Arielle Zibrak

Love this! So many of my neurodivergent college students have especially found D&D such an amazing tool of expression. Thanks for sharing and for creating!🙏

PLEASE if you are making art tell us about it. It does not need to be art that comments on the geopolitical situation. ART IS ALSO WHAT WE NEED. Art is also what we need. Art is also what we need. Say it all the time.

Maybe domestic animals have already done to us what we plan to do to the robots we invented. We thought we were the superior animals, but, in fact, cats and dogs have trained us into being their super-intelligent caretakers. We're following their lead.

This is the best news on what I am pretending is a slow news day.

This "it's a distraction from" stuff is like when I wrote one book to procrastinate on another book. They were both books, in the end.

Jenny Holzer's 1989 billboard in Times Square, which reads ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE

A room full of somber victorian children sitting at their desks with slates and chalk.

Personally, I've always wanted to go back to slates.

Excuse me, sir, dialectics is a straight trans woman.

Makes all the sense in the world and yet so necessary. 🙏

Say more!

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Feed full of misogyny? Some good news: next month is Women's History Month and the first anniversary of 12 STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN. I'm on the East Coast for the year and want to bring 12 Stories to your events in person or online! Let's talk.

The bad reviews of Wuthering Heights just make me more excited to see it.

somehow the final line of the article lives up to the promise of the headline

Age of Innocence

Seattle Aquarium cancels octopus sex act due to cannibalism concerns EDITOR'S NOTE: This original story below was from February 2016 but somehow got picked up from other sites and began trending again in 2017. The Seattle Aquarium wants everyone to know the Octopus Bli...

On this Galentine's day, I celebrate the ten-year anniversary of this great event in the history of sexuality.
komonews.com/news/local/a...

NYC: GO TO THIS TONIGHT! Two brilliant minds in fiction. Nina McConigley's book is big news in Energy Humanities / THE NOVEL / Anti-Colonial Fiction. Say you saw her when because you're going to be seeing her everywhere.
greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

Folks going to @c19americanists.bsky.social conference: Give a hand up in the comments if you want me to bring you your very own copy of TWELVE STORIES
in Cincinnati. Also a good time to think about a desk copy if you're considering Fall adoption.

Remember the ladies!

edu.prh.com/us/desk/

a shrugging sheet ghost

Don't fear. The ghost of the future is also unknown to itself.

ummmm what's going on with google books today?

They do not. But you are welcome to take up his mantle and argue it with me for the rest of our lives.

A few years ago I decided to write a book about a group of people who had not been extensively studied, who constantly changed their names, had terrible handwriting and unprecedented ideas, and lied about everything. But it's all been worth it because WHAT A STORY.

He is not here with us today because we don't have a mental healthcare system that works.

Today my little brother would have been 35. To celebrate, here are some of his core beliefs:
-all skittles taste the same
-a rule of jenga is if you yell jenga before you lose you still lose, but if you don't you're disqualified
-Donna Tartt is a persona invented by the publishing industry

YouTube video by COLORS Little Simz - Venom | A COLORS SHOW

The thinking part of writing I like to do to a soundtrack and that's been truer than ever with this book.

Sneak peek of playlist!

Currently writing the part where two female cult leaders work together to snuff out their enemies. Peep the track.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh8Q...

We wouldn't be in this situation if we took female comedians more seriously.

I'm sorry, genius.

Catherine O'Hara as Katharine Hepburn for SCTV.

Genius, genius, genius.

a man in a suit reaches out to another man in a suit Alt: Catherine O'Hara, who died today, dressed as the pope in character as Moira Rose in Schitt's Creek.

To the hattest woman to have lived in our times: "The minute Catherine found out that she was going to officiate, she came up with the idea of, 'What if we dressed her kind of like the pope? She had the idea for the headpiece, she wanted to have a little bit of her hair wrapped around the hat."