A.L. Goldfuss

Some days this doesn’t work, and I barely scrape by and collapse into bed right before dinner for The Most Dangerous Nap

But that’s not a given from the start

This is different than saying “Well I slept bad, but the day is going to be awesome!” It’s not forcing positivity, it’s just not capitulating ahead of time.

I slept *terribly* last night and I told myself “Well, I am open to the day improving.” So I got up and ate, made good headway at work, finally wrote for the first time this week, and had hot cocoa after dinner.

I saw a Tumblr post that was like “Instead of declaring my day will be bad because I slept like shit, I now say that I am open to it improving as it goes on” and it has changed my general daily outlook

lol damn that’s quite a list

We love when a man looks his age (and also has an emo haircut)

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online MAGA men are falling for the AI creation "Jessica Foster," who is a combination US Army adviser to Trump and foot fetish model. The character already has nearly a million Instagram followers.

It's so nice to read a book written 25 years ago featuring a truly flawed and reprehensible protagonist knowing the author never had to come online and spoon feed the story to readers incapable of not treating fiction like a book of manners

Every time I treat myself to one of her books, I think "You'll never write like this, but you can write better than you do now" and I let that push me

Morrison really is one of the greatest writers in human history

This has 80s shoulder pads energy in a joyful way

We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)

i keep seeing writers who want both:
* to be bold iconoclasts going against the pretenses and trends of the day and
* to have a perfect 5.0 review score on goodreads

and like, I'm sorry. those things don't go together.

🎵 All the things I hate, all the things I hate, clearing off my plate, clearing off my plate, all the things I hate 🎵

I didn’t sleep enough, so today I’m doing all of the admin tasks I hate

"I'll definitely remember that book's title," I said in January, closing the tab. "I don't need to write it down anywhere."

Apparently, Silent Book Club is a real thing, and they have been the victim of so many scammers they have a dedicated page for it: silentbook.club/pages/cautio...

oh! oh! *i* can think of a type of effeminate gay boy who is regularly and vociferously told he's actually a girl and may even be forced to live as one & go through a female puberty by his parents, teachers, doctors, etc

I may crash and burn at any time. This could be the best thing that's ever happened to me and then I disappear but the lesson here is to keep working. It doesn't matter what people say, or how they try to drag you. Keep working at your art. They can laugh as much as they want. I'm doing the work.

Ooooh good idea, simple commute

Do you get to sleep in the horror section?

Congratulations!!

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When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

People have been trying to solve the deluge for years now

One of my writing groups has a weekly AI spam thread where people share their latest emails

Publishers and booksellers are hiring people whose sole job is to weed out all of the AI spam/submissions

Sadly yes