Jay Merrow
@jaymerrow.bsky.social
they/he | 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ writer 📚 reader 🔍 researcher | currently out of 🇮🇹 | writing sff/litfic | crashing out over data | that source better be peer-reviewed with an adequate sample size |
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Jay Merrow
@jaymerrow.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Building this feed is going to take time, but that's alright. It takes time to build a house worth living in, and I want all my friends to be welcome within it. So, if you're a writer, reader, migrater picking up the pieces once again... do come along.
#writingcommunity #amquerying #amwriting
#writingcommunity #amquerying #amwriting
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Free thought and free choice are the first things to disappear under a dictatorship.
September 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Free thought and free choice are the first things to disappear under a dictatorship.
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"Propoganda will only get you so far. You need a radical insurgency you can count on, to do the wrong thing."
If you haven't watched Andor, you need to. Even if you're not a Star Wars fan. It's the single greatest piece of media that has prophetically put words to everything we are living in now.
If you haven't watched Andor, you need to. Even if you're not a Star Wars fan. It's the single greatest piece of media that has prophetically put words to everything we are living in now.
September 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"Propoganda will only get you so far. You need a radical insurgency you can count on, to do the wrong thing."
If you haven't watched Andor, you need to. Even if you're not a Star Wars fan. It's the single greatest piece of media that has prophetically put words to everything we are living in now.
If you haven't watched Andor, you need to. Even if you're not a Star Wars fan. It's the single greatest piece of media that has prophetically put words to everything we are living in now.
Turns out, taking a break from social media is great for writing. Three projects in the works, and a summer full of sunlight. #amdrafting
August 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Turns out, taking a break from social media is great for writing. Three projects in the works, and a summer full of sunlight. #amdrafting
So... I moved to Italy and started over again. Apologies for an enternal absence. It's been an interesting spring.
May 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
So... I moved to Italy and started over again. Apologies for an enternal absence. It's been an interesting spring.
I can't understate how immensely frustrating it is to watch my home country fall into fascism while constantly filtering through discussions on how 'we didn't see it coming.'
Crack a book. It's been on the horizon for decades.
Crack a book. It's been on the horizon for decades.
March 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I can't understate how immensely frustrating it is to watch my home country fall into fascism while constantly filtering through discussions on how 'we didn't see it coming.'
Crack a book. It's been on the horizon for decades.
Crack a book. It's been on the horizon for decades.
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March 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I admittedly took a step back from all social media for the past month. Rest assured, I'll only be a menace from here out
March 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I admittedly took a step back from all social media for the past month. Rest assured, I'll only be a menace from here out
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"By trying to burn or ban books, you're not protecting people—you're blinding them. If we can't recognize oppression on the page, how will we spot it in the world?"
February 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
Not to be too post-lyrics-that-vaguely-hint-at-current-events, but Something Bad is happening in Oz, and it's impossible to ignore.
February 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Not to be too post-lyrics-that-vaguely-hint-at-current-events, but Something Bad is happening in Oz, and it's impossible to ignore.
Well, it looks like this next project is a go. Feminist Gothic horror, here we come
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
February 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Well, it looks like this next project is a go. Feminist Gothic horror, here we come
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
Help, I'm drafted another outline of a new WIP instead of drafting on my existing WIPs 🥹
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
February 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Help, I'm drafted another outline of a new WIP instead of drafting on my existing WIPs 🥹
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
Reading through this WIP outline again and adding bits to the end, I'm feeling inspired. It's got all the heart I want with sprinkles of absurdity. Exactly what life should have, really.
#writingcommunity #amdrafting #writing
#writingcommunity #amdrafting #writing
January 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Reading through this WIP outline again and adding bits to the end, I'm feeling inspired. It's got all the heart I want with sprinkles of absurdity. Exactly what life should have, really.
#writingcommunity #amdrafting #writing
#writingcommunity #amdrafting #writing
So my goal for january was to draft 25k, and with a week left I'm looking at 17k. I dunno, y'all, maybe setting goals really does work.
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
January 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
So my goal for january was to draft 25k, and with a week left I'm looking at 17k. I dunno, y'all, maybe setting goals really does work.
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
when you manage to write another 1k even though you're sleep-deprived, overworked, and feeling extra existential lately. The work goes on, friends. The work goes on.
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
January 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
when you manage to write another 1k even though you're sleep-deprived, overworked, and feeling extra existential lately. The work goes on, friends. The work goes on.
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
#writingcommunity #amdrafting
Waking up to unprecedented times again 🫠
a group of men standing next to each other with the words `` so it begins '' written on the screen .
ALT: a group of men standing next to each other with the words `` so it begins '' written on the screen .
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January 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Waking up to unprecedented times again 🫠
Learning to balance all of the things again this year in unprecedented times (again), I found it's especially important to do the things you love.
January 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Learning to balance all of the things again this year in unprecedented times (again), I found it's especially important to do the things you love.
Me examining a new follower:
January 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Me examining a new follower:
Diving into book #4 of the month! 💙📚
January 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Diving into book #4 of the month! 💙📚
so anyway, I've read three books this week and drafted 5k. Turns out staying off of socials for a bit is good for the writing... that's dumb.
#writingcommunity #amdrafting #amreading
#writingcommunity #amdrafting #amreading
January 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
so anyway, I've read three books this week and drafted 5k. Turns out staying off of socials for a bit is good for the writing... that's dumb.
#writingcommunity #amdrafting #amreading
#writingcommunity #amdrafting #amreading
I'm going to read (hopefully) 26 books this year. Putting it on here makes it seem a little more like a goal than just keeping it to my storygraph. What about y'all? 💙📚
#booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
#booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
January 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I'm going to read (hopefully) 26 books this year. Putting it on here makes it seem a little more like a goal than just keeping it to my storygraph. What about y'all? 💙📚
#booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
#booksky #amreading #writingcommunity
In 2025, my #ratraceresolution goals are to:
✨write 2 drafts of the newest WIP
✨send another 50 queries for TM
✨participate in pitch contests
✨write a HEA for once instead of more sad characters doing sad things with their sad lives
#writingcommunity #nye
December 31, 2024 at 1:42 PM
In 2025, my #ratraceresolution goals are to:
✨write 2 drafts of the newest WIP
✨send another 50 queries for TM
✨participate in pitch contests
✨write a HEA for once instead of more sad characters doing sad things with their sad lives
#writingcommunity #nye
Now that it's after Christmas, I'm running out of reasons to not start this draft already 😂
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity
December 26, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Now that it's after Christmas, I'm running out of reasons to not start this draft already 😂
#writingcommunity
#writingcommunity