Sometimes I tell myself, "Put down the book and go do something." Then I tell myself, "Be quiet." Grammarly Cards

Hush, now. 😄

Photo of the products for the first theme of the sticker club: a sticker sheet with fanfic themed cats, an illustraded postal card with a woman sitting in a void, looking at her phone and a galaxy behind her, with the text "Lost in Fanfiction", a vynil sticker of the postal card illustration and a vynil sticker of a cat reading a book

Here's what you get if you pledge to my sticker club before May 1st!

patreon.com/naiveheart
ko-fi.com/maybarros

Lots of weird around here!

The shit I write is only getting weirder and I freaking love it

#WriteSky

Image of milky way with text: International Dark Sky Week April 13-10, 2026 Learn about light pollution, what causes it, why it is bad, and all the ways we can stop it, all week here and in my newsletter! melaniemeadors.substack.com Space for the Rest of Us

It's almost #internationaldarkskyweek! All week long I will be sharing tips on how you can cut down on light pollution. Plus, over on my Substack, I'll give more in-depth information and tips!

Do you consider novellas???

Please please PLEASE show support to all of the Iranians in your life right now. Here’s a starter pack of all of the amazing Iranian artists and creatives I know!!

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Why does my tea taste like pickles???

My 8 y/o wanted to make food today so with minimal help she made me an omelet for breakfast and just finished profiteroles from scratch and damn, they’re good

As first mostly-solo projects go, these are pretty impressive!

I wanted to spend the morning working on my newsletter. Instead, I'm on hold with the insurance company 🤦‍♀️ (nothing bad--just getting info updated that they've had wrong for...years...)

A chatbot is always going to produce a statistically likely sentence. It is always going to tell you what's routine, likely, "normal." It will not help you break out of cliche. It's MADE of things-already-said. It cannot say anything particularly new.

Is it too late to nominate this thread for a Hugo

Nope, not an April Fool's Day joke. We've got a great deal today on a graphic edition of the US Constitution. Ship it to your senator as a reminder, leave it in a Little Free Library, read it to reassure yourself that you aren't completely losing it.

Microcosm.pub/dealoftheday

Yay! I just reserved my hotel room for ReaderCon so it looks like I'll finally be going back for the first time in...8 years?

Have fun in Halifax! I need to keep that one in mind for the future...

Will you be at ReaderCon this year???

Thank you, past me, for setting time limits for the worst of my mindless scrolling

Interesting how when people say "What is a [name]" instead of "Who is [name]", the name is almost always that of a POC. Gotta get that dehumanization in.

To recap my week in #writing:

-looks like I'll probably be teaching that workshop series with Adult Ed in the fall!
-revised a flash piece
-started a new short story
-received a super helpful and encouraging agent rejection 💜

#winning

Fair warning: sooner or later, I'm going to add to your queue again!

April 17-19 and 24-26 at the Criterion!

Guys, I pretty much only do community theatre but this is the most “community theatre” attitude I’ve taken towards a show 😂

It’s weird

In a good way! But weird

2 more weeks of regular rehearsals, then tech and opening

I’d be a lot more stressed about the state of the show if I weren’t approaching it as “this is a fun thing to do with my kid” instead of being artistically invested

#TheatreSky

Not me absolutely forgetting what time school dismisses today

It's only the same time as every Friday all school year long for the last 4 years...

🫠

#ParentSky

Just Musing here…

This is soooo pretty!

My husband's great-grandfather did something similar

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

Until cis white dudes stop pretending the world is out to get them versus they're the ones fucking over the rest of the world, they are "at arms' length until exhibit 101 understanding of their actual place in the privilege tier" for me.

Cis white women, not far behind.

"Help me," the duke said. "My physicians can't say what ails me, but I've lost all pleasure in what I used to enjoy."

The witch examined him, and paused over his hand.

"Nice ring. It is new?"

"A recent gift from the king. Why? Is it cursed?"

It was made to dampen cruelty.

"No," said the witch.

A sticker from ohmygollyembroidery on Etsy that says Trans Lives Are More Important Than Harry Potter.