"Fun, fast, and fascinating. Girl Like a Bomb hooked me and held me.” —Peter Clines, NYT Bestseller
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I once dated a communist. He was a joyless person who felt profound guilt in anything that wasn't liberating the working class. He refused to get a job because it meant he'd be taking a job from an immigrant, which meant I was working 15 hours a day to try to keep us off the
Everyone who idolizes these rich SAHMs - watch this, learn & then stfu. Tradwives glamorize a lifestyle none of you will likely ever be able to achieve & laugh in your face as your views make them richer. This isn’t goals - this is classism, white supremacy & patriarchy. Wake up.
@je_ne_sais_blah
He was a lot smarter than any of the boys I knew at university. In the beginning he was very romantic and I found his verbal acuity fascinating.
Young people say Hemingway sucks because until you've lived a little and seen the dark and long shadow of death creeping all over your hope, you won't understand a short story like "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." You are in essence the young waiter who is bored and annoyed by the
I remember the first time I saw a woman in a thong bikini. I was like nine years old and it was a family vacation at a beach. I remember I couldn't stop staring at her. She was just standing in the ocean waves looking out toward the sun, while I remained transfixed by the beauty
Every few years people try to create a radically inclusive group full of misfits and outcasts and then come to the realization that it turns out some people have been excluded for very good reasons.
Men are like, "I just want a woman with big boobs and for her to think I'm funny." Meanwhile I'm over here hoping that a man shows up underneath my window on a midnight steed with a bag full of severed heads and a single black rose. He impregnates me on a perfumed wolf skin in a
The reason I'm against putting your mental illness diagnoses in your Twitter bio is that the more you come to think of them as a core part of your identity, the less likely you'll want to let them go.
Stephen King has done more good for the world than 99% of the people now 'cancelling' him after purposefully misinterpreting his tweet.
Maybe all your faves aren't problematic. It's just you.
@Aella_Girl
@xsphi
This take has been brought forth many times. All this will do is embolden predators. We know from research providing porn means actual children are more at risk and normalizes the behavior. Pedophilia is not a fetish. It's a society destroying disesse.
Before I had my kid I did all the things I thought I'd miss - stayed up playing video games, partied, drank, stayed in bed all day, traveled. Only now that she's here do I realize I didn't need to do any of those things. I don't miss my old life at all.
I think everyone has a fantasy about leaving everything behind and starting over. Well, I've done it. Multiple times. And I can say the psychological damage has blown a hole in my psyche that may have been even worse than the damage that caused me to run in the first place.
I spent thousands of hours learning the craft of writing just so I could impress men and they'd want to have sex with me. There, I said it. I have no other reason. Pre-order my next novel when it comes out. Thanks.
Can a new Twitter personality please enter the ring? All I see lately is:
- Angry sex worker
- Dadbod shitposter
- Guy who works out a lot
- Greek statue BAP wannabe
- Bitchy religious woman who forgot that pride was a sin
Women are literal demons. One day, you're sitting on a box in front of your TV in an empty room playing Farcry 5, then you meet a woman and suddenly, the horror, you're drinking mimosas on your new patio furniture while barbecuing steaks as your baby smiles at you with your eyes.
Never forget that these people hate women. They loathe femininity. They despise beauty. Whenever someone talks about "harmful stereotypes" in regards to a woman, they are almost always saying the woman should look less feminine and more masculine.
If you're perpetually single and have horribly failed in every relationship you've been in, just constantly tweet relationship advice on Twitter with a confident, detached air of superiority until you figure it out.
What most literary Twitter doesn't seem to understand is that a good book is often supposed to challenge, threaten, or disturb you and your ideas about the world. Books aren't just designed for comfort. They're vehicles of intellectual strengthening.
People say love isn't real but men will spend decades climbing the ladder in a soul-crushing, ineffectual, and boring career just so that you can buy the new Pat McGrath Mothership Makeup Palette with their credit card in exchange for nothing but a smile and a braless hug.
I don't have anything to say about the Leonardo DiCaprio thing but once I asked Robert if he'd still love me when I was no longer young and beautiful and he went, "I already do."
Middle age is not a number. Middle age is when you stand outside on the back porch and for the first time in your life, become interested in the names of birds.
I've kept quiet because I feel weird about this, but I don't think parenting is that hard. I get plenty of sleep, I love spending time with my baby, and I still get to do things that I enjoy.
The weird joy people take out of telling you that a kid is going to make you miserable, apropos of nothing, is irritating. There's something childlike and immature about avoiding things because they're difficult.
I had a pretty bad childhood that caused me significant trauma and grief, but this picture was above my bed. And I remember looking at it and feeling safe, knowing that an angel was always watching me. Now the painting seems a little maudlin, a little silly, a little dated, but
I was so interested in the dark and macabre when I was younger because I felt like it held a deep and irresistible secret. But I went in so deep I realized there was nothing in that abyss except my own reflection, and it's never held the same allure to me since.
@0x49fa98
That "it hurts women" has never stopped anyone from doing anything. Weak men love to hurt women because they're not strong enough to inflict pain on other men.
Men just don't realize that what hurts women hurts them too.
If you have an iPhone it signals to the woman you're a status chasing rube. A sucker. An easy mark. You don't have any taste or intrinsic sensibilities, so you let trends determine your values. She can already picture you ordering the chicken parmigiana and then quietly eating
if you have an android it signals to a woman you’re disagreeable. she can already picture you arguing with waitstaff about the automatic gratuity charge on the check. lecture her about breaking board game rules. she just wants to win at scrabble, man. she already skipped you
Being able to enjoy "normie" things is a skill. You can learn how to do it. It doesn't make you special that you're unable to enjoy football, children's birthday parties, holidays, learning new recipes. It just means you've sold your happiness for the lie that you're special.
I'm glad I finally had a baby and took the training wheels off of life. Things like taking a shower and sleeping and bending over to pick something up off the floor were just getting a little too easy, you know?
Once I went on a date at a gelato shop and I made a comment about one of the paintings. The guy just leans back and stares at me and goes:
"You're a thinker, huh?"
I'm done arguing with people about problematic literature. You either want to only read things that enforce your own worldview, and to make sure this is enforced by institutions, or you actually understand the point of stories.
I asked Robert if he wanted to go to a NYE party and he said it was up to me. So I said, "What do you want to do?" and he said if it was up to him he'd live in a mud hut without electricity until he died.
So I guess we're going to the party tonight.
It's always fun to read the submission guidelines for some anthology called like "Skullfucker Genocide 4: The Only Trigger Warning You Get is Before The Bullet to the Head," and see that it won't accept any stories where people have sex or a dog dies.
This is exactly how someone I knew wrote before they became a full blown schizophrenic, not quite word salad but tapped into a kind of psychotic creative mania. Love it.
I notice the guy in line in front of me has slightly wider shoulders & I think he can sense me noticing. Thinking on my feet, I yank my wife’s elastic waistband towards me at the front & peer down into the abyss & I see breakcore montage of all the tense sexless nights we’ve had
Every day on this website, "Don't date women who wear leopard print." "Beware of men in their 20s who still go to church with their mother." You might as well cast bones or read tea leaves. You're children pretending to be sages.
It doesn't matter how nice and supportive you've been to someone, if they're the kind of person who likes to screenshot and shame people publicly they'll come for you eventually when the allure of easy dopamine and social credit is too great.
I'm so trad that every night I tell my husband a story and leave off in the middle, promising to tell him the rest the next night, so he won't execute me.
A lot of adults on here are having meltdowns about the possibility of being called bad words under new Twitter policy. I don't see what the big deal is. My mom started calling me a bitch when I was four and I'm fine.
Men will say that women don't need to be intelligent but then also say that women should be primarily responsible for raising the children. Like, you really want some dumb bitch raising your kids?
Happy to announce that I just signed with Michael Mungiello of Inkwell Literary Management. Now that I have an agent, please only refer to me by my full title of Writer Autumn Christian. I will immediately buy a tweed blazer with leather arm patches and start smoking Pall Malls.
I love calling Frankenstein's monster 'Frankenstein.' I love watching a nerd's eyes alight with a special fire, their breath held suspended as they can hardly wait to correct my mistake. They've spent their entire life waiting for this chance to finally become alive.
It's not that surprising that Bronze Age Pervert has a PhD from Yale. Years ago I listened to an interview where he talked about loving the everyday violence of South America and it was obvious he was someone disconnected from reality.
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It's pretty obnoxious to have followers who don't interact with any of your tweets until they disagree with one. Like, what is this? Are you just hate following me?
My husband didn't do the dishes last night after I spent 12 hours chasing our toddler around. I decided to show him a webcomic about the mental load that women carry and that blog post about divorce and dishes left by the sink. He read them quietly and then said, "Autumn, we were
You think you're subversive and edgy but your opinions just so happen to align with corporate, business, educational, social, and major political interests and speaking them aloud means there are zero consequences in your life. But I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
You're impregnated by a warrior-king. He kidnapped you from a village he raided, but decided to marry you he was so stricken by your beauty. You feast on the heart of your absentee father, your gold bangles dipped in blood, while enormous black dogs howl at your feet.
Hi new followers. Quick lore recap:
- be me, white girl from Texas with a bad childhood
- Always wanted to be a writer
- Wrote my first novel, The Crooked God Machine, when I was 19
- Dropped out of college and ran away to Austin with boyfriend I met on DeviantART to live on an
Honestly, though, I'd hate to be a man. Just like a smoldering and ravenous beast stuffed into a skin, suffocating your base instincts until you don't even quiver when it burns you from the inside out.
I feel like starting some drama, so here it goes.
If you're a writer talking about how you're worried about people stealing your ideas, you're acting insecure.
Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything. Get so good at writing that nobody can write an idea like you can.
Literature is a weird place where you can write about the most depraved sex and violence you want and everyone will congratulate you on being transgressive and brave, but if you posit any outsider opinion like "capitalism isn't that bad," you're instantly a pariah.
Damn, guess I should've gotten hot instead of writing. Thanks for the advice everyone. I guess I'll drag my haggard butter face and flat ass over to the 7-11 to buy a large coffee before I throw myself onto incoming traffic. I'll put a copy of The Catcher in The Rye in my pocket.
@ara_hagopian
Once you've blown up your life it tends to become the default response when you run into challenges. It becomes easy. And you lose empathy for others because you can't have it if you're leaving them behind.
50/50 in a relationship doesn't mean you both split everything down the middle exactly. My boyfriend works 50+ hours a week, makes six figures, and kills anyone I want so I can dance in their blood that looks black in the moon light. I'm fine with making dinner.
I feel like as you get older you realize that tradition has survived for a reason, most novel and revolutionary ideas fail, and that the path to happiness and success is for the most part just being normal.