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Writer, Reader, Cupcake Eater 🏳️‍🌈🤦🏼‍♂️ is ME (He/They) — I’m beauty and I’m grace, I’m miss United States

Joined March 2019
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Got to work early this morning and tried seeking attention from the co-workers who don’t hate me yet. They were all doing their morning devotionals. Trying to be funny, I said, “can we put the Lord on hold for just a sec while I talk about me?!” Wrong crowd.
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If for whatever reason you’re still on twitter—I haven’t really been on here for a while—feel free to follow over on Instagram. Also @shelfbyshelf and I post almost daily
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Never on twitter anymore, since it’s a hellscape, but I miss a lot of my twitter book friends
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Not really active on here anymore, but wanted to share that I met Oprah and she laughed at my joke and thought I was “so vulnerable”
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Visiting my Momma and Granny for an early Christmas 💛
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So many authors whose work I wanna read more of in 2025!!
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I’m sure they got a bump
Andy & Lindsay are so unserious 🤣 Whoever thought of this needs a pay bump
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Tried taking pictures during lunch at work and kept getting caught, but anyway, I’m reading @otroedgargomez ALLIGATOR TEARS and it’s great, y’all should pre-order!
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I thought I was writing two novels, but am thinking maybe I’m actually just writing two parts of one novel…
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Making a list of authors whose work I wanna complete in 2025–Susan Minot, Percival Everett, Katie Kitamura, Lydia Millet, Joy Williams, Gayl Jones, Denis Johnson…who are some authors that you love all of their work? Just trying to see something
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Currently reading THE GOD OF THE WOODS!!
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Brit billionairess disses US proletarian authoress charging "well-off"
This is where a ton of well-off leftist intellectuals are stuck. Insulated from and often ignorant of the real world consequences of the position they've taken, they conclude the masses have been manipulated by influences to which they are too clever and righteous to fall prey.
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Somehow, in the midst of my anxious spiraling, I realized why this chapter in my draft wasn’t working, and made notes for how to fix it when my brain isn’t broken
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One of my best friends wrote a book and it comes out next year from @HarperOneBooks and it’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and amazing!! 10/10 do recommend, pre order, it’s everything you never knew you needed!!
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I love at a funeral when someone realizes they haven’t seen you in a while and says, “we shouldn’t wait so long to do this!” And I always say, “I know! People should die more frequently!”
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Girl are you an em-dash? Because you keep interrupting my train of thought but in an elegant way
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Finished AUDITION by @katiekitamura and it’s truly everything you could ever want and more—pre-order it like your life depends on it. I loved. I loved. I loved. Thanks to @riverheadbooks for the arc!!!
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October reading wrap-up!
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The way y’all are going after that Sally Rooney review is just so dumb…
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100 pages into my latest draft. Phew
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