@CooperMcK
@Category_Fury
@XENOGOTH
Here’s a surprise: you don’t have to post racist or demeaning bullshit just because your fingers work and you have an internet connection.
@JoyceCarolOates
Sorry, I missed where Meg shunned her daughter for speaking up about serial molestation by the man she chose to go back to.
Sometimes, just say “I fucked up” and move on.
@RealBennRBoyle
@goshdarnitmel
I do. But as commonly used, “gatekeeping” does not refer to speech that is already illegal. It refers to winnowing out speech that is legal but contrarian. So your straw man is nothing more than you whining in the wind.
As inexorable as death and taxes, I have received my
@TBQuarterly
rejection. I shall print out the comments “I really enjoyed the voice and writing” and “I really enjoy the opening lines,” douse them in Diablo Sauce and consume them. Then, powered by a flaming butt hole, I write.
One amazing part of having an EIC who values her staff is when they ask which pieces really stuck out and should be nominated for stuff and she actually listens. Thanks
@mgnlcs
So happy to be with
@ReckonReview
Drafting my first craft column for
@ReckonReview
and really enjoying looking back through sources like
@brevitymag
and several of the inimitable
@GraywolfPress
books. A lot of “yeah, that’s the ticket” moments.
@TheRickWilson
Well, I do agree this is his best campaign simply because he’s not campaigning so I don’t have to see his stupid face on the fucking television.
"Admitting that was not a sign of weakness but of power-I had the power to recognize, admit...remedy"
New Wind & Root (what I've come to think of as *Writing Wisdom*) today brought to you by columnist
@deltawriter12
and our features editor
@CharlotteHam504
@RepJackKimble
In my town, we all gathered in the square and you had to go put your baby on an old toilet where they put a Magic Sombrero on its head. The crowd would sing Sweet Caroline until the hat announced the race and gender. We’d then have a little parade for the little white babies.
@blgtylr
Best Poli Sci professor I had was a huge fan of having us underline and write notes in the books (literature-based course on political theory). Then, we’d go through and type the notes and thoughts into an outline.
@danielmkim
I have always been a fan of OG jungle boots, but there’s a time and place.
Working in the yard? Yes.
Completing a very confused commuting ensemble designed to elicit questions that allow you to borrow some valor? No.
@CPY87
Are you able to set aside your own preconception and biases especially as to the quality of the lawyering you’re about to see and render a decision based on the evidence and the instructions the court gives to you, even though you may overturn those instructions later?
“we turn the volume up one notch and everyone carefully looks straight ahead and we all pretend that their mothers don’t come into our houses and clean every week” Stoked to have this flash up that originated in a workshop w
@brevitymag
and
@PhilKlay
@ask_aubry
Trump: “you—come here, you’re getting an abortion!”
Woman: “but I don’t want one.”
Trump: “ too bad—you agreed to one when you signed up for truth social—it’s in the terms and conditions.”
😒