Tara Maggs

writer you have to stop. your debut too splashy. your prose too disarming. your voice is too urgent and necessary. they’ll kill you

that small press book with <500 goodreads ratings will save you btw

Defamiliarize language = rehumanize yourself on AI writing, art as technique, "Internet slang," and what to do about the slop epidemic

with the double whammy of Sam Altman’s AI “short story” and the Libgen / meta shitshow, I thought I’d share this post I wrote this week about AI “art,” Shklovsky, and language as resistance open.substack.com/pub/thewreck...

With each passing day I get more staunch in my stance of “Phone Bad”

that Vivek Ramaswamy tweet where he said that Americans accept mediocrity because they don’t watch movies like Whiplash is WILD.

Ah yes, Whiplash: a film that definitely does not depict how a hammering Protestant work ethic reduces one to a shell of a human being in the blind pursuit of greatness

just successfully rizzed these two dudes by telling them about how Twilight is mormon fanfiction

This post is sponsored by: my brain structure getting altered while watching clips of Nikki Giovanni & James Baldwin’s brilliant back and forths

Do we have a “writers on writers” series like “actors on actors?” Can we make it a thing?

I’m glad Spotify wrapped stops at December because mine would be nerfed by my Last Christmas fixation every single year

have any of the brain dead RWs ragging on the olfactory ethics PhD ever read perfume or what

there’s a cormac McCarthy-shaped hole in my chest that is being quickly filled by the knowledge that I will never write anything as atrocious as that vanity fair article

I had to make it count!!

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