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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 7 days ago • 1975 comments

I feel like this paragraph from my book is pretty appropriate for today. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/shann...

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

Figure out what grounds you and anchor yourself to that.

submitted 22 days ago • 32 comments

If you are feeling overwhelmed, it makes perfect sense. I want to once again offer that it's so much better to immerse yourself in only one or two things. Follow the news about just those focus areas. Importantly find concrete small actions to take in those specific areas. Key is consistency.

submitted 22 days ago • 97 comments

I really always appreciate Elise Granata's concrete ACTIONABLE advice. open.substack.com/pub/grouphug...

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

Just a reminder that you are one person and that you are unlikely to even be able to save yourself alone if called on to do so. These are collective struggles. Do your part. No more, no less.

submitted 33 days ago • 25 comments

Good morning. You are still here. Do something kind for someone you love today--and if you can, for someone else in your community, even if they're a stranger. We're in this together. ❤️

submitted 37 days ago • 39 comments

The purpose of yesterday was to frighten us to submitting in advance. I have my freedom of speech and I will use it here and everywhere else I exist online to make my voice heard. No oligarch, no president will silence me. So, be prepared for more Latinx books just as soon as my mourning ends, okay?

submitted 37 days ago • 281 comments

If you're discriminated against or arrested for being trans in Illinois, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

submitted 38 days ago • 108 comments

This cannot be stressed enough. People do not in fact know what to do about most of what's happening. There are lots of things happening at once and a lot of it is complex. So if you actually have CONCRETE and SPECIFIC actions to suggest, do that. Some people will appreciate it & jump on board.

submitted 37 days ago • 680 comments

If you live in LA are looking to volunteer, fire relief is ongoing. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

My loves, if you find today or any day difficult for you, I find there can be comfort in Tolkien’s words. While some times may be terrifying, infuriating, or devastating, it is never hopeless.

submitted 38 days ago • 33 comments

My fiercest belief is also a theme that informs all of my writing and can be an act of rebellion in dark times: they may try, but nobody, and I mean nobody, can tell you who or what you really are.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Even though most of us will probably never lead the charge, we all have a vital role to play in this battle before us. "Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star." ~ MLK

submitted 38 days ago • 56 comments

Today and in the coming days, remember

submitted 38 days ago • 293 comments

Just so we’re clear: 1. Audiobooks count 2. Reading is political 3. The orange man is a piece of 💩 Thanks for stopping by 💃

submitted 38 days ago • 275 comments

We just got back from Thanksgiving dinner and my sister immediately got out her Christmas lights and is listening to the Glee Christmas album 😭😂

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Trust yourself and the world is yours

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

I went to a throwback party event in Brooklyn where the DJ had the nerve to play Glorilla and Megan. Don’t get me wrong, I love BOTH, but they weren’t rapping in the 80s and 90s?! 😭 #musicsky

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

I feel like, as a collective, we skated over the whole « Kendrick getting a whole ass GRAMMY nomination for being a hater » entirely too quickly. #musicsky

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submitted 100 days ago • 95 comments

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY BOOK IS OUT TODAY!!!!!!!!! THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS releases today in the US (and Italy)!!! I have waited SO LONG to share this book with everyone and I'm so excited that it's finally out in the world!!!!!!!!!

submitted 100 days ago • 149 comments

Books 📚

submitted 101 days ago • 3 comments

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

submitted 103 days ago • 904 comments

Lol

submitted 103 days ago • 479 comments

I’m almost all caught up with Abbott Elementary and if I can find a show that makes me laugh even half as much, I’m winning 😭

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

This was such a good read! So fun, hella creative, wonderful writing, and so cute! Couldn’t recommend more for my fellow romance readers!

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Moon dressed up as Uranus

submitted 102 days ago • 1147 comments

Pump this song in my veins - My Scorpio Rising 😄

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I am so down to do this 😂

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Have you guys ever tried meditating with your crystals? Like just holding one in your hands with your eyes closed and noticing what it feels like? It’s so friggen cool 😭 #witchsky

submitted 102 days ago • 3 comments

I’ll never get sick of this view 🌍 - France

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Strawberry tarts for your thoughts? Before moving to France, I never thought I would be into fruit desserts and now they’re my favorite to eat and bake 😌 #baking #bakingsky #pastry

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

submitted 103 days ago • 74 comments

resolved: people who insist that all social media sites must be places where users are constantly encountering and arguing with people over fundamental disagreement do so because their actual, real lives are echo chambers where they do not encounter any meaningful difference from day-to-day.

submitted 103 days ago • 542 comments

“You came across my skyline” sound like some romantic shit lmao

submitted 104 days ago • 190 comments

Oh nothing m, just out here helping to assemble my first croquembouche 🥹 The ones with the cracked top are stuffed with vanilla pastry cream and the chocolate with a chocolate pastry cream. Divine 😭 #dessert #baking #pastry #pastrychef

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

When I turned 40, I had 320 short story rejections and no books published. A few years later, I've published a short story collection and two novels with another on the way. Believe in yourself like someone who loves you.

submitted 106 days ago • 121 comments