Madeleine Gunhart

Publishers weekly announcement reading “Madeleine Gunhart's CULL ME, MAYBE, following a grim reaper sent to a quaint small town and the irritating yet handsome resident mad wizard who keeps thwarting her mission to cull the population, while inadvertently teaching her what it means to be human, to Sareer Khader at Ace, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in spring 2027, by Jordan Hamessley at JABberwocky Literary Agency (world).”

So very excited to be sharing this news! !My story about a lovestruck wizard trying to “cure” death and the beautiful grim reaper who slowly falls in love with being alive is slated to be published with Ace Books (Penguin Random House) in 2027!

As someone who also has a catastrophic personal year on top of the global nightmare we’re living through, I present you with these for surviving the impossible: 🏆 👑. Super excited about a new Witches of West Harbor!! And omg Detective Baby sounds hilarious! Thank you for the hope (and your stories)!

Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.

1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.

This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.

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three sheep wearing sweaters with the word christmas on them are standing in front of a christmas tree ALT: three sheep wearing sweaters with the word christmas on them are standing in front of a christmas tree

On it

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

I think the moment in THE GIVER when Jonas notices the apple change in a way he can’t yet describe or understand legitimately changed the wiring of my 11yo brain.

AI is the mind-killer

Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

A page from the American Girl Doll catalogue featuring a doll in a 1950s style outfit with a flouncy ponytail and a lemon-print dress. I’ve drawn little “tattoos” (such as planets, mushrooms, cats, hearts, and flowers) on the doll’s arms and face in green pen.

Highly recommended tatting up toy catalogues as a fun creative outlet

It’s magical! 💖 Their children’s room is super cute as well.

Architectural critic Herbert Muschamp once wrote, “Seattle’s new Central Library is a blazing chandelier to swing your dreams upon,“ which imo is an apt description of the magic of libraries in general. I’ll never forget the awe I felt exploring this building & its many treasures for the first time.

esquire article with headline “why does gen z love rumours so much?”

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

Families on SNAP worry about not just feeding themselves but also their pets With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.

While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too.

If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole.

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What if agents of the state and our government *fed* kids and didn’t fucking indiscriminately spray them with dangerous poison. How cool would that would be.

Me (white femme with long brown hair, wearing blue eyeshadow and false lashes) in a PBS IS PUNK shirt by the brand Two Crow Collective. The shirt graphic features the PBS logo with added piercings, a Mohawk, and a collar, as well as the phrase PBS IS PUNK.

Today’s show is brought to you by the letter F! Fund PBS. Fight the power. Feed your neighbors. F*** ICE . Free Palestine, Sudan, & Congo. Flatten anti-trans rhetoric. Familiarize yourself w/ disability activism. Fund mutual aid. Forget AI. Find courage. Facilitate change. Forge a better world.

I know Sarah Hawley has written some magical social media into her books, but I can’t remember if dating apps were specifically mentioned.

I'm very grateful to @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for letting me speak on the relationship between AI and book bans.

This is a great and thorough article, and I'm glad I got a chance to say a thing I say a lot but that-- without the context Jason provides-- makes me sound a little conspiracy minded.

This is an absolutely tragic gutting of one of the best politics desks in the country

Even during the hardest times, humans continue to create wondrous things. I can’t see this stopping, no matter the obstacles. I don’t believe art will ever “peak.”

On the other hand, Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody. 🙏

it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.

it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:

cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won’t be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.” (4/4)

from WAR TALK by Arundhati Roy (2003)

“The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.” (3/4)

-Arundhati Roy

“To mock [empire]. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.” (2/4)

-Arundhati Roy

Excerpt from WAR TALK by Arundhati Roy:

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it.” (1/4)

Every time I start feeling despair I am reminded that many, many people want to help, actually.

🥹🫶🫶!!

Hi, Jilanne! Good to see you too! Unfortunately I am still going to be sporadic on here 🙈 but happy to rafter hop with you all the same!

Screenshot from an article that reads: A store employee also told Storyful the monkey had gotten spooked by one of the store’s animatronic decorations. Ultimately, the monkey’s owner was able to entice it with a cookie and regain control.

literally how it would have happened if it was me

The inexplicable kinship I feel with the monkey swinging from the rafters inside of Spirit Halloween

(Goals)