iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Is it just me or has spellcheck gotten worse since AI's been here?

Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

nothing could have prepared me for how unraveling postpartum depression would be. in birthing my daughter, did i also (re?)birth a girl I thought I wasn't anymore, a girl I left in Iowa?

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Bummed as I'm always bummed that they didn't get raptured.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The thing I like about dark mode is its easier on the eyes when a fresh new horror appears

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Loved the latest substack from @mdbell79.bsky.social on putting title chapters to work: inspired me to mess around with the idea of including some clearly demarcated 3rd person passages in my novel so I can tell more stories of people in space... mattbell.substack.com/p/54-putting...

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#54: Putting Your Chapter Titles to Work

Karen Russell, Brian Evenson, Danya Kukafka, Chuck Palahniuk, Diane Williams

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

me: (checking that I'm logged into my own account before liking something) me: 😑

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

oh my gosh their arguments against this being a class action lawsuit are so goofy. its bad because "seven million claimants would kill the company" and "it would be difficult to figure out the rights and compensation for each of the 7 million" so whyd you steal from 7 million people??? dingus!

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

In undergrad, it was especially hard for me to move on in writing a story if each sentence, each word, wasn't *just* right. A college professor told me to stop finessing and keep going, just sit down and don't get up until the story has an ending. I think this is novel advice too.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

"When 8 men have more money than 4 billion people combined, folks relying on food stamps or Medicaid aren't the problem."

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

"Why does the myth of upward movement persist so stubbornly? Why do we measure greatness by vertical gain? ...Somehow, we believe that ‘up there’ where it’s bright, that's where life is truly happening." Really appreciate this perspective from Nadia Meli. substack.com/@nadiameli/p...

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Your life is not a ladder.

The capitalist fever dream of greatness only has two directions. But life has more.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I haven’t drawn in years, but I was thinking about how little kids draw all the time—and how much unabashed joy they have—and I want to too

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Who else is notebooks deep in Blue Prince? This game rules.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

“I was busy…but I always have time to worry.” This Miranda July quote (from ALL FOURS) hitting a little too close to home.

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EROCY @erocy.world · 07/05/2025

Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-

Highlighted text form THE NEW YORKER

The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write
anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

babe are you ok you’ve barely written about your characters sighing, looking, or nodding & you’ve only typed the word “just” 40 times

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

For those interested in a more unhinged severance bingo

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Building a severance season finale bingo card if anyone wants to play along.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Woke up from a nap with this small rattling poem

I was

I am
a sing
-le note
in a bird
‘s caught
throat

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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

us? the nation who ate Tide Pods? has resurrected measles??? I don’t believe it.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Phenomenal piece by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social : “I’ve come very far in ignoring advice like this—the kind that suggests my writing is only of value if I demonstrate how far away from my disability I have managed to escape.”

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Sometimes to counter the worry that robots are taking over I think about how a printer literally stops working if the paper is wrinkled.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2025

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

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Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/02/2025

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

“Tender, crumbly, crunchy, buttery, creamy, crispy, velvety. You eat and weep at the glorious textures.” Devastating and timely and beautifully horrifying @claudiamonpere.bsky.social

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

YES. I feel like fiction is my way of telling the truth, of taking some stimuli from real life and kaleidoscoping it into something stranger (and, somehow, truer) open.substack.com/pub/etgarker...

The stories always start from something in the real world (an image, a sensation, a sentence) that attaches to something inside me (a thought, a feeling, a longing) only to burst out together in the form of a story. Most of the stories I’ve written are like a simile of the event that birthed them: a girlfriend who leaves is a great inspiration for a story about the end of the world; a bout of diarrhea produces the tragic tale of a frustrated plumber; bad turbulence on a long flight generates a story about someone who gets into heaven, only to discover that he’s allergic to angel feathers

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’ve been reading substacks instead of scrolling, holding my daughter instead of engaging with the news. It is a privilege to be her parent, to watch the sun rise together, to see if her eyes stay blue.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Really enjoyed this substack exploring definitions of flash fiction by @mattkendrick.bsky.social prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/a-butterfl...

There’s something lyrical about the tonal quality of flash even in pieces that skew towards the more realist or gritty side of the spectrum. Even in the humorous, flash has a certain tone. It’s repetition. It’s imagery. It’s rhythm and sound and sentence construction and voice. The tone of flash is both restrained and propulsive.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This pop quiz from @mcrane12.bsky.social’s I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Working at @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social is an incredible gift—because I get to go to readings like this "for work," where Ada Limón casts spells and makes us laugh and launches us directly into space: voca.arizona.edu/reading/ada-...

Ada Limón reading poetry in December 2024

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I miss snow so much. Softness falling. How you could hear the quiet if you just stood still. I felt fearless traipsing through the woods on unploughed snow. I wandered as far as I wanted—following my own footprints home.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

“I’m busy being kind” ❤️ = antithesis to powerlessness and hopelessness

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Aren't you

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

writing is so fun. this person I made up is really going through it & I’m going for a walk to think about ways they might get out of this mess or if they even will

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm a little embarrassed how sad I am feeling about the tiktok ban. It's a little like a funeral march watching all the nostalgia and goodbyes over the past couple days

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Faith Erin Hicks @faitherinhicks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I would like this comic I drew in 2017 to stop being relevant pleeeaaaaase

I wake up in the morning.
I sit at my computer.
The internet screams at me that the world is on fire.
I am overwhelmed by the deluge of bad news and faceplant in front of the computer.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

when you make a little tent over your face with the book before dozing... *chef's kiss*

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Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Come on, Wolf Moon, do your thing. Can't you hear us howling down here?

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

With my own parenthood rounding the corner, loving this sleepless pantoum by Laurel Nakanishi poets.org/poem/sleeple...

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Sleepless Pantoum

The ʻōlauniu breeze lifts voices from the night. / Dogs curl under their houses.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

"Joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder."

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Marco Melgrati.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The other night I fell asleep thinking I had 'cracked' the secret behind season 1 of Severance (ie, what they're REALLY doing), and woke up foggy the next morning being like...they put dead people's severed brains...into goats

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a group of goats are standing on top of a pile of hay in a barn .

ALT: a group of goats are standing on top of a pile of hay in a barn .

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