May Zullino
@mayzullinowrites.bsky.social
YA/adult fantasy and horror author | linguist | eternal learner
they/them | ace
jettisoned myself from Florida and became a Vermonter 🍁
https://linktr.ee/waywardcelestia
they/them | ace
jettisoned myself from Florida and became a Vermonter 🍁
https://linktr.ee/waywardcelestia
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Friendsgiving Offerings Part 1: Requeijão Cremoso is complete
Part 2: Pão de Queijo shall ensue tomorrow
Part 2: Pão de Queijo shall ensue tomorrow
a bowl of bread balls with steam coming out of them on a yellow background
Alt: a bowl of Brazilian cheese bread (pão de queijo) with steam coming out of them sits against a yellow background
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November 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Friendsgiving Offerings Part 1: Requeijão Cremoso is complete
Part 2: Pão de Queijo shall ensue tomorrow
Part 2: Pão de Queijo shall ensue tomorrow
First HanaKimi and now The Master’s Sun? Netflix is directly targeting my nostalgia recently
a woman with her hands on her face smiling
Alt: Tae Gongsil from The Master’s Sun cupping her face and smiling cutely
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November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
First HanaKimi and now The Master’s Sun? Netflix is directly targeting my nostalgia recently
My housemate’s cat sleeps in my bed (she doesn’t get along with the dog, who sleeps in his), and usually chooses a position that traps me.
Every morning I tell her “I’m getting up” and then extricate myself.
And lately I just need to say that and she’ll jump up on her own
Every morning I tell her “I’m getting up” and then extricate myself.
And lately I just need to say that and she’ll jump up on her own
a white cat is sitting on a chess board looking at a piece of paper .
Alt: A white cat is sitting in front of a chess board with glass pieces. It moves a pawn across the board with its paw.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My housemate’s cat sleeps in my bed (she doesn’t get along with the dog, who sleeps in his), and usually chooses a position that traps me.
Every morning I tell her “I’m getting up” and then extricate myself.
And lately I just need to say that and she’ll jump up on her own
Every morning I tell her “I’m getting up” and then extricate myself.
And lately I just need to say that and she’ll jump up on her own
I’m super happy for her but this article is kind of misleading
First, I was paying $400 for my studio in Osaka back in 2014, and only bc I rented through a company that helped foreigners get rooms in age-restricted buildings (all my neighbors were 65+)
She must have a subsidy or similar setup
1/3
First, I was paying $400 for my studio in Osaka back in 2014, and only bc I rented through a company that helped foreigners get rooms in age-restricted buildings (all my neighbors were 65+)
She must have a subsidy or similar setup
1/3
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I’m super happy for her but this article is kind of misleading
First, I was paying $400 for my studio in Osaka back in 2014, and only bc I rented through a company that helped foreigners get rooms in age-restricted buildings (all my neighbors were 65+)
She must have a subsidy or similar setup
1/3
First, I was paying $400 for my studio in Osaka back in 2014, and only bc I rented through a company that helped foreigners get rooms in age-restricted buildings (all my neighbors were 65+)
She must have a subsidy or similar setup
1/3
Does anyone else ever get overcome with feelings of “I’ve put in so much effort for so long and if something doesn’t come of it THIS TIME I am going to implode and maybe I need to just curl up on the floor for a few minutes” or is that just me?
November 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Does anyone else ever get overcome with feelings of “I’ve put in so much effort for so long and if something doesn’t come of it THIS TIME I am going to implode and maybe I need to just curl up on the floor for a few minutes” or is that just me?
November 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
November 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Running away from the page every time I can’t immediately think of my next sentence. I try to justify it by saying I’m letting the words percolate but really I’m just giving up even for a few minutes
What's a bad writing habit you have that you'd like to kick? #WritingPrompt
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Running away from the page every time I can’t immediately think of my next sentence. I try to justify it by saying I’m letting the words percolate but really I’m just giving up even for a few minutes
Author problems: Struggling to write an emotional scene because you identify too hard with it and *really* want to get the point across
Literally just wrote myself a post-it memo that says “not everything needs to be spelled out!”
#amwriting
Literally just wrote myself a post-it memo that says “not everything needs to be spelled out!”
#amwriting
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Author problems: Struggling to write an emotional scene because you identify too hard with it and *really* want to get the point across
Literally just wrote myself a post-it memo that says “not everything needs to be spelled out!”
#amwriting
Literally just wrote myself a post-it memo that says “not everything needs to be spelled out!”
#amwriting
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Neurodivergent friendship is a funny thing. You can find your people and have amazing connections with them, but be too overwhelmed with life to stay in touch, but miss them dearly and feel lonely, but be too burnt out to even send a text. 😩
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Neurodivergent friendship is a funny thing. You can find your people and have amazing connections with them, but be too overwhelmed with life to stay in touch, but miss them dearly and feel lonely, but be too burnt out to even send a text. 😩
It’s snow season!
The outdoors are GLOWING ❄️
The outdoors are GLOWING ❄️
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It’s snow season!
The outdoors are GLOWING ❄️
The outdoors are GLOWING ❄️
Woke up to surprise snow this morning
Uh, winter, can you please hold off until I can get my car ready for you? 😭 I have a 35-minute commute to work and SUMMER TIRES
Uh, winter, can you please hold off until I can get my car ready for you? 😭 I have a 35-minute commute to work and SUMMER TIRES
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Woke up to surprise snow this morning
Uh, winter, can you please hold off until I can get my car ready for you? 😭 I have a 35-minute commute to work and SUMMER TIRES
Uh, winter, can you please hold off until I can get my car ready for you? 😭 I have a 35-minute commute to work and SUMMER TIRES
Yeah I'm 37 years old and openly talk about my love of anime
Others can't police what does or doesn't bring me joy 😝
Others can't police what does or doesn't bring me joy 😝
November 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Yeah I'm 37 years old and openly talk about my love of anime
Others can't police what does or doesn't bring me joy 😝
Others can't police what does or doesn't bring me joy 😝
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This is not a popular regime
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
This is not a popular regime
Bee is hella cool and her writing is delightful and absolutely devourable (is that not a word? Let’s make it one)
And if that’s not enough, Mara Wilson!
And if that’s not enough, Mara Wilson!
Just an author trying to keep up with social media here, but hey!! I got my dream narrator for Robbie McNeil's Hit List! I'm thrilled to have Mara Wilson narrating and grateful to my pub team for making it happen!
It's available for pre-order wherever you get your audiobooks!
#WritingCommunity 📚💙
It's available for pre-order wherever you get your audiobooks!
#WritingCommunity 📚💙
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Bee is hella cool and her writing is delightful and absolutely devourable (is that not a word? Let’s make it one)
And if that’s not enough, Mara Wilson!
And if that’s not enough, Mara Wilson!
Small choices can have a big impact. I wore my they/them pin to a work orientation and another new hire said it made him feel instantly safe and welcome, not just bc of me but bc of our higher-ups’ (nonexistent) reaction and warmth
I gotchu friend, I’m willing to be the litmus test any time 🖤
I gotchu friend, I’m willing to be the litmus test any time 🖤
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Small choices can have a big impact. I wore my they/them pin to a work orientation and another new hire said it made him feel instantly safe and welcome, not just bc of me but bc of our higher-ups’ (nonexistent) reaction and warmth
I gotchu friend, I’m willing to be the litmus test any time 🖤
I gotchu friend, I’m willing to be the litmus test any time 🖤
I like pain and usually end up making at least one conlang for each manuscript, then translating idioms from the conlang into English 🙃
Except my amquerying manuscript, in which I said "fuck it, they're in a liminal dimension and language is liminal, therefore everyone just understands each other"
Except my amquerying manuscript, in which I said "fuck it, they're in a liminal dimension and language is liminal, therefore everyone just understands each other"
Being a fantasy writer is typing "they extended an olive branch" and then going "shit, do they even have olives in this world?"
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I like pain and usually end up making at least one conlang for each manuscript, then translating idioms from the conlang into English 🙃
Except my amquerying manuscript, in which I said "fuck it, they're in a liminal dimension and language is liminal, therefore everyone just understands each other"
Except my amquerying manuscript, in which I said "fuck it, they're in a liminal dimension and language is liminal, therefore everyone just understands each other"
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I love how the version of "abuses" we would do is all like "holy shit they'll give everyone rights."
Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I love how the version of "abuses" we would do is all like "holy shit they'll give everyone rights."
なんか。だれかと日本語を練習したい。
レストランのおばさんは早口で話して, 相手になれないと思う 😅
レストランのおばさんは早口で話して, 相手になれないと思う 😅
November 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
なんか。だれかと日本語を練習したい。
レストランのおばさんは早口で話して, 相手になれないと思う 😅
レストランのおばさんは早口で話して, 相手になれないと思う 😅
A+ Halloween this year. One of the best I’ve ever had. Great food, great friends, and no pressure to be anything but myself 💜🖤
November 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
A+ Halloween this year. One of the best I’ve ever had. Great food, great friends, and no pressure to be anything but myself 💜🖤
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Rosalía on singing in 13 languages for Luz.
October 31, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Rosalía on singing in 13 languages for Luz.
Terrifying my students 🖤
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Terrifying my students 🖤
Me as I continue to turn my #amquerying manuscript into the horror novel it was always meant to be:
a girl with pink hair making an angry face with her mouth open
Alt: A gif from the anime SPYxFAMILY in which a little girl with pink hair grins evilly
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October 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Me as I continue to turn my #amquerying manuscript into the horror novel it was always meant to be:
TBT because I’m recycling this costume this year (but better!) and just rediscovered this photo
October 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
TBT because I’m recycling this costume this year (but better!) and just rediscovered this photo
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I actually love hearing other languages. There are so many of them and they’re beautiful.
Getting mad about it is a skill issue. And to be clear, that skill is empathy.
Getting mad about it is a skill issue. And to be clear, that skill is empathy.
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I actually love hearing other languages. There are so many of them and they’re beautiful.
Getting mad about it is a skill issue. And to be clear, that skill is empathy.
Getting mad about it is a skill issue. And to be clear, that skill is empathy.