I spent 36 of my 38 years feeling like an alien who couldn’t relate with/be relatable to humans. Then I moved to Vermont and became enmeshed with the local queer community. Suddenly human interaction is energizing instead of exhausting?!
May Zullino
@mayzullinowrites.bsky.social
YA/adult fantasy and horror author | linguist | eternal learner they/them | ace jettisoned myself from Florida and became a Vermonter 🍁 https://linktr.ee/waywardcelestia
I blinked and it's August 💀 At the end of this month, I start the teaching part of my full-time teaching position, the house I'm living in goes up for sale, meaning I need to move and my commute will double, and I have a choir concert. Also I may or may not be releasing a book this fall.
Full Bore And Into The Abyss Davy Jones
Alt: Full Bore And Into The Abyss Davy Jones
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I have a hard time managing more than 1 social media, but I've been reminded Bsky exists & people still follow me over here 💙 So in super fun news, I have a new book coming out next year & we got to announce in in People Magazine, which was absolutely mindbogglingly cool. people.com/the-pendleto...
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Everyone is suspicious and they all have something to hide in this delightful new domestic mystery from Brianna Heath. See the cover here!
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I’m in danger there is a Cuban restaurant 0.1 miles from my workplace that has ROPA VIEJA 🤤
Sometimes self-care is rewatching The Mummy (1999) not for the plot, but just because everyone is so pretty Also I really enjoy Beni and he should have gotten redemption, that is a hill
My computer: "Restart for update?" Me: "Sure." Computer: (does the thing) Computer, literally 2 minutes later: "Restart for update?"
Stick Man's Computer Rage Meme
Alt: Stick Man's Computer Rage Meme
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I love Vermont and my Vermonter therapist because I mentioned I was exploring my gender(s) again and he legit suggested I try out drag. WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SUGGEST THIS TO ME BEFORE 😮
Vermont’s version of “see you at the next red light” is tailgaters nosing people in front of them out of the fast lane until someone finally brake-checks them
At the age of 38 I finally got that grownup job with salary and benefits that all the boomers told me I’d have if I graduated college at 22
Having decided to self-publish, I’m well aware that I should be online attempting to be popular and relatable more but honestly I’m too busy switching jobs and having a social life and dressing up all fancy to go on picnics
I will not accept an argument that art and creativity have been uniquely democratised in the last few years since the invention of genAI. What a disservice to human history. How little regard you must have for the billions of souls that struggled through unimaginable suffering to express themselves.
The more I play around with the masc side of gender, the more annoyed I get. You mean men got to have pants with STANDARDIZED sizes that FIT WELL the whole time? Y’all had deodorants that smell GOOD instead of powdery and sneeze-inducing and DON’T STAIN YOUR CLOTHES all along?!
Clue: Flames on the Side of My Face
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Sitting five feet away from my friend while she reads my manuscript and having to cover my face with an open notebook every time she comments on it so I don't give anything away 💜
Check out my bestie's game! The latest update has co-op mode 😈🐔
codeWonderland Development@codewonder.land · 2mo agoToday marks the release of the Defenders of the Co-Op Update for Chicken TD! Fight alongside, or in spite of, your friends to defend the chicken coop store.steampowered.com/app/3266880/... youtu.be/xOqXi3q8-Fc #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #indiegame #steam #godot #pixelart #lowpoly #friendslop
Shoutout to the universe for hooking me up with a sweet new job, amazingly supportive friends, and that one arepa pabellón recipe
I seem to have traded the "types into the void" aspect of my identity for a "scours social media for irl local events to drag my friends to" habit and yes, my therapist *is* proud of me
The millennial urge to google any and every question you have because the internet has always been there for you but the question is "should I make this very specific change to my unpublished manuscript that literally 7 people have ever read" 💀
I'm an AFAB living in the US. Hourglass figure. And the best-fitting pants I own? The ones with roomy but invisible pockets, no back-gap, and the perfect taper? That sit at just the right height on my hips? Made from the most comfy material? I found in the men's section of a thrift shop yesterday.
Went from waking up for work at 5am, to learning I’ve got the day off at 5:30, to outlining a novel at 6, to working on song lyrics at 6:30 I’m so pumped for my spontaneous writing day 🥳
VT I love you but when do I get to stop factoring in “clean snow off my car” time to my commute? 😭
a cat laying in the snow with its head sticking out of the snow
Alt: a tabby cat buried in snow with only its head and tail sticking up
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Me, having invited friends over for dinner on Sunday and realizing I don’t have chairs: omg I can set it up kotatsu-style! Me two minutes later upon remembering that some people like back support: omg I have to dig out the chairs 😭
Just accepting the inevitability that when my therapist asks me how I’m doing in our session today I will have no answer but “I am in the bittersweet spiral” and boy is that going to start a conversation
Everyone else’s My emotional emotional support support boyfriends: boyfriends:
Lol please don’t speak to me in subtext because I promise it will go right over my head. OR I’ll think you hate me. There are only those two modes 😅
[shares appreciated!] commissions are open for april! vgen.co/vampbyte #VGen #VGencomm #artsupport #commissions
Historically, me throwing hopeful/wishful energy out into the universe has backfired simultaneously hilarious and creepy ways But I could really use some good news today? 🙏
it really is shocking how much self deprecation is seen as a cultural requirement for 'serious art.' 'real' artists are not allowed to exalt their work and must present it publicly as a sort of 'i dont think this is very good but maybe you will get around to it.' HECK THAT. love yourself