With RFK Jr again further reducing access to vaccines, your regular reminder that now would be a good time to restart wearing a high quality mask regularly again for an added layer of protection from airborne diseases.
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Since there has been a lot of "what are Americans even doing" talk on the timeline today, my gentle reminder that none of you better be posting the exact details of what you are doing on bluesky dot com, it is more important to safely do the work than prove to strangers that you are doing something!
I also think a lot about BookTok and how much of a staple it's become in promo, but the medium is HIGHLY inaccessible for a lot of people. Not just those who don't want to worry about recording themselves, but HoH and blind people too! Those people also read and deserve consideration!
I've been thinking about this so much lately as I prep for the next chapter of my life and reflect on my disappearance from social media. I really want to focus on my offline life, but I feel like it'll be even harder to make it if I don't reestablish myself online 😭 This is not sustainable
PSA! Not even joking. Don’t even *handle* lilies and then go home & pet your cats
as a cis woman who had to take progesterone daily for a year for medical reasons, you better believe I was grateful not to live in a state where the heteronormative moralizing around access to hormones prevented me from getting the treatment I very urgently needed
the unparalleled pettiness of signing the title over to my mom, when all the information would've been the same except for our first names, is unreal, especially since he was weirdly invested when he found out my car is Broken. no one asked you, sir! no one even cares, actually!
in personal news, i found out that my old 2005 car finally needs to be retired and had to buy a new car nearly all by myself :') it's been a very stressful week and i wish a very bad luck to my father, who was supposed to get me a car for graduation but couldn't even sign my own title over to me
i can't think of a better time to dive back into my victorian children-versus-father wip than in the closing months of the post-divorce phase where my father is demonstrating just how petty and horrid he can be 😌 this one's for you dad x thanks for the material
I made a Bsky account and never actually returned to social media, but I'm still alive! I am still here! Sometimes I even still write!!
a lot of authors have started writing in the defensive crouch induced by social media, where the fear of being misread causes them to write less interestingly. this is bad and they should stop it. people will always misread, because lots of people are dumb, badly taught, or reading in bad faith
i finally reached 30k on the second draft of curse wip only to decide this next 200-word scene is kind of pointless. hello again, 29k :')
a screenshot of my Spotify wrapped topped with a photo from 1989 Taylor's version. my top five artists, in order, were Taylor Swift, Hozier, Olivia Rodrigo, 5 seconds of summer, and paradise fears. my top songs were nfwmb, fall, moment's silence, cherry wine, and Jackie and Wilson. I listened for 87,004 minutes, or 60 days, and my top genre was pop
happy Spotify wrapped 🥰 absolutely not surprised at all to see my top 5 artists are my top 5 faves, but I think it's fantastic that my tops songs are all hozier 😂 apparently I listened to nfwmb 245 times
we're finally at the two-week mark until my parents' divorce mediation! when i say this process has taken years off my life...
Ok this is genius can I install it directly into my brain so I don't ever have to listen to anyone chewing ever again
My Industry Brain: Let’s pay attention to the markets, analyze the trends, listen to my editor and agent friends about what’s working and what isn’t.
My Author Brain:
i wanted to change my desktop background from the B3 storyboard, and the vibe shift is palpable. i'm so excited to keep exploring with my silly little victorian children and their evil father 🥰
a 3 by 3 grid of mostly sepia-toned photos. from left to right and top to bottom: pages and pages of handwritten parchment on a desk, and man's hands visible writing on one; the roots of a tree twisting and covered in orange-brown leaves; a hand reaching into a pool of water; a photo of a manor house taken through the iron gates, fog drifting high enough to nearly obscure the hillside behind it; a magnolia flower; an out of focus woman with a black bun and a white victorian top lounging on a boat, looking out over the water; a half-burnt candle sitting in a chamberstick beside a stack of books, in front of it a journal with a red quill resting on the open pages; a close-up of five books of poetry by romantic and victorian authors; and two hands resting on the keys of a worn piano.
curse wip finally has a storyboard!!! it's been months since i've written anything beyond B2 revisions, but i'm actually really enjoying the process of rewriting/restructuring this story. it has so much potential - i can't wait to see where it ends up!
I knew there were a few that didn't fit the time period that I left open to read later, but I started scrolling through the tabs and they just kept going 😭
I stayed up until 3 am researching poems written in the correct highly-specific span of time so I could write this 1000-word scene, and when I opened my laptop this morning there were SO MANY TABS OPEN what was I doing
I'm so excited by the prospect of not sweating for no reason all the time despite also being cold
I woke up this morning to a text saying my request for my propranolol prescription had been denied so not only was I in a bad mood but also worrying about that, and she approved it nbd :') She didn't even give me shade for benefiting from cannabis. I'm shocked lol
Since my AFT did show characteristics of hyperadranergic POTS, there's a chance a low dose of kids' ADHD meds (can't remember the name rn) can help with my temp dysregulation!! And she's gonna try and pull strings to get me into her POTS GI even though I'm already established with a GI :')
I get so shocked any time I leave a doctor's appointment happy. I had my first autonomics follow-up today and it went better than I could've hoped!!
reindeer head necklace with wood, onyx, and Czech glass
a hand-painted eyeball pendant with sculpted polymer lids
shiny crystal earrings on twisted wire
an ornate strand of silver and blue beads on a necklace
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Thighs have been so horrifically itchy for the past several days that I'm scratching enormous patches of bruises into them.
Anyone got any experience with that? What was it? What helped? Im losing my mind
#NEISvoid
happy discount candy eve, everyone
Actually Frankenstein was the name of the scientist. I, the person correcting you on this trivial point, am the monster.