I just got asked by an interviewer my advice for aspiring writers, so I'll put it here too:

Store at least 5 gallons of water per person and a week’s worth of food in your pantry. Connect with your local mutual aid organizations, or start your own.

5 reasons to follow me:

1) I gush about my books, your books, everybody’s books!
2) I’m a disaster queer flailing through life…but I’m funny.
3) I give internet hugs if you need them.
4) I’m the editor friend everyone needs.
5) I share spicy snippets of my WIPs.

The first two episodes of The Orchid's Lion are up now on Kindle Vella! See The Orchid and the Lion from Laith's POV. It won't be a tired rehashing of the first book--everyone's favorite sub had an adventure of his own. Come check it out!

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If you have a trauma history, chances are setting boundaries will spike some very real, VERY physical anxiety reactions.

DON'T let your racing pulse & clammy hands convince you you're wrong to set a boundary or that you can't do it-- your body's just responding to old tapes.

“Hello, Sssteve!”
-Oh, fuck.
“I want a piggyback ride, Sssteve.”
-No.
“Gonna jut hop on.”
-Nope. Nuh-uh. N—ugh, fine.
“Thisss isss nice…I like when we do thisss…You missssssssed a spot.”
-Oh, piss off, Greg!
“Sssee you next Tuesssday.”

is it “booktok drama” or is it just racism being rightfully addressed and called out? 😀

i know the essential worker topic has been talked to death, but it’s worth noting that the hardest i’ve ever worked was for a chain restaurant, and that’s coming from someone who now owns a successful marketing business (not including the online sw).

trans & nonbinary book of 2023 🏳️‍⚧️ : a thread

(that have been announced so far)

Journalists: when reporting on the bomb threats against sick kids with cancer at Boston Children's hospital, it's important that you USE THE REAL NAMES of the provocateurs who have been targeting this hospital for weeks.

Chaya Raichik. Marjorie Taylor Green. Matt Walsh.

I want to talk about a practice that should be unlawful but isn’t:

companies and institutions demanding unpaid labor during the job interview process.

THREAD.

forget sex on page one, they’re going to start doing it in the synopsis

Boston Children's Hospital is closed off because of a bomb threat. All because Libs of TikTok was offended at gender affirming care for trans teens.

Her mob explicitly stated violent intent.

This isn't even the 1st time she's led stochastic terrorism leading to bomb threats.
🧵

Hello, are you ready to be emotionally devastated?

I told the interns I had “negative spoons” and my 3 yr old went and GOT ME A SPOON out of the utensil drawer 😭😭😭😩

What’s a girl gotta do

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So Elon Musk is doubling down on this 'we need to have more kids' thing. It's clear by now that the 'we' who should be having more kids here is white people, and the under-population myth is a white supremacist trope related to the idea that white people are being replaced.

Every ADHD'er at some point: 'What if I don't really have ADHD?'

What if I just have a complex series of personal flaws that map on to ADHD, experiences that are incredibly relatable to other people with ADHD, and every failing in my life is entirely and unequivocally my fault?

Mart GUARD: Ho, adventurer! Have you brought me 𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨?

> give wings to guard

The guard opens the gate. You may now enter Philadelphia.

GUARD: Very well! Would you like another quest?

> y

GUARD: Then bring me 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙬𝙖 𝙝𝙤𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨.