Annie P. Ruggles

A softly smiling woman with dark hair and medium-brown skin wearing light orange. She holds a cute, fluffy little brown dog.

We mourn the loss of National New Play Network Board Member & Affiliated artist Lavina Jadhwani, the great human & Chicago-based playwright whose scripts I'll be enjoying on NPX this weekend. newplayexchange.org/users/5506/l...

The world is a dumpster fire but @chucktingle.bsky.social prominently used my name, my birthday, and my (vanishing?) orientation in LUCKY DAY. I’d say that’s proof Love Is Real and also that I am a walking Low Probability Event.

ME: I feel like I’m starting to spiral

THERAPIST: well, we’ve talked about the five steps you should take to…

ME: I know I know. Find one thing I can pet, one book I can buy, one dumpling I can eat, one leg I can shake, and one season of Murder She Wrote I can binge

THERAPIST: what

Ringstalgia?

Can’t wait to read it someday.

Introverts don’t recharge with sleep, we recharge by being left completely alone for 3–5 business days

My dogs say hi.

We have angered the gods. Bring back the Choco Taco. Play music videos on MTV again. Make movies under 120 minutes. Do history on the history channel. Only make cake out of cake. We must atone.

Pope from Chicago
All things go, all things go

Now the Bears get to embarrass the city AND catholic god

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter may very well be my book of the year. (It’s pure WOW.) But it also gave this introvert stoner the best line for when I’m done talking. “My pipe is empty.”

Thank you @sgj.bsky.social. Weasel Plume forever.

Thank you @aardvarkbookclub.bsky.social for another absolute gem.

I want my tax dollars to go to Elmo not Elon, created by Doodle by Meg Featuring Elmo and Oscar the Grouch

100%
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I’ve been trying to get my parents to move from MO to IL for 22 years. They have been trying to get me “home” for just as long. But this time, I said “There’s no way in hell I’m leaving @govpritzker.illinois.gov.” And she said “Good point. We’ll come to you.” Thank you, JB, for being our lighthouse.

Wagon from Oregon Trail game, "You listened to RFK"

I sing the waistband elastic.

@grrlgnag.bsky.social @mbv504.bsky.social wake up and look at this cover right now… or like very soon.

I woke up at 6am to devour Vampires of El Norte, so I get it.

Not a single reporter at the Superbowl asked any of the Eagles why they didn't fly the Fellowship to Mordor.

@kaylsmoon.bsky.social Phantasma had hands down the best and most responsible depiction of OCD I’ve ever encountered in a book - and such a steamy, glorious book at that. Thank you, I’m tremendously grateful for the delicious escape AND the rep.

Cheddar Bae Biscuit’s realtime reactions to #superbowlLIX speak for the household.

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

sorry i've been so testy lately. it's just because of every single thing in the entire world

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
JK Rowling is a trashbag
And Neil Gaiman is too.

#books

The country is going to hell but my husband bought me a 12-pack of Diet Squirt, so at least I have the crisp refreshing tang of grapefruit for the ride.

You gotta tag the authors, sillyheart. We love you, @tananarivedue.bsky.social & @eirencaffall.bsky.social. You too, @aardvarkbookclub.bsky.social.

Ope. My coat matches my dog. Just been walking around lookin’ like a Midwest Low-Rent Cruella…

I just did this with some of my old work stuff and it was such a bittersweet mindfuck. We should do a little gallery show of your posters! 💜

NUADA!

Obviously.

We’ll put glitter in the pepper, natch!