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Casey Plett
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I wrote On Community, A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, A Safe Girl to Love, and co-edited Meanwhile, Elsewhere. I'm the Publisher at LittlePuss Press, and I teach at Ohio University. https://linktr.ee/caseyplett Athens, OH / Windsor, ON
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I know we've been talking about Gendertrash for months now, but it really did not kick in to me till the finished books arrived on my doorstep* just how momentous, filling, Dead Sea Scroll-level big it is that this exists.

Ty Cat and everyone else who made it happen.

*in the form of 60 heavy boxes
Me holding a copy of Gendertrash in front of my office door, looking quite somber
November 4, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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And sometimes, with a poof, it's just gone
"Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
September 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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A still from the beginning: A young man with spiked hair is leaned over a girl sitting in an armchair, outside, under a bridge, with a freeway in the distance.
August 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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In retrospect I suppose one could have charted the downfall
Voodoo Doughnut offers dozens of doughnut varieties, including vegan doughnuts.[45][46] Two of their past doughnuts, the NyQuil Glazed doughnut and the Vanilla Pepto Crushed Tums doughnut, were no longer available by 2006 due to a warning from local health officials.[5][6]
July 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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"Yeah, Ton', hi. The Nanni guy? I'm on it."
May 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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A shirt with a tag on it that says "Genderless Product* *Men's sizing Sizing differ from the women's items"
April 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference
Calvin's mom says "Life could be worse, Calvin" by a Liberal Party logo, Calvin says, "Life could be a lot better, too!" under an NDP logo, Calvin's dad says, "Life being worse builds character!" under a Conservative Party logo
April 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Me trying to maintain a positive attitude
Edward Hopper's Morning Sun, a girl on a bed looking out a window with sunlight on her
April 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Every NYC friend I have

This is tomorrow, the final Worthy of the Event tour with Vivian Blaxell

Harron Walker and Emily Zhou are also going to be with her on stage

It's at Topos Too Bookstore in Ridgewood

Go if you can, it'll be incredible

I wish I could be there

💜
The cover for Worthy of the Event
April 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Only 260 among 55K, I feel like I'm growing as a person really.
A Ctrl+F search in a word processor for "fuck" with 260 matches found
April 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Applies to book publishing too, in fact, maybe can't think of anything that describes it better
If the golden rule for a writer is to try to avoid situations where you find yourself writing something you wouldn’t read, a similar calculus probably applies to assigning and editing stories. Magazines, unlike newspapers, aren’t engaged in comprehensive coverage. Pieces that are gratuitous or dutiful, undertaken in the “we should probably” mode, usually stink like dead fish from a mile away. The defining experience of good magazine reading is “I didn’t think I was interested, but”: the medium is made not in its choice of subjects but in its qualities of execution. Magic happens when at least one person—a writer, a photographer, or an editor—has been allowed to fall in love.
April 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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May 2016
Me back when I was blonde, reaching into my bag walking next to a street
March 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Every time I read parts of Realistic Fiction I briefly experience joy and laughter in my life again, if just for a fleeting moment.
When I was 14 I got into Magic: The Gathering. I only had one friend from the ages of 12-16 and we played Magic: The Gathering together. Although, Ilya wasn’t really a friend I “chose” for myself, our parents were friends and we were forced together due to having “no other friends” i.e., at school, as I mentioned previously. But, despite his shortcomings, Ilya was an adequate friend. I liked having a “friend’s house” to go to on the weekends, riding a lime green mountain bike that said “Huffy” on the side in huge letters, such as I had seen my betters riding several years prior, in 6th grade. Ilya’s parents seemed nice, unlike mine, and I liked to think that they thought we were romantically involved, which we definitely were not. I liked to think that they thought I was “good for” their son, that they thought I was better than him—which I definitely was. At Magic.
March 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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sowing/reapin
The sowing/reaping meme
March 22, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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If you are still unsure, Toronto and Windsor, consider the woman who wrote this will be there:
"I live with an eleven-year-old Blue Burmese tomcat. I own him, I am not shy of saying that. He is castrated. We share things: I play Isaac Hayes on the stereo and pick the cat up and dance with him, figure eights and pelvic gyration around the living room. This cat was abandoned three times before I found him in a shelter and he is obsessively clingy now; he might have been obsessively clingy before, for all I know, and that would explain the history of couch surfing. This cat has vocal outbursts when I leave the house and, on a bad day, he has outbursts even when I leave the bedroom, not words but enunciations, an arpeggio of strident chords ascending and getting louder on the way up, then down again and quieter until silent—where are you, why are you not here, come back, I need you, deserter, return to me, get back here, don’t go, I love you, bitch, you’d better not go, get here quick smart or something bad will happen, oh, why don’t you obey, deserter, oh, please you’re disappearing, there’s a bird, here’s the bed, electric heat pad, tuna chunks in gravy, I don’t mind this kibble, I’m better off without you anyway, who needs deserters—(sleeping). I decode and ventriloquize these cat sounds using a key that always turns high-pitched keens and wails into what they generally mean when they issue from human mouths: distress, and yet, for all I know, that yowling, that screeching could be telling the world, look at me, she’s going, and I will be autonomous, the world mine, the whole place to myself, food in the bowl, views of birds and possums running on the roof, and unlimited data to myself. The deeper the marks upon your subjectivity, the closer to animal you go and the more your language is handled by others. I worked once in a hospital ward for men with catastrophic intellectual disabilities, don’t ask me to repeat what we called them and thought it was fine. We hosed the men down pro re nata, and ‘as needed’ was often because the men fouled-" char limit :/
March 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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They're coming
My hand on a box of packages of books in a car
March 15, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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But of course, I voted yes.

Faculty union, here we come!
Me standing in front of a mailbox with my union ballot envelope, smiling Me standing in front of a mailbox putting my union ballot envelope into the mailbox, winking Me standing in front of a mailbox with no union ballot envelope, with a fist raised
March 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Gotta hand it to whoever's doing headlines at the Star
Toronto Star headline that says "We asked three experts about Doug Ford’s plan to build a Highway 401 tunnel. Here’s why it won’t stop congestion and why you might be retired before it’s done"
February 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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It is
Mad Men "Not great, Bob!" GIF
February 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Live from my front door
A photo of me reading Realistic Fiction, looking thoroughly engrossed and surprised A photo of me looking up from my copy of Realistic Fiction
February 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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My personal favorite:
A Malort ad with a full bottle and shot glass and the slogan: "TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT YOU FIGHT YOUR DAD"
February 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Logged back in, downloaded my data archive, took this screenshot and powered down for good. Ok, it's over.
Screenshot of my Twitter homepage. I guess my last tweet was in May 18 and I said "LOGGING OFF <3"
November 16, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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Now and then you remember part of your life
From Wikipedia: "The appletini, which he invariably stipulates should be "easy on the tini," is the favorite alcoholic drink of John "J.D." Dorian in the sitcom Scrubs in which it is often characterized as being somewhat effeminate."
November 4, 2024 at 3:00 AM
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Jessica Jones drinking from a bottle of bourbon
October 23, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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LMAO OK I also just Googled "rural Manitoba" out of curiosity about what that brought up and ladies and gentlefucks it was validating
A Reddit thread for r/Manitoba where the Q is "How do you find living in rural MB?" and the next bit is "Rural MB and SK seems to have all sorts of cheap properties but I feel stuck not doing church or the bar as to how one meets people."
October 22, 2024 at 4:03 AM