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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Sep 12

Idk what everyone else’s group chats are doing, but this is what mine inspire:

Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Jul 8

Go ahead and put the heavy mirror down, but I’d suggest looking in it first because the bad faith takes didn’t come from me or her.

✌🏽

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Jul 8

The way I would tattoo “NYT Bestseller” somewhere where everyone could see it…like my forehead. 😂

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Jul 7

If anyone here is demonstrating arrogance, it’s you for thinking that your opinion on how anyone else should express themselves on their own account somehow supersedes their own.

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Jul 7

The fact is that you decided that the way she celebrates her success is not to your personal liking, so you came into her replies to let her know your opinion, when she didn’t respond the way you wanted you tried to unsuccessfully change tactics and cry wolf.

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Jul 7

1) I’m not your “dude”
2) You didn’t bluntly state anything. Everything you wrote is buried under sarcasm and condescension dressed up as polite helpfulness.
3) There is no olive branch to be found in your response. You doubled down while also trying to make yourself out to be the wronged party.

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Jul 7

To come back and try to reframe it as you doing some sort of friendly service by warning her about “humility” before someone more powerful does is condescending.

People really need to stop trying to make other people crush themselves into boxes to make themselves feel more comfortable.

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Jul 7

No. You said “rub salt in the wound harder” meaning her speaking on her success and happiness was the salt and someone else was the one with the wound.

It’s not on her to care for or cure anyone else’s wound. That’s a personal problem for the individual to handle.

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Mar 24

Deleting all SM until deadline. I’ll see you in June!!

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 26

I’m always so grateful and humbled every time @fatedmates.net talks about my books! I have such respect for these ladies and have learned so much about the genre by listening to them. Thank you for loving my Vega series! @sarahmaclean.bsky.social don’t worry, the ex-pop star story WILL happen.

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 22

One thing about me is that if I have a book due I will also give myself a home renovation project to do at the same time.

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 20

They say content like we don’t know they are looking at what the characters on the cover look like, what their names are, what our names are, if all the words are in English, etc.

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 20

My point is, readers who say this are full of shit. They 100% read based on race. They just act like their choices are based on “content”

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 20

She said to my face, “I don’t usually read stories like that because I can’t relate to the characters.”

I asked her what she wrote and she said paranormal. To which I replied, “So you can relate to vampires, werewolves, and fallen angels but not Latinos. Interesting.”

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 20

This take will always remind me of the time I was at a writing conference sitting at the luncheon for a contest I was co-coordinator of. Another author asked me what I wrote and I replied that I was working on a contemporary romance featuring a large close-knit Puerto Rican family like mine.

Picture from a thread that reads: “I know this sounds hard to believe, but some of us just choose to read books based on the content (shocking I know) of the book and we don’t actively research the color of the authors skin. GOD, I’m sick of people like you villainizing and (in your words) being passive aggressive towards NORMAL people for just living? Can no one live anymore without being criticized or being seen as unwoke or part of the problem? Jesus fucking Christ. Please be kind to people. They are not the reason you’re mad”

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 19

This was done because (racism duh) but also he saw the intelligence & power Black people provided in the revolutions taking part all over Latin America. He was a scared little bitch ass…sound familiar? 2/2

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 19

In 1848 the Governor of Puerto Rico passed the Bando contra la Raza Negra, a proclamation that targeted Black people (freed & enslaved) & “legally” allowed the harshest punishments for any infraction against white people & affirmed white superiority. 1/2

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 15

The story that the indigenous people of Puerto Rico offered the Spaniards a non-violent welcome because they believed they were gods is a myth. They knew about these violent strangers since their arrival at the neighboring island of Ayití 16 yrs earlier. Their “welcome” was political strategy.

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 15

Welcome to Check yo self…with facts!

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 15

*Americas

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 15

Idk if I’m doing too much right now, but I just keep thinking “What if we really piss 🍊 off by making his new ‘Gulf of America’ even more inclusive by calling it ‘Gulf of The America’s’?”

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 12

Because not everything can make it into the book, I think I’m going to start sharing things I’m learning while researching/writing this new series. I hope y’all are prepared for a lot of shitting on colonization with weird paranormal facts sprinkled in…now what to call this little side project

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 12

Report an error and keep doing it.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Feb 12

Apple caved too

Apple maps show Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 10

I don’t know at what point something is considered “viral” but a post I made on Threads has almost 7k likes and I don’t know how I feel about it. I will probably just hide out here for a while.

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Natalie Caña @nataliecana.bsky.social · Feb 4

My FMC when she realizes the MMC turned into a large bat-like humanoid with superpowers to save her:

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