alix e. harrow
@alixeharrow.bsky.social
NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
my time-saving holiday shopping tip is to just get everybody books. white elephant? book. child? picture book. stocking? small book. i am a neutral & trustworthy source on this subject
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
my time-saving holiday shopping tip is to just get everybody books. white elephant? book. child? picture book. stocking? small book. i am a neutral & trustworthy source on this subject
i have never felt more kentuckian than i have reading all this anti-pie talk. i am pressing my palm to my chest and tsking. i am praying for yall. the devil is real and he has a bluesky account
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
i have never felt more kentuckian than i have reading all this anti-pie talk. i am pressing my palm to my chest and tsking. i am praying for yall. the devil is real and he has a bluesky account
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...
bring back Monologues!! let actors swish around in capes and deliver speeches, as god intended!!! abandon grim hyper-realism in favor of Theater!!!!!!
i think about "i burn my decency for someone else's future" all the time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3RC...
Andor | Luthen Rael’s Monologue | Disney+
YouTube video by Star Wars
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November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
bring back Monologues!! let actors swish around in capes and deliver speeches, as god intended!!! abandon grim hyper-realism in favor of Theater!!!!!!
every now and then i think of the girl who took me gently aside my freshman year of college and said "yo you gotta stop saying "whilst."" really did me a solid, socially. hope she's doing well
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
every now and then i think of the girl who took me gently aside my freshman year of college and said "yo you gotta stop saying "whilst."" really did me a solid, socially. hope she's doing well
infinitely charmed that anyone could look at my online presence and assume that i have a social media team 🙏 like i clearly cannot figure out the right proportions for an insta post but thank you for believing in me 🙏
November 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
infinitely charmed that anyone could look at my online presence and assume that i have a social media team 🙏 like i clearly cannot figure out the right proportions for an insta post but thank you for believing in me 🙏
cannot express how much my weekend has been improved by watching, for the first time!, BOUND (1996)
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
cannot express how much my weekend has been improved by watching, for the first time!, BOUND (1996)
every elementary school teacher in the state of virginia deserves a medal of valor and a beer. today was.....the 67th day of school 😔
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
every elementary school teacher in the state of virginia deserves a medal of valor and a beer. today was.....the 67th day of school 😔
i don't know how to phrase this delicately, but i just want to communicate to young white men in incel-adjacent spaces that this sort of behavior will solve your problems
I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i don't know how to phrase this delicately, but i just want to communicate to young white men in incel-adjacent spaces that this sort of behavior will solve your problems
very little brings me as much joy as explaining the plots of romance novels to my husband. no one is more earnestly appalled. "he made a BET to marry her? but that will hurt her feelings when she finds out!" yes beloved
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
very little brings me as much joy as explaining the plots of romance novels to my husband. no one is more earnestly appalled. "he made a BET to marry her? but that will hurt her feelings when she finds out!" yes beloved
the CCS Board wants to believe this kind of thing is anomalous, but a 2014 study found that "SROs are significantly more likely than other police officers to be arrested for sex-related crimes," mostly involving students. www.clccrul.org/blog/what-th...
Putting cops in schools leads to bad outcomes. Here's a story about an ex-Charlottesville Police Department cop who has been working in Greene County schools
archive.ph/V7Kpa
archive.ph/V7Kpa
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
the CCS Board wants to believe this kind of thing is anomalous, but a 2014 study found that "SROs are significantly more likely than other police officers to be arrested for sex-related crimes," mostly involving students. www.clccrul.org/blog/what-th...
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👇🏼 too bad CCS school board ignored all this evidence.
Putting cops in schools leads to bad outcomes. Here's a story about an ex-Charlottesville Police Department cop who has been working in Greene County schools
archive.ph/V7Kpa
archive.ph/V7Kpa
November 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
👇🏼 too bad CCS school board ignored all this evidence.
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The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
you want a kid who shares your interests and then your 7yo is waking up at 5:45 to write their novel. like okay buddy it's not a race???
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November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
you want a kid who shares your interests and then your 7yo is waking up at 5:45 to write their novel. like okay buddy it's not a race???
it is only now occurring to me, as i put away the globe and chalk board, having let my 9yo stay up an extra hour bc he said "mama, i just can't remember all the causes of wwi," that i have, perhaps,, been played 😔
November 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
it is only now occurring to me, as i put away the globe and chalk board, having let my 9yo stay up an extra hour bc he said "mama, i just can't remember all the causes of wwi," that i have, perhaps,, been played 😔
my number one most serious writing tip is to make cool friends. in the last year I've needed to know about blacksmithing, neo-medievalism in the american empire, and mid-century lesbian pulp publishing and each time I've been able to just. call a guy.
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
my number one most serious writing tip is to make cool friends. in the last year I've needed to know about blacksmithing, neo-medievalism in the american empire, and mid-century lesbian pulp publishing and each time I've been able to just. call a guy.
YEAH THE BIGGER JOY IS WHEN UR SMART FRIEND & FELLOW WRITER LIKES YOUR BOOK 😭 this is the most generous thread
Truly is there any bigger joy than reading a friend’s smart, nuanced, passionate book and being suffused with love and pride and critical hope? I think not
Also: I cried a lot!
Also: I cried a lot!
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
YEAH THE BIGGER JOY IS WHEN UR SMART FRIEND & FELLOW WRITER LIKES YOUR BOOK 😭 this is the most generous thread
aging is truly just accumulating an expanding list of small items and/or tasks without which the entire system will collapse. stardew valley but if you fuck up you can't move your neck the next day
okay: have you tried a split keyboard, and did it help your back?? i am speaking exclusively to the 35+ crowd here, do not answer if you still buy ibuprofen in the small bottles
November 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
aging is truly just accumulating an expanding list of small items and/or tasks without which the entire system will collapse. stardew valley but if you fuck up you can't move your neck the next day
okay: have you tried a split keyboard, and did it help your back?? i am speaking exclusively to the 35+ crowd here, do not answer if you still buy ibuprofen in the small bottles
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
okay: have you tried a split keyboard, and did it help your back?? i am speaking exclusively to the 35+ crowd here, do not answer if you still buy ibuprofen in the small bottles
sometimes just for fun i like to imagine a world where metoo ACTUALLY went "too far." these guys would be cowering in their safe rooms rn. we would be crowdfunding bounties. their assets would be seized and their names stricken from history.
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
sometimes just for fun i like to imagine a world where metoo ACTUALLY went "too far." these guys would be cowering in their safe rooms rn. we would be crowdfunding bounties. their assets would be seized and their names stricken from history.
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This is just mid-development Owen from The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social.
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is just mid-development Owen from The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social.
beginning my quixotic and privileged campaign to get publishers to pay a per diem rather than asking their touring authors to carry a couple thousand dollars in credit debt and hoard paper receipts, like rats lining their nests for winter 🙏
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
beginning my quixotic and privileged campaign to get publishers to pay a per diem rather than asking their touring authors to carry a couple thousand dollars in credit debt and hoard paper receipts, like rats lining their nests for winter 🙏
tried to play charades with the kids and did okay until the 7yo, who just curled up on the floor with their eyes closed. six words. answer: a regular day for a coyote.
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
tried to play charades with the kids and did okay until the 7yo, who just curled up on the floor with their eyes closed. six words. answer: a regular day for a coyote.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish