mightbewriting

amanda // i write things // ao3 // transformative works

[mightbewriting]

This is NOT a drill!! ONCE, AGAIN, ALWAYS is available now to preorder HERE! It's really here! It's really real!

I've had the tremendous honor over the years of having so many wonderful readers ask how they can support my writing journey, and if ever there was a way to do that, sharing information about the preorder availability is definitely it! Preordering, general enthusiasm, spreading the word, etc., truly mean the world to me. I can't imagine it's ever going to get old seeing folks excited about this story. And I can't wait to share it with you!

[mightbewriting]

Hello again friends! Popping back in with an aggregate link for a bunch of international preorder options!

(currently includes Canada, UK, Australia, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Spain, and Japan)

Order ONCE, AGAIN, ALWAYS

A second chance romance following a young woman who wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the past six years, only to find that in that

[evilvarric666-archive]

"Weird energy in here today" I say, referring to the inside of my brain.

[sydrichie]

[probuccalfat]

do you have any advice?

eat a protein heavy breakfast. don’t shop on shein. it’s never too late to get more educated. tell people you love them. listen to birds. go to an old growth forest. get really good at something, just to see if you can.

[mightbewriting]

hey!! i’m the one who excitedly requested an arc of your book last month. guess who just got approved?

heyoooooooooooo!!! congratulations!!! and happy reading to you! i certainly hope you enjoy it! and thank you sooooooo much, truly, for taking the time to read it early! arc readership and reviews are so incredibly valuable for me as a debut, so it really means the world! <3

[mightbewriting]

Hi babe, I just randomly remembered the phone in the last chapter of Wait & Hope and istg I almost started crying even thinking about it without any other context or actually reading the fic again at all. It makes me sob sob sob sob sob. The impact you had with that one writing choice.............. palpable. legendary. unfathomable. indescribable. im in love with you did you know

bahahahaaha ily friend. thank you so much. i would apologize for the sobbing but...ya know. am i sorry? 🤷🏻‍♀️

[mightbewriting]

Not a question but just wanted to say THANK YOU! Your stories profoundly affected my life in all the best ways and I think about them every day. I will read anything you write. 🤍

thank you so so so so very much my friend. i am touched and honored and little more than a puddle of appreciative goo 💕

[just-deer-things]

what a beautiful time of year everyone is growing veegtables for me spacifically, one problem though you need to make fences shorter im sure its a mistake but i cant reach some of them

[just-deer-things]

hello imptortant message from deer youyr doing it agen. i cant eet the vegbals you are growing for me like this

[folkloregirlfriend]

[lavidaextraordinaria]

What if oxygen is poisonous and it just takes 75-100 years to kill us?

[frenchshower]

My science teacher said he thinks that’s true actually

[thepioden]

Yeah this is actually pretty much exactly what is going on. It’s why anti-oxidants are such a big deal. Bonus fact: oxygen oxidizes stuff in your cells or, in other words, it’s not toxic, just setting you on fire very very slowly.

[sarah-mcelroy-deactivated202601]

[femonologue]

What if there are aliens out there but they subsist on entirely different substances and they’re just scared as shit of us and our crazy ass hell planet? Once in a while some alien anthropologist type suggests checking out the people on this inhabited planet out towards the galaxy’s edge. The other aliens just look at the naive academic with horror. No!! We do not go to that world. That is where the DEATH BREATHERS live. They recreationally consume poisons and are more or less composed of biological fire. Their atmosphere is made of rocket fuel. We must leave the DEATH BREATHERS in peace. Do not go there. Do not.

[optimysticals]

I tend to always reblog posts about humans being terrifying weirdos to aliens.

[alessariel]

@brainsforbabyjesus

[brainsforbabyjesus]

okay but…that is actually what went down on earth about 2.5 billion years ago.

Earth was doing just fine with a mostly nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere and everyone was happy to go on living in anaerobic bliss and then cyanobacteria suddenly hit the scene, altered the atmosphere composition so that there was a ton of oxygen gas and killed practically everything (97% or more of all species on earth).

We are literally descendants of the DEATH BREATHERS and cyanobacteria is our deadly mother.

[digitaldiscipline]

The cyanobacteria holocaust is so big, it doesn’t even have a cool name; it’s just called “The Great Oxygenation Event”; the *second* most apocalyptic extinction event in our planet’s history is the one that’s called THE GREAT DYING (the Permian-Triassic event, about 252 million years ago).

This shit makes like the rock-throwing that wiped out the dinosaurs look like kindergarten.

[violent-darts]

OH HOW I LOVE THIS POST. It makes me so much happier about being alive. I AM BURNING VERY SLOWLY. *hugs it*

[cannedcream]

And once again, the internet makes learning history and science a thousand times more interesting than school ever did.

[tsvrcm-deactivated20161229]

I love shit like this.

[department-of-fagriculture]

I was totally having thoughts along these lines and along comes tumblr to pretty much sum it all up. Bravo~

[copperbadge]

Men, boys, and eggs of my acquaintance, I cannot stress this enough:

Nobody worth being with will ever judge you based on your deli sandwich choices.

Sincerely, a dude who had to watch like two dozen men pretend to find vegetarian sandwiches unthinkable in order to maintain a sense of masculinity today.

[copperbadge]

The sando gender spectrum I osmoted this weekend according to a specific type of dude:

1. Roast beef is the most masculine of sandwiches. The only sandwich it is permissible to ask for by name (we did not have roast beef as an option).

2. Ham is an acceptable substitute for roast beef. There appears to be some controversy, however, over the bread options; we only had two, croissant or ancient grains roll (gluten free). Croissant is considered slightly more manly than ancient grains UNLESS you are under 20 in which case "ancient grain" sounds badass.

3. Turkey is okay, obviously not ham but if you don't like ham it's an option as long as you don't show enthusiasm for it. Definitely has to have mayo however. Mustard is a bit much. (Initial field research indicates mayo is the manliest of condiments but we have not introduced barbecue sauce into the study yet.)

4. Chicken salad is woman food. Absolutely not acceptable unless you announce loudly that it's for your wife or that she's making you for your health.

5. Vegetarian wraps require a recoil reaction or a sheepish "oh, no, no, what meats do you have?" protest. We had the veggie wraps off to one side so vegetarians could get to them more easily, and guys would come up to the wrap boxes because there was no crowd/line, then I'd say "that's veggie wraps" and they'd stagger back.

To be clear, most of the people of all genders at the event were totally fine, this was a small and specific set of guys -- mostly older dudes and (unsurprisingly) their young sons or grandsons. Maybe 20-30 people out of the 400+ attendees. But it really was both sad and a little funny to watch them unnecessarily assert their manhood using deli meat to me, a guy in a floral shirt with neon blue hair handing out box lunches at a charity event. My indifference to your masculinity is so vast it has its own international calling code, fellas.

[copperbadge]

Friends, I have volunteered in the lunch tent once more and I have new scientific findings to share regarding the Sandwich Gender Spectrum.

We still do not serve roast beef, the most toxically manly of all sandwiches, but it turns out that there is a sandwich option almost as masculine, the mention of which will preclude a certain type of dude from even asking for roast beef:

The Italian.

For those unfamiliar, an Italian sandwich in most American sandwich shops is composed of ham, capicola, salami, and sometimes pepperoni, with provolone, the usual sandwich veggies, and a drizzle of Italian dressing.

The hierarchy from ham-downwards remains undisturbed by this revelation currently rocking sandwich discourse, but new data has indicated that the Italian sandwich occupies a special place above ham and technically below roast beef but so acceptable a substitute for roast beef that I only had one guy ask me for it this time around. I would say, "We have ham, Italian, turkey, or veggie," and the Certain Kind Of Man would look skeptically at the ham and then ask for an Italian.

I am now working on my doctoral thesis in Sandwich Gender, where I will be examining whether there is a direct correlation between how masculine a sandwich is and how weirdly homoerotic the name is. I'm going to call it "I'd Like An Italian: Gender And Sexuality Between The Buns."

[copperbadge]

Ahead of the Sandwich Gender Spectrum Studies Department's annual report on the September 2025 new data release, I wanted to share some recent findings by a research colleague at a prestigious academic institution on the east coast:

My sample size is growing all the time and my research is replicable.

[copperbadge]

Field work in sandwich gender studies, sandothropology if you will, can be challenging at times. While my thesis has been supported by both independent researchers such as above and grant-holding professionals (aka "people who work in food service"), the window of time in which I perform my yearly field survey is brief.

This year a new variable was introduced. The selection of sandwiches we were given to hand out was reduced to three: ham, turkey, or vegetarian. For the first time, the vegetarian option was a sandwich and not a wrap, as well.

There seems to be something about the idea of a wrap that makes it particularly unpalatable to a Certain Kind Of Person; we didn't have anyone getting hissy about being offered vegetables this year, and also got far fewer remarks about getting a turkey sandwich "for the wife" or "because she's making me". Perhaps when your options are realistically ham or turkey, rather than an array of choices that you have to navigate correctly, the social pressure eases off. Plus, ham and turkey both fall in the middle of the spectrum, so they're a little more ambiguous than say, roast beef and chicken salad. Why bother performing gender for two almost equivalent options? (There's a bisexuality joke in here somewhere.)

I did have one guy furiously lecture me for about two minutes because we didn't have any sandwiches on wholegrain bread, but if we'd had more sandwich options he'd have been mad we were spending the organization's money unwisely on sandwich fripperies (I know him of old) so that barely registered.

[max-whathappen]

"Formula 1 is a prestigious sport surrounded by glamour": mate the 2026 grid consists of;

a man who has had his multiple attempts at murder televised

a coeliac who skateboards everywhere

you know when life is already hard and then a blond european cunt with a backstory walks in? one of those

a giggly astrology girlie who almost accepted an offer to get a "massage" in Amsterdam on camera

Amy Santiago if she grew up on a farm

a man who once got a tube stuck up his nose and gets called a Good Boy on the daily

a 4 foot tall turbocharged misogynist

Horse Jesus who is also the ultimate omega

Tuna Fish Junior

a man with a mullet and a porn stache who regularly poses in the nude

a twelve-year old werewolf but his wolf form is a pomeranian

the world's oldest rookie soon to have nerve damage

Car Autism whose vocabulary consists mostly of "Um"

a lanky noodle man who looks like he plays the oboe

an accidental lesbian icon and professional WAG

the after photo in those hair loss ads

a better-dressed kardashian with a pokemon obsession

a PR officer's worst nightmare who openly admitted to stealing a credit card in a conference

un perrito traumatizado

Chris Hemsworth but if he were a really, really chill German dude

a man who barks in bed but also at his older team mate

an active track hazard

and they all have daddy issues

[thesexiestselkie]

14 years ago today Jesus released 'The Bible'

[aromanticsky]

I think that if I unsubscribe I should stop getting the emails

[wordfather]

not my circus not my monkeys but thanks to my mutuals i know some of the lore

[is-this-fascism]

reblog if you enjoy napping, being cozy, being conked out, snoozing, wrapping up in blankets, sipping a hot drink, catching some z's, hugging a plushie, or otherwise relaxing and resting

[is-this-fascism]

i like how this post gets circulated the most around evening. like yes gang settle down! we know when it's bed time!

[inkatesbush]

they're saying spending 2 hours in the word doc changing words slightly to be more specific and evocative and moving endless commas around is one of the most noble and respected things that you can do