Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin
@mumblingsage.bsky.social
Writer. Editor.
* Romance * Erotica * Queer Fiction * Poetry *
Recovering doomscroller. Incurable optimist with hopefully-curable burnout.
She/her.
* Romance * Erotica * Queer Fiction * Poetry *
Recovering doomscroller. Incurable optimist with hopefully-curable burnout.
She/her.
I'm a twin; my mom could not have breastfed us even if she really wanted to. Formula is so cool!
we desperately need more infant formula positivity. infant formula is beautiful. babies love it. it saves lives. it’s egalitarian. you can put it in the baby brezza and it just produces perfect temperature bottles. not nearly enough people are saying how great it is!
December 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I'm a twin; my mom could not have breastfed us even if she really wanted to. Formula is so cool!
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The weird intersection of purity culture and lack of understanding that stories can be told with mechanisms other than plot is wild.
any time people fail to understand sex as character development i want to hit the restart button on society
December 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The weird intersection of purity culture and lack of understanding that stories can be told with mechanisms other than plot is wild.
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Reviews and also tell someone in your life who isn’t in online spaces about our books. So many people who read are not online reading reviews. Spread the word anyway you can, for free.
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Reviews and also tell someone in your life who isn’t in online spaces about our books. So many people who read are not online reading reviews. Spread the word anyway you can, for free.
The implication that learning how to think is not job preparation sure is something, too.
Yes we all agree that this is the reason colleges are in trouble
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The implication that learning how to think is not job preparation sure is something, too.
I took up a part-time job as a library page this year, but it turns out I've had an entire second income in the form of library savings this whole time.
When you check out books here, the library system calculates what it would have cost to buy them and prints that information in your receipt. My friends bragged about saving $3,000 or $6,000 over the year. I rarely print receipts, but on Saturday, I got to check on how I'm doing for 2025 and--
December 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I took up a part-time job as a library page this year, but it turns out I've had an entire second income in the form of library savings this whole time.
#BookSky In January, Smashwords deceases royalties, especially for books under $2.99, so this is the last chance for authors to earn the current rate. If you use the End of Year sale to stock up on your 2026 reading material - saving 25-100% on your purchases - it will be greatly appreciated!
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
#BookSky In January, Smashwords deceases royalties, especially for books under $2.99, so this is the last chance for authors to earn the current rate. If you use the End of Year sale to stock up on your 2026 reading material - saving 25-100% on your purchases - it will be greatly appreciated!
When you check out books here, the library system calculates what it would have cost to buy them and prints that information in your receipt. My friends bragged about saving $3,000 or $6,000 over the year. I rarely print receipts, but on Saturday, I got to check on how I'm doing for 2025 and--
December 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
When you check out books here, the library system calculates what it would have cost to buy them and prints that information in your receipt. My friends bragged about saving $3,000 or $6,000 over the year. I rarely print receipts, but on Saturday, I got to check on how I'm doing for 2025 and--
This year-end sale is a chance to fill your virtual shelves with discounted and free ebooks!
If you're not sure where to start, here are my ebooks on Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
If you're not sure where to start, here are my ebooks on Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
December 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This year-end sale is a chance to fill your virtual shelves with discounted and free ebooks!
If you're not sure where to start, here are my ebooks on Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
If you're not sure where to start, here are my ebooks on Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
It seems like whenever a book goes up for sporking around here (the previous round was the "Orc city" novel), there are some jarring sentence fragments on the first page.
I say this as someone who enjoys occasional sentence fragments! Writers, try a page without them to start!
I say this as someone who enjoys occasional sentence fragments! Writers, try a page without them to start!
Okay first of all.
You have to pull off a *very particular* kind of style to write a 303-page book with zero chapters.
And the unintentional subtext of this book is quite clearly, “Olivia, you are not pulling that off.”
You have to pull off a *very particular* kind of style to write a 303-page book with zero chapters.
And the unintentional subtext of this book is quite clearly, “Olivia, you are not pulling that off.”
December 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It seems like whenever a book goes up for sporking around here (the previous round was the "Orc city" novel), there are some jarring sentence fragments on the first page.
I say this as someone who enjoys occasional sentence fragments! Writers, try a page without them to start!
I say this as someone who enjoys occasional sentence fragments! Writers, try a page without them to start!
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Giving parents the discretion not to vaccinate their kids is one of the strongest ways the state reinforces the parent-child relationship as one of ownership.
Your parents have the ability to decide whether you will die of preventable disease, because you are their property not a person.
Your parents have the ability to decide whether you will die of preventable disease, because you are their property not a person.
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Giving parents the discretion not to vaccinate their kids is one of the strongest ways the state reinforces the parent-child relationship as one of ownership.
Your parents have the ability to decide whether you will die of preventable disease, because you are their property not a person.
Your parents have the ability to decide whether you will die of preventable disease, because you are their property not a person.
My mom is clearing out mugs she rarely uses, so this 40-year-old one is going to the thrift store, but first let's commemorate the origin for my sense of humor.
December 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My mom is clearing out mugs she rarely uses, so this 40-year-old one is going to the thrift store, but first let's commemorate the origin for my sense of humor.
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I thought I had a joke about Tantalus but the setup and the punchline are just out of my reach
I thought I had 3 jokes about Cerberus, but I was getting ahead (and ahead and ahead) of myself.
I had a joke about Icarus but I couldn't get the punchline to land
December 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I thought I had a joke about Tantalus but the setup and the punchline are just out of my reach
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cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight
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A friend of a friend of mine got nabbed by ICE. Here's his wife's GoFundMe for legal fees. Please help if you can.
gofund.me/aa7546b5f
gofund.me/aa7546b5f
Donate to Support Carlos's Fight Against Deportation, organized by guadalupe de velasco
HOLA MI NOMBRE ES GUADALUPE DE VELASCO ESPOSA DE CARLOS MEJOR CONOCIDO… guadalupe de velasco needs your support for Support Carlos's Fight Against Deportation
gofund.me
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A friend of a friend of mine got nabbed by ICE. Here's his wife's GoFundMe for legal fees. Please help if you can.
gofund.me/aa7546b5f
gofund.me/aa7546b5f
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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
December 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS
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I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!
Longtime followers of the Bad Sex in Fiction Awards will recognize this style.
(Not even touching on the can of worms that is "what counts as sex" or indeed on "what counts as fiction"; I'm just observing this is a particular way of choosing words. Perhaps the way is "accidentally.")
(Not even touching on the can of worms that is "what counts as sex" or indeed on "what counts as fiction"; I'm just observing this is a particular way of choosing words. Perhaps the way is "accidentally.")
I cannot convey to you the sheer fucking weirdness of Olivia Nuzzi's book.
December 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Longtime followers of the Bad Sex in Fiction Awards will recognize this style.
(Not even touching on the can of worms that is "what counts as sex" or indeed on "what counts as fiction"; I'm just observing this is a particular way of choosing words. Perhaps the way is "accidentally.")
(Not even touching on the can of worms that is "what counts as sex" or indeed on "what counts as fiction"; I'm just observing this is a particular way of choosing words. Perhaps the way is "accidentally.")
Best book pitch I've heard all year.
people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Best book pitch I've heard all year.
Trying to explain why I feel so stressed out, I wound up concluding "Today is the 3rd but in terms of time that isn't jam packed on the schedule or will be jam packed catching up with the schedule, it's actually December 12" which explains everything.
December 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Trying to explain why I feel so stressed out, I wound up concluding "Today is the 3rd but in terms of time that isn't jam packed on the schedule or will be jam packed catching up with the schedule, it's actually December 12" which explains everything.
In a sane world my family would have taken a rain check on dinner together and I wouldn't have wound up in a ditch last Wednesday, so that's probably affecting my viewpoint.
Anyway I'm mildly allergic to holidays for the same reason I love adulthood: I like to do stuff on my own schedule. Mandatory Happy Fun Day is more stressful than fun.
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM
In a sane world my family would have taken a rain check on dinner together and I wouldn't have wound up in a ditch last Wednesday, so that's probably affecting my viewpoint.
Anyway I'm mildly allergic to holidays for the same reason I love adulthood: I like to do stuff on my own schedule. Mandatory Happy Fun Day is more stressful than fun.
December 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Anyway I'm mildly allergic to holidays for the same reason I love adulthood: I like to do stuff on my own schedule. Mandatory Happy Fun Day is more stressful than fun.
I love my family, but looking at this image for too long makes me feel cold and trapped and vaguely nervous. It's nice to live in my own condo where I decorate the way I want!
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I love my family, but looking at this image for too long makes me feel cold and trapped and vaguely nervous. It's nice to live in my own condo where I decorate the way I want!
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
Part of why I'm a big fan of zero drafting is it lets you do all your thinking and get down clearly what you *mean* to say, before you try to say it pretty.
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Part of why I'm a big fan of zero drafting is it lets you do all your thinking and get down clearly what you *mean* to say, before you try to say it pretty.
I have read a lot of debut books that are much better than this one sounds!
Review: “American Canto,” Olivia Nuzzi’s much-anticipated attempt to write her way out of a reputational pit, is what most debut books are: highly uneven and largely forgettable.
Review | Olivia Nuzzi tries and fails to save her reputation in ‘American Canto’
The flashy reporter who lost her job at New York magazine over a relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. returns with a memoir light on gossip — and reckoning
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I have read a lot of debut books that are much better than this one sounds!