Megan
@megscarlson.bsky.social
Writer, activist, thinker // Stories in Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Bluestem, Quarter After Eight, Hypertext & others // www.megcarlson.com/stories // Thoughts are my own
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Megan
@megscarlson.bsky.social
· Sep 27
Disclaimer: If I don't know you AND I can't tell if we have any common interests/followers, etc., I will probably block you if you follow me. I've got too many crazies out there following me for my activism, so just doing due diligence. Sorry ahead if I make mistakes!
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The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The moment when 30 million American's received healthcare (2010) The moment when insurance companies had to start covering preexisting conditions, young adults could stay on their family's policy and I could trust that the small print couldn't screw me if I needed serious medical assistance. 🇺🇸
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This is your friendly reminder that Obamacare isn’t just the exchanges! It’s a set of laws that force insurance companies to actually. You know, insure people!! You can read my full graphic explainer here: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/it-could-b...
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is your friendly reminder that Obamacare isn’t just the exchanges! It’s a set of laws that force insurance companies to actually. You know, insure people!! You can read my full graphic explainer here: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/it-could-b...
Tiny Molecules is awesome. Take a break from doom scrolling and read a lil' bit
Our Autumn Issue is here. 11 spooky stories to chill your bones. Read, enjoy, and share widely!
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
November 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Tiny Molecules is awesome. Take a break from doom scrolling and read a lil' bit
Ahh, I love this!!
One ray of sunshine: I have a new little story in the latest issue of @tinymolecules.bsky.social. My thanks to @sdobbie.bsky.social for accepting it. This piece began at a weeklong @bendinggenres.bsky.social retreat many moons ago:
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
www.tinymolecules.com/issues/twent...
twenty-five — Tiny Molecules
www.tinymolecules.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Ahh, I love this!!
Just finished Xenobe Purvis' "The Hounding"... and, dudes, it's so good. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Megan Carlson's review of The Hounding
5/5: I loved this. The blurbs on the back of this book mention "female empowerment" and the "strangeness of girlhood," but I think that is misleading. To me, this book is an exploration of masculini...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just finished Xenobe Purvis' "The Hounding"... and, dudes, it's so good. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
About | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/
how did you see into my mind like this? 👀
What I need is less write-a-whole-novel-in-a-month and more please-for-the-love-of-everything-finish-the-second-draft-of-the-novel-you’ve-been-writing-forever.
October 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
how did you see into my mind like this? 👀
I saw some back-and-forth happening on the Internet, and someone posited that the reason people resist the idea of "critical thinking" is because they think "critical" in this context means "being judgmental." Anywho, literacy rates are at their lowest since the early 90s have a nice day!!
October 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I saw some back-and-forth happening on the Internet, and someone posited that the reason people resist the idea of "critical thinking" is because they think "critical" in this context means "being judgmental." Anywho, literacy rates are at their lowest since the early 90s have a nice day!!
With how 🤮all these streaming companies are behaving, I've been going back to borrowing DVDs from the library. Yes, I am ancient, but also, it feels better somehow??? Like, "It's DVD time, now. Phones down. Let's have an entertainment experience that reminds of us of a simpler time."
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
With how 🤮all these streaming companies are behaving, I've been going back to borrowing DVDs from the library. Yes, I am ancient, but also, it feels better somehow??? Like, "It's DVD time, now. Phones down. Let's have an entertainment experience that reminds of us of a simpler time."
gosh ❤️
was looking for something else in the HAD archives, stumbled into this, remembered anew what a treasure @amorak.bsky.social is
October 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
gosh ❤️
As a once-prolific blogger, this made me nostalgic. But sharing mostly for this line: "I did not expect Gawker to be as popular as it was....my personal theory about why it succeeded in the beginning is that it covered New York City media, and media people like to read about themselves." 😂
What Made Blogging Different?
Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...
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October 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
As a once-prolific blogger, this made me nostalgic. But sharing mostly for this line: "I did not expect Gawker to be as popular as it was....my personal theory about why it succeeded in the beginning is that it covered New York City media, and media people like to read about themselves." 😂
Now (always) is a good time to rewatch Battlestar Galactica and have thoughts about democracy
October 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Now (always) is a good time to rewatch Battlestar Galactica and have thoughts about democracy
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I do not wish to learn about the "protocols" of the social media site I am on. I just want to make lil jokes with my friends and not see nazis. Why is this so hard for anyone who makes a social media site to understand
October 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I do not wish to learn about the "protocols" of the social media site I am on. I just want to make lil jokes with my friends and not see nazis. Why is this so hard for anyone who makes a social media site to understand
The Microsoft Paper Clip was the original AI. I will be taking no questions.
October 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The Microsoft Paper Clip was the original AI. I will be taking no questions.
Literary Hot Take: There’s not much difference between first person POV and close third 🤷🏻♀️ Don’t stress about it.
October 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Literary Hot Take: There’s not much difference between first person POV and close third 🤷🏻♀️ Don’t stress about it.
My dog's best friend from doggy daycare is moving away, and I am DISTRAUGHT
September 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
My dog's best friend from doggy daycare is moving away, and I am DISTRAUGHT
This was fab
Happy Ending
‘The first customer arrived at 10.20 p.m. As soon as the doorbell rang, the girls around me sprang to their feet and formed a semicircle in the center of the room.’ Fiction by Brittany Newell.
granta.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This was fab
Somehow I ended up on Medieval Times Thirst Trap Tok and I… what… 😅
September 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Somehow I ended up on Medieval Times Thirst Trap Tok and I… what… 😅
dear city dwellers in units with a ground-level window: please put a cat in that window. thank u.
September 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
dear city dwellers in units with a ground-level window: please put a cat in that window. thank u.
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I was thinking recently about how much I missed writing dialogue. This piece I wrote for the "my body, my choice" inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary uses lots of dialogue and is very short. I'd love for you to read it and the whole amazing debut issue! 💙
hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/
hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/
Wyoming - Hot Flash Literary
It’s the time of the Great Evacuation. That’s what my friend Jess calls it. I’ve been bleeding all over the place. My body is emptying itself out. It’s undignified. And painful. Out for coffee with J...
hotflashliterary.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I was thinking recently about how much I missed writing dialogue. This piece I wrote for the "my body, my choice" inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary uses lots of dialogue and is very short. I'd love for you to read it and the whole amazing debut issue! 💙
hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/
hotflashliterary.com/wyoming/
I hopped back on Bluesky JUST to catch up on the Elizabeth Gilbert/Jia Tolentino discourse. Please don't disappoint me, Internet.
September 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I hopped back on Bluesky JUST to catch up on the Elizabeth Gilbert/Jia Tolentino discourse. Please don't disappoint me, Internet.
I support women’s rights and Shauna’s wrongs #yellowjackets
April 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I support women’s rights and Shauna’s wrongs #yellowjackets
Not sure what got into me today, but I blogged for the first time since 2017. Loosely inspired by the show "Adolescence."
How to be a man: A failure of feminism?
Note: Spoilers for Adolescence
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April 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Not sure what got into me today, but I blogged for the first time since 2017. Loosely inspired by the show "Adolescence."
HOLY SHIT YELLOWJACKETS
March 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
HOLY SHIT YELLOWJACKETS
Chuck Schumer is a POS, republican, and a coward, in that order.
March 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Chuck Schumer is a POS, republican, and a coward, in that order.