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Samantha Puc 🍉
@theverbalthing.com
fat lesbian witch 🔮♿️ 🏳️‍🌈 she/they

📝 eisner-winning journo, rt-approved critic, writing everywhere 📚 fat forward books founder & naafa blog editor 📖 rep by stephanie winter @ komm 🖼️ pfp by @boooworth.bsky.social

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Thank y’all so much for your support so far. We’ve reached 35% of our goal! 🧡

Shrimp is doing great! He’s the bravest little lad. If you want to help us recoup the rest of the cost of his vet visit, I have zines for sale or you can leave a tip! 🐈✨

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November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
No blockages or visible stones! Shrimp has been sent home with several meds and a new prescription food. Thank y’all so much for your support so far — it means the world. 🧡🧡

I’ve set up a @ko-fi.com goal to hopefully make up some of the vet bill. If you want to help: ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
👋🏻 We’re at the emergency vet with Mr. Shrimp! He’s being checked for bladder stones because his litter box usage has been weird this week. It’s $800 that isn’t in our budget, but he deserves the world. 🐈🧡

If you want to help, I have zines in my shop: ko-fi.com/theverbalthi...
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I hate asking for help as often as I do, but as I continue to hunt for work and freelance opps, money continues to be a major struggle.

I’m almost $200 in the red and want to avoid bank fees if at all possible. Anything helps, especially shares. 🩷

ko-fi.com/theverbalthing
September 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Wear a mask. Wear a mask. Wear a mask. 😷 Not just at protests! At the grocery store, at the farmer’s market, at the museum, LITERALLY EVERYWHERE.

Especially as mask bans become more common, get back into the swing of wearing one to protest fascism and show solidarity with disabled people! Mask up!
June 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Um... I turned in my thesis. #ThesisWriting
May 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM
All that's left is my final meeting with my advisor and then edits. AhhhHHHHHHHHHHHH #ThesisWriting
April 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Home stretch. Final meeting with my advisor on 4/30. Thesis due 5/5. #ThesisWriting
April 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Progress. #ThesisWriting
April 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The Nonbinarian's virtual book club meets Friday, April 25 on Zoom to discuss The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Jhoukadar and our hybrid, TGNC-only book club meets Monday, April 28 to discuss Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg!

Details: thenonbinarian.gay/virtual-%26-...
April 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This will fix me.
March 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
They saw you at the bar and they hate your vibe #AssassinsCreedShadows
March 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Calling all #AWP2025 attendees! Our virtual panel 'Fat, Flawed, & Fabulous: Writing Fat & Queer Narratives in Fiction & Nonfiction' is live on the conference website! I had a blast recording this panel with C. Adán Cabrera, Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini, and August Grimm.

awpwriter.org/AWP/Magazine...
March 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you live in one of the following states, PLEASE contact your state AG and encourage them to drop out of this lawsuit and support Section 504 before February 25. If you live in any other state, please contact your state AG and encourage them to file documents in defense of Section 504!
February 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
PW's Fanatic newsletter is not mincing words in its subject line: "The Comics News Stories to Watch This Year, Including the Downfalls of Diamond and Neil Gaiman"
January 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The vibes are immaculate.
January 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
When sometimes you have to add pertinent things to your to-do list in Spirit City Lo-Fi
January 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17: The Future Is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 💙📚 🌈📚
December 22, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16: Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza 💙📚 🌈📚
December 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM
December 18, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 15: Hunger by Roxane Gay 💙📚 🌈📚
December 17, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 14: Nothing Is Okay by Rachel Wiley 💙📚 🌈📚
December 15, 2024 at 9:22 PM
For my final project for seminar, I put together a zine of collected writings about some of the novellas we read this semester and some I read solo, exploring themes of safety, queerness, race, and relationships. Debating on if I want to make it available for purchase. Thoughts?
December 14, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 13: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris 💙📚 🌈📚
December 14, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12: The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson 💙📚 🌈📚
December 12, 2024 at 7:47 PM