When I was in college, me and a small Discord server of overly-online nerds wrote a bunch of songs for a musical based on the podcast Wolf 359, and if Gabriel Urbina and Sarah Shachat decided that was something the world needed, I would get back on that horse immediately.

If that's treble clef, then it's a crying bebe.

On the bright side, my dishes are all done

I love attending a little show but sometimes sitting in the dark watching stuff for two+ hours seriously unlocks my anxiety. Got home from a dance showcase & had to spend four hours cleaning my entire apartment to make the demons go away

I edit as I write, and a lot of people who like to give advice on this sort of thing have indicated that this is Bad Practice, but I've tried the other way and it doesn't work for me.

There are two wolves #writing this book right now, and one of them thinks she is writing a creepy little fantasy/fable about some wizards that stole the sun, but the other one desperately wants ecologists to think she's cool. #AGlimmerofDarkness

Did a reading of my sock puppet Batman musical, and the woman playing Catwoman has an Eartha Kitt impression, so things are going better than previously imagined.

Going to see one, maybe two friends perform this weekend, and then a table read of a play I wrote!

Why does Sam Altman look like a guy who would say "Ain't I a stinker?" unironically

Messadena historically specialized in ranching and pottery. The pottery industry has since died out but they still have...cattle with steel bones! Undead fire breathing horses! Radiation-eating mushrooms! And a giant cow skeleton who is a very good girl.

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

I don't know how to end this. I hope it is not taken as an attack on any other kind of queer story. We need them all. Thank you to all of you who are writing them.

my work to queer publications or contests. Should I only submit something if a character comes out on the page? I don't want to elbow my way into a space where I don't belong. But neither do I want to tell stories in which the characters must always stop and say what they are not. 🧵

I honestly couldn't tell you how many of my characters are ace. Maybe all of them. Some of them are explicitly ace - they put the word to it. Most don't, but it didn't seem fair they should then be presumed allo. Sometimes I struggle to figure out if it's appropriate for me to submit 🧵

beginning to scratch the surface of what that means. On the flip side, I write about loneliness. I write characters that struggle to make themselves understood. That don't have good words for how they feel or what they are. These things are also part of my experience as an ace person. 🧵

I've written many stories about siblings, by blood or not. I've written plenty friendships, sure, and also plenty of strangers as ships crossing in the night. I've written stories from the perspectives of communities. I've written stories about symbiosis. Humans are symbiotes too, and we're only 🧵

fine things to write and certainly happen, but they aren't what interest me about asexuality. Ultimately, what makes me queer is the understanding that the standard scripts for relationship-building aren't right for me. And that, therefore, it is desirable to imagine new ones.🧵

But to clearly identify a character as ace, you have to call attention to what is absent. There has to be a scene where they are flirted with and must rebuff it, or meet someone allegedly hot and "not see it", or enter a relationship and need to navigate a lack of attraction. These are all 🧵

the only maybe-ace characters I was aware of at the time were Sherlock Holmes and Sheldon BigBangTheory, so you can maybe see my confusion. I also knew of 0 ace people irl.) I digress 🧵

On one hand, representation is important, and I am grateful to other writers who have given me clearly labeled ace characters. There weren't many of those when I was younger, and there was a stretch where I thought I couldn't possibly be ace because I wasn't smart enough ( which sounds nuts but 🧵

It's International #asexuality day and, coincidentally, I've been thinking a lot about my place as an ace writer. Although I am proud to be queer and cheerfully out to anyone who cares, I struggle with how overtly I should announce my characters as ace. 🧵

Sherlock House

This bird shops at Hot Topic

I am writing April Fools Day 'fun facts' for the library and realizing how much my sense of humor was influenced by early Welcome to Night Vale. Every joke I have ever made would be 10x funnier if read in Cecil Baldwin's voice

Gender is a performance and everyone can tell that I haven't been practicing

I keep on thinking that I should talk more about writing on here, but other than posting "did it" every time I do it, I don't know that that would entail.

I am not one to complain about linguistic shifts, but as someone who works in a library, it is odd how many Kids These Days TM you hear saying "rent" when they mean "borrow." Renting costs $! You can take stuff out of here for free!

I love alt text because my internet is slow af and I need to know whether it's worth waiting for the image to load

Book cover of Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

The nonfiction kick continues, I'm about halfway through this one now and already recommending it to people. Nature is wild y'all #booksky