𝕱𝖎𝖆𝖘𝖈𝖆.* 𝚆𝙽𝙲

You can't actually steal ppl's ability and capacity to create art so the next best thing is devaluing the creation of art itself.

This is it. Yes, having more time than others is a privilege but acting as if every talented or skilled person in the world is privileged is such a self-own.

A very long and convoluted way to declare you have no talent and have no desire to acquire any

YOU DESERVE!!

Him: “My thighs aren’t that big?”
Me: *eyeing his struggling trousers pointedly*

Everyone acting starved on here. Like is you cool?

guys stop telling people London is safe we have enough sourdough bakeries we don't need people coming in opening any more ffs

Every time I open this app, it’s to someone being filthy. Everyone alright?

Happy Winter/Summer solstice today and festive greetings for the coming week. Looking forward here to the lighter, longer days 🎄

You have money

🙂‍↕️

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah. It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.” “D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Thank you, darling heart!

Happy birthday, my beautiful friend! @msemmalyon.bsky.social

Proof of life

A power fantasy I have kind of often is “I open a small retail or food business specifically so I can enforce basic social norms on narcissistic patrons”

Writers should never modify their own prose as a reaction to what stupid fucking generative AI is doing -- that shit stole from us, and it stole poorly, incompletely, and has none of our magic and zero of our humanity, our experience, our wonder and fear, and it never ever will. Fuck AI. You do you.

It sucks kinda but also is good when you're reading a book you don't want to end

Having the best time!

I’m in Greece at the Black women & femmes writing retreat that I plan every year. And it’s such a wonderful thing to be able to have your work critiqued by people who understand you

I sometimes dream of June, when this novel draft will have been submitted, this work programme will have ended and my writers retreat would have ended as a resounding success

Watched Wicked again with my sister and sorry but there will never be another Cynthia

Frustration and anger are also brilliant for this

Reading and chatting to Precious are the key things that remove writers block

I have new light fittings and I think I’ll have a go at installing them myself

Sleep is too sweet. Too, too sweet.

Eat your protein