diff --git a/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/index.ts b/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/index.ts
index 07d597912..af27c8f3e 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/index.ts
+++ b/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/index.ts
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 export { useEntities } from './useEntities';
-export { useEntity } from './useEntity';
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+export { useEntity } from './useEntity';
+export { useEntityActions } from './useEntityActions';
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diff --git a/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/types.ts b/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/types.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..89992c12d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/types.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import type { Entity } from '../types';
+import type z from 'zod';
+
+type EntitySchema<TEntity extends Entity = Entity> = z.ZodType<TEntity, z.ZodTypeDef, any>;
+
+export type { EntitySchema };
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diff --git a/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/useEntities.ts b/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/useEntities.ts
index 1d1cd5eed..f1c817bd4 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/useEntities.ts
+++ b/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/useEntities.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { filteredArray } from 'soapbox/schemas/utils';
 import { entitiesFetchFail, entitiesFetchRequest, entitiesFetchSuccess } from '../actions';
 
 import type { Entity, EntityListState } from '../types';
+import type { EntitySchema } from './types';
 import type { RootState } from 'soapbox/store';
 
 /** Tells us where to find/store the entity in the cache. */
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ type EntityPath = [
 /** Additional options for the hook. */
 interface UseEntitiesOpts<TEntity extends Entity> {
   /** A zod schema to parse the API entities. */
-  schema?: z.ZodType<TEntity, z.ZodTypeDef, any>
+  schema?: EntitySchema<TEntity>
   /**
    * Time (milliseconds) until this query becomes stale and should be refetched.
    * It is 1 minute by default, and can be set to `Infinity` to opt-out of automatic fetching.
diff --git a/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/useEntity.ts b/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/useEntity.ts
index 92f20560e..1dad1ff1e 100644
--- a/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/useEntity.ts
+++ b/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/useEntity.ts
@@ -6,13 +6,14 @@ import { useApi, useAppDispatch, useAppSelector } from 'soapbox/hooks';
 import { importEntities } from '../actions';
 
 import type { Entity } from '../types';
+import type { EntitySchema } from './types';
 
 type EntityPath = [entityType: string, entityId: string]
 
 /** Additional options for the hook. */
-interface UseEntityOpts<TEntity> {
+interface UseEntityOpts<TEntity extends Entity> {
   /** A zod schema to parse the API entity. */
-  schema?: z.ZodType<TEntity, z.ZodTypeDef, any>
+  schema?: EntitySchema<TEntity>
   /** Whether to refetch this entity every time the hook mounts, even if it's already in the store. */
   refetch?: boolean
 }
diff --git a/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/useEntityActions.ts b/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/useEntityActions.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c1e40f37e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/soapbox/entity-store/hooks/useEntityActions.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+import { z } from 'zod';
+
+import { useApi, useAppDispatch } from 'soapbox/hooks';
+
+import { importEntities } from '../actions';
+
+import type { Entity } from '../types';
+import type { EntitySchema } from './types';
+import type { AxiosResponse } from 'axios';
+
+type EntityPath = [entityType: string, listKey?: string]
+
+interface UseEntityActionsOpts<TEntity extends Entity = Entity> {
+  schema?: EntitySchema<TEntity>
+}
+
+interface CreateEntityResult<TEntity extends Entity = Entity> {
+  response: AxiosResponse
+  entity: TEntity
+}
+
+interface DeleteEntityResult {
+  response: AxiosResponse
+}
+
+interface EntityActionEndpoints {
+  post?: string
+  delete?: string
+}
+
+function useEntityActions<TEntity extends Entity = Entity, P = any>(
+  path: EntityPath,
+  endpoints: EntityActionEndpoints,
+  opts: UseEntityActionsOpts<TEntity> = {},
+) {
+  const api = useApi();
+  const dispatch = useAppDispatch();
+  const [entityType, listKey] = path;
+
+  function createEntity(params: P): Promise<CreateEntityResult<TEntity>> {
+    if (!endpoints.post) return Promise.reject(endpoints);
+
+    return api.post(endpoints.post, params).then((response) => {
+      const schema = opts.schema || z.custom<TEntity>();
+      const entity = schema.parse(response.data);
+
+      // TODO: optimistic updating
+      dispatch(importEntities([entity], entityType, listKey));
+
+      return {
+        response,
+        entity,
+      };
+    });
+  }
+
+  function deleteEntity(entityId: string): Promise<DeleteEntityResult> {
+    if (!endpoints.delete) return Promise.reject(endpoints);
+    return api.delete(endpoints.delete.replaceAll(':id', entityId)).then((response) => {
+
+      return {
+        response,
+      };
+    });
+  }
+
+  return {
+    createEntity: endpoints.post ? createEntity : undefined,
+    deleteEntity: endpoints.delete ? deleteEntity : undefined,
+  };
+}
+
+export { useEntityActions };
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