emily laura costa

My game is on! Vote only your true sad conscience.

oh i loved this so much <3 <3 <3

Today is my buddy Jay's birthday. He's the guitarist in the essay and the dude in the photo. Sometimes the universe just makes the little jokes for us. Hug your loved ones tight, friends.

thanks so much!!

thanks so much, aaron 💗

This @emilylauracosta.bsky.social essay on "Runaway Train" is harrowing in so many ways; the astute meditations on sadness and fear struck me most:

"Does sadness, if not given room, if its origins are not explained and accepted, turn into this sort of fear?"

marchxness.com#/1stround-so...

@emilylauracosta.bsky.social on Runaway Train + "If these kids who ran away were escaping, shouldn’t we want them free?" vs @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social on Patty Loveless + "how any family can come—not through a great cataclysm, but through a slow disintegration—to feel stunted and numb" ?!?!?!

thank you, @martinseay.bsky.social !!!!!

In her @marchxness.bsky.social essay on "Runaway Train" @emilylauracosta.bsky.social is fantastic on the gaps, conflations & slippages between sadness & fear, runaway & victim, culture & politics, moral panic & compassionate concern. Really great stuff.

🫶💗 thank you so much for reading!

March Sadness 90s Edition A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

WHEW damn. @emilylauracosta.bsky.social that is a (literal) hell of a @marchxness.bsky.social essay on "runaway train." giving me all kinds of questions of the relationships between sorrow and fear & protection & inexplicable evil. marchxness.com#/1stround-so...

thanks for reading!

yes! this was cool to see

thank you so much. can’t wait to read yours tonight! good luck 🫡

thank you! <3 <3

3/10, 1st Round: (2) Soul Asylum vs (15) Patty Loveless — March Sadness 90s Edition

Readers of RUNAWAY know I am gonna be predisposed to @emilylauracosta.bsky.social and Soul Asylum's "Runaway Train" in this match, but I love the childfree representation @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social is bringing to March Sadness alongside Kentuckian Patty Loveless. marchxness.com/1stround-sou...

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thank you!

i hope it counts for SOMETHING that i cried a lot while writing this 💗 (vote soul asylum!)

you did! even while defying multiple eviction notices via @noahpowers.bsky.social ’s notes app

idk

here I'm sitting beside one of my favorite writers Emily Costa but I'm so drunk I'm just hugging this guy Noah who I just met @emilylauracosta.bsky.social @noahpowers.bsky.social

lol you’re the best 😭 we had a lot of good talks that night! for instance, you asked me specifically about “gen z pants”

TACOMA - Aaron Burch — Autofocus Books ABOUT THE BOOK Inspired to “take a break from life” by the idyllic housesitting situation they were offered for the summer, Aaron and Amber find themselves in Aaron’s hometown of Tacoma, Washington....

AWP was amazing, but then my flight kept getting delayed, then delayed again, then again, etc., etc., until finally being canceled until tomorrow, and now I’m waiting in a hotel lobby waiting for a room… and the only think that’ll make me feel better is if you buy my book or tell me how great it is.

comic #1 - Farewell Transmission a comic drawn by third grader, Ezra Costa, that shows the cost of holding it in

ez has his first pub up @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social today 🥹https://farewelltransmission.net/2026/03/comic-1-ezra-costa/

Tonight at Club Charles, 7 p.m.

My @marchxness.bsky.social match is now live!

tbh i wrote this 3 days ago in a tidal wave of shock/grief so not sure how this is gonna go

but LET HER VOTE
(for Hootie)

It’s March Xness season! This year I am representing No Doubt’s Don’t Speak in March Sadness. Read about Ronan’s favorite song as well as hear about how I used to run a Geocities No Doubt fan page. And please vote for me!

Today’s the day! I’m repping Round Here by @countingcrows.bsky.social in this year’s @marchxness.bsky.social 90s Sadness edition! Read the essays and vote for adolescent loneliness & Midwestern drives & distance & memory & longing!

Hey folks! It's Round 1 of @marchxness.bsky.social & Collective Soul's "The World I Know" & I have tipped off!
Check out my essay about this redemptive song & its memorable music video, last chances to change, and why the best sad songs sometimes aren't the saddest songs at all.
READ & VOTE!! 👇