markets soar as investors realize that mommy didn't actually disappear, she was just hiding behind her hands

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

is you texting war plans to journalists on Signal?

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

The worst part of editing this series is that I'm going to have to write in the "previously on glee" bit at the beginning of each book, because I never write them in naturally, and then I just feel like I'm my mother trying to explain the episode of a TV show she just watched last night

As always, the first edit of my novel draft has come out to at least 10k over my 100k limit, so this next edit is going to be a lot of me cutting out a solid chunk of what I JUST added lmao

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

If you’re in the US, what’s your plan for maintaining your sanity through the incoming administration?

My favorite ideas so far: novels and poetry instead of doomscrolling, daily exercise (even 15 minutes is better than nothing), and maybe we don’t need to check the news more than 1x/day

if we are all going to be forced to relive 2016, they should at the very least let us see mad max fury road in theaters again