Tehlor Mejia
@tehlormejia.bsky.social
mostly I write books and look at the stars (he/they)
I capitalized those letters because God told me to
save me, weirdly sitting in my car in the driveway for 15 minutes after any trip of any length
My newest painting: Roimh an mBailc I tried to convey the visual equivalent of a sudden drop in atmospheric pressure—that tense, electric silence where the salt-spray hangs in the air, the coastal winds suddenly drop, and the world below simply holds its breath, waiting for the inevitable strike.
appropos of nothing I'd like to say people who choose to go no contact with their mothers are brave as hell and I love you all
sometimes I wish I could recapture the utter abandon with which I posted on twitter like 60 times a day in 2015
My hottest #romancelandia take is that romance authors need to be showing way more solidarity with sex workers in the war on porn.
Alex Steed@alexsteed.bsky.social · 2y agoPay attention to the newly accelerated war on porn.
really thrilled to be joining the faculty at MWC (which you may know as Tin House) for this speculative fiction workshop in October. applications open now, hope to see you there!
McCormack Writing Center@mccormackwc.bsky.social · 5mo agoApplications for the MWC (formerly Tin House Workshop)’s 2026 Speculative Fiction Workshop are now open – a place where your fantastical, weird, haunted, and boundary-pushing stories will be nurtured. Scholarships and fee waivers available! Apply here: mccormackwritingcenter.org/speculative-...
i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged
happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️
At a certain point, you need to know where the line is upon which you’ve written your morality. You need to be aware of the impact of your material support, and learn to be comfortable feeling the shameful weight of things. There’s nothing you can write that will absolve you of that.
tv character: "in a pit of vipers, you gotta become...whatever eats a viper" my wife and I, simultaneously, both second screening and barely paying attention: "mongoose"
Hi. I recently took in a houseless teen. She came with a backpack filled with mostly school supplies & doesn't have much as far as clothes or personal items. If you'd like to toss a dollar or two at her so she can get some clothes, it would be greatly appreciated! Paypal is ladyalthaea @ gmail. 💜
am I being a Mercury-Mars-Saturn conjunction caricature right now? maybe. but it's "conjoins" not "conjuncts" 😬
I loved this moving, poetic and informative piece so much. read it and weep (maybe literally)
Rishima 🌙@sacralmystic.bsky.social · 5mo agoa meditation on the superior trines and sextiles the first, third, seventh, and ninth houses form to one another. check out my first official blog post – “the third and ninth house axis: a meeting place for intimacy” 💘 www.sacralmystic.com/writing/thir...
does anyone rich want to pay me a living wage to write gay books? corporations used to do it but my kind of queerness is dangerous now and thus out of fashion.
Mercury has been in Pisces literally forever please have mercy
unfortunately my secret third thing is just that I can't seem to not
Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 7mo agoYou're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen
Saturn is exactly conjunct my natal Moon have some weird yearning memes
still faithfully checking the status of my @tacobellquarterly.org submission 10 months in. 'in progress'. hope dies last. live más.
born to nurse my ailing lover back to health forced to send nonchalant texts
