from total despair. I hope you all will fortify yourselves against 2026 by planting more native plants: nativeplantfinder.nwf.org xerces.org/pollinator-c...
#butterflies
i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs
I have a new piece up @short-reads.org today about wassail choirs, strip clubs, New Zealand and a questionable life plan called the nonstop party wagon.
reconstructed Scythian looking a bit like a guy tending an impromptu bar at an outdoor cabaret punk event
dante made up an entire fake trip through hell just so he could talk about how he coincidentally saw every single one of his enemies there receiving graphically specific and tailor-made punishments
Image of an Alaskan bog with water and red moss in the foreground and trees in the background.
Let’s make 2026 the year of the bog. The world’s most unique and interesting plants, clean water, cooler climate. Bogs deserve our thanks, care, and deep respect. Please join me and love a bog today.
Love these. Makes me miss New Zealand.
I say this often but it bears repeating: if you make your money from creating art then you NEED to find an art or craft where you just do it for fun and don't try to be perfect or make any money from it, and when anyone tells you to monetise it you say 'No', because otherwise your soul will die.
Just ordered this! Excited to read!
They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab
Clothing tag includes item number and, next to “size,” says “Beavis”
Oh, thank god, it’s usually so hard to find things in my size
One of the things that gets me about this whole "replace people in publishing with AI" thing is that people in publishing (translators / editors / copy editors / authors / etc) are among the worst fucking paid people out there.
This week’s library read. From the 33 1/3 series
TIL the term geese-pilled and I‘m totally geese-pilled. I love their new album so much. Apparently I’m not alone!
I no longer believe art can save the world, but I believe still that it can save me. So in the face of chaos, misinformation, hatred & ignorance, I'm going to make more art, experience more, share more, pay for more & publish more. I started this in darkness & it'll continue to be my light. 🖤🤍
It’s so good!
