MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!! 🎅🎄❤️

Hello, Mastodon! Here is my obligatory introduction post for the new platform! My name is Michael. I am passionate about writing, reading and irritating my good friends! My content will largely be highlighting marginalized authors and teaching authors how to write more inclusively. Feel free to follow along for book recs and writing tips! #bookstodon #blackbookstodon #amwriting #indieauthors #writewithmichael #dybpublishing #bipocauthors #writersofmastodon

It would be good if more people aspired to be kinder than to be filthy rich.

Just found out that, in Aztec mythology, the first ‘challenge’ for spirits on their way to the land of the dead (Mictlan) is in the ‘place of dogs’ (Itzcuintlan). At this place, there is a river, and you can only cross it if you have loved a dog in your lifetime, or been kind to dogs. Your dog will even be there to guide you across the river, and will accompany you for the remaining 8 challenges 🥹

#Twitter has privately demanded suspended journalists delete the tweets that drew Elon Musk’s ire in the first place — a condition the reporters have refused to accept. "The result is a stalemate: The suspended journalists remain in Twitter purgatory, unable to access their accounts." -- Paul Farhi in the Washington Post. https://wapo.st/3YO5KiQ