Maris Catherine Tiller
@joycesrighteyeball.bsky.social
Writer, Unofficial James Joyce Scholar
"My only country is my two children and wife and perhaps, though in second place, some moments, streets, faces, or books that are in me, and which one day I will forget..." - Roberto Bolaño
"My only country is my two children and wife and perhaps, though in second place, some moments, streets, faces, or books that are in me, and which one day I will forget..." - Roberto Bolaño
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Starting a thread of my published works so they can be easily found
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The weird thing about transphobia, and probably about bigotry in general, is the pretty common intuition that the person bringing it up is always the one “making a show of it.” Boyne literally thinks the criticism of his book is ideologically motivated, yet I’M ideologically motivated for saying it
December 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The weird thing about transphobia, and probably about bigotry in general, is the pretty common intuition that the person bringing it up is always the one “making a show of it.” Boyne literally thinks the criticism of his book is ideologically motivated, yet I’M ideologically motivated for saying it
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Every ad for AI is like
Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!!
AI: get sock
Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this
Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!!
AI: get sock
Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Every ad for AI is like
Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!!
AI: get sock
Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this
Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!!
AI: get sock
Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this
My short story, ”Bumper Sticker” is now published in Gargoyle Magazine!
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Maris Catherine Tiller Back to Gargoyle Online Bumper Sticker The car that pulled into the gas station in front of me had a bumper sticker under the back window that said, “Ram right into me! I hav…
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December 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
My short story, ”Bumper Sticker” is now published in Gargoyle Magazine!
gargoylemagazine.com/maris-cather...
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breasting boobily towards bethlehem
December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
breasting boobily towards bethlehem
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Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst
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I had a picnic at hanging rock once. It's beautiful out there. Don't let other peoples' negativity ruin your nice lunch
December 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I had a picnic at hanging rock once. It's beautiful out there. Don't let other peoples' negativity ruin your nice lunch
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To get into the spirit of things, I am reading The Dead.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
To get into the spirit of things, I am reading The Dead.
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this, by the way, is the real legacy of charlie kirk. all that bullshit about free and open debate and speech on campus is about protecting their ability to do or say whatever they want without consequence while penalizing those they disagree with. they see it as a zero-sum game
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
this, by the way, is the real legacy of charlie kirk. all that bullshit about free and open debate and speech on campus is about protecting their ability to do or say whatever they want without consequence while penalizing those they disagree with. they see it as a zero-sum game
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the list of best pies, and this is not debatable, goes:
1. key lime
2. lemon meringue
3. cherry
4. pumpkin
5. persimmon
people who disagree deserve to be interned for the rest of their natural lives in an underground prison camp
1. key lime
2. lemon meringue
3. cherry
4. pumpkin
5. persimmon
people who disagree deserve to be interned for the rest of their natural lives in an underground prison camp
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
the list of best pies, and this is not debatable, goes:
1. key lime
2. lemon meringue
3. cherry
4. pumpkin
5. persimmon
people who disagree deserve to be interned for the rest of their natural lives in an underground prison camp
1. key lime
2. lemon meringue
3. cherry
4. pumpkin
5. persimmon
people who disagree deserve to be interned for the rest of their natural lives in an underground prison camp
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1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
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@patstaresat.bsky.social on ＡＩ doomerism
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
@patstaresat.bsky.social on ＡＩ doomerism
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Not all daydreaming is "maladaptive" daydreaming is not inherently bad. Using your imagination to tell yourself little stories is free fun and entertainment. Its not bad to tell yourself stories while you fall asleep. Dreaming and imagining are good things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Not all daydreaming is "maladaptive" daydreaming is not inherently bad. Using your imagination to tell yourself little stories is free fun and entertainment. Its not bad to tell yourself stories while you fall asleep. Dreaming and imagining are good things.
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In a dangerous new trend, young Wizard of Oz fans are “Buddy Ebsening” - coating their bodies in toxic aluminum dust to get high
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
In a dangerous new trend, young Wizard of Oz fans are “Buddy Ebsening” - coating their bodies in toxic aluminum dust to get high
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I think knowing your media limits is all well and good, and being candid about the fact that reading may be difficult for you is nothing to be ashamed of.
The weird smug, self defeating pride variety of this, though, that's where I start sort of raising eyebrows.
The weird smug, self defeating pride variety of this, though, that's where I start sort of raising eyebrows.
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I think knowing your media limits is all well and good, and being candid about the fact that reading may be difficult for you is nothing to be ashamed of.
The weird smug, self defeating pride variety of this, though, that's where I start sort of raising eyebrows.
The weird smug, self defeating pride variety of this, though, that's where I start sort of raising eyebrows.
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Olivia Nuzzi is a bad writer, and I am entirely unimpressed with her sexual roster. It sits perfectly fine within my personal ethos to slut-shame anyone who chooses to lay with the detestable. Fucking the cretinous or having biblical knowledge of the contemptible is simply a bad use of a good time.
Anti-vaxxers exposing Hays Code ass diseases to the general public is antisocial behavior that at one point would have required compulsory isolation and social exile. Instead, the Raw Milk Typhoid Mary community is allowed to continue their dunderheaded agenda unabated. Unsettles my spirit.
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Olivia Nuzzi is a bad writer, and I am entirely unimpressed with her sexual roster. It sits perfectly fine within my personal ethos to slut-shame anyone who chooses to lay with the detestable. Fucking the cretinous or having biblical knowledge of the contemptible is simply a bad use of a good time.
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gonna do my best to respond to this in good faith. if a nation-state is only willing to grant rights and privileges to a certain group of people while violating those same rights for another group, that state does not truly honor its supposed principles and does not deserve to exist
I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
gonna do my best to respond to this in good faith. if a nation-state is only willing to grant rights and privileges to a certain group of people while violating those same rights for another group, that state does not truly honor its supposed principles and does not deserve to exist
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idk how I lived without noise cancelling earphones for so long.... the world is so loud and repulsive to me, a beautiful elegant princess
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 AM
idk how I lived without noise cancelling earphones for so long.... the world is so loud and repulsive to me, a beautiful elegant princess
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People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse
October 2, 2024 at 1:49 AM
People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse
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Again, I would love to have conversations about art and how important it is for the human soul, but not with people who demand cheap-to-free labor from working class artists while having a ton of expensive corporate nerd shit in the background
November 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Again, I would love to have conversations about art and how important it is for the human soul, but not with people who demand cheap-to-free labor from working class artists while having a ton of expensive corporate nerd shit in the background
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when I was a young teen I got really into Victorian literature which led to me assuming that was the only thing that would ever resonate with me or move me then I had my shit ROCKED by Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
when I was a young teen I got really into Victorian literature which led to me assuming that was the only thing that would ever resonate with me or move me then I had my shit ROCKED by Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.
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when i was 15 i was convinced i wasn’t good enough for my very pretty girlfriend so i did all her homework for her, which eventually included reading “slaughterhouse-five,” which immediately led to me ignoring the fuck out of my very pretty girlfriend as i read kurt vonnegut’s other 13 novels.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 AM
when i was 15 i was convinced i wasn’t good enough for my very pretty girlfriend so i did all her homework for her, which eventually included reading “slaughterhouse-five,” which immediately led to me ignoring the fuck out of my very pretty girlfriend as i read kurt vonnegut’s other 13 novels.
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I’m very glad I just talk about art I love all the time compulsively. Finnegans Wake is the greatest thing ever written in any language. it’s a perfect compendium and as an artist the perfect liberation. Books are stones I pile into the river of my life to change its course
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I’m very glad I just talk about art I love all the time compulsively. Finnegans Wake is the greatest thing ever written in any language. it’s a perfect compendium and as an artist the perfect liberation. Books are stones I pile into the river of my life to change its course
My short story, "Stain" is been featured in the seventh issue of Lilith's Diaries, out today!
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November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My short story, "Stain" is been featured in the seventh issue of Lilith's Diaries, out today!
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