May Zullino
@mayzullinowrites.bsky.social
YA/adult fantasy author | linguist | eternal learner
they/them | ace
jettisoned myself from Florida and became a Vermonter 🍁
https://linktr.ee/waywardcelestia
they/them | ace
jettisoned myself from Florida and became a Vermonter 🍁
https://linktr.ee/waywardcelestia
Pinned
Author problems: Struggling to write an emotional scene because you identify too hard with it and *really* want to get the point across
Literally just wrote myself a post-it memo that says “not everything needs to be spelled out!”
#amwriting
Literally just wrote myself a post-it memo that says “not everything needs to be spelled out!”
#amwriting
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Author problems: Struggling to write an emotional scene because you identify too hard with it and *really* want to get the point across
Literally just wrote myself a post-it memo that says “not everything needs to be spelled out!”
#amwriting
Literally just wrote myself a post-it memo that says “not everything needs to be spelled out!”
#amwriting
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Neurodivergent friendship is a funny thing. You can find your people and have amazing connections with them, but be too overwhelmed with life to stay in touch, but miss them dearly and feel lonely, but be too burnt out to even send a text. 😩
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Neurodivergent friendship is a funny thing. You can find your people and have amazing connections with them, but be too overwhelmed with life to stay in touch, but miss them dearly and feel lonely, but be too burnt out to even send a text. 😩
It’s snow season!
The outdoors are GLOWING ❄️
The outdoors are GLOWING ❄️
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It’s snow season!
The outdoors are GLOWING ❄️
The outdoors are GLOWING ❄️
Woke up to surprise snow this morning
Uh, winter, can you please hold off until I can get my car ready for you? 😭 I have a 35-minute commute to work and SUMMER TIRES
Uh, winter, can you please hold off until I can get my car ready for you? 😭 I have a 35-minute commute to work and SUMMER TIRES
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Woke up to surprise snow this morning
Uh, winter, can you please hold off until I can get my car ready for you? 😭 I have a 35-minute commute to work and SUMMER TIRES
Uh, winter, can you please hold off until I can get my car ready for you? 😭 I have a 35-minute commute to work and SUMMER TIRES
Yeah I'm 37 years old and openly talk about my love of anime
Others can't police what does or doesn't bring me joy 😝
Others can't police what does or doesn't bring me joy 😝
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Yeah I'm 37 years old and openly talk about my love of anime
Others can't police what does or doesn't bring me joy 😝
Others can't police what does or doesn't bring me joy 😝
I figured out why I die inside every time I hear even a clip of many English anime dubs… everything just sounds so forced to me. Like every line is the VA announcing “I’m acting!”
Sometimes they’re not even working within their vocal range and it feels like someone else would be better for the part
Sometimes they’re not even working within their vocal range and it feels like someone else would be better for the part
November 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I figured out why I die inside every time I hear even a clip of many English anime dubs… everything just sounds so forced to me. Like every line is the VA announcing “I’m acting!”
Sometimes they’re not even working within their vocal range and it feels like someone else would be better for the part
Sometimes they’re not even working within their vocal range and it feels like someone else would be better for the part
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This is not a popular regime
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This is not a popular regime
Bee is hella cool and her writing is delightful and absolutely devourable (is that not a word? Let’s make it one)
And if that’s not enough, Mara Wilson!
And if that’s not enough, Mara Wilson!
Just an author trying to keep up with social media here, but hey!! I got my dream narrator for Robbie McNeil's Hit List! I'm thrilled to have Mara Wilson narrating and grateful to my pub team for making it happen!
It's available for pre-order wherever you get your audiobooks!
#WritingCommunity 📚💙
It's available for pre-order wherever you get your audiobooks!
#WritingCommunity 📚💙
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Bee is hella cool and her writing is delightful and absolutely devourable (is that not a word? Let’s make it one)
And if that’s not enough, Mara Wilson!
And if that’s not enough, Mara Wilson!
Small choices can have a big impact. I wore my they/them pin to a work orientation and another new hire said it made him feel instantly safe and welcome, not just bc of me but bc of our higher-ups’ (nonexistent) reaction and warmth
I gotchu friend, I’m willing to be the litmus test any time 🖤
I gotchu friend, I’m willing to be the litmus test any time 🖤
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Small choices can have a big impact. I wore my they/them pin to a work orientation and another new hire said it made him feel instantly safe and welcome, not just bc of me but bc of our higher-ups’ (nonexistent) reaction and warmth
I gotchu friend, I’m willing to be the litmus test any time 🖤
I gotchu friend, I’m willing to be the litmus test any time 🖤
I like pain and usually end up making at least one conlang for each manuscript, then translating idioms from the conlang into English 🙃
Except my amquerying manuscript, in which I said "fuck it, they're in a liminal dimension and language is liminal, therefore everyone just understands each other"
Except my amquerying manuscript, in which I said "fuck it, they're in a liminal dimension and language is liminal, therefore everyone just understands each other"
Being a fantasy writer is typing "they extended an olive branch" and then going "shit, do they even have olives in this world?"
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I like pain and usually end up making at least one conlang for each manuscript, then translating idioms from the conlang into English 🙃
Except my amquerying manuscript, in which I said "fuck it, they're in a liminal dimension and language is liminal, therefore everyone just understands each other"
Except my amquerying manuscript, in which I said "fuck it, they're in a liminal dimension and language is liminal, therefore everyone just understands each other"
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I love how the version of "abuses" we would do is all like "holy shit they'll give everyone rights."
Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I love how the version of "abuses" we would do is all like "holy shit they'll give everyone rights."
なんか。だれかと日本語を練習したい。
レストランのおばさんは早口で話して, 相手になれないと思う 😅
レストランのおばさんは早口で話して, 相手になれないと思う 😅
November 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
なんか。だれかと日本語を練習したい。
レストランのおばさんは早口で話して, 相手になれないと思う 😅
レストランのおばさんは早口で話して, 相手になれないと思う 😅
A+ Halloween this year. One of the best I’ve ever had. Great food, great friends, and no pressure to be anything but myself 💜🖤
November 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
A+ Halloween this year. One of the best I’ve ever had. Great food, great friends, and no pressure to be anything but myself 💜🖤
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Rosalía on singing in 13 languages for Luz.
October 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Rosalía on singing in 13 languages for Luz.
Terrifying my students 🖤
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Terrifying my students 🖤
Me as I continue to turn my #amquerying manuscript into the horror novel it was always meant to be:
a girl with pink hair making an angry face with her mouth open
Alt: A gif from the anime SPYxFAMILY in which a little girl with pink hair grins evilly
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Me as I continue to turn my #amquerying manuscript into the horror novel it was always meant to be:
TBT because I’m recycling this costume this year (but better!) and just rediscovered this photo
October 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
TBT because I’m recycling this costume this year (but better!) and just rediscovered this photo
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I actually love hearing other languages. There are so many of them and they’re beautiful.
Getting mad about it is a skill issue. And to be clear, that skill is empathy.
Getting mad about it is a skill issue. And to be clear, that skill is empathy.
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I actually love hearing other languages. There are so many of them and they’re beautiful.
Getting mad about it is a skill issue. And to be clear, that skill is empathy.
Getting mad about it is a skill issue. And to be clear, that skill is empathy.
I love Vermont and how no institution follows it’s advertised policies. Like this venue whose website says they’ll open the theater 30 minutes before showtime but has been letting us in since probably 50 minutes before
October 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I love Vermont and how no institution follows it’s advertised policies. Like this venue whose website says they’ll open the theater 30 minutes before showtime but has been letting us in since probably 50 minutes before
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Having money does not mean you’re a genius
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Having money does not mean you’re a genius
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We are not In the business of winning back losers. Fix your hearts or die.
"How do you expect to win back men...?"
We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.
We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.
October 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
We are not In the business of winning back losers. Fix your hearts or die.
Writing time with friend!
Writing time with friend at the local coffee place!
It’s been a while 😊
Writing time with friend at the local coffee place!
It’s been a while 😊
October 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Writing time with friend!
Writing time with friend at the local coffee place!
It’s been a while 😊
Writing time with friend at the local coffee place!
It’s been a while 😊
Humans obsess over defining things; it helps us know where we stand in society and feel in control of life.
But sometimes it's good to let things be undefined or liminal. That's part of life, too.
It isn't queerbaiting to let a gay character and an ace character love each other non-romantically.
But sometimes it's good to let things be undefined or liminal. That's part of life, too.
It isn't queerbaiting to let a gay character and an ace character love each other non-romantically.
私が「ロマンスではない」と強調するのは、ジャンルに言及するためではありません。（ジャンルの定義は人によって違いますので、定義するつもりはありません）
以前、ミステリーパートを連載していた時期に「思ったより恋愛的な展開にならない」という理由で海外ファンダム中心にクィアベインティング疑惑やデマが広まってしまったことも理由のひとつです。
以前、ミステリーパートを連載していた時期に「思ったより恋愛的な展開にならない」という理由で海外ファンダム中心にクィアベインティング疑惑やデマが広まってしまったことも理由のひとつです。
October 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Humans obsess over defining things; it helps us know where we stand in society and feel in control of life.
But sometimes it's good to let things be undefined or liminal. That's part of life, too.
It isn't queerbaiting to let a gay character and an ace character love each other non-romantically.
But sometimes it's good to let things be undefined or liminal. That's part of life, too.
It isn't queerbaiting to let a gay character and an ace character love each other non-romantically.