The only thing worse than dealing with a possible scary medical diagnosis is trying to navigate the health care system while dealing with a scary medical diagnosis. It's so unclear who I should talk to!
This is so good.
Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.
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The Merlin app is sorcery.
I really want to make a one page RPG that's about fighting kaiju while falling in love with the guy you're drifting with.
I really want to make a one page RPG that's about fighting kaiju while falling in love with the guy you're drifting with.
Ooooooo, I haven't read that one yet.
I grew up reading the Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling fairy tale anthologies (probably too young) and they taught me what a modern fairy tale could be, unafraid to embrace the dark and the weird.
I'm definitely "The Dragon in the Library."
It turns out that there are so, so many books about things "in the library." There is silence, lust, lifeless, shadows, murder (x3), Merlin, lost, the woman, the body, the stranger, the liar, the dragon, the burglar, the anarchist, the herring, that night, no cats, and one week.
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The return of Artemis II was such a beautiful thing to witness. A reminder of the good in humanity.
What a sweetie!
My entire family loves Going Postal. I recommend it to new readers as a good place to start with Pratchett.
This is writing. Putting in the time--painful hours of learning how to write a sentence, fix a scene. Failing and trying so that you can make space for the brilliant days when the story burns in your mind and you write it in one glorious afternoon.
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moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!
I have been creating original worlds for the Star Wars RPG I'm running. It took me a while to realize that unlike the movies, I'm not constrained by budget. I can have red deserts, purple forests, and a version of Displacer Beasts.
I think I'd still be making boring worlds if I relied on AI.
There are all sorts of tools you can use for this that aren't AI. The Story Engine Deck. A tarot deck. TTRPG random tables (I'm partial to the Starforged Action +Theme random tables).
I have my first black cat and he is such a sweet chaos gremlin.
So sorry you lost your kittens.
Fountain pens are such a rabbit hole. I started by buying one as an ergonomic solution and now I have about sixteen and multiple ink colors.
That's impressive! Are you going entirely from scratch or using a kit?
You can tell I'm a fountain pen geek because I immediately zoomed in on the pen and said "ah, a Lamy Safari."
"average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actually just statistical error. Average person eats 0 spiders per year. Renfield, who obsessively eats every spider he can, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
A mound of dark brown pits and the pale orange ish yellow tops of loquats on top of a yellow cutting board.
The bowl of the food processor is full of the golden halves of pitted loquats.
Five scrumptious golden jars of loquat jam.
I have obtained jam!
A mound of dark brown pits and the pale orange ish yellow tops of loquats on top of a yellow cutting board.
The bowl of the food processor is full of the golden halves of pitted loquats.
Five scrumptious golden jars of loquat jam.
I have obtained jam!
JAM DAY!!
Today I am going to attempt loquat freezer jam.
A large grey cat and a medium black cat sprawl across a grey wood floor, clearly not amused.
Two cats who are over this heat wave.
The guidelines say the things we like - but so long as you aren't doing the things we don't want, please don't self reject!
Karen Memory, my novel starring badass saloon girls taking on disaster capitalists in the wild West, is on sale on Kindle for $2.99 in the USA!
If you need a little escapism in these dark days.
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Giant tortoise is a great option. It has the bonus that it seems unlikely to injure you, even if you can't get it out of the bookstore.