Sophia Thorne || Author

Women build a sperm depository with enough to keep humans from going extinct. Women have babies & marry other women and take over the world.

I want to write a fem-rage horror novel where the protagonist is a serial killer who first steals the sperm of her male victim before killing him. She recruits & trains an army of mad women, and men fear the sight of an approaching woman. (1/2)

Unrelated, Edmund Fitzgerald porter is my favorite beer

A procrastination

For the rest of us, your vote affected much, much more than that in our REAL LIVES. And, in summary: “if you don’t give a damn, then we don’t give a FUCK!”

2. And how are you gonna vote with your whole chest against human rights & then turn around and get butt hurt by unfollows on social media? Inconvenienced by political content in bookish spaces? How privileged that your vote only affected your bookstagram follower count.

communities don’t deserve human rights is earning you backlash. And don’t call it bullying. Bullying happens to innocent people. What you’re experiencing is consequences.

1. You can have all the different opinions you want, but when your “opinions” infringe on my rights and the rights of my fellow LGBTQIA+ Americans, BIPOC Americans, and my right as a woman to the same bodily autonomy & free will that men enjoy, then don’t be shocked that the “opinion” that these-1/2

“You block people for having a different political view?”

B****, I block people for things they did in my imagination. You think I won’t block someone for a huge irl f***up? If I could I would block them directly into the Sun.

4. They hope their meemaw’s social security will be okay.
5. We will never heal this country until we fix its stupidity / ignorance problem.
6. Then we can get to work on the racism, transphobia, and misogyny.

Every person I know who voted for the Cheeto for “egg prices” ironically owns chickens and ducks and produces their own eggs.

1. The price of eggs doesn’t affect them.
2. They don’t know how tariffs work.
3. They can’t define “Republican” or “Democrat”

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Interesting (and in retrospect predictable) differences in the way big academic publishers are approaching this vs Penguin Random House (and soon other trade publishers, I imagine)
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Thinking about how my writing process isn't so much like carving away peices of lump of marble that don't look like statue as it is making a pile of rocks, removing rocks, adding rocks, throwing in sticks, watching a bear shit on it, divining a shape from mess, then making new pile of rocks: repeat

*sitting down to write the first page of my Great American Novel* The vibes, like the conception, were immaculate.

NYT headline “Harris and Democrats Lose Their Reluctance to Call Trump a Fascist”

the way that this newspaper tortures the English language is something to behold

the most dangerous place in the world is standing in between an NYT editor and an active verb with a clear object

“Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett

“The Dead” by James Joyce

“The Lady in the Looking-Glass” by Virginia Woolf

“Ligeia” by Edgar Allan Poe

I suggest “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” by Jorge Luis Borges

I'm reading The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin now, and the writing is just so, so

I mean

"Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?" Is such a banger line and the whole book is like this