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astra
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born to be low-key
lol.
December 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
a thousand hands could never
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I hate how much I wrestle with my own ambition. I’m not afraid of success, I just don’t want to wind up like my dad.
December 1, 2025 at 5:47 AM
everybody has got to love me. everybody.
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
my dad is unable to be chill about bully sticks—full body squirms of discomfort when one comes out.
November 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
fighting to remind myself that I'm allowed to make things up
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
November 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
hugging ted neeley at age 13. smelling like patchouli for a week. I honestly thought that I’d invented the stage door—“he has to exit somewhere!”
November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
my dad used to chew cinnamon gum while driving too fast on twisty roads. walking into grocery stores this time of year makes me want to vomit.
October 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
October 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
unsurprising fact—jonathan swift loved a freak show
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
if I don’t cry afterwards, I feel like I did something wrong
October 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I'm finding insane facts in my notes that I'd already forgotten, then spinning out about them all over again. She remains the pilot star.
October 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
the feminine urge to punch paul h*llywood square in the jaw
September 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
giving myself chills, so many more than he ever did
September 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
blast off, baby. baby, blast off.
September 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
when I write something, then later notice a dozen clever connections buried within it that I didn’t consciously intend, I still take every drop of credit
September 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
plotting to occupy the holes in the story, to fill them full of Her
September 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
sometimes, when I fantasize about a tour for the next book, I slip into a full on fugue state
September 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
first semester of college. some boy, sitting next to me in class, doodling chastity belts, writing, “what a waste” over and over. medieval chastity belts weren't even a real thing—it was a crude joke rooted in misogyny and male anxiety.
September 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
flaunting my new cap and bells. aiming for mischief, not folly.
August 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I love when ideas loom so large that I don’t feel the need to record them right away; the choice notions that I know will continue to fester, to spawn new life in the dark and then slither back when I need them, stronger than ever.
August 27, 2025 at 4:28 AM
feeling a special kind of shameless. I carved off a pound of his flesh today, just for me. there’s an exquisite satisfaction in leaving him scratching his head.
August 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
he poured so many words into me about the things he held sacred
August 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
You are the authority
August 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM