Hey you know how a charmingly clumsy MC somehow wielding a sword really well after 1 lesson is always a bit strange?
I literally just knocked a knife from a high place and CAUGHT IT BY THE FRICKEN BLADE. So um... I take back any reservations about random skills
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I am a singer. In a chorus. Which means I've got Mozart on repeat most days to learn my parts... which has led to Latin phrases popping into my head when I am trying to write about fairies. So. We're in a bit of a pickle.
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We're officially on sub!!
And I am squealing all the time because HOLY SHIT
So, if you like stories with reluctant heroines, found families, cozy fantasy, and sweet romance, send the good vibes!
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I really like the stage of #writing when I'm churning out ideas in the most incoherent way, but adding notes of "I KNOW THIS IS SHIT BUT IT WILL WORK AT SOME POINT" & "YOU WROTE A GOOD SENTENCE ON A NAPKIN JUST REMEMBER TO GO BACK TO THIS SPOT CAUSE THAT'S WHERE IT GOES"
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility!! 🏳️⚧️
A woman holds an armful of crystals while standing in a shop that sells magical crystals. There is a table behind her with a pot of flowers, a crystal ball, tarot cards, and a few more crystals. The caption reads "It can't hurt to try them all."
How I feel every time someone says "Did you hear the news today?"
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Currently dog sitting for some very anxious pups and have resorted to playing ocean sounds to get them to stop barking. 10/10 would recommend.
Update: Dancing for 5 hours a day 10 years ago does not translate to current capabilities no matter how much you want them to. Don't mind me, just icing my spine
There's nothing quite like going dancing with an injury and having to sneak off into a corner to do your PT exercises
IN THE MEANTIME there's an 80 year old with a broken neck on the dance floor
My voice teacher keeps bumping our lessons earlier so we have time to commiserate about the state of the world and the persisting horrors
And then we sing show tunes
it's a fine question to ask i guess! all our kids have particular comfort levels! but unless you want a thirty minute talk on the way victorian purity politics and evangelicalism have determined our definition of ""appropriate"" then you're at the wrong table my man. ask the MPAA.
Being a fiction writer is wild because the job description is basically:
- invent problems
- solve problems
- discover the problems were different problems
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Good morning to the lovely chirping birds that I finally get to hear after weeks of being woken up by construction 😓
"where are the student protestors now" as if they were not expelled, arrested, threatened, derided, abandoned, and deported. as if we didn't systematically punish what could have been our own next generation of active political leaders. jfc.
I totally forgot how much I have to argue with myself about writing a shitty first draft.
Do the sentences have to make sense? NO! They just have to be there so you have some idea of what you were thinking before the thoughts disappear!!
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I feel like we sort of collectively under-reacted to a US state revoking the IDs of an entire class of people overnight.
That is literal nazi shit
Group chats can be the bane of my existence, but I do appreciate that my family has separate threads for discussing bird-watching, what people are having for dinner, the various weather forecasts across the country, and who's watching what and where.
Just wait until you're happy with it, start sending queries, and then re-read it every time before you send a query just to make sure you still like it. Wracks up another 30 reads easy 😆
I LOVE Sangu Mandanna! OKAY yay! Fate's Thread and Violet Thistlewaite sound fantastic
Omg love that book! Starless Sea is hands down my favorite book ever, though
I've just DNF'ed 3 books in a row and my feelings are hurt.
#BookSky, anyone got anything magical and fun that doesn't deal with tons of war, grief, or gore?
That's so interesting (and depressing) to hear! I don't know how anyone can look at the shitshow we have and think it's a good idea. I know everyone's favorite pushback is the wait times, but we pay a ton of money and still have to wait months and months for some appointments.
I really love hearing about places where healthcare works. Gives me faith! Not in the states, no no, but that there are places that treat humans like humans and not just fodder for shareholder value 🤪
I have one of those "cooling" pillows, which is amazing until it's time to go to sleep and I've forgotten it will feel like an ice pack has been sitting on my pillow for hours. Nice pre-sleep jumpscare!
when you win a small concession you just get to keep yelling btw. one time a local official said to me "you people are never happy" and like: correct! it is not our job to be happy with compromise! it's our job to be annoying forever actually
Well they did say they'd follow their "Id"
A kid just asked if there were any #Sports in my novel and I had the giddy excitement to reveal, that yes, there are sports, if you consider fighting with knives and croquet sticks as sport.
Felt like the grandpa in the Princess Bride.
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Girls be like, "I needed this" and it's just shoving their face in a pile of pillows and screaming because the world is beyond insane.
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A cartoon of an Unprecedented Times Permission Slip, granting the bearer leave to opt out from the obligations of the world use to the overwhelming realities of genocide, slavery, oligarchy, climate disaster, the death of empathy, and general awfulness.
I found this in my (brief, unwise) travels on another social media platform today. If it might come in handy for you, keep it in your pocket to pull out on days that threaten to take more gentleness from us than we can spare.
Currently imagining living in a world where we didn’t have concerns like “how many war-criming companies can I avoid today, and how many have I been tricked into using despite my best efforts” and also “how badly will this company scam me” (because it’s always at least a LITTLE scammy).