Tara Maggs
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Tara Maggs
@taramaggswrites.bsky.social
26, New Yorker, talking all things literary + breaking my own heart a lot ✩ °。⋆ writing lit fic, poetry, weird flash fic
writer you have to stop. your debut too splashy. your prose too disarming. your voice is too urgent and necessary. they’ll kill you
March 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
that small press book with <500 goodreads ratings will save you btw
March 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
with the double whammy of Sam Altman’s AI “short story” and the Libgen / meta shitshow, I thought I’d share this post I wrote this week about AI “art,” Shklovsky, and language as resistance open.substack.com/pub/thewreck...
Defamiliarize language = rehumanize yourself
on AI writing, art as technique, "Internet slang," and what to do about the slop epidemic
open.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
With each passing day I get more staunch in my stance of “Phone Bad”
January 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
that Vivek Ramaswamy tweet where he said that Americans accept mediocrity because they don’t watch movies like Whiplash is WILD.

Ah yes, Whiplash: a film that definitely does not depict how a hammering Protestant work ethic reduces one to a shell of a human being in the blind pursuit of greatness
December 28, 2024 at 7:54 PM
just successfully rizzed these two dudes by telling them about how Twilight is mormon fanfiction
December 17, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Do we have a “writers on writers” series like “actors on actors?” Can we make it a thing?
December 11, 2024 at 2:42 PM
I’m glad Spotify wrapped stops at December because mine would be nerfed by my Last Christmas fixation every single year
December 5, 2024 at 2:14 PM
have any of the brain dead RWs ragging on the olfactory ethics PhD ever read perfume or what
December 3, 2024 at 2:41 AM
there’s a cormac McCarthy-shaped hole in my chest that is being quickly filled by the knowledge that I will never write anything as atrocious as that vanity fair article
November 21, 2024 at 9:59 PM
one sky two sky red sky blue sky
November 21, 2024 at 3:27 PM