Ali Trotta

Have YOU snagged my witchy, tarot-filled, myth/fairytale-laden poetry collection, Offerings for Ordinary Gods? www.alitrotta.com/recent-works @vmspod.bsky.social podcast: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6... @scalzi.com post: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/21/t... @reactorsff.bsky.social review:

I keep thinking about Andor lately. Incredibly poignant tv. It resonates & remains. It shows us real strength—of people. That is the beauty & the power of art itself—it is the knife edge & the flower. Art reflects & guides us. It cannot be made by a machine, & that is why it scares weak people.

New #podcast: @karlstevensart.bsky.social #KarlStevens rejoins the show to celebrate his new #book: PEPPER! We talk #cats, #comics, #art, #painting, #Cerebus, and more, so GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6... @toonbooks.bsky.social

The way the door slams shut when you offer silence instead of sweetness, quiet instead of care, a disappearing heart stretched out on a wire, a falling thing in a fallen space— this place is no one’s home, and everything is on fire, and the only thing left to do is choose: burn or run. #TinyPoem

hey! elise came home from the hospital HOMECOMING QUEEN and sometime in the near future... the DEADLANDS again?? in the mean time, it'd be a HUGE Help, as we wrap up our fundraising push in October: pls. donate to this if you haven't 🖤🖤🖤 ❤️❤️❤️ 💯🧚🍣

In a world that wishes you to be small and quiet, the bravest thing you can do is take up space and use your voice. If you’re in the US, remember to vote early or in a week. It will take all of us, but we are enough.

A bit outside my usual but I've been asked to judge the Aurelia Prize in Design for Space Urbanism. mailchi.mp/aureliainsti...

This is racist and stupid beyond words. This man had a BRAIN WORM, for java’s sake. He has all the intelligence of a refried beach ball that got into a bar fight with some beef jerky. HUSH.

More amazing journalism from Chris. @verticalslice.news is off to an unbelievably strong start.

FWIW, I think a lot of comments on the 770 post are either being purposefully not posted or they’re in purgatory. While comments are current closed, mine (written Oct 25) doesn’t seem to have materialized. I find the situation entirely disheartening, given the poor response to people’s objections.

Early af run done and dusted, despite cat shenanigans in the night. Victory is mine!

You know, it’s been a strange stretch of time since August. And since then, I’ve just hit so many walls in so many areas of my life. Like sideshow bob stepping on a sea of rakes. Just people and things going 180 out of nowhere. It’s been weird, man.

Listening to the Goo Goo Dolls may be the fastest way to conjure the ghost of my 17-year-old self.

In honor of James Spader being back on tv, this is 100% what it’s like when someone mistakes my kindness for weakness. #JamesSpader #VisionQuest #Funny #DontPissOffALibra #OrAJerseyGirl

**slides this toward you like a cat** Your spooky season could use some poetry, yes?

In honor of James Spader being back on tv, this is 100% what it’s like when someone mistakes my kindness for weakness. #JamesSpader #VisionQuest #Funny #DontPissOffALibra #OrAJerseyGirl

Well, it’s Monday, bitches!

Absolutely going to write a bitchy poem that may never see the light of day, but needs to come out.

I want to see Much Ado About Nothing on Broadway so, so bad. **keens**

Good news!

CAT BREAK

Hit a huge milestone with WIP # 3!! This calls for fancy tea, after my post-run shower.

LUCY!!!

This is gross and disappointing. It’s also a betrayal of your colleagues and contemporary, as well as yourself. I cannot imagine blithely being so blatantly spineless—especially having status and clout like that.

Never apologize for needing or asking for help. Asking is vulnerable/hard, I know. But it’s brave too. And that’s the whole point of being a person in a world with other people—we are here to help each other. (I realize there’s a certain irony is me saying this, because I’m bad it myself. Shhh)

I did way too much (four poems on WIP #3!) and ran out of battery already. Headache has returned, which is RUDE. **grumbles**

JOY BREAK

Rough start to the day (banger of a headache, which pissed me off), but it’s abated mostly. Chores done, finishing the last of the meal prep for the week. Soup and then some stuff for various assembly, as needed. XO

Definitely considering doing something for the plot. It’s been a minute. **twirls**

Pssss, have YOU snagged my witchy, tarot-filled, myth/fairytale-laden poetry collection, Offerings for Ordinary Gods ( @clashbooks.bsky.social)? Perfect for spooky season and beyond! Buy links: alitrotta.com/recent-works Review from @reactorsff.bsky.social :

For the luminous @alwayscoffee.bsky.social's birthday today, let us remember this choice line from her poem "Dido Addresses Aeneas":

I’ve made so many important friendships through social media. And it has also made me a better person—because there are a ton of people smarter than me out here sharing wisdom.

Never apologize for needing or asking for help. Asking is vulnerable/hard, I know. But it’s brave too. And that’s the whole point of being a person in a world with other people—we are here to help each other. (I realize there’s a certain irony is me saying this, because I’m bad it myself. Shhh)

Some days, I am so close to disappearing, heart like an in-held breath, here but gone, there but not— you know if you know, we’re each a candle flame, a hungry breeze, a haunting, a graveyard for everything we once knew and once let go. #TinyPoem

Ughhhhhhh

Thought I would be going home on Friday, but my wound care is complicated and so I am not yet going home (2 months in the hospital now 🙃). If you can contribute, it will really help. www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

No idea with this gif is from, and I absolutely used it correctly in conversation today. WOO

It's weird to realize that, sometimes, who you are as a person is going to clash with who someone else is as a person. Instinct doesn't work in that situation, because it's like offering a pillow to break someone's fall, when they really want a parachute.

This feels like the pivot point in a horror movie where you start rooting for the monster to eat the humans. This is not okay.

I replied by saying 3 things First, I recalled Elie Wiesel's 1986 Nobel Prize speech, during which he said: "Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere." eliewieselfoundation.org/about-elie-w...

COFFFFFFFFFFFFEEEEEE

Time for VisionQuest and a pile of blankets.

Do I want a glass of wine or should I just go to sleep: the ali trotta story