Oh yes I love it when an author tells me about Stuff Wot Is In There. This soup has so many chickpeas and also peanuts in! This book? Many sheep mysteries! Also some mountains. At one point there is an extended potion-making scene with three generations of arguing witches! etc etc

which is to say yeah u are right, good art and art that makes money are... one would wish they were at least handshake buddies! and Yet!

hey. psst.

'and what can we offer you tonight' is one of the seventeen books (of which, four are novellas) on my 'books that crack open my writer brain and make me want to make art' shelf

just so you know.

right now it's sitting between 'silver in the wood' and my wizard of earthsea omnibus.

metaphor? I barely know 'er!

<.<

I promise my coming-in-summer-2027 book where a sex worker and a genderqueer abortionist team up to steal the mechanism of power from a murderous state (while rescuing a queer child abuse victim) has got no politics in it, no sir,

nor does the next book where they murder Lich-God Henry VIIIth >.>

sorry to hear that, friend. may the time pass as it must and the waters calm soon as can be.

a photo of a tired-looking macey in headphones gesturing at an intricately colour-coded whiteboard laying out a five-chapter diagram of characters and scenes titled 'hampton court palace'

'hey macey, you kinda vanished for a minute there. how're the Blood of Queens edits going--'

oh they're going. they sure are going.

question,, can it still be a murderboard without string because. i'm doing my best okay. i'm tryin'. and my characters sure do be murderin'. if that like. helps. >.>

I have not, binding sort of fell off the bottom of the life priorities list lately ^.^; hopefully once edits are in that can change??? (but if you typeset it... 👀👀👀...)

oh yes very good perfect

I do feel that she deserves something pretty to fidget with that would fly under the radar at a fancy party too, is all. perhaps a tennis bracelet only the settings twirl. or a pair of rings that slot together.

<.<

this book is exquisite and it has my precious darling anxious high femme in it, she is a joy + a delight, it is truly unfair she lives in a word w/out gemstone fidget rings 😭

possibly Freya's messiest queers yet! murder! intrigue! sex mysteries! terrible phd advisors! daddy issues!! imperialism!!!

oh boy, returning to the work force in <checks calendar> two weeks sure is gonna be fun!

it is. so good. so good. 😭

I photograph of the cover of a book, featuring a woman in old fashioned silk dress. The author is Caroline Moorehead. The book is titled dancing to the precipice, with a subtitle of 'The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, eyewitness to an era.'

Caroline Moorehead!

an extremely chonky biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, broad-scoped to encompass the French Revolution in general. Louis Seize just got executed!

there are authors whose work I can read on my phone while singing 'Fire & Flame' for the fifteenth time to a certain hiccuping gremlin.

Haruki Murakami is not one of them.

mmmmmm silt verses 👌🏻

those look so good!

bees ARE genetically designed to recognize royalty...

nooo

- indeterminate reasons and never thought about it again. and now you're there, trying to be a person against this hostile space, and the Entity couldn't give two shits about that fact.

definitely Stepford-ian. and definitely resonates with hollow LLM extrusions.

- than, say, a franchise McDonald's.

the fact that such a space exists at all is interesting, because that implies SOME form of deliberation - an acknowledgement that there's a void in which Something must go. and then it starts to feel faintly cosmic horror. an Entity created this space for -

There's a word in the whitespace of this article - at least to my reading? - & that's 'soulless.' But also something of the complex system's emergent behavior. (...forgive disconnect, thought interrupted by baby. where was I.)

but yes. Extruded Culture Product, with a more aggressive un-caring -

gotta say this makes me feel pretty good about getting mine & @devzmiller.bsky.social's ballots in despite a) them being in labor & then baby in NICU for nearly all the voting period b) massive storm c) having to run ballots to the box on day 2? 3? of having baby home

should be totally fine for that long if closed

the sequel, I feel, would smell of grave dirt.

...any book with Dani involved would uh. Concern me. to make scented.

(you'd think the answer for Blood of Queens would be obvious. but actually, no, it's not blood - though that would work. it's bonemeal.

smells kinda like blue doritos. or so I've heard >.>)

i have made the cardinal error of trusting New York public transit travel estimates, & for my hubris - FIRE TRUCK!

please. please. i just want to go pick up four yards of fancy imported book cloth to make my sister a bound copy of The Wind In The Willows the size of her clenched fist 😭

A photograph of two snow capped mountains from a plane

A photograph of new york city from a plane

goodbye mountains; hello new york 💙

😂