Allison Wyss (But the abyss... It's still in my heart.)

That’s so warm and fuzzy.

It would be a different experience watching battlestar galactica today because you’d know to just watch for their hands.

I forgot to promote my upcoming writing class about evil an empathy because there is too much evil and too much empathy.

Can you move straight from Goonies to Lost Boys or is it a requirement to pass through Stand By Me?

Embracing Constraint through the Expansion of Going Deeper: A Conversation with Tayyba Kanwal - The Rumpus “I think “escape” does work in that we all need to escape our constraints. How we escape them is the question. Do you escape by breaking down the structures? Or do you escape control by finding ways t...

I've been so caught up in things (still happening, btw) that I did not promote this interview as I should have. It's such a wonderful book and @tayyba.bsky.social had really brilliant things to say:

The point is that rent relief is a great way you can contribute even from afar.

It's not just violently abducting people from their homes, jobs, childcare, churches, mosques, and schools. It's also evicting them from their homes because they can't pay rent because their family has been abducted, or their place of work has been shut down, or they're in hiding & can't work.

And there it was. Just a normal post. But it’s not because they actually left. They did not leave. Abductions have not stopped. But since they won’t, I’m not going to get an all clear to go back to normal, am I? (Not that I want normal. I’m ready for the after.)

You know how you pop the straw through the plastic for a boba? I keep wanting that but through your (k)n95 when you want to drink something.

I’m not trying to be virtuous or remind you of anything. I am selfishly complaining that everything is so awful that I can’t enjoy even the simplest things.

I am enjoying a beautiful day, mostly outside, with my kid. And I am haunted by how many parents are separated from their kids, and how many families can’t be outside.

We’ve actually got the filming part covered. What we want from you is the not abducting and murdering part.

The insult of body cameras as a potential solution.

Thank you. It is so much worse than I ever thought it could be. Also, it somehow hasn’t felt right to post in the other place. Maybe because that’s always long conversations and I just can’t do that about this.

It's not back to normal; it's this new horrifying normal. It's horror that we're forced to normalize to survive it. Such that I do think of light funny things to post sometimes, instead of only about the horrors. And some day, despite the horror, I will. But so far, I can't. I just can't.

I guess folks are sick of hearing about the invasion of my city, especially as some tiny symbolic concessions have been made and the lawmakers might kind of talk about giving the invaders slightly less money. But it's still happening. We are still invaded. They are still abducting my neighbors.

I do feel guilty about how bad I want ICE the fuck out of minneapolis, because I don't want them to be anywhere else either. But selfishly, as a start, I really want them the fuck out of minneapolis.

I COUL USE A LITTLE BORING THESE DAYS

I could use a single day without extra bullshit.

Folks say “wait until they get to [city that has tough reputation]—love your enthusiasm, hope you hand them their asses. But it’s not the attitude that’s worked here. It’s not showboating, but thousands of ordinary people at quiet, tedious, grueling, dangerous tasks that no one will ever know about.

Oh it’s a relay for sure.

Block strategy going forward: stagger our complete and total fucking breakdowns.

Thanks! I do always end up swapping in some new ones too, based on my mood or the class's mood or having just read a new story that I can't stop thinking about. You know.

"Fairy Tales and Subversion" is going to run despite my never being in the mood to promote it. It may be an angrier version of my usual fairy tale class, a sadder version, a bit more scattered. But fairy tales ARE great for fighting fascism, if you're interested.

loft.org/classes/fair...

It's fine. I pull my head up to gasp "but my art! but my career!" and I post/whine about that here. But then head back down and do the work. Which is right.

Heh. Just occurred to me there must be markets that opened and closed in January and a vanishingly small number of us fighting this round of fascism will be published in them. Then again, short submission windows are always less accessible.

I just blocked someone because they don’t seem to understand object permanence my god I didn’t think this through.

No actually they win when they abduct or kill people. And yeah that might interfere with my life a little bit. I do complain, but of course saving people’s literal lives is worth the inconvenience.

I'm sorry. You probably don't know where I am or what it's like here.

I think you're right about this. But that kind of writing is not my role in this, at least not at present.