Catherynne M. Valente

Ah! Thats right! Thank you!

I’m glad you liked it. It meant so much to me to write it.

“Hurt is a photon; it grows dimmer as it travels away from its source.”

That is absolutely beautiful, @catvalente.bsky.social
I’m guessing many have told you such.

You’re the first on that particular quote.

In fact, though I recall writing it, I don’t remember what I actually wrote it in/for

Alright man I’m bored and I’m pretty sure you’re getting off on this. Bye

The…entire government in power identifies as “proud” white boys what are you even talking about

Fuck this Jackson in particular.

It’s not widely held outside those nasty dark corners of the internet.

Newsflash women are human beings, you don’t get to legislate our whole existence, tax our income, then tell us we get no say.

This is beyond basic.

Hey Jack, how bout you get thoroughly fucked?

Betcha still wanna tax my income!

This government is all delinquent white boys + a couple of tokens & it’s going horribly as usual.

Maybe *women* voting isn’t the problem.

Sucks to have people question your agency bc of your genitals huh?

I got clearance at the Thunder Club meetup last year it’s cool

From my new piece on the trash fire:

catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-sayin...

But even this is different. It’s presented as her stepping down, not the LOL FIRED tweet, and we all know she’s just gonna run for senate

FYI, this article contains the phrase "pants-eatingly stupid" and if that doesn't make you want to read it then I question your sanity.

I remember back in the late 00s/early 10s, that much-vaunted time when the internet was “better” (it was, but…) writing about really strange 19th century style racism & sexism popping up, phrenology & repeal the 19th stuff even grandpas would never say

Welp. What you see online is a reality preview

I'll take this in one more direction. How about when you're reading for a lit review and you come across something that's NOT relevant, but you mentally file it away, and then years later, it becomes the cornerstone of something else? A whole new project? gAI can't do this.

I prefer my spiritual guidance without sadism.

Not an infallible guide, but I think less fallible than some others.

Stop Saying America Has Always Been Like This Even if it's true, you're not helping

Follow-up essay to my last few concerning an easy narrative that shuts down the energy to resist:

catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-sayin...

When He Calls Your Name is under Best Novelette if you wanna read it, and if you like it, tick a box thing!

From my new piece on the trash fire:

catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-sayin...

I’ve been thinking for awhile that it’s a very bad sign that no one’s getting fired this time, even when they fuck up. Even when they fuck up in ways that piss off Trump.

Everyone’s staying.

Egregious plant post warning…

So last winter I got a lil teeny monstera prop/sprout & then someone gave me another “dead” one to see if I could cleric that thing back to life.

MAY I INTRODUCE YOU TO BIG CHAP (1) & WEE BEBE (2, formerly dead) CLOVEY?

Absolute banger lines here. Thanks for providing concise language for this logic that my brain has been howling inside.

"'It’s always been this way, [asshole]' is a muzzle pretending to be a megaphone."

It is possible to have not been good and also for things to be manifestly worse now. And for telling people it’s always been exactly this bad to have a chilling effect on the energy of resisting it.

As argued in the actual essay.

In recovery you acknowledge that patterns which were previously bad have gotten completely out of control to the point of being unable to fix it without outside help.

It does not say that nothing has changed

Stop Saying America Has Always Been Like This Even if it's true, you're not helping

Follow-up essay to my last few concerning an easy narrative that shuts down the energy to resist:

catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-sayin...

I LOVE THAT BOOK and regularly peer pressure folks into reading it.

I am what I am & what I am is Bob the Worldbuilder so...

...is there any firm evidence Yoshi ISN'T the juvenile form of the Godzilla species?

Looks similar, amphibious, Japanese. Weird stuff comes out of mouth, living stuff + any nearby structures go in, insta-resurrects, throws good, lays eggs...

Oh my lac agitatum is gonna bring all the angry dead boys to the yard

(and Cicero's like, it's longer than mine, and I'm like, nothing's longer than yours)

I thought of that and am keeping it and End of the World As We Know It in my back pocket if they're still tolerating it because honestly ASDP might take a year I've got both Ayn Rand and John Birch coming at me in the first verse.

Eh. I talked my little brother into sneaking in to see Candyman when he was 8 and I was 13. I genuinely thought it was about candy and he is 43 and still mad at me about it.

WE ALL GOTTA GET TRAUMATIZED SOMETIME