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Tessa Yang (she/her)

@theptessadactyl

Fiction Writer | Shark Enthusiast | Debut novel THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM (Berkley 2026) • THE RUNAWAY RESTAURANT (7.13 Books 2022) https://linktr.ee/tessayang

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marie from the aristocats is standing in front of a mirror and says i 'm a lady ALT: marie from the aristocats is standing in front of a mirror and says i 'm a lady

A doctor recently put a note in my chart that began "Tessa, who is a 32yo lady"

07.03.2026 15:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts: A Novel A Novel

Kim Fu has a beautiful new novel that you should check out if you're into atmospheric spooky things!

07.03.2026 15:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"why did you become a writer" because no one gave a shit about my special interests growing up. now i make them everyone else's problem. next question

05.03.2026 20:31 👍 1237 🔁 220 💬 11 📌 0
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When your stance on immigration doubles as a warning about climate change

04.03.2026 21:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What if, instead of writing my own book, I spent the morning shopping for books written by other people? What THEN?

04.03.2026 14:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."

Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."

#writerslife

01.03.2026 22:13 👍 3110 🔁 351 💬 82 📌 59

I haven't written a short story in ages. Might use this call to get back into it!

02.03.2026 12:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon | CNN Business Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition.

*pretend surprise*

26.02.2026 17:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alysa Liu with her gold medal

Alysa Liu with her gold medal

"I love struggling actually. It makes me feel alive." -Alysa Liu

Get out there and start falling on your ass!

24.02.2026 13:45 👍 673 🔁 99 💬 2 📌 14

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

22.02.2026 23:30 👍 3174 🔁 432 💬 43 📌 28
A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

13.02.2026 11:26 👍 7324 🔁 1726 💬 70 📌 109

You're welcome

13.02.2026 17:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Congrats! Really cool

12.02.2026 17:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me having a blast writing my awful little poems

06.02.2026 21:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.02.2026 19:34 👍 5763 🔁 633 💬 52 📌 28

It's so wholesome how every shark attack survivor is like, "But it's not the shark's fault! Don't blame sharks! I love sharks! My grandmother was a shark!"

04.02.2026 21:58 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mind if I share some exciting news?

We’ve officially raised over $45 MILLION for local bookstores 🥳

04.02.2026 18:04 👍 775 🔁 133 💬 17 📌 10

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

04.02.2026 19:41 👍 26881 🔁 6378 💬 385 📌 224

I personally am excited to see Robert Downey Jr. play Doctor Womb in Avengers: Wombsday.

As long as he wears his comics-accurate costume with the fallopian tubes coming off his head.

Also he needs to say his catchphrase from the comics: "That's for me to know and for uterus to find out."

01.02.2026 02:10 👍 109 🔁 6 💬 7 📌 0
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The only thing I really miss about Twitter

31.01.2026 14:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My favorite winter olympics sport is wheeling the trash cans down the icy driveway without falling on my ass

29.01.2026 23:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

29.01.2026 21:34 👍 42184 🔁 6057 💬 621 📌 315
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Publishing for Minnesota Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.

Feel helpless? Want to do something to help the brave folks in Minnesota? If you're a writer, teacher, book club, there are great items to bid on here: www.32auctions.com/organization...

25.01.2026 22:38 👍 22 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 6

Anyone else's feed split between FUCK ICE BURN IT ALL DOWN & people politely promoting their books

27.01.2026 19:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Right??

26.01.2026 21:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

26.01.2026 16:02 👍 4069 🔁 1021 💬 27 📌 45

As if the book scam emails weren't bad enough, I just got a PHONE CALL from an "author advisor" wanting to talk to me about royalties from my first book.

26.01.2026 19:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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"They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison. But I will not believe that. I want the walls down. I want solidarity, human solidarity."

25.01.2026 14:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Update: It was very refreshing!

24.01.2026 14:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Oh good, the temperature is up to 0. I can go for a walk" - a real thought I just had

24.01.2026 14:19 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0