it's always really funny to read reviews of the murderbot books that are like 'we eventually learn that the secunit is not a mindless automaton after all but a person, who hacked the module that controls its behavior and just wants to watch its tv shows in peace' as if that isn't literally the first thing we learn about it. like, the first sentence:

wow talk about a banger opening paragraph

9 days left to get an incredible deal on the whole series to date, and support a great cause. Everyone, please, do go forth and buy and read. I swear to you it's worth it.

Clement Gelly, “Graffiti, Through Grief and Discovery”, pub. Hazlitt [transcript in ALT]

(For purposes of this pole, triplets, quads etc count as twins.)

what did your GRANDMOTHERS do? #feminism

*if you fell on a sharp object, consider that falling. Otherwise, consider it dealing with sharp objects

the beauty of life

CINDER HOUSE: A NOVELLA

coming in October this year: an extremely angry Cinderella retelling about ballet, fire, skeletons, intense epistolary friendships, and aaaaall the feelings I had about being trapped in my house and betrayed by my body, thanks for nothing, long COVID.

Preorder UK/ Preorder US

Incredible cover by Cristina Bencina.

btw its time to get your flu shot for the year if you havent yet. theres also a new covid vaccine rolling out in the US but because RFK wants people dead, insurance coverage/eligibility is very slim, you may need to be prepared for a bill or to see your doctor about it. but still dont let the season go without getting your vaccines if possible ok thanks

(via @sinistrasidera )

The meeting where they're likely to curb vaccine access even further starts Thursday, September 18, 2025: https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/cdc-acip-meeting-september-18-19-2025.html

I strongly recommend that anyone in the USA get vaccinated before that meeting if it's at all possible for you.

i need to know the statistics on this cuz its always weird to me

feel free to tell me how exactly you communicate in the tags

really enjoying all the videos Muslims have been posting of their cats looking like this

when the humans are up at 4 am for suhoor

it's always really funny to read reviews of the murderbot books that are like 'we eventually learn that the secunit is not a mindless automaton after all but a person, who hacked the module that controls its behavior and just wants to watch its tv shows in peace' as if that isn't literally the first thing we learn about it. like, the first sentence:

wow talk about a banger opening paragraph

9 days left to get an incredible deal on the whole series to date, and support a great cause. Everyone, please, do go forth and buy and read. I swear to you it's worth it.

🚨 BIG NEWS ALERT 🚨: I HAVE A NEW BOOK COMING OUT NEXT MONTH!! THIS IS ITS BEAUTIFUL COVER!! If you've ever asked yourself, "What if those test kitchen videos that got popular a few years back were the backdrop to a hilarious, rompy, grumpy/sunshine gay romcom full of food and warmth and a dash of holiday magic," then may I humbly recommend RECIPE FOR TROUBLE, which will be out in October in ebook, print and audio! It's available for pre-order right here, if you would like to make me (and my publishers lol) very happy. 

What can you expect from RECIPE FOR TROUBLE? Jokes! Workplace romance! Hijinks! The dangers of fame in the internet age! Ideas for dinner! A small but well contained set fire! Queer characters who feel real! So much more that I had to write a whole book about it! It is, in my humble opinion, a great time -- at the very least, I had an absolute blast writing it. (Like all my books, this is in no small part thanks to the hard work and dedication of Hannah Bond, who has kindly and generously worked with me every step of the way; if you are in search of someone to help you bring your ideas to life, I can't recommend her highly enough.) 

SOME Q&A, which is under a cut so I don't eat your dashboards:

It is incredibly important to train yourself to have your first instinct be to look something up.

Don't know how to do something? Look it up.

See a piece of news mentioned on social media? Look it up.

Not sure if something is making it to the broader public consciousness, either because you don't see it much or you see people saying nobody is talking about it? Look it up.

Don't know what a word means? Look it up.

It will make you a better reader and a better writer, but it will also just make you more equipped to cope with the world.

So often, I see people talking about something as though it is the first time anyone has ever acknowledged it, when I've been reading reports about it on the news for months or years. Or I see someone totally misinterpreting an argument because they clearly don't know what a word means--or, on the other hand, making an argument that doesn't make sense because they aren't using words the right way.

Look things up! Check the news (the real news, not random people on social media)! Do your research! You (and the world) will be better for it.

Eowyn/Faramir was one of the first ships I was truly obsessed with, and am still obsessed with. Faramir has lived the past year of his life in the shadow of the Nazgul, burdened by grief, fighting a desperate war that knows he's going to lose, hating that he has to fight at all but still doing it to protect his men (many of whom will die anyway), to obey his father (who doesn't love him), to defend his city (which is probably doomed.) He bears up heroically under his burden, he doesn't have illusions, he tolerates hopelessness so well that he's not even tempted by the ring: if no actions can avert the inevitable destruction, he might as well act righteously. He holds up under the burden, and he holds others upright as well, but it's sickening him, and the sickening dread that he fights every day has a voice and shape, black wings in the sky.

And then Eowyn shows up having killed one of those.

Imagine waking up in a hospital bed. There's a girl in the room next to yours who keeps arguing with the nurses and trying to check herself out of the hospital even though she's got so many broken bones and just generally looks half dead. There's a security guard on her door because she's an obvious flight risk. You ask another patient who's well enough to walk around how she ended up in there and he tells you she killed depression. Not all depression, but the big one, the King Depression, definitely. She stabbed it in the face.