round-up: 2/14

Happy Monday, all.

Here’s what I have for you today:

• Recent themed posts

• Housekeeping

• What’s in my shopping cart

• What I watched last weekend

• Tweets

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Recent themed posts:

on "urgency" & "relevance"

on stamina

on accessibility

on weak similes

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Housekeeping:

My fiction chapbook remains available for preorder!

Bull City Press 🐂 @BullCityPress

THE WORD IS OUT! our next issue of INCH is ready for preorder! grab this terrific collection of stories from the amazing @itsdbouts! BURIALS (Inch #50) will land this March, preorder now: bullcitypress.com/product/burial…

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I am having a sale on my website this week.

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

15% off everything on the website with code VDAY. thru friday!

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I have a poem out in Ploughshares.

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

poem out in ploughshares ❤️

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I have a fiction piece out in Pidgeonholes.

Pidgeonholes @pidgeonholes

"I never knew I was seen as something somehow lesser until I fell from the tree, broke my wrist, bones grating together like the rounded rocks by the lake." new fiction: "The Fall" by Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

pidgeonholes.comThe Fall | pidgeonholes: fearless literatureI never knew I was seen as something somehow lesser until I fell from the tree, broke my wrist, bones […]

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What’s in my shopping cart:

• How To Shoplift Books

• Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture

• The Odd Years

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What I watched last weekend:

• I Blame Society

My new favorite streaming service is Shudder & you can get a free trial. So many fun horror movies!

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Tweets:

Chris Fleming @chrisfluming

my superbowl sunday with d*ne cook

felisha jammel @fleaskeys

Made a joke about Al Gore inventing the internet in class today and I thought the joke fell flat until a girl spoke up 5 minutes later and asked if that’s why they call it an algorithm

manufactured heaven @k8bushofficial

i need to stop tweeting about sexuality. it’s like taking a roll call of people who are like “straight men are bad at sex! here is why i continue to fuck them 📜"

Amber Sparks @ambernoelle

Today is the anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s death of suicide, at just 30. Thirty! It astounds me to remember it, the older I get, and the further the other side of thirty I am. Astounds and saddens. So I really loved this beautiful piece by @EmilyVanDuyne

lovingsylviaplath.substack.com“Life begins at 30.”In Memoriam

Katie Mack @AstroKatie

Always kind of imagined global catastrophe would be some sort of big scary event and then a sad but peaceful aftermath but when you actually live it it’s more like we’re all just a bunch of spiders in a jar that never stops shaking

roxane gay @rgay

Max has been super clingy this week. Won’t let me out of his sight and prefers to just sit on me wherever I am and whatever I am doing. It’s adorable but also omg! Let me pee. Give me space! Anyway, he’s been at the groomer for 3 hours. I’m waiting at the front door.

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

from a new lil book ❤️

chrissy chlapecka @chrissychlapp

when my parents asked me why i was looking up “girls kissing” when i was 8

rachel @rachelmillman

I wrote about a cardigan at Target

observer.comTikTok Is Wondering How Target Can Sell A Hand Crocheted Cardigan For So CheapA crocheted cardigan available from Target has the crafting side of TikTok discussing labor issues, but professionals hope the conversation doesn’t end there.

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

i have to have the gayest accessories for some reason

Despy Boutris @itsdbouts

new zine in progress ❤️

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