cPTSD is a hell of a thing, right?

I get mad every so often on behalf of the person I could have been, and I feel bad that she was murdered to make me.

But at least these days I feel like I deserve to exist anyway, so that's awesome!

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I wrote about being nominated for Hugo and Locus Awards (yay!), toxic metrics, the necessity of play, and everything that's wrong with American politics.

In under 700 words because damn, I'm good.

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wow! thank you!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YA YOUT

I shall!

I see you from over the ridge in GenX country and I'm picking up what you're putting down.

Huzzah!

A very elegant grey cat on a blue bench in front of a window.

One elegant boy deserves another.

Here's Gurney birdwatching.

I have a bag of them for grain storage if you want a few

With return postage and an envelope if you wanted your manuscript back.

Which you did because toner was expensive.

Also, Robert Poley was an asshole.

I dunno, I like to think I got the most of it in there.

I love how much of SFF is little family businesses

Great book.

I personally have read at least seven books on various sides of it. And I gave up in the 2010s. I assume they're still going.

Also, Tudor England was a soviet level snake pit police state.

Yes

in honor of The Onion officially taking over InfoWars, what’s a conspiracy theory you 100% believe?

Christopher Marlowe was murdered by government agents because he was becoming too hard to keep quiet.

Ebikes make biking accessible to some people with disabilities or who live in steep terrain. Hipsterism makes everything awful.

There are numerous examples of married coupled being nominated as parts of a team working on one project! But fewer, as far as I know, of married couples being simultaneously nominated for different projects.

Vernor and Joan Vinge both won Best Novel Hugos though, in different years.

And apparently the NHs for Best Fanzine and Best Fan Writer

And somehow they just make shit up and say whatever the hell they want and everybody acts like it's revelatory genius.

We are being ruled by poorly socialized, poorly emotionally regulated, entitled 12-year-old boys. The ones who think it's funny to snap girls' bra straps on the playground. The ones whose entire vocabulary consists of "Nuh uh!"

Even as a child I did not understand why anyone would eat that.

You too!

And you!

I think that counts!

Oh heck yeah

You rock!

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜