We’re not talking enough about how the disabled are being hurt by this administration.
Thanks to this administration giving Ohio the right to cut Medicaid, I lost my insurance. Then I had to leave the state just to survive, let alone function.
I really needed to see this thing I just saw on Tumblr:
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Write it badly or it'll never be written
Oooh, one of my favorite books on disability is on sale for $2.56 for the next 6 days at Libro FM!
If you ever plan to write disabled characters, please, please read this masterpiece by @amandaleduc.bsky.social, Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space.
#BookSky #Disability
Congratulations! It was such an amazing story, I'm excited to read this collection!
Thank you!
Awesome resource, thanks for creating it! Can you add author and fashion historian @natania.bsky.social, who is one of the hosts of the ever-amazing @worldbuildcast.bsky.social? Up for their sixth nomination! 🎉
everything wants to be loved
that is the lesson of springtime
Pre-ordered! I actually thought of the fact you were writing this book, when I learned Bridgerton wasn't going to give Benedict a queer romance. Cowards!
Anyway, I'm VERY much looking forward to your latest excellent queer regency romantasy. Hell yes, witty werewolves and *yearning*!
Screenshot from StoryGraph showing Current Reads (18) and three book covers at varying percentages of completion: The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo with an Asian American woman in flapper style; The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem with a raspberry bush twining around a sweet pastoral scene of a mouse family on a picnic; and Are You Mad at Me? How to Stop Focusing on What Others Think and Start Living for You by Meg Josephson with a simple cover design of an orange conversation bubble.
What I mean by "I'm a mood reader." I'm liking Nghi Vo's edgy dark fantasy, a queer Gatsby retelling. But it's a lot for my nervous system, so I checked out a supremely cozy Brambly Hedge compilation from the library. All while dipping in / out of nonfiction on fawn responses. Plus 15 more! #BookSky
Viet Nam’s largest city is about to make buses free. Ho Chi Minh City, home to 14 million people, is preparing a $280 million annual plan to make all intra-city bus travel free, aiming to increase ridership by about 30% and reduce traffic and emissions. VN Express buff.ly/WYbduTu
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It's baffling! If it'd ever be helpful, I've developed a bit of a protocol for myself when I either start up something risky (like a new exercise plan) or start feeling aches that tell me a fracture might be looming. I think it reduces the quantity and severity of the fractures I've had, but YMMV.
From an amateur fencer: look how the dominant fighter barely does any flourishes--it's all to the point flow
Heyyy, I got quoted in the write-up of results from an @ellipsus.com survey about what creative workers think of genAI.
Spoiler alert: Everyone hates it and places tremendous value on human creativity and in preserving spaces in which that creativity can flourish and be celebrated.
That's so incredibly unfair. My ribs do that without warning, too, and it's even frustrating that there's no cool story to explain it. (Though I imagine you'd probably be incredibly good at coming up with some. Maybe, you had to wrestle a poacher to save an alligator?)
For those of you who say, "I love Bridgerton, but I want more gay werewolves", NATANIA HAS GOT YOU COVERED.
Hooray! You're welcome, glad it was a quick fix.
Technology gives us so many useful abilities, and also sooo many opportunities to be... Patient. And adaptive. And problem-solvey. 🙃
A screenshot of the event page with different dates showing
Ok, great! I bought the supporter ticket for Accurately Depicting Chronic Pain: What We Wish Writers Knew.
@weeknightwriters.bsky.social just noticed a glitch with the ticket system: when I clicked "add to calendar" I noticed that in the system it has it all on this date: Sat, Apr 25, 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT.
To confirm, this event is on May 30, right?
I was so excited to see @nordqvistbooks.bsky.social speaking on this topic I went and got a supporter ticket! What an amazing lineup you're offering, I can't wait for May 30th!!
Come hang out with me here as I talk about chronic pain in fiction ☺️
Show credits, location assistant: Shoogle MacDougall
Joe MacDougall: honey, I've thought of a fantastic name for our son
Jane MacDougall: oh, do tell
If you see this, post something orange from your gallery.
Definitely a bit on the nose, but it was the last orange thing I photographed. Had to go about a month back, before my recent hand injury. I liked the light and hoped I might use it as a reference for amateur oil pastel practice. 🎨 Oh, well.
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Submissions are open for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"!
We want stories that include: an LGBTQ+ main character; a spec fic element; and an Arthurian element. Artworks or illustrations of stories also welcome!
Check out the details:
juliebozza.com/submissions-...
This made me snort my tea! I struggle to pronounce it too. I learned it as dis-cal-CU-lee-uh. That emphasis on the third syllable often trips me up. Which is frustrating because so few people have ever heard of it (esp compared to dyslexia) and I want to do a good job explaining/be taken seriously.
What a bizarre choice. This is 100% speculation, but I wonder if they asked Chat GPT to give them some "magical sci-fi coffeeshop vibes" or something. And then they're cishet and clueless enough to think, "oh, the venn diagram of SW and HP fans is basically a circle, right?" Bad sign regardless tho.
A Coral Honeysuckle, Lonicera sempervirens, climbing up a white trellis, with a single burst of pink trumpet flowers. Beloved by hummingbirds, butterflies, and native bees. It's the larval host plant for Spring Azure and Snowberry Clearwing Moth.
Oh, lovely!! I planted a native Texas coral honeysuckle here and it took years for its first bloom, too. It's weirdly one of my fav parts about gardening with native perennials—they know how much root support system they need first, they take their time. I respect their boundaries and self care! 🌺
What lovely news! Congrats! Exercise and movement are never as sweet as when you've been denied their pleasure. Also, I love that your exercise goal is to prepare for a book tour. Time for an epic montage of lifting big stacks of books and jogging on a treadmill with a rolling suitcase in hand!
thatch finials were, historically, often used to indicate something about the resident- a hint at their occupation or the number of children, sometimes.
so anyway i have some questions, namely, where is this house so i can figure out who thatched it and offer them a round of applause
It's a new story day! "The Metamorphosis" is my heart story, about how turning into an invisible sloth is a Kafkaesque metaphor for getting ME/CFS or Long Covid, but you can still find a path to a happy ending.
Read it for free in @gavagai.com
gavagai.com/posts/3894
Wow, who didn’t see this coming?