Jess Wills
@stressicawills.bsky.social
poetry enthusiast. notebook keeper. in pursuit of the softest sweater.
Great little gift from one of my favorite magazines! Thank you Danielle and @the-engine-idling.bsky.social #godsavethepoets
August 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Great little gift from one of my favorite magazines! Thank you Danielle and @the-engine-idling.bsky.social #godsavethepoets
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Contiuinty Matters. #booksky #writingcommunity
August 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Contiuinty Matters. #booksky #writingcommunity
Artists will outlast #AI because we’re built different ft. Victorian architecture takes
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AI isn't the first challenge to human creativity
A common creative worry is that what we bring to the table will become less valuable as generative AI advances, but I don’t think it’s time to panic just yet.
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December 8, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Artists will outlast #AI because we’re built different ft. Victorian architecture takes
open.substack.com/pub/stressic...
open.substack.com/pub/stressic...
Every time someone asks my favorite book I say, "Moby-Dick" and they say "Really?" and then I just show them the sperm whale ring permanently on my left hand and nod.
December 6, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Every time someone asks my favorite book I say, "Moby-Dick" and they say "Really?" and then I just show them the sperm whale ring permanently on my left hand and nod.
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when someone says they like my poem
December 3, 2024 at 3:27 PM
when someone says they like my poem
I saw the best minds of my generation, functionally illiterate.
December 3, 2024 at 5:10 PM
I saw the best minds of my generation, functionally illiterate.
Leaving this absolutely soul healing #song here in case you need it
Letting Go
Angie McMahon · Light, Dark, Light Again · Song · 2023
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December 2, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Leaving this absolutely soul healing #song here in case you need it
Emily Dickinson for your morning
December 1, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Emily Dickinson for your morning
New #filmreview of the David Foster Wallace biopic “The End of the Tour!” I read “Infinite Jest” this year and it was a life changing #novel for me 🦋 footnotes and all
The Magic of Infinite Jest in a Two-Hour Film, Not a 1,000-Page Book | Rewind Review
We turn back the clock to review 2015's The End of the Tour
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November 30, 2024 at 6:42 PM
New #filmreview of the David Foster Wallace biopic “The End of the Tour!” I read “Infinite Jest” this year and it was a life changing #novel for me 🦋 footnotes and all
The bus cost $2 but really feels like I should be payed for this
November 29, 2024 at 6:16 PM
The bus cost $2 but really feels like I should be payed for this
Tortured poets: fact or fiction?
Romanticizing mental illness doesn’t make you a good writer ✨
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November 27, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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i love people who really earnestly love poetry and gladly share that love
November 25, 2024 at 3:14 PM
i love people who really earnestly love poetry and gladly share that love
I let the soft animal of my body love what it loves. Idk might need to walk miles on my knees repenting later.
November 26, 2024 at 2:43 AM
I let the soft animal of my body love what it loves. Idk might need to walk miles on my knees repenting later.
I knew he was for me when he called Velma from Scooby Doo “the hot one”
November 24, 2024 at 3:12 AM
I knew he was for me when he called Velma from Scooby Doo “the hot one”
I have measured out my life in bus delays
November 23, 2024 at 6:37 PM
I have measured out my life in bus delays
Actually wrote pages! Someone explain why the metro is my best writing place????
November 23, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Actually wrote pages! Someone explain why the metro is my best writing place????
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It's weird that Looking for Alaska is the second-most banned book in the U.S., and mostly challenged by evangelical Christians, because the novel is about Radical Hope and how forgiveness is available to all people at all times, which are Christian concepts I wrote about because I'm a Christian.
November 22, 2024 at 12:41 PM
It's weird that Looking for Alaska is the second-most banned book in the U.S., and mostly challenged by evangelical Christians, because the novel is about Radical Hope and how forgiveness is available to all people at all times, which are Christian concepts I wrote about because I'm a Christian.
Making the world suck less is a highly underrated life goal (and such a white pill).
I really enjoyed this interview with @vox.com about why I continue to be broadly in favor of humans.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
John Green’s crusade to make the world “suck less”
Tuberculosis is still the world’s top killer. The author has a plan to fight back.
www.vox.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Making the world suck less is a highly underrated life goal (and such a white pill).
Wearing my CIA conspiracy theory t-shirt to yoga so they know who they’re dealing with.
November 20, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Wearing my CIA conspiracy theory t-shirt to yoga so they know who they’re dealing with.
My therapist looking at the bangs I cut myself with dollar signs in her eyes
November 20, 2024 at 6:51 PM
My therapist looking at the bangs I cut myself with dollar signs in her eyes
A little lunch break inspiration from @austinkleon.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 5:47 PM
A little lunch break inspiration from @austinkleon.bsky.social
ah the joys of social media management
November 19, 2024 at 3:32 PM
ah the joys of social media management
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Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.
November 18, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Because maybe you need this poem as much as I do.