one thing about me is if you dare to speak badly about the lady who sued McDonalds because her coffee was too hot, I will rant at you so aggressively for so long that it will become family lore. your children’s children will know all of the facts of the case.

You don't need to pay anything, you don't need to buy anything, you don't need to read anything. You don't even need to put a Taco Bell reference in it, it's a completely arbitrary rule I made up. This magazine isn't real, do whatever you want. We need you. We pay $100!

For my own personal use I’m making a list of small indie publishers that people have worked with and enjoyed. Soooo… be a doll and drop the name or website for the small publisher you’ve had a pleasant time writing with. 🤓📚

Creative writing will not bring you money, fame, happiness, or validation. Generally it brings you nothing! Be prepared to bring everything of yourself and receive absolutely nothing! Become a writer!

did we all have a “best friend” whose favorite pastime was subtly tearing us down and downplaying our success or just me

QT with your favorite mushroom photo of 2023 #FungiFriday Great mushroom walk of October.

to be an artist is to be delusional. of course you will write a pulitzer prize winning play or paint like yves klein, just like how icarus flew too close to the sun. who fucking cares. pick up the brush or the pen and create.

"closeness lines over time" by olivia de recat the parent's line starts first, but ends first as well. the child grows apart at one point, but the parent doesn't. or the sibling, just up and down until the end, where they're close. or even the dog, very short lived, very close.

MOUSE HUNT should get more love around these parts.

『ゼルダの伝説　ティアーズ オブ ザ キングダム』 あれから1年。 #ゼルダの伝説 #TearsOfTheKingdom

When I’m not clambering around medieval churches, I embroider strange things. Here’s one I just finished of the White Horse at Uffington - a prehistoric landmark cared for by the National Trust. I spent so much time here as a child and it’s always loomed large in my imagination.

reading greek mythology is so fun I wish greece was a real place

Writer friends: yesterday I made a joke about Ham Radio - like, a radio made out of ham. What would that joke be called? A broad term would be wordplay, or pun...but I wanna look up more and I can't think of what to call it more specifically. Anyone have any ideas?

The moon is a girl, the sun is a boy. The stars are many, and so their genders are many, but the sea? The sea is he and she and they and it, father and sister and child of storms, mother and sire of a thousand thousand waves, lord of tides and god-queen of endless untold depths