Watching Season 4 of Buffy and actually men are the big bad this season: Parker, Oz, the Initiative, even Adam (the first of his kind named after the first man). Adam is borne of woman (Maggie) but kills her and creates his own plan for the world….

I am pleased with Rebecca Black’s choices

Looking for pieces about the things that make you tremble, inside and out! 🎉

Exposition Review@expositionreview.bsky.social · yesterday

Our final round of Flash 405 for 2026 is OPEN! We’re delighted to welcome #ExpoContributor @charlesjensen.bsky.social as our guest judge! Send him your “Quake”-themed short-form entries in any AND all genres through Sept. 5 for your chance to win cash prizes and publication: tinyurl.com/FlashQuake!

Hi friends. If you’re looking for a poetry book to read (for The Sealey Challenge, for any reason), please consider buying my collection, Machines Like Us. This little book of nightmares has been out for 10 years, somehow! (selfie included to draw attention lol) www.dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p...

I endorse this wholeheartedly and find its excellent for poetry manuscripts too!

Matt Bell@mdbell79.bsky.social · 2d ago

Some writers love the "retype the novel from scratch" second draft step from REFUSE TO BE DONE. Some hate it. Almost no one is doing it to a 311,000-word first draft, an absolutely ridiculous situation I'm prepping to embark on. (This isn't the novel coming out in 2028! This one will be... later.)

Some news 😌

I’m just a boy standing in front of a gas pump paying $50 for 8 gallons of gas 

Literary octagon

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d ago

SUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS

Today’s massage was equal parts deep tissue and exorcism. A stressorcism if you will

Snuck one in under the wire bc we finally watched MOTHER MARY and it’s just lighting and costumes and set design and practical effects forever

Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 5d ago

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🤳

Do you wave at the end of the Zoom meeting or are you a monster

Alex Stolis says she wears you out like a name held too long, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪

Two Poems by Alex Stolis

Mom sent me a lump of coal for Christmas in a bright red box & a green bowradiating holiday cheer;carefully wrapped in tissue. I imagine her sitting at the kitchentable finishing off her third Manhattan,contemplating an unlit cigarette:      Pauline needs a new coat, Roxy loves     the beach but what about that Lexy,     he’s always such a disappointment. I wonder where she found it; Facebook Marketplace, the Etsy Shop for Recalcitrant Children. Maybe she asked a neighbor, to elicitsympathy for having such an ungrateful son. I can see her searching diligently to find one…

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My new obsession is Instagram accounts where people show their Buffy wardrobe pieces

In their home country, my grandparents were a tailor and a cheese shop owner. When they moved to the US, they became a municipal plumber and auto factory worker. I believe their parents also worked in the home country trades too.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

So Bill was watching the GIDGET series and I had never seen it and you know what it’s actually really good

I’ve had 75-130 unread texts at any given time for most of the last year. It became a thermostat for my mental health, and I knew it was bad. No matter what, I couldn’t keep up. I was drowning.

Diana Aehegma has sat stopped at a red light, seen full sun beaming blocks ahead, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪

Three Poems by Diana Aehegma

Grief Flower Lie flat in the dim, wait for sleep, feelgrief stem from your sternum, unfurl great dark petals like the biggest magnolia you’ve ever seen, in negative, but the size and heft of a banana flower, invert as if gravity were in reverse, or as if your back were pressed to soft ceiling, the pendulum bloom extending the color purple so deep it reads even in daylight as black. Think no fruit will ring this stalk? Perhaps the monster bud’s more like an artichoke: you know it’s done when…

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Today's poem sneaks up on you, breaks your heart, and lands the dismount. poets.org/poem/after-m...

After My First Breakup, My Father Writes His First Email

With his two index fingers—“the eagle method,”

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Started a new job so I got to have a lil treat

Gals the new Project Runway editing strategy is revealing the elims at the top of the next episode drives me into a blind rage

Amy Shark/Baby Queen concurrent album drops = big day for a 49-year-old male 14-year-old girl

completely fucking insane how hot john leguizamo was in this movie

Annie Wu@anniewu.bsky.social · 2w ago

Not sure why the IG algorithm has been giving me so much Romeo + Juliet lately but I don’t mind it.

Cinerama Dome reopening. Nature is truly healing

I just love Dare's poems so much and this is no exception poets.org/poem/zero-hour

Zero Hour

I heard celebration sex in the shadows

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He says you should only have a REAL job dealing with the prissy assholes who come like fucking wisemen seeking the Christ child of a flat white or a fucking cinnamon chai, in Connie Corzilius's flash, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪

Mean Drunk by Connie Corzilius

He says he has a brain tumor. Or maybe a seizure disorder. Could be the weed and the antidepressant and the ADHD meds are mixing together in a noxious cloud so that he suddenly out of nowhere out of the perfectly clear blue sky calls you a fucking cunt and splinters the kitchen cabinet with a single punch and says you embarrass him when you go to shows where his friends are performing and why are you so awkward anyway and how hard could your job be sitting at a computer ordering goddamn books for children you need a degree for THAT much less two you should only have a REAL job dealing with the prissy assholes who come like fucking wisemen seeking the Christ child of a flat white or a fucking cinnamon chai or praise Jesus a pumpkin spice.

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We bought the IKEA cake that saves queer people www.ikea.com/ca/en/campai...

My niece’s car. I’m so proud 🥲

I do need a Joey Jay reality series

Unwashed poetry is very dangerous.

Jeffrey Hecker keeps saying sheep know who you are best yet you are no way legendary, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪

Four Poems by Jeffrey Hecker

Ode to the Passionate Shepherd Why must you stand in damned vector field            pockets inside out when you said you wouldbe more embalmed people thought you meant            involved talk about shifting differentiable manifolds wind hits little arrows little arrows      show which way breeze blows northeast nowsouthwest who cares you care but who else            who else your crook looks like some melted candy cane handmade straw hat called skep not cool not fashionable at all animal husbandry requires pastures where is your pasture Council Grove         Kansas great meet the Council Grove weirdo…

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