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Welp, my article in Studies in the Novel got scraped, too. That article took hours and hours and hours of painstaking research, thinking, planning, writing, and revision. Feels bad!

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Gave my toddler daughter a grilled cheese sandwich. She calmly observed, "Bread." Then she pulled apart the bread slices and gasped with joy, "Cheese!" Relatable.

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Yes, I am available for commissions.

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"Whatever you call Victor and his creation, Victor is a tech bro of the Romantic Era who drops out of school to follow his passion, and creates something intended to save humanity that really did not save humanity." culturalgutter.com/2025/03/13/a...

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One of my unpopular (?) opinions is that I hate wind chimes and think they should be banned if you live close enough to others that others might hear them. I want to be outside and not have to hear DINGALINGALING nonstop if there's any wind. I will fight about this.

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I'm on a period drama kick at the moment, and I wish someone would finally have the guts to show pre-1900 women with body hair. Like, if you can't make a love scene sexy if a woman has some leg- and pit-hair, that's a failure of storytelling if you ask me.

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Every character is repulsive and pathetic and so real, utterly spot-on.

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A group of tribal nations and students have filed a lawsuit against federal government officials over the baseless terminations of nearly five dozen people serving Haskell Indian Nations University and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute last month. lawrenceks.news/3F9cMcW

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So today we discovered that, sometime in the winter, an opossum died in our backyard, and something stripped its skeleton almost entirely, leaving a desiccated head, a spine, a rib cage, and a tail--all lying beside our rather ward-like stone rabbit statue whom we've named Totoro.

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I knew this would happen, but it's still surreal to hear another nation's leader talk to us in a televised address the way US presidents have historically spoken to the citizens of countries led by dictators and despots.

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I’m visiting a middle school today to launch a creative project partnership, and while walking in the hallway, a goth girl said, “I like your top.” I thanked her and said I liked her makeup, and she thanked me and shouted, “I’M GETTING MY NOSE PIERCED!” and disappeared around a corner.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Writing a book mood.

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Need one of these for my office. Think I could get funding if I let students use it too?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Cannot relate to a person who brings hot coffee to a morning workout class. Howwwww are you working up a sweat and thinking, "You know what would make me feel better..."

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

There really is nothing as satisfying as editing a great story. Can't wait to bring the next issue of @cottonwoodku.bsky.social to the world!

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Included in the forbidden word list: "female" and "woman." Not included: "male" and "man." Guess women don't get included in making America healthy again.

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mood

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Hey, Kansas lawmakers, you sure you wanna stand passively by while the status of our state's flagship university is threatened? If KU can't do world-class research, the degree we offer loses value, and that means fewer world-class researchers, fewer students wanting to come here, a vicious cycle.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

A good quarter of my editing process is un-italicizing just about everything I italicized in my first draft. I /really/ want you to /get/ the /emphasis/, I guess.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Library sale haul. An excellent one, worth it for the Uncle Buck alone.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Query for a hypothetical reader: Can I use the phrase "pain and panic" without making you think of these guys?

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

We're closing to prose subs in a few days! Get your stories and essays in!

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Semicolons are precious resources. God only made a few thousand in the whole world, so don't hog them all in your writing. The world is lousy with em dashes, though.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

"Please click the image to enlarge for viewing, and if you don’t find yourself represented, definitely know that the exclusion was intentional."

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

Bluesky is popping off lately, so here’s another call for sources! My name is Reece, and I’m a WIRED reporter. Do you work for a major tech company and want to share an insider tip related to AI / software? Reach out to me on a non-work device via signal: reece_rogers.01

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Basic social science lesson: International aid creates goodwill for the aid-givers and a more stable world for all. A more stable world protects the country giving aid. Basic ethics lesson: It is also morally right for the wealthiest country in the world to help others.

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It's not that billionaires didn't influence politics before. It's that the current environment has emboldened them to do so in the broad light of day, shamelessly, with their names and faces attached to their cynical actions.

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We're closing submissions for prose on Feb. 15! If there's something you want us to read, send it soon! We'll let you know when we're reopening. In the meantime, feel free to keep sending us poetry. journals.ku.edu/cottonwood/a...

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, folks, prose submissions for @cottonwoodku.bsky.social will officially close on Feb. 15! So if you've had something you've been meaning to send, get it in soon!

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Bringing this one back too:

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Hello, new followers! Here's my deal, in case you want to know (extended in the reply):

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What if, when you bought a toaster, every few months the toaster manufacturer broke into your house to “update” the toaster with a camera that records your every move, and each month you have to actively stop the manufacturer from doing that. That’s what tech has become. I just want an f’in toaster

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like every post ought to carry an asterisk.* As in: *Yes I'm posting about this other thing. But am doing so amidst The State of Things. Our maybe just a parenthetical emoji like (😱)?

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

If we're going back to the 1850s, I'm taking up 1850s writing habits: constitutionals, naps, taking to my bed because of nerves, hot and heavy letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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