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Samantha Puc 🍉
@theverbalthing.com
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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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Shrimp, an orange and white tabby, lays on a colorful blanket and looks to the side of the camera.
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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
Shrimp, an orange and white tabby cat, sits on a counter in a vet’s office. His back is to the camera but he twists to look at a corner of the ceiling behind the photographer. Shrimp, an orange and white tabby cat, sleeps curled up on a colorful blanket. He is on his left side and has his front right leg extended under his head.
October 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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👋🏻 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...
Shrimp, an orange and white tabby cat, stretches his paws above his head and squints as he gets belly scratches from Samantha, whose pale hand and “CAT” knuckle tattoos can be seen. Shrimp, an orange and white tabby cat, stands on a colorful blanket and stares at the camera. Shrimp, an orange and white tabby cat, sits on top of a cardboard cat house made to look like a sardine can. Scampi, a long-haired grey and white cat, stares out from a door underneath him.
October 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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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. 🩷

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A screenshot of Samantha’s bank balance, which is -$173.86
September 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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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
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Um... I turned in my thesis. #ThesisWriting
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May 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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All that's left is my final meeting with my advisor and then edits. AhhhHHHHHHHHHHHH #ThesisWriting
Black text on a white page says, "As of 4/30/2025: Manuscript: Word Count: 24,329; Page Count: 62, Completed Chapters: 4. Critical: Word Count: 3,833; Page Count: 11. Goal: 17-20,000 words (4-6 chapters). Total: 28,162 words (5 chapters, 73 pages)"
April 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Home stretch. Final meeting with my advisor on 4/30. Thesis due 5/5. #ThesisWriting
Black text on a white background reads: As of 4/25/2025, Word Count: 21,297; Page Count: 54; Completed Chapters: 3; Chapters Left to Complete: 2
April 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Progress. #ThesisWriting
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April 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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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-...
The Nonbinarian Book Club: Monthly | Virtual | LGBTQIA+ is written in blue text above the book cover of The Thirty Days of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar, which is in a stylized frame. To the right of the book cover is a pink text bubble that reads, in white font, “$5 off your next purchase w/attendance.” To the left of the book cover is a blue text bubble that reads, in white font, “Sign up in bio.” Below the book cover is the meeting information: Friday, April 25 at 8 p.m. ET. At the very bottom is a tag for @NonbinarianBike on Instagram. All of this is set against a pink, blue, and yellow gradient background with a pink, blue, and yellow wave from the left side to the bottom right corner. The cover of Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg is framed by information about the April Reading Trancestors: A Trans History Book Club meeting. The hybrid meeting happens in-store (after hours) at The Nonbinarian Bookstore at 1130 President St., Brooklyn, NY, and over Zoom on Monday, April 28 at 8 p.m. ET. The club meets monthly on the last Monday. Register via Zoom or Partiful. This group is open only to TGNC attendees.
April 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This will fix me.
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March 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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They saw you at the bar and they hate your vibe #AssassinsCreedShadows
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March 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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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.

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Fat, Flawed, & Fabulous: Writing Fat & Queer Narratives in Fiction & Nonfiction C. Adán Cabrera, Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini, Samantha Puc, Miguel M. Morales, and August Grimm Trans and queer fats are waiting for their “moment,” as it’s still radical to include characters that positively represent us in fiction and nonfiction. This panel explores the challenges and rewards of writing while fat, creating fat characters, how to create positive narratives for fat readers living at the intersection of their queer identities and fatness, and other craft issues. Panelists will offer ways to transform negative narratives around fatness and queerness into positive ones.
March 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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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!
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February 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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"
A screenshot of an email subject line that reads, "The Comics News Stories to Watch This Year, Including the Downfalls of Diamond and Neil Gaiman"
January 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The vibes are immaculate.
A screenshot from Spirit City Lo-Fi shows a pink demon girl reading on her bed with her fuzzy bookworm pet, who is also reading. A screenshot from Spirit City Lo-Fi shows a pink demon girl gaming on a handheld console on her bed with her cat, who is also gaming.
January 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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When sometimes you have to add pertinent things to your to-do list in Spirit City Lo-Fi
"Eat something you dumb" is written in white text on a purple-ish background with a blank checkbox to the left and a calendar icon and delete icon to the right.
January 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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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 💙📚 🌈📚
Cover art for The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. A white sundial with golden people figurines is centered against a multicolored celestial collage. The book title is in large white letters in the bottom left corner. The author’s name is in small dark blue letters across the top.
December 22, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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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 💙📚 🌈📚
Cover art for Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza. Blue and orange impressionist art of two women swimming underwater is overlaid with a big peach square containing the title and author's name in all-capital, white letters.
December 19, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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A low quality Mario meme shows him with his head down against a vague ocean background. Text reads *sad mamma Mia sounds*
December 18, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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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 💙📚 🌈📚
Cover art for Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay. A close-up photo of fork tines looms against a white background behind the book title and author name.
December 17, 2024 at 11:55 PM
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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 💙📚 🌈📚
Cover art for Nothing Is Okay by Rachel Riley. Winged, yellow, green, and red rollerskates with stripes on the sides are centered against a retro-looking starry background. An orange strip goes down the middle of the cover behind the skates. The title is written in large block letters above them, outlined in the same orange as the strip.
December 15, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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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?
A collaged image of a marble Medusa head bust and dried pansies overlaid with a pink and peach filter, scribbled black x's over the eyes, and some of the snakes outlined. A piece of washi tape is over the Medusa's mouth with the word "safe" written in black ink and crossed out. In the bottom write corner, black ink says "a zine by Samantha Puc." Bees sit on two of the flowers. A collage with bees in a honeycomb, dried flowers, washi tape of various colors, space imagry, a dried pansy flower, an Alaska stamp, newspaper cuttings, a jellyfish photograph, a lesbian flag, a line drawing of a woman with long hair kissing a Medusa, and the words "wish you were here." The words "Project(ion) 2025: We take care of us. We are all we have." are written in black ink in the center of a gray page. Dried flowers surround the edges of the page, like a frame. A collaged image of a marble Medusa head bust and dried pansies overlaid with a pink and peach filter, a scribbled black x over her eye, and some of the snakes outlined. A piece of washi tape is over the Medusa's ear with the words "buzzing with life" typed in black courier font. Bees rest on the tape around the letters. A coffee stain covers the top middle-right part of the image.
December 14, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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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 💙📚 🌈📚
Cover art for My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris. A ballpoint ink portrait of a woman with blue-tinted skin, red lips, and long, dark hair shows her looking toward the camera with her face turned slightly to the side. In the background is a full moon, creepy tree branches, and a creepy looking apartment building.
December 14, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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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 💙📚 🌈📚
Cover art for The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson. Jointed capital letters in pink and white declare the title and author against a solid black background.
December 12, 2024 at 7:47 PM