Roanna Flowers (aka Petty Davis)
@roanna.bsky.social
Comedy novelist/gossip columnist for imaginary people. Was once called the Dorothy Parker of Austin, TX. They might have been drunk. She/Her but not H.E.R (sadly). Member of Armadillo Authors Society. Learn more at https://www.armadilloauthorssociety.com/
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I am the personification of Myrna Loy's side-eye while making a martini.
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THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool.
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
THREAD: The FDA has made it difficult to find where medications are made. Today we're changing that with our latest tool.
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
With Rx Inspector, it’s possible to see your drug’s manufacturing facility and what the FDA found during its inspections.
Here's how you can use it. 1/
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So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning
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November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So uh.
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and...
you can now preorder it!
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Am I the asshole for calling out romance novelists who don’t actually care about romance? @kristenarnett.bsky.social answers this and other questions about your literary drama.
Am I the Asshole For Calling Out Romance Novelists Who Don’t Actually Care About Romance?
Hello, hello! Welcome back to another thrilling installment of everyone’s favorite advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole?, a place where you can have a beer along with a tasty side of literary g…
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December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Am I the asshole for calling out romance novelists who don’t actually care about romance? @kristenarnett.bsky.social answers this and other questions about your literary drama.
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Wooohoooo! Check out the @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social's editors list of the best books they read this year. Perfect for last-minute gift ideas for the reader in your life.
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#books
#booksky
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#books
#booksky
The Best Books We Read in 2025 - Chicago Review of Books
A list of the best books the CHIRB team and contributors read this year.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Wooohoooo! Check out the @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social's editors list of the best books they read this year. Perfect for last-minute gift ideas for the reader in your life.
buff.ly/D9rhbzs
#books
#booksky
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#books
#booksky
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“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
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Another Egyptian Arabic phrase for daydreaming (or regular dreaming) translates to “eating rice pudding with angels.”
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Another Egyptian Arabic phrase for daydreaming (or regular dreaming) translates to “eating rice pudding with angels.”
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"We do not know if Lepidoptera have episodic memories, or if it, too, would endure.
Ma has always believed that it would—that the caterpillar remembered itself. She had to, if she found metamorphosis beautiful at all."
Read 'Puparium' by @jyzh.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-pupa...
Ma has always believed that it would—that the caterpillar remembered itself. She had to, if she found metamorphosis beautiful at all."
Read 'Puparium' by @jyzh.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-pupa...
Puparium by J. Y. Zhang
Jie, are you listening? I want to tell you this story the way you would want to hear it.
inner-worlds.ghost.io
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"We do not know if Lepidoptera have episodic memories, or if it, too, would endure.
Ma has always believed that it would—that the caterpillar remembered itself. She had to, if she found metamorphosis beautiful at all."
Read 'Puparium' by @jyzh.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-pupa...
Ma has always believed that it would—that the caterpillar remembered itself. She had to, if she found metamorphosis beautiful at all."
Read 'Puparium' by @jyzh.bsky.social
inner-worlds.ghost.io/issue-9-pupa...
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This is just so bizarre every time I see it again. Just tax away the existence of billionaires. That's it. That's the one weird trick.
December 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is just so bizarre every time I see it again. Just tax away the existence of billionaires. That's it. That's the one weird trick.
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Gonna host another query letter webinar at the start of the New Year, to help fund various free in-person events.
Help me, help you! :-)
Three Zoom hangs, a critique on your query, notes on your first ten pages. It’ll be fun. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/12...
Help me, help you! :-)
Three Zoom hangs, a critique on your query, notes on your first ten pages. It’ll be fun. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/12...
New Year, New Query: A Workshop to Get You Ready — ERIC SMITH
With the New Year approaching and writers eager to get querying, I wanted to run another workshop to help polish up those pitch letters. I have a great time every time I do these, and honestly, these ...
www.ericsmithrocks.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Gonna host another query letter webinar at the start of the New Year, to help fund various free in-person events.
Help me, help you! :-)
Three Zoom hangs, a critique on your query, notes on your first ten pages. It’ll be fun. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/12...
Help me, help you! :-)
Three Zoom hangs, a critique on your query, notes on your first ten pages. It’ll be fun. www.ericsmithrocks.com/blog/2025/12...
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Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
December 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Minnesota Speaker’s closest friends and family open up for the first time.
Read @stephenrodrick.bsky.social's exclusive: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Gift link:
ICE-held Huntsville priest with valid work permit opts to leave U.S.
An Episcopal priest and former state prison guard who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement has chosen to voluntarily return to his native country.
www.houstonchronicle.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Gift link:
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They asked for us to share the story of an Episcopal priest from Kenya, who is here legally, with a work permit, and serving in a Swahili language Episcopal Ministry in a local church. He was randomly pulled over, detained for 2 months for absolutely no reason, until finally deciding to self deport.
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
They asked for us to share the story of an Episcopal priest from Kenya, who is here legally, with a work permit, and serving in a Swahili language Episcopal Ministry in a local church. He was randomly pulled over, detained for 2 months for absolutely no reason, until finally deciding to self deport.
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Steven Spielberg turns 79 today.
First trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day 👀
In theaters on June 12, 2026.
In theaters on June 12, 2026.
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Steven Spielberg turns 79 today.
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Honestly interested to see how McVay handles this. He hates drama guys and drama in the locker room. He's cut guys for fucking up the vibes before. Puka gotta come out and say he was wrong and apologize, don't use any excuses or ignorance bullshit. Gotta straight up apologize for what he said.
December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Honestly interested to see how McVay handles this. He hates drama guys and drama in the locker room. He's cut guys for fucking up the vibes before. Puka gotta come out and say he was wrong and apologize, don't use any excuses or ignorance bullshit. Gotta straight up apologize for what he said.
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my toxic trait is that i (irrationally) assume everyone on the internet i talk to is my age and then they'll say something like "Yeah when I graduated high school in 1982" or "I had smart boards in elementary school" and I'm like
a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face and saying huh .
Alt: John C. Reilly being shot from multiple angles, looking aggressively confused. The subtitle reads, "HUH?"
media.tenor.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
my toxic trait is that i (irrationally) assume everyone on the internet i talk to is my age and then they'll say something like "Yeah when I graduated high school in 1982" or "I had smart boards in elementary school" and I'm like
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This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands
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Most anticipated debuts in this week's edition of The Maris Review. Look at all these beauties. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
The Maris Review, vol 84
What I read this week
The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes
I'm not going to be able to do this one justice. I usually try to listen to the audio version of books in which the prose isn't the main...
www.themarisreview.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Most anticipated debuts in this week's edition of The Maris Review. Look at all these beauties. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
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“It’s like [Ebony Elizabeth] found my letters, and read them all out loud…” 😊
One of my first bosses (a Black woman in a leadership role) told me that “the best revenge is living well. And writing about them.” 😎✊🏾
Challenge accepted.
One of my first bosses (a Black woman in a leadership role) told me that “the best revenge is living well. And writing about them.” 😎✊🏾
Challenge accepted.
Some of us who were fired & harassed over DEI nonsense are starting businesses or going solo. *So many.* In another decade or so, I predict the Black economy will be trending very, very differently than it is now.
The fragile trust we had in these systems has been broken. It will never be restored.
The fragile trust we had in these systems has been broken. It will never be restored.
December 16, 2025 at 3:45 AM
“It’s like [Ebony Elizabeth] found my letters, and read them all out loud…” 😊
One of my first bosses (a Black woman in a leadership role) told me that “the best revenge is living well. And writing about them.” 😎✊🏾
Challenge accepted.
One of my first bosses (a Black woman in a leadership role) told me that “the best revenge is living well. And writing about them.” 😎✊🏾
Challenge accepted.
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For @ebertvoices.bsky.social's 8 Essential Rob Reiner films, I wrote about the capraesque components of A FEW GOOD MEN.
The 8 Essential Films of Rob Reiner's Career | Tributes | Roger Ebert
Our writers look back at some of the best films of their era, directed by Rob Reiner.
www.rogerebert.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
For @ebertvoices.bsky.social's 8 Essential Rob Reiner films, I wrote about the capraesque components of A FEW GOOD MEN.
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It’s a fool’s game chasing an algorithm that changes at the whim of whoever runs it, and we’re seeing the impact now on authors and their tracks and on publishing p&ls 🫠
December 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It’s a fool’s game chasing an algorithm that changes at the whim of whoever runs it, and we’re seeing the impact now on authors and their tracks and on publishing p&ls 🫠
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MISERY exists in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY exists in MISERY. Welcome to the Reinerverse.
November 25, 2024 at 6:46 PM
MISERY exists in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY exists in MISERY. Welcome to the Reinerverse.
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"I’m fine. Fine. Hey, I get to mold young minds from my faculty position at a school that may not be prestigious, but, it’s been pointed out, is no longer technically on the verge of financial collapse."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
I’m the Ponytail Guy from Good Will Hunting, and I Can’t Enjoy Fries Anymore
Honestly, I don’t know to whom this letter is directed. God? Harvard? (I’m taking a deep, strengthening breath here) Will Hunting himself? My emplo...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
"I’m fine. Fine. Hey, I get to mold young minds from my faculty position at a school that may not be prestigious, but, it’s been pointed out, is no longer technically on the verge of financial collapse."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
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When Harry Met Sally has an impeccable script, of course, but SO much of the comedy in that movie is in the directing. Where would Harry’s confession about his wife leaving him be without the wave interrupting it at a baseball game? Also, the most gorgeous fall shot in history?
December 16, 2025 at 1:59 AM
When Harry Met Sally has an impeccable script, of course, but SO much of the comedy in that movie is in the directing. Where would Harry’s confession about his wife leaving him be without the wave interrupting it at a baseball game? Also, the most gorgeous fall shot in history?