Tess McCary
@tessmccary.bsky.social
Unpublishable writer and non-practicing pervert.
Writing is wild because you can write your way into understanding what Jung meant by that but you can't put that in your work because that would be obnoxious.
April 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Writing is wild because you can write your way into understanding what Jung meant by that but you can't put that in your work because that would be obnoxious.
Bring back omniscient third person. You're a god, act like it.
April 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Bring back omniscient third person. You're a god, act like it.
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in my society goats would not be associated with the devil, but instead considered angels, for providing cheese that tastes like that
April 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
in my society goats would not be associated with the devil, but instead considered angels, for providing cheese that tastes like that
Welp I guess I can either keeping punishing myself for not being able to write short stories, or get on with the novel that feels—rightly or wrongly—writeable. #writing #wrongwriting #badwriting
April 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Welp I guess I can either keeping punishing myself for not being able to write short stories, or get on with the novel that feels—rightly or wrongly—writeable. #writing #wrongwriting #badwriting
Are there short story writers who are maximalists?
April 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Are there short story writers who are maximalists?
Instead of "smart cities" and "network states," consider analog villages and 90s towns.
April 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Instead of "smart cities" and "network states," consider analog villages and 90s towns.
It matters what you envision the future to be. Someone besides Star Trek needs to bring something besides surveillance, torture, and bigotry to the collective imagination. Be more interesting.
Please stop writing dystopian fiction unless it contains instructions on how to overthrow authoritarian governments. We don't need anymore, thanks. 🙏 techcrunch.com/2025/03/30/a...
China Miéville says we shouldn't blame science fiction for its bad readers | TechCrunch
It’s been 25 years since China Miéville stepped into the literary spotlight with his novel “Perdido Street Station.” Combining elements of science
techcrunch.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
It matters what you envision the future to be. Someone besides Star Trek needs to bring something besides surveillance, torture, and bigotry to the collective imagination. Be more interesting.
Please stop writing dystopian fiction unless it contains instructions on how to overthrow authoritarian governments. We don't need anymore, thanks. 🙏 techcrunch.com/2025/03/30/a...
China Miéville says we shouldn't blame science fiction for its bad readers | TechCrunch
It’s been 25 years since China Miéville stepped into the literary spotlight with his novel “Perdido Street Station.” Combining elements of science
techcrunch.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Please stop writing dystopian fiction unless it contains instructions on how to overthrow authoritarian governments. We don't need anymore, thanks. 🙏 techcrunch.com/2025/03/30/a...
Yellowjackets girlies wanting to stay in the woods for non-sensical reasons got me imagining a much better show where they're split between living the socialist, anti-consumer ideals they talked about on social media vs going back to social media. #yellowjackets
March 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Yellowjackets girlies wanting to stay in the woods for non-sensical reasons got me imagining a much better show where they're split between living the socialist, anti-consumer ideals they talked about on social media vs going back to social media. #yellowjackets
Adjust your privacy settings to prevent Gemini from rifling through your Google Drive:
Go to drive.google.com/drive/settings
Click Privacy
Click Manage Workspace smart features settings
Uncheck both Smart Features options
#AIprivacy #antiAI
rjhuneke.com/google-drive...
Go to drive.google.com/drive/settings
Click Privacy
Click Manage Workspace smart features settings
Uncheck both Smart Features options
#AIprivacy #antiAI
rjhuneke.com/google-drive...
March 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Adjust your privacy settings to prevent Gemini from rifling through your Google Drive:
Go to drive.google.com/drive/settings
Click Privacy
Click Manage Workspace smart features settings
Uncheck both Smart Features options
#AIprivacy #antiAI
rjhuneke.com/google-drive...
Go to drive.google.com/drive/settings
Click Privacy
Click Manage Workspace smart features settings
Uncheck both Smart Features options
#AIprivacy #antiAI
rjhuneke.com/google-drive...
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STOP 👏 USING 👏 THE 👏 PHRASE 👏 LET 👏 THE 👏 CAT 👏 OUTTA 👏 THE 👏 BAG 👏 CATS 👏 LOVE 👏 THE 👏 SHIT 👏 OUTTA 👏 BAGS 👏 I'VE👏 SEEN 👏 A 👏 CAT👏 HANG 👏 OUT👏 IN 👏 A 👏 BAG 👏 FOR👏 THREE👏 DAYS 👏 STRAIGHT 👏 DO 👏 YOUR 👏 DAMN 👏 RESEARCH!
March 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
STOP 👏 USING 👏 THE 👏 PHRASE 👏 LET 👏 THE 👏 CAT 👏 OUTTA 👏 THE 👏 BAG 👏 CATS 👏 LOVE 👏 THE 👏 SHIT 👏 OUTTA 👏 BAGS 👏 I'VE👏 SEEN 👏 A 👏 CAT👏 HANG 👏 OUT👏 IN 👏 A 👏 BAG 👏 FOR👏 THREE👏 DAYS 👏 STRAIGHT 👏 DO 👏 YOUR 👏 DAMN 👏 RESEARCH!
"I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur."
—Benjamin Labatur
#onwriting #writing
—Benjamin Labatur
#onwriting #writing
March 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur."
—Benjamin Labatur
#onwriting #writing
—Benjamin Labatur
#onwriting #writing
Finally got a copy of Lolita without a little girl on the cover. 👊💥
March 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Finally got a copy of Lolita without a little girl on the cover. 👊💥
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"A pulse flies and then stops. You are pain pinned to muscle - also grasses, breath, tree-dawns and gears. You are dark arteries of quiet, the white heat smashed through deserts."
Joanna Klink - Nightfields
#currentlyreading
#booksky
#poetry
#readingcommunity
Joanna Klink - Nightfields
#currentlyreading
#booksky
#poetry
#readingcommunity
March 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"A pulse flies and then stops. You are pain pinned to muscle - also grasses, breath, tree-dawns and gears. You are dark arteries of quiet, the white heat smashed through deserts."
Joanna Klink - Nightfields
#currentlyreading
#booksky
#poetry
#readingcommunity
Joanna Klink - Nightfields
#currentlyreading
#booksky
#poetry
#readingcommunity
men are always demanding to know why women have rape fantasies. here's why: because there's always a film called Rape playing in all our heads. some of us taught ourselves to enjoy the film because we're the heroine. #film #fatgirl letterboxd.com/fuguette/fil...
A ★★★★ review of Fat Girl (2001)
this is a pure essential in terms of understanding the cisfemale experience. these scenes were so familiar, so deeply a part of my identity and emotional landscape, that i was surprised to see them pl...
letterboxd.com
March 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
men are always demanding to know why women have rape fantasies. here's why: because there's always a film called Rape playing in all our heads. some of us taught ourselves to enjoy the film because we're the heroine. #film #fatgirl letterboxd.com/fuguette/fil...
Is it just me or were clownfish retroactively added to frutiger aero? #conspiracy #designgaslighting
March 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Is it just me or were clownfish retroactively added to frutiger aero? #conspiracy #designgaslighting
the sitcom-husband, feigned-helplessness of "we can't stop ai, the technology appeared like a burning bush therefore we must listen with eyes closed." well, you sure can't mutter about how islam is inherently violent if you signed up for ai-driven ethics.
that technology and morals must run parallel is delusion or a manipulation. most likely latter. "when technological advancements are made, we must update our morals to match." hm.
March 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
the sitcom-husband, feigned-helplessness of "we can't stop ai, the technology appeared like a burning bush therefore we must listen with eyes closed." well, you sure can't mutter about how islam is inherently violent if you signed up for ai-driven ethics.
that technology and morals must run parallel is delusion or a manipulation. most likely latter. "when technological advancements are made, we must update our morals to match." hm.
March 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
that technology and morals must run parallel is delusion or a manipulation. most likely latter. "when technological advancements are made, we must update our morals to match." hm.
to have wealth outside the fathomable means an unfathomable economy must be created. the unfathomable lives primarily in 2 places: fiction (evil wizard empires, cyberpunk dystopias, etc.) and egregious crime.
March 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
to have wealth outside the fathomable means an unfathomable economy must be created. the unfathomable lives primarily in 2 places: fiction (evil wizard empires, cyberpunk dystopias, etc.) and egregious crime.
What I want #grimdark to be: Unfathomable cosmic horrors ⛧ fleshless monsters 𓃵 decrepit castles covered in grime and enchanted blood ⸸ realms of the insane undead ⛧ a haruspex or two
What grimdark seems to actually be: Someone does something disgusting with a sword at least twice
What grimdark seems to actually be: Someone does something disgusting with a sword at least twice
March 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
What I want #grimdark to be: Unfathomable cosmic horrors ⛧ fleshless monsters 𓃵 decrepit castles covered in grime and enchanted blood ⸸ realms of the insane undead ⛧ a haruspex or two
What grimdark seems to actually be: Someone does something disgusting with a sword at least twice
What grimdark seems to actually be: Someone does something disgusting with a sword at least twice
I've been a much happier reader since I stopped reading fiction published after 1980.
March 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I've been a much happier reader since I stopped reading fiction published after 1980.
Zelenskyy still sexy af I see.
February 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Zelenskyy still sexy af I see.
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I’m heading back into the Budget Committee to expose Republicans as they betray poor and working American families.
They’re stealing your benefits to pay for their Trump Tax Scam 2.0 — a $4.5 TRILLION giveaway to the ultra-rich.
We’re fighting to stop them.
They’re stealing your benefits to pay for their Trump Tax Scam 2.0 — a $4.5 TRILLION giveaway to the ultra-rich.
We’re fighting to stop them.
February 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I’m heading back into the Budget Committee to expose Republicans as they betray poor and working American families.
They’re stealing your benefits to pay for their Trump Tax Scam 2.0 — a $4.5 TRILLION giveaway to the ultra-rich.
We’re fighting to stop them.
They’re stealing your benefits to pay for their Trump Tax Scam 2.0 — a $4.5 TRILLION giveaway to the ultra-rich.
We’re fighting to stop them.
Red, White, and Blueland? Alright, let's create a lore for this new lawless utopia. Time for collective consciousness. Let's manifest a genderless wonderland where everyone has their own puppygirl polycule and we resurrect silphium with blood sacrifices and orgiastic rituals. #50501 #EndOligarchy
February 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Red, White, and Blueland? Alright, let's create a lore for this new lawless utopia. Time for collective consciousness. Let's manifest a genderless wonderland where everyone has their own puppygirl polycule and we resurrect silphium with blood sacrifices and orgiastic rituals. #50501 #EndOligarchy