finishing my grad school applications will trigger a reaction in me comparable to an eight ball

“bluesky is an echo chamber” the echo is sanity.

let’s all say a big thank you to dragon age and vodka for getting us through this difficult time

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

if you ignore the existential horror, flagrant injustice, and infuriating displays of hypocrisy, all of this is really quite funny

Half of Shakespeare’s plays are sex and the other half are literal fart jokes but nobody would shame you for reading that bullshit in public. And this what I be talking about!

The number one advice any & every writing professional can & will give you is this:

DO NOT BE AFRAID TO SUCK.

You have spent years reading books, watching movies & TV, developing taste to know good from bad. NO ONE GETS TO READ YOUR WRITING UNTIL YOU LET THEM. Trust your taste & write fearlessly.

Since moving here from the hellscape that is X, my feed is somehow now full of posts about how awesome libraries are and I am HERE FOR IT! Support your local libraries, they provide a warm space safe for everyone and the free gift of knowledge!