Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉
@erinvachon.bsky.social
Senior Reviews Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor, Split/Lip Press
I HEARD A GHOST STORY OF GOTH ROMANCE my cold dead heart is healed
Before I do a ton of work I am going to go on a brief tourist ghost tour of the city I have lived in for a million years, because I need to believe that good things still exist.
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I HEARD A GHOST STORY OF GOTH ROMANCE my cold dead heart is healed
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What happens to disabled people WILL ALWAYS happen to you.
November 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
What happens to disabled people WILL ALWAYS happen to you.
Before I do a ton of work I am going to go on a brief tourist ghost tour of the city I have lived in for a million years, because I need to believe that good things still exist.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Before I do a ton of work I am going to go on a brief tourist ghost tour of the city I have lived in for a million years, because I need to believe that good things still exist.
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So far I lost my wallet (found it), and I've gotten water inside my phone.
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
So far I lost my wallet (found it), and I've gotten water inside my phone.
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LIVE: Lava flowing from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano
View of lava flowing from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. According to the United States Geological Survey, Kilauea is ‘one of the world's most active volcanoes’ and has been erupting periodically since December 23, 2024.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGFV...
View of lava flowing from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. According to the United States Geological Survey, Kilauea is ‘one of the world's most active volcanoes’ and has been erupting periodically since December 23, 2024.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGFV...
LIVE: Lava flowing from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
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November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
LIVE: Lava flowing from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano
View of lava flowing from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. According to the United States Geological Survey, Kilauea is ‘one of the world's most active volcanoes’ and has been erupting periodically since December 23, 2024.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGFV...
View of lava flowing from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. According to the United States Geological Survey, Kilauea is ‘one of the world's most active volcanoes’ and has been erupting periodically since December 23, 2024.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGFV...
I’m beginning to think that politicians don’t care about us
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I’m beginning to think that politicians don’t care about us
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Some of the most gratifying donations I give are to Gazans like @nurrsseee.bsky.social, who is trying so hard to care for his family. Please join me and donate if you can.
@mommunism.bsky.social ✅
@slimyswampghost.bsky.social ✅
🚨URGENT🚨
My family from Gaza is pleading with you to donate $100 so we can buy a tent to live in. We are homeless & without a tent. Winter is coming & we are without tent.
Your donation will save our live😭
Please support⬇️
paypal.me/nursehammam
@slimyswampghost.bsky.social ✅
🚨URGENT🚨
My family from Gaza is pleading with you to donate $100 so we can buy a tent to live in. We are homeless & without a tent. Winter is coming & we are without tent.
Your donation will save our live😭
Please support⬇️
paypal.me/nursehammam
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Some of the most gratifying donations I give are to Gazans like @nurrsseee.bsky.social, who is trying so hard to care for his family. Please join me and donate if you can.
they’re obsessed with each other I love them so much
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
they’re obsessed with each other I love them so much
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in case the evening crowd missed it - thanks @tomsnarsky.bsky.social (and on #smallpoemsunday to boot!)
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Two Poems by Adrian Dallas Frandle
Our Record
to & with & for M—
Affixed
to our file,
a note in
red:
The patients are writers
This, then
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November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
in case the evening crowd missed it - thanks @tomsnarsky.bsky.social (and on #smallpoemsunday to boot!)
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...
www.havehashad.com/hadposts/our...
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My heart actually beats faster when I’m in a flow state; it feels a little like falling in love, like making eye contact with a crush from across the room. Does it happen every time? No. But it happens enough to make the act worth it.
100% this.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
My heart actually beats faster when I’m in a flow state; it feels a little like falling in love, like making eye contact with a crush from across the room. Does it happen every time? No. But it happens enough to make the act worth it.
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I am always grateful for students who take their writing assignments seriously. It's a joy to read their work.
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I am always grateful for students who take their writing assignments seriously. It's a joy to read their work.
They should add a couple of days to the end of the week so everyone can sleep and recuperate. I’ve heard of a “weekend,” but never experienced this mythical creature.
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
They should add a couple of days to the end of the week so everyone can sleep and recuperate. I’ve heard of a “weekend,” but never experienced this mythical creature.
my favorite horror writers are the genuinely kind girlies who write the most fucked up shit on the planet
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
my favorite horror writers are the genuinely kind girlies who write the most fucked up shit on the planet
I'll sing for you /
If you want me to /
I'll give to you /
And it's a chance I'll have to take 🌝
If you want me to /
I'll give to you /
And it's a chance I'll have to take 🌝
Luna (2011 Remaster)
YouTube video by The Smashing Pumpkins - Topic
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November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I'll sing for you /
If you want me to /
I'll give to you /
And it's a chance I'll have to take 🌝
If you want me to /
I'll give to you /
And it's a chance I'll have to take 🌝
Me to Mercury Retrograde tomorrow.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Me to Mercury Retrograde tomorrow.
Spitballing ideas: hire a trans man to be your Books Editor.
"I was seeing men styling, wallowing, and self-pitying, but I wasn’t seeing them reading or writing or thinking." Steve Donoghue on the vacuous, anti-intellectual world that men's magazines present to the young men who read them. open.substack.com/pub/stevedon...
Go Read, Young Man
Why Esquire needs a Books editor
stevedonoghue.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Spitballing ideas: hire a trans man to be your Books Editor.
Reach for the stars, babe. ✨
Elizabeth Olsen believes she will die old and alone in a foggy English coastal town. Here are her options
Elizabeth Olsen believes she will die old and alone in a foggy English coastal town. Here are her options
While promoting new film Eternity, the actor outlined a specific end-of-life scenario that should be cold, wet and include one cheese shop
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Reach for the stars, babe. ✨
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"Totally not a fan of the national paper, 'The Anti-Trans Fascist Review' but they do have a really fun daily word game that I just can't bring myself to put down!"
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November 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
"Totally not a fan of the national paper, 'The Anti-Trans Fascist Review' but they do have a really fun daily word game that I just can't bring myself to put down!"
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OMG STOP READING THE TIMES FFS
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
OMG STOP READING THE TIMES FFS
guest taught creative writing at a high school today and DID NOT expect an epic battle between the students about the difference between rugs and carpets. they had FEELINGS about this.
November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
guest taught creative writing at a high school today and DID NOT expect an epic battle between the students about the difference between rugs and carpets. they had FEELINGS about this.
What a beautiful way to wake up this morning. I’m a curmudgeon about politicians, but this is what leading with love looks like.
Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
What a beautiful way to wake up this morning. I’m a curmudgeon about politicians, but this is what leading with love looks like.
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Mayor Mamdani! Al hamdulillah.
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Mayor Mamdani! Al hamdulillah.
Holy shit, I cannot stop beaming about Mamdani and I’m not even in NYC. So much hope for humanity tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Holy shit, I cannot stop beaming about Mamdani and I’m not even in NYC. So much hope for humanity tonight.
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guys the MOON tonight!!
November 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
guys the MOON tonight!!