Caitlin O'Connell

Minnesota should demand Greg Bovino's teeny tiny CBP vest and helmet and put it in the Historical Society next to the 28th Virginia's Confederate Battle Flag we also rightly own.

libraries continue to be under attack from the worst of the worst, so please take a look at how you can support your local library: ilovelibraries.org

If Tiktok becomes unusable due to its new owners I would loooove it if the book community there went to a social media platform that's text based. Please sir/ma'am/mx, I am an author, I hate video. 😭

OMG MORE!!!!!!

So exciting!! :D

@artsypabster.bsky.social omg congratulations on the award!!!!!!!

I love #ALAyma day, cheering on all the incredible books for kids and teens with my fellow Penguins. 💙

If you need some joy on your feed today, i HIGHLY recommend following the #ALAYMA tag when the awards start because it's going to be the biggest book nerds you know just celebrating the best reads for kids 😭❤️

hey is anyone doing an auction thing for crafts to help out organizations doing mutual aid work in minnesota?

For me, I've found donating to organizations and mutual aid groups or to people who just need some extra money to get by is a real sanity-saver in these times of feeling helpless but full of rage.

honestly disappearing into the woods like an old witch in a fantasy novel is looking more and more appealing every day

This is really cool and heartwarming. Perfect, really. And sales will be donated by LynLake businesses in Minneapolis to folks impacted by ICE. Historical Norwegian protest hat? Take my money.

Look at this BABYYYYY oh my goodness.

Oh god I'm so sorry.

If you spend money on anything Harry Potter, you are funding this.

If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.

Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though

Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.

Yes, seriously!! I wasn't watching all of the skating but from what my mom and sister said of the ice dancing it sounded like he was just... wrong about things, too? Which is just very unhelpful. Shush, let us watch the thing!!

Yes! When Laurie Hernandez was commentating for the summer Olympic gymnasts it was great. Enough to explain things I might not know, but she also knew when to STOP. TALKING. She was so great.

My kingdom also as well. D:

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"

A list of ideas!

Art of circles around flowing text: the flowing text reads “This is how change happens” and inside pairs of circles it reads “our actions are working/they are not enough” “nothing we do is sufficient/everything we do matters” “we must be strategic/we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously” and “time is of the essence/we have to work for the long haul”

I think about this basically every day now.

I only tangentially care about hockey (one of my best friends is a big Avalanche fan and I want them to be happy) but holy WOW this design is amazing? The lavender and the violets?? I'm obsessed????

Further evidence that all sports teams should be named after mythical creatures, also.

2026 Trans Girl Scouts To Order Cookies From! This year, consider ordering your Girl Scout cookies from a trans girl scout to make their day!

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts?

Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from.

Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

HEY PUBLISHERS: pay attention to this entire thread; and recognize that a HUGE part of the problem is assigning comics projects to editors with no comics knowledge or experience. Editing comics is a discrete discipline, and when you don't recognize that, you fuck both creators and yourself over.

Agent friends! My first read of the year was Tasha Suri's THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA, and I loved it! If you have any YA projects with similar elements (lady knights, sapphic yearning, time loops, stories about stories, did I mention sapphic yearning??), please please send them my way! #MSWL

Sooo excited for this, it's such a great cover!

In which The Third Period Comeback gets a cover Book covers are one of the most interesting topics in publishing, and it’s for a good reason. Although the expression is “Never judge a book by its cover”,...

I can officially show you the cover of The Third Period Comeback now! (Spoilers: I love it.)

Lots of folks in publishing are returning to make the books tomorrow, so just a reminder to treat industry people like people in the New Year.

Everyone is just trying their best. ❤️

Ink Girls by Marieke Nijkamp and Sylvia Bi!