Currently reading: How To Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa

Sometimes you gotta eat a whole bok choy.

My current status is panel 4

Whenever I encounter the meme wondering whether Character XYZ and Character ABC ever "explored each other's bodies" I think of this.

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Chuck Palahniuk doesn't like that idea

it's a month that ends in -ber, so to me 'tis the season to be goth-lit !

Now in Spanish! Cover design gives me turn of the millennium Animorphs or Power Rangers vibes. Image from @puck.ed on Instagram #fraternitybook 🌈📚

#amwriting the scene with the highest plot tension, sleuth heist interrupted/compromised by an unexpected yet foreshadowed ally, all the mysteries will come to light...and yet me and my brain at the moment are like

#gothlit (The Phantom of the Opera is considered goth lit, right? I know the book was more like if Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys were theater kids but...)

@homopessimist.bsky.social The blurb of this book sounds like a 90s New Queer Cinema retelling/modernization of Dorian Gray, is it?

Depends on the story, maybe. Both. Minimalism is a (...is THE) logical way to write, but too many readers got burnt out on it. If there's too many florid books, then concise reads as refreshing. But if there's nothing but concise books, we get florid cravings as readers.

any boy born after 1974 can't banish demons...all they know is crème de violette, change their walkman battery, vogue, be bisexual, eat bungeo-ppang & die #fraternitybook

I'm a staunch individualist 'cause I think that's what should be kept in mind & what societal consciousness and conscientiousness is even FOR: mutual respect of personal boundaries, equal empowerment; that's the goal—a world of no more interpersonal violation ...then other times I think of this pie