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Rapscallion | Raconteur | Roustabout | France-based novelist | Great in bed | Better on paper | he/him 🌈 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 ✊🏿Ⓥ https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/narrative-operations-7301326370398228480
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Oscar-nominated and emotionally relentless, Meg LeFauve doesn’t plot from the outside in—she writes from the inside out. If you’ve ever wanted your story to mean something, not just land cleanly, this is where we begin. Narrative Week continues right here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/narrat...

I've interviewed Marty Bennett a couple of times, and we always end up talking for nearly two hours about our shared preoccupations and thoughts. He's so delightful, and I hope everyone reads this and shares in his wonder. www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-cul...

Things that SHOULD be taught to children: -Why taking on debt for nearly any reason is a mistake -How to be comfortable with being alone -Prioritizing your mental health over “work” -Learning how to say "no"

🥀 Women are allowed to be sexy on purpose 👏

I used to run with a pretty tough gang when I was younger

Narrative Week continues with a spotlight on Evan Skolnick: www.linkedin.com/pulse/narrat...

Just got some real bad news about a job, so I’m once again asking for a leg up… anything helps 💔 ko-fi.com/kellymckernan www.kellymckernan.com/shop

**pushes today into the sea** Nope. That’s enough of that.

My dog who I named for a Laura Bailey character, I stg y’all…

In March, I suffered a concussion so badly that it literally knocked the words out of my brain and I suffered aphasia. I was looking down a future of never speaking properly again. My speech, which has since returned, was robbed suddenly from me. It took months to get it back. Fucking step up.

I'm going to say it louder for the people in the back -- life is god damn short. Tell the people you love -- the people who matter to you -- the people you care about how much they fucking matter today. Tomorrow, they might not be here.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Five years ago, I started my Editorial Simulation game: tombrevoort.com/2020/06/20/e...

Psst! You want some free RPGs? 😏 Every store does their own thing, so check in and see if your local store is running games, offering free games with purchase, or just handing 'em all out in a chaotic free-for-all. Check out freeRPGday.com to find your nearest participating store!

Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.

Friendly reminder that I’m having a Pride event in my shop! One of the new prints I’ve added is of this piece I made for @novamali.bsky.social “Classics, But Make It Gay” where I riffed on a Little Mermaid illustration by Arthur Rackham, except our drowning prince is actually a princess. 💖

This dude is the fucking worst

Beyond not using it for work, don’t use it for relationship advice, as a therapist or for art…. Better still? Don’t use it at all!

Once again, with my whole damn chest, DO NOT RANK CUOMO.

I cannot truly explain how it feels to have previously been a contributing writer to a paper that has now dedicated itself to destroying my community. I want to say it's weird, or scary. But it's more than that. It's radically destabilizing. My past and present selves don't recognize each other.

This week, I talk about joining the circus: www.linkedin.com/posts/dgalla...

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

ICYMI, I'm now offering coaching for writers on a limited basis. Want to troubleshoot a sticky project? Level up your work or learn a new medium? Bring joy back to your writing practice, push past a block, or come back from burnout? Establish better habits? HMU: edidin.wordpress.com/coaching-for...

The summer hit cuisine of unemployed vegan outcasts in Helsinki (feat. economy and job opportunities destroyed by @kokoomus.bsky.social ) is starting to look like a combo of self-made hummus and then freezing the aquafaba into veganese ice cream. thehiddenveggies.com/aquafaba-ice...

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

🔸Support Trans people 🔸Support Trans mutual aid 🔸Support Trans youth 🔸Support Trans organizations Be there for your Trans friends and family. Be there for Trans Joy. I love you and I am glad you're here, you beautiful shining lights. www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/

Great list of comics here. bookriot.com/graphic-nove...

Thank you to everyone who is helping get the word out about Normally Weird - seems the media has grown bored of this sort of stuff - Gina Rippon’s excellent Lost Girls of Autism has seen similar silence - thank you to The Psychologist www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

The brief few weeks I was a telephone psychic for Miss Cleo. (I shared this experience with the hellsite before, but sharing it again here) www.linkedin.com/pulse/call-m...

The "Starving artist" trope was started by ppl who didn't wanna pay artists (writers, painters, musicians, etc) & wanted it to seem a good thing. Artists suffering for art, starving artists, doing it for love only/shunning money - All myth turned folklore as reason to NOT FUCKING PAY US OUR DUE.

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