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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 14m

Thank you!

Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 14m

Thank you!

Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 14m

Thank you!

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Brian McNett @bmcnett.bsky.social · 28m

This is a very sweet tale. I enjoyed it very much.

Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 3h

Back from my family trip to tell you that I have a new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! "What a Big Heart You Have" is my tender tribute to Grandma and Aunt Ellen, though the characters aren't literally them. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen

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lauraadrian2.bsky.social @lauraadrian2.bsky.social · 51m

This story is exactly what I needed to read this morning.

Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 3h

Back from my family trip to tell you that I have a new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! "What a Big Heart You Have" is my tender tribute to Grandma and Aunt Ellen, though the characters aren't literally them. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 53m

Read this at once, for a marvelous and cozy fairy tale interlude in your day!

Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 3h

Back from my family trip to tell you that I have a new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! "What a Big Heart You Have" is my tender tribute to Grandma and Aunt Ellen, though the characters aren't literally them. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 1h

THANK you, dear!!!!

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 1h

OK, I already boosted @marissalingen.bsky.social's own post about her new story, but I just have to add, now that I've read it - oh, this is LOVELY: kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

Such a funny, sweet gift of a story about grandmothers and granddaughters. I loved it and will definitely re-read!

“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 1h

When it's just family I absolutely sing it

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 1h

This story is a DELIGHT.

Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 3h

Back from my family trip to tell you that I have a new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! "What a Big Heart You Have" is my tender tribute to Grandma and Aunt Ellen, though the characters aren't literally them. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks, friend!

Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 1h

I even managed to refrain from singing "vegan paella!" at the teenagers to the tune of "Viva Las Vegas," so I feel like I get extra good auntie points for that.

Also I brought gf brownies.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 2h

What if the teenager brings an additional five friends, one of whom has celiac and one of whom has a meat allergy, will we be able to feed them all happily

(Empirical answer this weekend: yes. But it was a "put me in, coach, I've been training my whole life for this" moment.)

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 3h

Back from my family trip to tell you that I have a new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! "What a Big Heart You Have" is my tender tribute to Grandma and Aunt Ellen, though the characters aren't literally them. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 2d

...as well as phenomenal new stories by @slharris.bsky.social, @avramargariti.bsky.social, @shaenon.bsky.social, @marissalingen.bsky.social, @katiedowrite.bsky.social, and Tanvir Ahmed!

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 6d

Up until recently I think we were seeing a lot of "autistic people have theory of mind problems" and now we're recognizing that allistic people do TOO, in the other direction, and adjusting to that information is useful but fraught.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 6d

So one, I think that it's easy to be frustrated with a world that isn't designed for you and overgeneralize, and I think we're seeing some of that in some autistic people.

And two, I think theory of mind is harder than we gave it credit for, and in multiple directions.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 6d

My interaction with other brains is like, here, I brought this wild rice salad to the picnic. Oh, you brought potato salad? and someone else brought a key lime pie? GRAND, we did not need three wild rice salads.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 6d

So like--sure, there are people who are like "Ugh, I wish I didn't have to interact with people of a different neurotype than me."

Those people are ASSHOLES, and when they share my neurotype I am still not their friend. I like my friends having different brains than mine. I already have my brain!

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 6d

You know the saying "If you know one autistic person, you...know one autistic person," meant to indicate that autistic people vary a lot? Allistic people do too.

I think of that a lot when people are making sweeping statements about allistic/autistic people's preferences.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 6d

Farmer's market haul: bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, and the entire world's supply of winter squash (to take up north and cook for college students).

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 7d

It was a beautifully well-written speech. It made me gasp at several points at how well she'd done it.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 7d

Younger Nibling: Aunt Marissa, you're such a Willow.
me: OH NO I FEEL SEEN

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 8d

This is such a great advice post from Fran! Happy launch day, friend, and happy 10 years on the shelves!

Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 8d

Hi everyone from launch day for A Philosophy of Thieves!

Thieves is my 9th novel & it’s launching close to the10-year birthday of my first book, Updraft. To celebrate, I’ve made my monthly craft essay public, with how-to-writer thoughts I’ve picked up over the past decade.

www.patreon.com/post...

A grid with a book-filled window and author with short brown hair, an author with long, silvering hair sitting with a pile of books, an author signing books.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 8d

I am a fan of this, and also I deliberately subscribed to some magazines on paper so that I could read a magazine at lunch and not scroll on my phone. Even political/news magazines are better for my brain than the scroll there. But bedtime even more so.

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