asha
@ashiepants.bsky.social
storyteller, essayist, teacher, pop culture nerd
MFA @ UIowa NWP
MFA @ UIowa NWP
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asha
@ashiepants.bsky.social
· Aug 29
Where do I go to apologize to Yoko?
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Yes. It's getting really hard to suspend my disbelief for competence porn in these times... rs-benedict.com/2025/11/29/s...
Stupid Times Call for Stupid Writing
Maybe your writing isn’t too stupid. Maybe your writing isn’t stupid enough.
rs-benedict.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Yes. It's getting really hard to suspend my disbelief for competence porn in these times... rs-benedict.com/2025/11/29/s...
Heat on, ceiling fan circulating. It’s winter once again.
December 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Heat on, ceiling fan circulating. It’s winter once again.
Is he cute or does he have a beard? 🧔🏻
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Is he cute or does he have a beard? 🧔🏻
It is high time we Jean Val Jean, and there’s way too many Javerts out there. Russell Crowe Javerts at that.
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
It is high time we Jean Val Jean, and there’s way too many Javerts out there. Russell Crowe Javerts at that.
Pssst, the great battle was against fascism. It’s always against fascism. All your favorite heroes are fighting fascists. All of them.
October 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Pssst, the great battle was against fascism. It’s always against fascism. All your favorite heroes are fighting fascists. All of them.
they’re rage-baiting literary and high fantasy nerds, now, and/or don’t understand Tolkien at all.
Don’t just get angry! organize, support your community, vote in local elections!
Don’t just get angry! organize, support your community, vote in local elections!
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
they’re rage-baiting literary and high fantasy nerds, now, and/or don’t understand Tolkien at all.
Don’t just get angry! organize, support your community, vote in local elections!
Don’t just get angry! organize, support your community, vote in local elections!
I’d love a series about what Michael does between Halloweens. Taking driving lessons, learning just enough about the current culture to stalk teens, etc
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I’d love a series about what Michael does between Halloweens. Taking driving lessons, learning just enough about the current culture to stalk teens, etc
do you ever remember a long forgotten obsession and briefly wonder how you got here from there?
October 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
do you ever remember a long forgotten obsession and briefly wonder how you got here from there?
My other “actually” opinion/fact is that Stephen King’s The Shining and The Shining (1980) are not the same thing.
October 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
My other “actually” opinion/fact is that Stephen King’s The Shining and The Shining (1980) are not the same thing.
Yes, there is a Stephen King canon. Of course there is.
October 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Yes, there is a Stephen King canon. Of course there is.
My book snobby “actually he’s Frankenstein’s monster” take is the girls are not twins they’re just dressed the same. (Also bc Kubrick made them twins. They are not canonically twins)
October 3, 2025 at 2:26 AM
My book snobby “actually he’s Frankenstein’s monster” take is the girls are not twins they’re just dressed the same. (Also bc Kubrick made them twins. They are not canonically twins)
Most movies about writers give me writers guilt that I should be writing but The Shining really does it to me
October 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Most movies about writers give me writers guilt that I should be writing but The Shining really does it to me
So no one else thought this was Hank Hill?
I tell you what, learn a little bit about cancer and people who think you can cure cancer with diet or supplements do look very silly. This is why cancer biologists have such a hard time not being snarky.
September 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
So no one else thought this was Hank Hill?
What are we calling posts here? How do we verb it? Bluesky-ing? Sky writing?
September 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
What are we calling posts here? How do we verb it? Bluesky-ing? Sky writing?
“I noticed you looked a little toe up” my cat when she starts grooming me, probably.
September 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
“I noticed you looked a little toe up” my cat when she starts grooming me, probably.
I was accused of virtue signaling and figure I should just embrace it.
I pride myself in knowing how to pronounce Buttigieg.
I pride myself in knowing how to pronounce Buttigieg.
September 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I was accused of virtue signaling and figure I should just embrace it.
I pride myself in knowing how to pronounce Buttigieg.
I pride myself in knowing how to pronounce Buttigieg.
Maybe I should try hard drugs?
September 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Maybe I should try hard drugs?
The other day I started watching a Mel Gibson movie but I stopped myself because I hate that guy. Proud
September 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The other day I started watching a Mel Gibson movie but I stopped myself because I hate that guy. Proud
So if god isn’t real then how come I had the exact amount of parchment paper needed to wrap my breakfast burrito meal prep?
September 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
So if god isn’t real then how come I had the exact amount of parchment paper needed to wrap my breakfast burrito meal prep?
To be honest, I’ve always known I can’t trust myself with a bowl of ranch. That’s why I’m so surprised that I’m surprised I live in the Midwest, where ranch flows out of fountains.
September 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
To be honest, I’ve always known I can’t trust myself with a bowl of ranch. That’s why I’m so surprised that I’m surprised I live in the Midwest, where ranch flows out of fountains.
Ya’ver wait so long to read an essay you come across at a moment you can’t devote to reading, and you want to give it some good space to read it. Then when you read it, it was flash length and you don’t know why you waited.
August 31, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Ya’ver wait so long to read an essay you come across at a moment you can’t devote to reading, and you want to give it some good space to read it. Then when you read it, it was flash length and you don’t know why you waited.
Really not a fan of one of the other Ashley Galindos tithing to some church in Arizona.
August 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Really not a fan of one of the other Ashley Galindos tithing to some church in Arizona.
I cried today because food banks. Food banks kept me and my cat fed this summer. (Because I’m an adjunct professor who didn’t have secure employment over summer)
August 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I cried today because food banks. Food banks kept me and my cat fed this summer. (Because I’m an adjunct professor who didn’t have secure employment over summer)
A little more than 12 hours before my first day back to full time adjunct teaching.
I have know bonded to adult Bobby/Connie romance. I believe in love again.
My syllabi are not yet published.
I have know bonded to adult Bobby/Connie romance. I believe in love again.
My syllabi are not yet published.
August 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A little more than 12 hours before my first day back to full time adjunct teaching.
I have know bonded to adult Bobby/Connie romance. I believe in love again.
My syllabi are not yet published.
I have know bonded to adult Bobby/Connie romance. I believe in love again.
My syllabi are not yet published.
I gotta respect myself enough to not eat this stale taco shell.
August 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I gotta respect myself enough to not eat this stale taco shell.