Out today! My debut anthology book, Till the Yule Log Burns Out is available now! Make the Yuletide gay, scary, and bright with these twelve stories by nine authors, including a wraparound by me.

With cover art by @sushistevie, if you love Christmas, queer horror, and cozy spookiness, this is the book for you!

My debut novel was released in June! If you love gothic houses, lesbians, and ghosts, this is the book for you!

There’s more than one way to be haunted.

After the deaths of her abusive grandparents, prodigal daughter Rhiannon “Rhea” Ballard ends her self-imposed exile and returns home to the stately Ballard House for one last goodbye. She expects to pay her respects, field awkward questions, and let her family name die with her. But when she discovers that she had inherited everything, she must stay in the house and act as the caretaker while it is under probate to put her family’s affairs in order.

As she digs into her family’s dark secrets, the spirits of the house reawaken and her own traumatic memories resurface. With the help of the family cook, Morgan Reyes, an alluring woman with her own dark secret, and the supernatural skeptic groundskeeper, Andy Higgins, she must solve a century old mystery and put the spirits of the estate to rest before she becomes one herself.

We still havent had a female president or an elf president

okay I'll bite

hawm

my paternal grandparents were married until my grandfather (emotionally, physically, and sexually abusive alcoholic misogynist) (these things were not Widely Known, though) died when I was nine, and at their 50th wedding anniversary some well-meaning younger women were sort of lightheartedly saying like, "wow, fifty years is such a long time to stay together! how did you do it, how did you manage to stay married this long, what's your secret?" and my grandmother just sort of looked at them and said "you just don't get divorced"

I think of this... often. she was born in the first decade of the 20th century. like. this shit is. so recent. and, in many cases, actively ongoing in spite of some very serious material improvements in womens rights

I've seen so many fucking miserable couples in unhappy or outright abusive marriages celebrate 25 and 50 year anniversaries like it's an accomplishment to choose to stay with (or be forced to stay with) someone you're miserable with. and this is why I think we need to implement Divorce Showers.

As someone who has not done the wedding/baby thing are lots of events in life that really should involve your supportive circle getting you practical household gifts to help you with a major life thing that just don’t, e.g., divorces in which you have to start completely over, moving out on your own for the first time

We kind of do “housewarming gifts” sometimes when people buy a house I guess but there’s no “this person is going to live in an apartment alone making just above the poverty line for the next 15+ years, they could probably use some silverware” registry

huge agree

embarrassing myself

hater nation rise up

Dislike and distrust of intellectuals and experts is how you get slop.

I had some trouble parsing this headline at first so just in case anybody else is confused, Zohran Mamdani is not personally transitioning to female. Instead, he's announced that all non-female boroughs of New York City will be forced to transition. The Bronks, Womanhattan and Staten Vagina will be given 100 days to comply. No real surprise here if you've been watching Fox.

do you ever not write for so long that you’re almost afraid to? like what if I’m dumb now

You just gotta unclog the pipe. Are you dumb now? No. The water was sitting stagnant because you were busy doing other things (100% fine btw). If any 'dumb' got in the water then it will quickly leave once you let the water start flowing again. Go get all the stupid out into a doc that doesn't matter. Even several of them. It might take a good while, especially if you're returning to writing after years or after a period of intense burnout, or both (waves). But you're just rusty, and letting that stop you will only ensure you stay stuck! Go forth and write some nonsense!

youre no different from everyone else, but that really just makes it easier to care for others. at the end of the day a lot of us share the same needs and wants. someone else out there might burst into tears when you offer them hot chocolate the way you like it. someone out there might skip 3 years of repression when you speak to them in a way you wished you'd heard in your youth. someone else has probably waited their whole life for a person to tell them the words that you, too, want to hear. give other people the grace and care you long for. share the kindness you've hoped to get for yourself. we can always use more of it

they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"

It's not a cure but you have no idea how many times this image has helped me with my OCD

"Hey, what do you say we have some champagne, huh, baby? After all, I'm a man and... You're a woman!"

real smooth, ash

Ash Williams, truly the character of all time

also facades and false identities are so fun . many such variations.

someone accidentally slipping further into a facade than they intended . someone purposefully retreating further into a facade . someone accidentally dropping their normally impeccable facade for a moment . someone purposefully letting their facade down as a taunt or mockery or in a genuine way because they're finally in a situation where they don't need the facade anymore . someone whose facade really is just a tool that they have complete control over and it never falters or fails . someone whose facade is the opposite and they're having a really bad time trying to maintain their facade or trying to maintain their true self under the facade . many such good options. all fun.

i love you facades and false identities and presentations of the self and separation of aspects of the self and

love to purchase items but at what cost

all the buckaroos who were surprised i started writing horror were clearly not paying attention for this 2015 classic