Masha Hayim
@mashahayim
I write queer Jewish love stories. “Free Fire” and “Comfort Zone” available now from Evernight Publishing:
Unexpected dinner guest trying to pretend like he’s not looking at my fish
I thought this was going to be the beginning of a longer story but no… this is the whole update. Very atmospheric I guess?
There’s a lot of competition but I still feel like “Sir Eyre Coote” has to be in the top ten British colonial officer names
Props to this ghost lady for handling the type of guy who likes to bother women reading on the train like a boss
Alarming email from Slate this morning… who are these people on the ground massaging my nostrils
Me: *showing my husband this weird ad for breast milk jewelry* Him: I mean if you want it go for it Me: I think it’s too late for that [our daughter is six] Him: isn’t she still selling it? Me: what? OH NO, it’s a keepsake of your OWN breast milk! not buying jewelry of some random lady’s!
A mere £125 for 1300 pages of pictures of British military insignia? A BARGAIN
I tried to convince my husband that I need this book for gay porn reference purposes but so far he isn’t seeing the vision
Facebook may be dying but I guess I have to give it some credit for getting me to consider questions that never occurred to me in my life before
Following this account is a great way to practice useful Chinese phrases
Editor: you got those photos of chickpeas for the wellness column? Photographer: sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked Editor: what
What I’ve been listening to lately… because there is only the gay hockey show and The Horrors
If someone next to me on a flight put on a mask like this I would be afraid the plane was about to be hijacked by the Red Skull
More evidence of just how useless Google has become since AI became a thing: this news alert warning me that it would feel like 155 degrees today, which would be about twenty degrees hotter than the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth
I hate to say it but this did not work out so well for Louis and Claudia
For the first time in my life I saw a Facebook ad and immediately went to buy the thing - good job, algorithm!
Today in the dystopia: a Jewish AI that has helpfully automated away the Jewish tradition of learning through discussion and argument
I was going to be like “this would have been perfect for 13-year-old me who was in love with The Vampire Lestat,” but who am I kidding, I would still love this bedroom set (and I still love Lestat)
I feel like this is the beginning of a scary middle-grade novel involving time travel
Okay I really want to know what country’s military wears this allegedly “military mesh tee” because I have Questions
Later in the same chapter, the author points out how this poem combines the queer and wartime symbolism of red and purple flowers: