the verb for i

[ID: Obsession (2026) fanart, stylized as a Polaroid. The photo shows Nikki lit by a harsh flash, capturing her shoulders and her grin, but not her eyes— they are pinpricks of light. Her hair is wild, there is a splatter of blood down her face. Sharpie captions the image, “not me”. End ID.]

i think abt anne rice’s answer to “what are your work habits for a novel?” probably every single day

The rise of AI slop & the endless waves of books that feel written to spec by people who are terrified of their own audiences has given me a new appreciation for Anne Rice. It's not even that she didn't give a fuck; she cared passionately and was famously, publicly hurt by the reception of at least one of her novels, but she never let that distract her from her mission of writing whatever the fuck she wanted. No one could write Anne Rice's books except Anne Rice. They are singularly, entirely hers and while I won't pretend she was a perfect person or it's wrong for readers to be offended or uninterested in spending their one and only life on earth reading something that offends them, I also think her work is valuable and humane and also often hilarious and it's not a crime to have a muse you adore.