Author. P.K. Dick & Locus Award Winner. Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Eugie, and Otherwise finalist. https://t.co/Czev21K0I1 she/they/sir 🏳️🌈
Nov 9, 2021 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
Turbulence was bad enough on my flight this morning that the pilot stopped drink service, made the flight attendants sit and buckle in.
I’m a nervous flier on a good day; I was gripping my seat and fidgeting hard. The guy next to me was reading Dune.
I figured he was fine— I always figure everyone is fine but me. And then I saw how hard he was gripping his book, how the pages rippled between his fingers.
I am intimately familiar with the text, and the Hitchcock version.
Sing along if you know the words.
Alright, they had the good sense to keep the best first line in all of literature. And we open on the menace of the sea. Not bad.
Sep 16, 2019 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Many of us have had an older woman in our lives take us aside and tell us: make sure you have money your partner cannot access.
Your own bank account.
A cash stash.
My mom calls it "fuck-you money."
I've seen and heard a thousand versions of this. Sometimes it's a secret and sometimes it's a joke. But it's always serious business.
Jun 30, 2019 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Ok I saw this video again the other night at a party and it's been bothering me ever since. So, a thread about queerness and aesthetics.
Let's set aside the part where TS is maybe queerbaiting folks, maybe making herself the center of a would-be Pride anthem. I'm not arguing with that. It's valid. Let's talk about this:
May 7, 2019 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
I just ruined a jackhole's day in Hayes Valley. Fuck with me.
Still shaking.
Motherfucker comes to my table, unbidden. I assume he's a waiter; he's not. I'm having a drink and a snack. I look up and he's got Fake Concern Face on.
Without preamble he says, "If you took better care of yourself, you'd find somebody to love you."
