Jessica Yaun

Welcome to the club, we have T-shirts!

Maybe both?

I will gleefully be referring to Madam President and all her followers as such from now on 🙂

First, they came for the trans, and I didn't speak up because I was not trans. Then , they came for the immigrants, and I didn't speak up because I was not an immigrant. Then, they came for the pregnant, and I didn't speak up because I was not pregnant. How does anybody not see what is happening? You're next. What you do or don't do for your fellow disabled, black, gay, refugee, uterus-owning human beings will come back to you in the end.

Cultures all over the world and throughout time have recognized more than two genders. The gender binary is a lie. To disagree is ignorant at best and eugenicist at worst. I stand with the nonbinary, two spirit, gender fluid, intersex, agender, multi gender, queer and questioning, trans, Andro, and everyone else who exists outside the binary and cannot be erased. My name is Jessica, and I'm queer. My pronouns are she/they. I have always been and will always be queer. This is how my Creator made me, fearfully and wonderfully and with purpose. If you have a problem with that you can take it up with him.

@pcarterwriter.bsky.social would you like to add a bluesky column to the hundred other columns?

Podcasters, what do you wish you'd known before you hit record?

The Day After Thanksgiving The Sock Monkey Holiday: TRIPPY DOOP DOP DAY 1. Wake up in an indoor campour 2. Do not leave the house to go shopping 3. Remain in your pajamas all day 4. Watch giant monster movies 5. Eat leftovers and bananas 6. Decorate for the coming holidays 7. Dispose of any Fall pumpkins still out 8. Celebrate all things sock monkey

When my son was 4, a guest left from Thanksgiving dinner to go Black Friday shopping, and it left a negative impression. On our next drop-off drive, his *sock monkey* confided that Sock Monkeys celebrate an alternate holiday, w/ its own traditions. It’s the best day & we observe it each year.

I love this idea!

Siamese kitten wearing a pink heart shaped ID reading "MEEZ" and a bell. She is curled up on a blanket.

A sleeping Siamese kitten

Welcome!

While I was at #aasl23, I took contact info from librarians who would like to get on Bluesky, but don't have an access code. If you have an extra one, please email me at melissa@melissa-stewart.com to me, and I will send it to them. #communitybuilding @debbieohi.bsky.social

Siamese kitten with a bell and small pink heart tag reading "MEEZ" curled up on a colorful blanket

She is such a sweetheart 😻 #Cat

Black swirls

Started out trying to draw furls of smoke for #SCBWIArtober2023 and ended up with a tree instead. #Cafetober2023 #inktober2023 #artober2023 #Inktober #artober

Fear.

A melting humanoid candle

#cafetober2023 #inktober2023 #artober2023

A pumpkin shaped mug filled with dark liquid

Catching up #inktober2023 #artober2023 #cafetober2023

Good morning #5AMWritersClub 🌞 I'm listening to Legendary by Stephanie Garber while drawing for #inktober2023 #artober2023. It's important to do things that fill our creative wells 🙂 how do you fill yours?

A fluffy, happy cloud

Late to the party but here's 3 prompts in one #doodle #artober2023 #inktober2023 #Inktober #cafetober2023 #SCBWIArtober2023

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Cover of the audiobook Legendary by Stephanie Garber

#AmReading while #drawing for #Inktober

Texas authors!

Nominate your favorite new book!

A sleeping Siamese kitten

Is there anything better than holding a sleeping baby? #Cat

Poetry is always a good decision 🙂

Good morning #5AMWritersClub! Joining you here in the sky for the first time. I'm spending September querying and subbing to anthologies, journals, magazines etc. What are you all working on?

Just finished Sir Callie and wish I had read it sooner.

Introduce yourself withe some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now.

*Ice cream shop clerk
*Translator (Spanish)
*Construction
*Mall photographer
*Recruiter
*Dishwasher
*PCA/Home Health
*Flipper/reseller (not houses)

#WritingCommunity, when you research agents/publishers/other places to send your work, what is the top thing you want to see?