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She like a pirate ship & they like a murder of crows. (Formerly @VeroniKaboom)
Creator of BLOOD CITY ROLLERS. Audio Producer/Screenwriter/Director. Firefighter. Former Lit Agent w/opinions on pub praxis. Lit Rep: Paige Terlip.
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Screen cap of a thread from Tumblr: John.Paz.Stories: Let history remember that the first thing the world’s richest man destroyed once he got unfettered access to power was food for starving kids and medicine for the world’s poorest people wolf840: Does anyone remember when Elon was like “if anyone knows how to end world hunger for 6 billion USD, I’ll fund it” and UNICEF was like “we’re going to spend a month to make a Plan and end world hunger for 6 billion USD and Elon is going to fund it” and Elon was like “actually, nah” and bought Twitter instead? I think that was one of the worst things I’ll ever see in my life. TiredSpaceDragon: I still think that should be the thing for which he’s the most famous. It should be brought up every time he’s mentioned. In any news article, any interview, any history book. “Elon Musk, who was offered a chance to end world hunger and turned it down.” Put it on his fucking gravestone.
July 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Screen cap of AR Mosen social media post: “Why won’t you debate my IDEAS?” “Because they’re bad ideas.” “Ideas should be allowed to succeed or fail in open debate.” “They are. We heard your ideas. We think they’re bad. Your bad idea failed.” “Well I meant my ideas should be allowed to succeed.”
June 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/c... ‘Like everyone on the planet giving up breakfast’: Calories from food production set to plummet as the world heats up | CNN
Quote over black and white landscape: “It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.” — Ansel Adams
June 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Good Old Capitalism™️
Screenshot from @missmayn on old social media website: i don’t understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks / daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent’s entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10 an hour and need second jobs
June 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Pull quote from OP’s original article, in stylized black and white font, over a b&w stock photo of a foggy road in the middle of nowhere: “I will resist you by every means at my disposal.” — GOAT Man
June 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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#MillennialMinecraft
a depressingly-whitewashed and clearly developer-flipped rip-off-IKEA style cupboard holds a cacophony of cheap orange and white (absolutely chocked with microplastics) meal prep containers—probably not meant for reuse, but we wash them because minimum wage has stagnated since our teens—precariously stacked across all axes in chaotic formations that only make sense to those who have recently emptied a dishwasher which does not remotely dry dishes; implying that life is so uncertain in these times we simply must ball and YOLO but reduce by reusing, and so forth
May 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Apropos of, well, everything lately:
Screenshot of social media post from another site by OP @pangmeli: wake me up when male loneliness isn’t an implicit grievance against women for not donating themselves. wake me up when a man tries actually contacting another man / (2nd post in thread): I resent how the onus is always placed solely on women and mothers to solve men’s social deprivation issues, and never on men to a) initiate social warmth with each other and b) receive social warmth without immediately making it weird
May 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Screenshot of a tumblr post from user h_lee_justine 4/1/25: idk who needs to hear this… but some of you def do If ONE SINGLE PERSON in your country doesn’t have right to due process NEITHER DO YOU “Idc if gang members don’t have right to a trial. They don’t deserve it.” “Alright. You’re a gang member then. Come with me.” “No im not!?” PROVE IT. Prove it without due process. Do you see? Do you see the dilemma here?
May 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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OP from user ExistentialMemes: listen, if a *bad president* can come in and take away our rights and we’re dependent on a *good president* replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, *then we do not have any rights.* If politicians can take or distribute them, then they’re not “inalienable” and they’re not “rights.” We don’t have *inalienable rights* we have *conditional privileges*, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins. And if we want to have *actual rights*, then we must build a system in which *no one* has the power to take them away to begin with.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Screenshot of a post from user allietibbs: When billionaires make more money, it goes into their vault to never be seen again. When regular people make more money, it gets distributed into the community by buying things and paying taxes. Billionaires just hoard wealth. Regular American people will never make up for that loss on tax money. That’s why they want to sell OUR public lands.
March 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Screengrab of a post from tumblr user dragon-in-a-fez: people are like “if you put crabs in a bucket they can’t escape because they keep pulling each other back in, this is called crab bucket mentality and describes why people don’t help each other” and never acknowledge that crabs do not naturally occurs in buckets, a human with more power had to put them there
March 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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A medieval style meme depicting a line of 2D fools frolicking above two clearly unequipped peasants on horseback seemingly unwillingly attacking each other with the caption BORN TO JEST, FORCED TO JOUST.
March 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Screen grab from Goodreads quotes: “No one saw it coming,” but what they mean is that they consider the people who saw it coming to be no one. The category of “no one” includes the people smeared by Trump in his propaganda: immigrants, black Americans, Muslim Americans, Native Americans, Latino Americans, LGBT Americans, disabled Americans, and others long maligned and marginalized—groups for whom legally sanctioned American autocracy was not an unfathomable horror, but a personal backstory.” — Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
March 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Absolutely worth a read, for your daily dose of salty, unsinkable hope:
Pull quote from the attached article: Fascism always fails. It is destructive and it is awful and not everyone lives to see the other side, but it always, always fails. It takes work. It takes fighting back. It takes throwing punches. It takes doing whatever it takes to beat it back, to protect those that are most vulnerable from its many attacks. And through it all, it feels impossible that we will win. But we will. Two years after he wrote that letter, George Dale became Mayor of Muncie. His first act was to fire all the cops. Over the weeks and months that followed, he stripped the Klan from Muncie. George Dale lost so much in his battle against the Klan. A battle that must have felt so lonely and so difficult so often.
February 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Post from lovemedonlothario: I support universal free healthcare for one simple reason: if you are diagnosed with a germinal illness you should quit your job. Quitting your job is the correct response to terminal illness. But you can’t do that if your healthcare is tied to your job RP from op (on tumblr): listen if somebody knows that they will be dead in a years time, and you are forcing them to continue to come into work, that’s fucked up. Terminally ill people should be able to quit their jobs and live their last few months to the fullest. I don’t get how that’s a controversial opinion.
February 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Perhaps you have forgotten…
Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door. John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man
January 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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“If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship, then they probably aren’t as biological or innate as you think they are.” — Gillian Branstetter
Screenshot of a post from 2022 Twitter, Gillian Branstetter: “If enforcing gender norms requires a constant state of surveillance and censorship, then they probably aren’t as biological or innate as you think they are”
January 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Apropos of…well, everything:
Screenshot of @ashleynicoleblack’s post from OT, quote: the best way to abuse or oppress someone is to tell them they are not allowed to get/appear angry. Anger is what motivates you to leave or change your situation. That’s why we tell women and POC, especially Black women, that anger is specifically unacceptable for them.
January 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Today’s mood:
A medieval-style illustration of a vaguely dog-shaped thing perched with its paws on a table while surrounded by embroidered flames, with historically accurate font and spelling “thys be fyne” aka the current mood of living in the US and being on the brink of a brand new dark ages. Yay!
January 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Remember to support Labor Actions, because this is reality for Most of US:
Screenshot of a post by @BostonJerry on OT: if you’re in the bottom half of income, there’s almost nothing left in US society for you. The expectation is to work as many hours as you can, buy the cheapest groceries, bring them home to the cheapest apartment you can find, and just sit there until you have more money somehow
December 29, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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If you see this, post a vampire 🧛🏻‍♀️

(Also, BLOOD CITY ROLLERS is available in hardcover, paperback, and full-cast audio now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/702848...)
A page from BLOOD CITY ROLLERS, a horror/comedy graphic novel depicting colorful tween vampires playing paranormal roller derby (PRD) with their new human jammer, 13-year-old Mina Murray. (Name inspired by OG Dracula!) Get your copy or full-cast audiobook today wherever books/audiobooks are sold!
December 10, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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runner up:
Skelly, a female orange cat from Grenada, reclines with a white-gloved paw in her mouth and a white-socked footie poised in the air. She is under the impression that she is, in fact, the One True Baby.
November 28, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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That last paragraph feels particularly sinister, in November of 2024, right?
Screenshot from the attached article linked below, describing how a NY doctor in 1902 discovered that hook worms were to blame for the “Southern lethargy” that had debilitated large swaths of the population. John D. Rockefeller—the early 1900s version of a billionaire—agreed to fund this research, specifically because he “didn’t want to put money into things that would bring the American capital system into question, like income equality.” A very depressing detail.
November 28, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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HALT. This is a beatific feline portrait inspection area. Though thy troubles may be many and thy enemies armed, no weapon forged can defeat a creature who is unbothered, while naturally armed with teeth and claws. Remain, my companions, and persist!

Many thanks for your collaboration.
A petite ginger female cat (Skelly) lays a delicate, white-gloved paw across her tail, cast in purple while reclining on a croissant-shaped pillow that low key makes her look like a tiny stegosaurus that was painted by a gay baroque artist. 10/10.
November 5, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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tmw there’s a lull in your book signing line so you decide to have a red carpet mo at #nycc
VP Anderson, author of BLOOD CITY ROLLERS, poses dramatically in front of NY ComicCon backdrop in the signing area, mere YARDS away from fellow celebrities Chuck Tingle, Hugh Dancy, and Mads Mikkelsen. All in a day’s work!
October 21, 2024 at 1:16 AM