Mo
@mospringerwriter.bsky.social
I'm a writer sometimes maybe
They/Them
They/Them
Been writing by hand lately
October 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Been writing by hand lately
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Google search sucks these days, so can Bluesky please crowd-surf me to someone intimately familiar with vintage dictionaries?
October 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Google search sucks these days, so can Bluesky please crowd-surf me to someone intimately familiar with vintage dictionaries?
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"I’m selling movies, yes. But if I can do it with art, with beauty, in a way that reaches people and touches them... that’s what makes me happy." - Drew Struzan
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Going to stokercon and it's my first writing conference, so a little nervous but very excited!
June 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Going to stokercon and it's my first writing conference, so a little nervous but very excited!
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I dunno if it is woke or anti-woke, but this trend in art is annoying as hell. You cannot write worrying about your worst, stupidest reader without annoying all of your best readers.
I genuinely think this particular aesthetic trend (Good Art Is Didactic And Also Assumes You Are Very Stupid) is a non-trivial source of anti-woke backlash, like unironically. It is really really annoying, and I think it has provided wedges by which anti-wokes can radicalise nerds.
Reading a fiction book rn which is *so* obnoxiously didactic bc the author is *so* anxious you might draw the wrong political conclusion that it's making me anti-woke. Catch me on the Tim pool podcast
June 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I dunno if it is woke or anti-woke, but this trend in art is annoying as hell. You cannot write worrying about your worst, stupidest reader without annoying all of your best readers.
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I feel like Mary Sue having an article that's all "pwease don't be mean to the poow Hawwy Pottew actows uwu" is sort of the last nail in the coffin for a certain type of "media criticism."
June 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I feel like Mary Sue having an article that's all "pwease don't be mean to the poow Hawwy Pottew actows uwu" is sort of the last nail in the coffin for a certain type of "media criticism."
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Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
June 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.
June 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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there was no arsonist. those waymos just did that
June 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
there was no arsonist. those waymos just did that
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they should let you take a picture of a smell
June 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
they should let you take a picture of a smell
I've Googled names for characters too many times and now Google thinks I'm a pregnant tradwife
June 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I've Googled names for characters too many times and now Google thinks I'm a pregnant tradwife
Every year I forget that that if you have to drive to a pride event you have to get there at like 8am and just hang out in the city till festivities start if you want to park anywhere remotely nearby
June 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Every year I forget that that if you have to drive to a pride event you have to get there at like 8am and just hang out in the city till festivities start if you want to park anywhere remotely nearby
Sinners has me so spoiled because i just randomly checked what was at the movie theater one day and went "Vampire movie? I'll check it out" and now i have this hope every time I check that another amazing movie will just be playing by chance
June 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Sinners has me so spoiled because i just randomly checked what was at the movie theater one day and went "Vampire movie? I'll check it out" and now i have this hope every time I check that another amazing movie will just be playing by chance
I finished the first murderbot diaries book and I have to wait till tomorrow 10am to my local bookstore opens to get the next one 😭
June 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I finished the first murderbot diaries book and I have to wait till tomorrow 10am to my local bookstore opens to get the next one 😭
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Let me be EXCEEDINGLY clear: the "round thing in your face" that gets you "sprung" in Baby Got Back is a woman's huge ass. I'm sick to death of seeing people on the timeline argue it's something else spherical or circular. This is the exact sort of erasure of women's huge asses Mix tried to address.
June 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Let me be EXCEEDINGLY clear: the "round thing in your face" that gets you "sprung" in Baby Got Back is a woman's huge ass. I'm sick to death of seeing people on the timeline argue it's something else spherical or circular. This is the exact sort of erasure of women's huge asses Mix tried to address.
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Wooooow.
Unbound/Boundless didn't have enough cash to pay their authors, but they did have enough to throw thousands at a Tory's leadership campaign.
Unbound/Boundless didn't have enough cash to pay their authors, but they did have enough to throw thousands at a Tory's leadership campaign.
I spotted it around the time on the Commons register of interest.
Here’s the archive publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregm...
And extrapolated from
Here’s the archive publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmregm...
And extrapolated from
June 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Wooooow.
Unbound/Boundless didn't have enough cash to pay their authors, but they did have enough to throw thousands at a Tory's leadership campaign.
Unbound/Boundless didn't have enough cash to pay their authors, but they did have enough to throw thousands at a Tory's leadership campaign.
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The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--
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Do you ever just think about how the average British person has no idea they live in one of the most ecologically devastated regions on the planet
The British Isles are supposed to be covered in *rainforest*! The climate is most similar to *Japan's*!
The British Isles are supposed to be covered in *rainforest*! The climate is most similar to *Japan's*!
May 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Do you ever just think about how the average British person has no idea they live in one of the most ecologically devastated regions on the planet
The British Isles are supposed to be covered in *rainforest*! The climate is most similar to *Japan's*!
The British Isles are supposed to be covered in *rainforest*! The climate is most similar to *Japan's*!
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So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS.
Please read and share this thread.
Please read and share this thread.
May 31, 2025 at 9:33 AM
So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS.
Please read and share this thread.
Please read and share this thread.
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my favourite genre of virtue scolding is when I get emails saying "I'd love to read your new book but I don't support Amazon, will there be any other way to get it?"
it's funny but when I would love to read a book, I generally look on my preferred non-Amazon platform *before* contacting the author.
it's funny but when I would love to read a book, I generally look on my preferred non-Amazon platform *before* contacting the author.
May 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
my favourite genre of virtue scolding is when I get emails saying "I'd love to read your new book but I don't support Amazon, will there be any other way to get it?"
it's funny but when I would love to read a book, I generally look on my preferred non-Amazon platform *before* contacting the author.
it's funny but when I would love to read a book, I generally look on my preferred non-Amazon platform *before* contacting the author.
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I do not care how good of an editor or developer or salesperson you are, if you don’t have the business chops, you should never open a publishing house. Period. The end.
This keeps happening.
I'll be really simple with you: If you are insufficiently good at keeping books to ensure you always pay the royalties you owe you have no business starting a publishing house.
I'll be really simple with you: If you are insufficiently good at keeping books to ensure you always pay the royalties you owe you have no business starting a publishing house.
What fun to discover £7,000 of book royalties, due today, aren't actually going to be paid. Not today. Maybe not ever.
So now it's time for yet another round of "What Do I Tell My Mortgage Provider?", and a quick game of "How Do I Feed My Dog?"
Fuck you, publishing. What a turd of a profession.
So now it's time for yet another round of "What Do I Tell My Mortgage Provider?", and a quick game of "How Do I Feed My Dog?"
Fuck you, publishing. What a turd of a profession.
May 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I do not care how good of an editor or developer or salesperson you are, if you don’t have the business chops, you should never open a publishing house. Period. The end.
Art is subjective yes but also sometimes people are very incorrect at bookclub
May 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Art is subjective yes but also sometimes people are very incorrect at bookclub
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Yesterday, I read a poem which referred to a telescope as a
'sight-invigorating tube'
I think this is delightful and want to see a similar approach used to name other items.
A cup might be a 'drink-bequeathing receptacle'
A brush could be a 'hair-enrapturing hedgehog.'
Feel free to jump in.
'sight-invigorating tube'
I think this is delightful and want to see a similar approach used to name other items.
A cup might be a 'drink-bequeathing receptacle'
A brush could be a 'hair-enrapturing hedgehog.'
Feel free to jump in.
May 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Yesterday, I read a poem which referred to a telescope as a
'sight-invigorating tube'
I think this is delightful and want to see a similar approach used to name other items.
A cup might be a 'drink-bequeathing receptacle'
A brush could be a 'hair-enrapturing hedgehog.'
Feel free to jump in.
'sight-invigorating tube'
I think this is delightful and want to see a similar approach used to name other items.
A cup might be a 'drink-bequeathing receptacle'
A brush could be a 'hair-enrapturing hedgehog.'
Feel free to jump in.