Roanna Flowers (aka Petty Davis)
@roanna.bsky.social
Comedy novelist/gossip columnist for imaginary people. Was once called the Dorothy Parker of Austin, TX. They might have been drunk. She/Her but not H.E.R (sadly). Member of Armadillo Authors Society. Learn more at https://www.armadilloauthorssociety.com/
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I am the personification of Myrna Loy's side-eye while making a martini.
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everyone in this administration was the kind of kid who pulled wings off flies
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
everyone in this administration was the kind of kid who pulled wings off flies
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What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party:
December 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party:
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🎉 🎉 🎉 UK & EUROPE COVER REVEAL 🎉 🎉 🎉
The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂
Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much!
buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky
The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂
Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much!
buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🎉 🎉 🎉 UK & EUROPE COVER REVEAL 🎉 🎉 🎉
The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂
Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much!
buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky
The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂
Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much!
buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky
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I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
lithub.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...
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firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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December 2, 2025 at 3:47 AM
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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for anyone who may be using chrome still goto chrome://flags/ and disable everything to do with "ML" "AI" "gemini" and also "NTP Compose Entrypoint"
December 2, 2025 at 7:37 AM
for anyone who may be using chrome still goto chrome://flags/ and disable everything to do with "ML" "AI" "gemini" and also "NTP Compose Entrypoint"
What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
What I'm wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party
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The crested auklet is so cheeky. 😆
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The crested auklet is so cheeky. 😆
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one piece of the driverless car puzzle no one has solved is how anyone can feel a sense of peace or justice when a robot kills a person or animal they love, and it’s a problem both for moral reasons and for boosters who don’t want the tech to get banned as part of an emotional response
it’s wild how the instant you criticize waymo people come out of the woodwork to pretend we’re all throwing parties when humans kill people in cars and also to post sociopathic shit like “it’s the dog owners fault”
It’s wild how people will instantly rally against Waymo but we never see the same level of invective when human drivers kill people.
“It was an accident.”
1. Keep your pets leashed.
2. If local politicians treated human drivers killing people like this we would already have much safer streets.
“It was an accident.”
1. Keep your pets leashed.
2. If local politicians treated human drivers killing people like this we would already have much safer streets.
December 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
one piece of the driverless car puzzle no one has solved is how anyone can feel a sense of peace or justice when a robot kills a person or animal they love, and it’s a problem both for moral reasons and for boosters who don’t want the tech to get banned as part of an emotional response
Question: if Sufjan Stevens did an album about your state, what would there be songs about? (sorry, Michigan and Illinois, you have to sit this one out.)
Here’s Texas:
1. Jack Ruby’s Lament
2. Elizabeth Taylor in Marfa
3. Big Tex
4. That Playboy Bob Wills
5. Grackles & French Fries
6. Big Bend
Here’s Texas:
1. Jack Ruby’s Lament
2. Elizabeth Taylor in Marfa
3. Big Tex
4. That Playboy Bob Wills
5. Grackles & French Fries
6. Big Bend
Question: if Sufjan Stevens did an album about your state, what would there be songs about? (sorry, Michigan and Illinois, you have to sit this one out.
I'll go first for Maryland:
1. Baltimore
2. Harriet Tubman
3. The Snallygaster
4. The pursuit of John Wilkes Booth
5. The Chesapeake
6. Crabs
I'll go first for Maryland:
1. Baltimore
2. Harriet Tubman
3. The Snallygaster
4. The pursuit of John Wilkes Booth
5. The Chesapeake
6. Crabs
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Question: if Sufjan Stevens did an album about your state, what would there be songs about? (sorry, Michigan and Illinois, you have to sit this one out.)
Here’s Texas:
1. Jack Ruby’s Lament
2. Elizabeth Taylor in Marfa
3. Big Tex
4. That Playboy Bob Wills
5. Grackles & French Fries
6. Big Bend
Here’s Texas:
1. Jack Ruby’s Lament
2. Elizabeth Taylor in Marfa
3. Big Tex
4. That Playboy Bob Wills
5. Grackles & French Fries
6. Big Bend
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one thing I like about SLOW HORSES is that it's always - always - MI5's fault because they do crap like this and then it bites them in the ass
TIL that the guy who allegedly shot the two National Guard troops was a child soldier for the CIA. I feel like that should shock more people.
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
one thing I like about SLOW HORSES is that it's always - always - MI5's fault because they do crap like this and then it bites them in the ass
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Students' First Amendment freedom of religion is not bigger than professors' First Amendment freedom of speech.
Why does what other people claim to “sincerely believe” matter to my rights and liberties??
December 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Students' First Amendment freedom of religion is not bigger than professors' First Amendment freedom of speech.
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If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!
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Some truly awesome humans (and some of the best writers I've had the privilege of calling friends) have started an Indie Press. Can't wait to see what they come up with.
Great news, everyone! Hook & Quill Press is launching today as an indie publishing company, supporting and supported by the writing community (and one octopus). We have plenty of exciting announcements for your feed today, but here's a quick teaser...
#writesky #writingcommunity #quillbert4ever
#writesky #writingcommunity #quillbert4ever
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Some truly awesome humans (and some of the best writers I've had the privilege of calling friends) have started an Indie Press. Can't wait to see what they come up with.
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We nominated this one for Pushcart and Best Microfiction — we think it’s pretty amazing.
Very happy to be included here with my piece, If the Concrete. My story is partly based on a news item about a young woman giving birth in prison.
ISSUE 7: INTEGRITY is now LIVE!
Please read, share, and discuss! And watch this space all week for lots of spotlights.
Thank you to everyone who is a part of this issue and our wonderful #EpistemicLitFamily!
epistemiclit.com/current-issue/
Please read, share, and discuss! And watch this space all week for lots of spotlights.
Thank you to everyone who is a part of this issue and our wonderful #EpistemicLitFamily!
epistemiclit.com/current-issue/
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We nominated this one for Pushcart and Best Microfiction — we think it’s pretty amazing.
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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My very first semester at OU, way back in 2015, a student complained to my chair that I was ‘opinionated’ and rigid because I wouldn’t accept her statement about Hitler being sound on economic policy and therefore ‘shades of grey’
When I tell you I am not surprised about the trans TA being targeted
When I tell you I am not surprised about the trans TA being targeted
December 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
My very first semester at OU, way back in 2015, a student complained to my chair that I was ‘opinionated’ and rigid because I wouldn’t accept her statement about Hitler being sound on economic policy and therefore ‘shades of grey’
When I tell you I am not surprised about the trans TA being targeted
When I tell you I am not surprised about the trans TA being targeted
Dear Walmart, I have just been informed that your grinch is Walton Goggins.
There is only one rule with Goggins, and you broke it.
If you’re going to Goggins, you have to go all the way. There’s no such thing as a half-Goggins.
I’m not angry. I’m just disappointed.
There is only one rule with Goggins, and you broke it.
If you’re going to Goggins, you have to go all the way. There’s no such thing as a half-Goggins.
I’m not angry. I’m just disappointed.
a man in a blue coat and sunglasses is standing next to two other men
Alt: Walton Goggins in a revolutionary style (18th c) blue coat and sunglasses is standing next to two other men. He puts his fist in the air and the freeze frames.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Dear Walmart, I have just been informed that your grinch is Walton Goggins.
There is only one rule with Goggins, and you broke it.
If you’re going to Goggins, you have to go all the way. There’s no such thing as a half-Goggins.
I’m not angry. I’m just disappointed.
There is only one rule with Goggins, and you broke it.
If you’re going to Goggins, you have to go all the way. There’s no such thing as a half-Goggins.
I’m not angry. I’m just disappointed.
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Someone tell Lars von Trier that that there's no such thing as a "confusingly large" penis.
An illuminating conversation with the man who was Willem Dafoe's stunt penis: defector.com/willem-dafoe...
An Illuminating Conversation With The Man Who Was Willem Dafoe’s Stunt Penis | Defector
For years, a rumor has floated around about the length of Willem Dafoe’s penis. Willem Dafoe’s penis is said to be extra-large. It is allegedly so big, in fact, that after filming nude scenes in the…
defector.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Someone tell Lars von Trier that that there's no such thing as a "confusingly large" penis.
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"We will call the 12th month of the year 'December'... which means 'tenth month.'"
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"We will call the 12th month of the year 'December'... which means 'tenth month.'"
Song Sung Blue is a biopic based on a documentary, neither of which are actually about Neil Diamond.
There are going to be some confused people in that theater.
There are going to be some confused people in that theater.
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Song Sung Blue is a biopic based on a documentary, neither of which are actually about Neil Diamond.
There are going to be some confused people in that theater.
There are going to be some confused people in that theater.
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starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow!
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
is there a NaNoWriMo but for December and academic/ nonfiction? Should we start it?
December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow!
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
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Sports romance is a hot topic right now thanks to Heated Rivalry. How exciting! If you want something to listen to about this, here you go: fatedmates.net/episodes/202...
Sports Romance with Jessica Luther — Fated Mates: Romance Books for Novel People
It’s another sports interstitial! We’re talking sports, balls & sports balls with the brilliant Jessica Luther, sports romance lover, podcaster, and author of Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Fo...
fatedmates.net
December 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Sports romance is a hot topic right now thanks to Heated Rivalry. How exciting! If you want something to listen to about this, here you go: fatedmates.net/episodes/202...
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The arc of the moral universe is rocking back and forth in the bathtub.
The arc of the moral universe is out of ideas.
The arc of the moral universe wants you to please wait. Your call is important to it.
The arc of the moral universe is out of ideas.
The arc of the moral universe wants you to please wait. Your call is important to it.
Updates on the Arc of the Moral Universe
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - - -The arc of the moral universe is feeling ...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The arc of the moral universe is rocking back and forth in the bathtub.
The arc of the moral universe is out of ideas.
The arc of the moral universe wants you to please wait. Your call is important to it.
The arc of the moral universe is out of ideas.
The arc of the moral universe wants you to please wait. Your call is important to it.
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This week’s newsletter
The state of Hollywood bodies:
Celebrities are human beings. But they are also selling us something. Right now, that's thinness
The state of Hollywood bodies:
Celebrities are human beings. But they are also selling us something. Right now, that's thinness
The state of Hollywood bodies
Celebrities are human beings. But they are also selling us something. Right now, that's thinness.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This week’s newsletter
The state of Hollywood bodies:
Celebrities are human beings. But they are also selling us something. Right now, that's thinness
The state of Hollywood bodies:
Celebrities are human beings. But they are also selling us something. Right now, that's thinness