Viola Smart

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

I stopped using it and stopped recommending it to my students when they added the AI stuff.

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

Post your favorite lotr character. Wrong answers only.

I'm aware @officialgrammarly.bsky.social has said people can opt out of this, THAT IS ALSO ENRAGING. LLMs have already coopted and stole and plundered creative people's work, now we also have to contact YOU after you steal our identities? Fuck all the way off with that! It's MORE THEFT YOU CLOWNS

Makes me feel a little better that it's probably AI and not truth that his mom uses AI to order medications. Elder abuse.

I thought my daughter was introducing herself as Princess Anabella but she's been saying she's the Princess of Alabama. #toddlertranslation

Every time I get one of those fundraising texts, I reply exactly why I won't be giving them money.

Midler v Ford and Waits v Frito Lay are relevant cases here.

And of course I forget tags #queerromance #romancelandia #sapphicbooks #romancebooks

🌶️🌶️🌶️ Open door.

The cover for The Makeup Artist by Viola Smart. It's a purple and blue cover with stage lights and a grand drape framing the image. Three characters poke out from the left: a cocky red-headed man, a smiling woman with dark hair and olive skin, and an orange Muppet style puppet with green hair. On the right opposite them is a woman with coily graying blonde hair and a hint of tattoo showing on her forearm.

A performer on a children's public television show gets roped into fake dating a bad boy football player, only to fall for his older half-sister, a makeup artist based out of La who's home to sit by her Father's death bed.

Preorder now and get it March 17 on Kindle.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRWV1ZLC

Reminding myself over and over that we don’t need to be surprised in order to be outraged

Of course the billionaires are all Doom prepping: they have more money than they could ever spend in their lifetime, so why not put some of it in the form of cans at the bottom of a bunker?

Who's gonna service the hvac on your doom bunker buddy. You? You gonna climb up there and grease fan bearings and replace belts? Of course you aren't. And you probably spent billions on some fancy "maintenance free" system that will still break because you don't understand thermodynamics

Some of these expenditures made in one month were more than the previous 10 years combined.

Read the article. This is FAR more than in previous years.

They're trying to take away student loan repayment plans while spending 6.9 million lobster tails.

Still mourning my 400k bells of turnips that I accidentally rotted last night because I changed the time forward to 9am but forgot to change the date too.

I didn’t have to use ChatGPT to know it tells you that you’re right even when you’re wrong. I’ve talked to people about their LLM usage, read reporting and studies about it, and seen what people have shared online. The idea that you HAVE to use something yourself to critique it is not always true

The Supreme Court said in the Citizens United decision that it would "not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption."

Here's a gift link to this NYT article: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Got extremely bored today and started thinking about how the idea that books that have sex on page before a certain percent read can't be art is tied to the idea that (sex with) a woman is a reward at the end of a quest.

A whole bunch of Alabama high schools are giving ACT today. Pray for the teachers in executive functioning hell.

formerly funding

Our shower chair felt frivolous until I was pregnant. Then it really came in clutch when my partner had surgery.

This turnips were supposed to pay off my mortgage this week!

Ugh I screwed up time traveling to tomorrow morning on ACNH and I have 400k bells in Turnips! I went to this morning by accident!

Teaching my toddler how to say Sabrina Carpenter because she was requesting The Muppet Show by asking for "Combetcha."

Bi+Lesbian, wlw pairing. 🌶️

www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRWV1ZLC

I've got a book coming out 3/17: A performer on a beloved children's program gets roped into fake dating a bad boy former football star. Things get messy when she meets his older half-sister, a makeup artist from LA who's home in NY to wait by their father's death bed.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRWV1ZLC

I've bought some stuff off of Instagram ads—mostly from brands I already followed. But everything I ever bought off of Twitter came in the form of a recommendation from somebody I already followed. I've bought lots of books because of Twitter.