I was listening to a story about someone I know making sure she inherited her father's license plate number and this is totally a ~~thing in Rhode Island, you get very sentimentally attached to license plate numbers. My mother has had the same one her entire life and I would definitely want it.

I finally finished editing my baseball novel. In case there was suspense, I utterly failed to cut 25,000 words. But I cannot make myself look at it anymore. Instead I am treating myself to writing Halloweenfic, which calls for MY HALLOWEENFIC WRITING PLAYLIST: open.spotify.com/playlist/1AO...

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My mother just handed my a package of marshmallow Santas and look, it's not that I don't appreciate the marshmallow, but WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MARSHMALLOW PUMPKINS!

Genuinely hilarious to me that I need to cut, like, 25,000 words from this novel, and I'm going through, like, "well, that sentence is unnecessary, that will help." hahahaha TWELVE WORDS AT A TIME, THAT'S HOW I'M DOING THIS

When I watch American baking competitions there are always several contestants who super annoy me, whereas that never happens with the British baking show. So I feel like we must be editing in annoying ways. I wish we would stop that. Why are we doing it sigh

In the summertime when i walk the dog I'm like "why does this neighborhood not have any trees!!" Now that it's cold outside I have to admit: I'm enjoying all the sunshine on the walk. I still think the neighborhood should have more trees, though.

Today I had to take the winter coat out for the first time. In the off-season i'd had it dry cleaned so when I took it out of the plastic and put it on I was thinking, where on earth did I put my gloves sigh. And then I put my hands in my pockets and...THEY WERE THERE. I PUT THEM BACK. So smart lol

My satirical woodcut of your station in life has taken the parish by storm

Sometimes a fall day feels like a spring day and it totally messes with my psyche. I get this excited little flutter about what's to come and then I remember, oh, wait, no, we haven't made it through yet, it hasn't even started yet lololol

My sister was just like "do you cry at bake off every week?" I was like "yup, literally every single week"

This reminds me of the way droves of fratboys used to roam campus all dressed in identical khakis and red polo shirts (school color), they learn early on how to wear the accepted uniform

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These Republican politician Trump groupies who wear their navy suits, white shirts and red ties to campaign events are pathetic. The Republican Party now has uniforms for their cult leaders.

The people opposite me have put an inflatable dog wearing a Santa hat up in their yard, and have strewn white lights across the bushes, and I keep looking at the date like ..............

Me in my car: why does it smell like lilacs? It is not the time of year for lilacs! Who has lilacs right now? Also me in my car: omg wait I put in that smelly thing with lilac scent lololol I knew it was going to throw me off at this time of year

also, like, whenever anyone says, "Why don't you use ChatGPT to write fic???" I'm like, why would I want to do nothing but editing, editing is the worsttttttttt, writing is the fun part. (Maybe they're saying use ChatGPT for editing but I don't want it messing up my writing lolololol)

There's a bit in the Sherlock baseball AU where Lestrade snaps that they're going to write their memoirs and call them "How We Were Gay and Right About Everything" and I love this line so much, I want you to understand how many shenanigans I'm going through to keep it lol

I never use Wattpad but every time I have to engage with it I'm like, god, is this the most annoying website ever???????

I find it hilarious when my credit card sends me an email like, "You've been selected for a new special offer!" and the special offer is like, "For a $499 annual fee, we will continue being your credit card" lol

The weather here is totally gaslighting me, like, by 5pm it had convinced me it was the middle of the night and I should have been in bed hours ago.

Also, it's been so long since I read/wrote this story, Sherlock's mother just arrived and I'm like, in shock! Hahahaha! I'm like, omg this is such a good plot twist, well done, me!!!! lol

There's a whole plot in my baseball AU about how Moriarty was gambling on the games, and the world has changed so much since I wrote it that I had to add an entire conversation about whether anyone even cares about that stuff anymore

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: Kalshi is asking the CFTC to allow margin trading on its platform, which would let users gamble with borrowed funds. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/22/k...

The new protagonist of my rewritten baseball AU no longer plays the violin, which means I cut the bit where Sherlock plays John's at-bat song when he wakes up hungover the morning after the ASG. But I want you to know: It KILLED me to lose that bit. Still one of my fave moments I've ever written lol

This Boston Globe piece is hilarious to me. Tech people being like "the world is already too dependent on AI!!!!" Guys, all of your products are terrible now with the embedded AI, take it out and fix them.

This woman on this show is doing an art project with her toddlers where they're painting picture frames and they're all wearing white sweaters and I am agog at either the confidence or the hubris.

Another study I assume people have done involves straight married men flirting with David Bromstad on My Lottery Dream Home.

My sister is on a flight that got diverted from Providence to JFK. I asked on Reddit if anyone knew why this might happen. I was just curious. Multiple people immediately said that obviously you expect to land in a different city sometimes. ????? I can't with the world anymore.

There's a lot of weird stuff about being in the hospital but one of the weirdest is how they make you share a room. I know more about this random stranger's bathroom happenings than I know about my own tbh.

I assume there's a study out there about how part of Disney moms' obsession with Disney is the park's hyper-schedulization gives them an illusion of control they lack in everyday life.

Please share your feedback on how genAI destroys the livelihoods of artists on the official EU website. You can do so even if you're not an EU citizen. We have to be loud so the change will come, and practice shoes that voicing hatred towards genAI works ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Last week I published a fic of a few thousand words in length. I might have called it a ficlet. But I see people referring to as a drabble. I know language changes but I am a purist in this lol. A drabble is exactly 100 words! My fic is much more than a mere drabble!!!

There seems to be a trend now to call primary bedrooms "signature bedrooms," and I don't like it lol