meryl wilsner (they/them)

I have a bet with @merylwilsner.bsky.social that whoever gets the highest bid gets to slap the loser in the face with a tortilla

please. don't let me get tortilla'd.

Cleat Cute — Multnomah County Library Cleat Cute — Wilsner, Meryl, — "A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women's National Team for ten years, even though she's only 26. But when she's sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. 22-year-old Phoebe is everything Grace isn't--a gregarious jokester who plays with a joy that Grace lost somewhere along the way. The last thing Grace expects is to become teammates with benefits with this class clown she sees as her rival. Phoebe Matthews is too focused on her first season as a professional soccer player to think about seducing her longtime idol. But when Grace ends up making the first move, they can't keep their hands off of each other. As the World Cup approaches and Grace works her way back from injury, a miscommunication leaves the women with hilariously different perspectives on their relationship. But they're on the same page on the field, realizing they can play together instead of vying for the same position. With every tackle the tension between them grows, and both players soon have to decide what's more important-being together or making the roster. The perfect blend of funny and steamy, Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute is about being brave enough to win on and off the field"--

Looking for a lesbian sports romance? Take it beyond a Heated Rivalry with Cleat Cute by @merylwilsner.bsky.social. #AskALibrarian

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

Want to directly help trans folks across the Southern US?

Each one of @distributeaid.org's everything-but-the-meds HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit puts a years worth of safe injection supplies into the hands of a trans person.

This saves them $ and helps ensure a continuity of care!

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

Which Way to Craft Services? Without directions and a little guidance, it’s easy for romance writers to get lost.

I worked up a little newsletter piece about how basic writercraft is rapidly becoming a thing of the romance publishing past—and how it's a past I'm very glad I was a part of. I also touch on how fanfic ties in.

romancing-the-stoned.beehiiv.com/p/which-way-...

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Recs for gender inclusive books for a tween learning about puberty?

I 100% agree and would add that if you are hosting a holiday event and you do NOT have something festive, creative and delicious for your guests to drink without alcohol in it, you are actually an asshole

don't make them drink tap water while everyone else has bespoke cocktails!

Actually the question that occurs to me is "will you nominate him anyway even after years of people telling you they won't vote for him if you do, and then when you lose as you were warned you would, will you blame not yourselves but the people who warned you."

okay well this is one ongoing panic off my mind at least

a black t-shirt that reads "don't want to see trans people? pluck out your eyes." in the middle of the shirt is a hand holding a scorpion by the tail. between the scorpion's claws is a human eyeball

finally available as a shirt!!!! 🦂🏳️‍⚧️

Cool for the Summer Check out Cool for the Summer - <p><b>Lara finally lands the guy of her dreams, only to have her unexpected(ly female) summer fling transfer to her school, in Dahlia Adler's beloved award-winning YA q...

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Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Reminder this holiday season that donating to the SA sucks. Ignore the red buckets.

Being intentional in word choice/sentence structure/etc for my autistic main character and I just know people are going to read her point of view and claim I’m a bad writer bc it’s very plain and matter of fact 🙃🙃🙃

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Here to be very on brand and say Naomi Osaka’s mother is 🔥🥵

I’m at the point in drafting where I need to reread the beginning so I can make sure I nail the end and, hey! This book is pretty good!!!

9. If you use Al to write something for you, it is meaningless and we'd all be better off if you had never said anything in the first place. This is the thing: Writing is meaning. The reason we write things is to express some sort of meaning, to pass along important information, to convey a human emotion or sensation. It doesn't matter whether the writing is grammatically correct, or vividly expressed. It matters that it came from you. That is the point of writing. If you ask a Chatbot to write something for you, you are being fundamentally unhuman and foundationally dishonest. I am not going to bend on this one. If it requires an Al bot for you to express something to me, you and I are probably not actually friends.

hell yeah @williamfleitch.bsky.social

New books by Regina Black, Mary Roach, AND Anita Kelly today!!!!

Oh god someone would have called an ambulance if I read this in public I’m p sure

I’ve been quietly weeping for a half an hour as I finished listening to Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. My god.

you know i keep that thang on me (cherishing my wife)

Just finished our rewatch of The Leftovers and that remains the greatest finale of all time

Every @merylwilsner.bsky.social book is a banger and this sexy sapphic sports romance Cleat Cute is absolutely no exception. Incredible addition to my July reads

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