Niche post, but if you're pregnant and believe in astrology and today's your due date and also you're in Taiwan, might I recommend that you try to have that baby come out at 7:30 pm because this could be their natal chart

I’m thrilled to announce that my second novel, The Ones Who Do Not Wake, will be coming out in 2028 with Archer, Bloomsbury’s new SFF imprint. It is honestly the weirdest and most personal writing I’ve ever done, and I hope you will give it a chance when it’s out 💛

It’s teriyaki flavored

Oh the tithe. Hmm, how about my cat

Everybody look at my awesome new mouse pad. If this isn’t a perfect summary of the novel-writing process, I don’t know what is.

Kitten Monday

Vatican City as of a few months ago. Look at all those hooligans loitering on the roof of St Peter’s

Help, everyone. I thought I deleted my TikTok account a month ago, but this still shows up when I open the app to check if the account is deleted. Is this normal? Is there a way to tell if the account is gone for good?

I don’t think Park Bo-Gum is the same species as the rest of us. Every time I see a pic of him I feel mildly offended because I wasn’t emotionally prepared for his hotness. Like, excuse you, sir.

Everything is terrible but here's a kitten with the zooms

The fact that this email was almost certainly written with AI and then Gmail was like "Summarize this email" with AI is very

Trying to make new friends as an adult:

Taipei folks, my friend @gracelp.bsky.social will be doing an event next week at Bookman Bookstore with Michelle Kuo. Come support!

And after they’ve harvested the brains, they deliver them to their skeleton friends all over the world

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender

Thank you Malta Book Festival for bringing one of my literary heroes @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social for a fascinating and wide-ranging convo. He talked about the biodiversity in Florida, shared tips for writing about impossible things, and spilled the tea re: the Annihilation movie #SouthernReach 📚

If I lived in Mdina I would simply spend all my nights sweeping through its alleys in a floor-length cape like a goddamn Anne Rice vampire

It is the greatest marketing failure of recent memory that this can of Pringles isn’t mushroom flavored

Name a more perfect geometric form than a cat curled up into a perfect little ball with its paw covering its face. I’ll wait.

I’m teaching an open-level fiction workshop for One Story! Details below:

I don’t speak Korean, but I’m pretty sure this awesome-looking arcade game involves kicking a slipper off your foot and trying to have it land as close to the bullseye as possible

Saw this spider the size of my whole palm in an underpass today. While I was busy taking pics of it, my partner was shouting, “Get away from that thing. It’s a huntsman spider, it’s venomous, and it JUMPS.”

Re-upping this!

TIL that pandas pee by going into a handstand, and never have I felt more failed by the educational system. I think pandas are the ultimate hustlers. They are all “we’re so clumsy we fall over just sitting so please take care of us” but can do a handstand every time they need to pee? Not buying it.

Actual conversation I just had with my partner:

I understand the intent behind this brand’s name, but I still think it’s unfortunate

Mood

Finally received my copy of @erikaswyler.bsky.social new novel and I cannot emphasize how gorgeous the cover is in person.