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Tal B. Lavin
@swordsjew.bsky.social
journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. newsletter:
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buy my new book!! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/

contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
the trouble is most of my spite is directed at the ~loving~ people who tried to make me quit by saying incredibly mean things. hell, i probably started to smoke out of spite against my perfect fucking family who act like im a serial murderer for like, being queer and fat and smoking
December 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
well they don't sell heroin at the corner store, you know?
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
its just my luck that im violently allergic to wellbutrin. like i had one day of feeling incredible and then my hands swelled up like balloons
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I started smoking out of spite though. Like i have a pretty deep red raw anger at some of the people who love me and want me to quit
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
alas im like. violently allergic to it. my hands swelled up like balloons when i tried it
December 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
ive read allen carr's book six times. whatever magic trick is in it doesnt work on me
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
the longer it takes the longer i have to delay. which i can deal with i guess. sorta
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
its kinda nice to have a positive reason but "do this previously totally impossible thing so you can have something you want more than anything" is kind of intense. ive been smoking 2 packs a day for like ten years jeez
December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
i have read that book like six times. idk
December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
its a medical thing, smoking really messes with wound healing
December 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
i have to be 6 weeks nicotine free at my surgery consult 😱 good God this is gonna suck
December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
lmao
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
perfect
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
lmao yes also they're Assassins
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
naming my fists stephen and sondheim cuz theyre gonna FINISH your hat
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 AM
either way, though, there's a suffusing air of melancholy about the whole situation
December 1, 2025 at 2:28 AM
im not sure i had some crystalline moment of knowing, but i kept wishing id been born a guy, and about 8 years ago i sorta realized that thinking "i wish i had a dick i wish i was a man i wish i was a man i wish i was a man i wish i was a man" 800 times a day was not very cis of me
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM