gaston used to hate eggs, but so many villagers said that they hated eggs the wrong way that he had no choice but to consume four dozen per day as a child and five dozen per day as an adult. when he dies of high cholesterol it will be the villagers who are to blame
Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
“[Vetinari] listened with great care because what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That's where the things were that they hoped he didn't know and didn't want him to find out.”
I preordered a copy of this to go directly to my local books-to-prisoners program! They get a number of requests from trans people, and it's nice to have something to send that is joyous and fun.
#BookSky
oh, i love this SO much, thank you!!
thank you so much!! and yeah, this is incredibly real and something i think about a lot these days. like you say, i think there is real light in our joy! and i also try to remember that you never know who a story will reach--who it will make feel seen, understood, less alone in the frightening world
thank you so much!! you will find some similar themes in here (two dudes who mean well but cannot quite get their shit together, my inability to go more than about six pages without loving describing A Meal), so i hope you enjoy this one too 💜
thank you so much, i deeply appreciate it (and you)!
SECOND HELPINGS comes out may 21! it's fun! it's funny! it's queer! it's a low stakes good time in a high stakes bad time! is it impossible to promote a romcom while the world is uhhh like this? sure, but hey, by preordering you'd also be seriously helping out a trans guy (me)
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The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back
Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted
Imo someone should probably do something
i've said it before and i'll say it again: i don't write like AI, AI writes like me. if you've been putting words on the internet since pre-pandemic times, you can (and should) say it too
i sincerely hope this duck pic ends up being the inspo for the next winner of the duck stamp contest, it is incredible
If Tobias' story was weirdly resonant for you as a kid, this is a reminder to take your hormones today.
TRULY!! like there are so many options that aren't this horrible garbage water guzzling world ruining option
"but i don't want to write" guess what you don't have to! writing can be very rewarding & also like falling down a long set of stairs hitting every stair with your face! luckily many people have done this & somehow survived so if you seek a story READING IS HERE FOR YOU. put that bad machine DOWN
someone has written a version of the story you want, bc someone's written a version of EVERY STORY! the only way to get the EXACT version that's in your head is to WRITE IT YOURSELF. if you don't want to do that you should try READING can i introduce you to my friend READING please consider READING
"i need to use AI to write the story i want" no you don't no you don't no!! you don't!!! there are only like 7 stories we even tell! we just tell them over & over w/ different details & people in there! if you want stories w/o writing them there is already a system for that! it is called! reading!!
oh my GOD
"All authors are using AI now"
Not true! A lot of us are using constant, gnawing anxiety.
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch
This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days
THANK YOUUUU i am low key obsessed with it haha
yay thank you so much!! i hope you have as much fun with it as i did 💜
you can request the book right here and i hope you do 💜 i'm so proud of this one, i love these characters so much, and i hope you will too! www.netgalley.co.uk/catalog/book...
The cover of my next book, SECOND HELPINGS, against a yellow background printed with tomatoes. The cover is purple and features one man sitting at a table gazing up at another man wearing an apron and holding a serving tray.
my next book, SECOND HELPINGS, is now available for request on netgalley! if you like LOVE STORIES and RIDICULOUS SIDE CHARACTER SHENANIGANS and FOUND FAMILY and SIBLING HIJINKS and RESTAURANT ROMANCE and especially ✨ SECOND CHANCES ✨ then you're going to love this one 💜
it's trans day of visibility and i'm moving so just a quick post to say: being trans is a wonder, a delight, one of the best things about my life. bigots and transphobia suck shit but in spite of them being trans is an absolute, undeniable joy. what a gift to know this rare & beautiful experience
i write books fairly quickly, now. this is mostly bc i spent twenty years unable to finish a single one, learning how to write and how to unpick my imposter syndrome and self-loathing enough to LET myself write. if anyone tried to take those years of work from me i'd punch them in the mouth; fuck AI
hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action
it was like i was watching it in slow motion haha, i could see what was about to happen but couldn't explain fast enough to stop the inevitable 😂 took twice as long to clean up as it would have if any of us could have stopped CACKLING
in the end stages of a huge move, it's hard/weird, but today my friend picked up a giant sack of rice & slung it over their shoulder, not realizing it was open. rice poured out all over the floor in a perfect moment of slapstick 3 stooges comedy gold. sometimes even the hard shit is so goddamn funny