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SF/F/H writer. SFWA, Codex. She/her. Stories online and in anthologies. Also check out aphowell.itch.io.
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Most of the time the kids are just in their rooms on devices, Discord chatting or narrating a video, but it's just really good to know they're nearby.
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I'm grateful that, after (planned) scrambling during the past few weeks, all four of us (plus the dogs) are together under the same roof again.
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Never forgiving any of the people who gave this man the fucking football.
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We had the "bonk report" protocol. If Kid # 2 (baby) was hurt, Kid # 1 (toddler) needed to tell us where he was hurt and what he'd been bonked with. Making sure Kid # 2 was okay was the most important thing, and even if the bonk report was "I hit him" Kid # 1 was in the clear.
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🫂
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Oh, and not being the girl Jill Sobule kissed.
Very, very weird.
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And a constant presence in articles about romance writing (whether or not he ever graced the cover of a given author's work). It's a very weird sort of cultural position.
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Can we also tie it to publishers' disinclination toward cover paintings?
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I'm sure the goose was involved somehow.
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You should definitely eat the chocolate donut. I'm sure it would be delicious and not at all dangerous to your health, sanity or soul.
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Do you hate hard science? Do you hate intellectual rigor and engineering and math?
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But it's totally really really hard science!
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my new romantasy is part of this excellent Itch bundle of queer fantasy! 18 fabulous indie books for only $27! #booksky 🌈 📚
itch.io/b/3049/indie...
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They saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe.
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Please teach us your ways!
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I'm glad your kid's finding stuff that is fun and intellectually engaging without being upsetting.
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This was entirely my kid a few years ago. (Who now loves zombies and survival horror. Brains are weird.)
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Yes, that is the single biggest porcupine in the movie and it hurts so much trying to get it down!
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There are nearly 100,000 people at the rally in Philadelphia. #NoKings
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They all just seem like they're having so much fun.
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Like sure, I'll pee in a cup, but if it comes back positive you're going to help me write a Strongly Worded Letter to a certain urologist.
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The thing is? We could rethink policing as a public service rather than a public force. We could re-imagine the work of policing as a practice that restores broken trust and amends the consequences of harm. Hands that nurture rather than boots that stomp. But we didn't.
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It's so bro-coded. I'm actually a little surprised the editors pushed back as a group.
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I suspect this is going to be a Godzilla vs. Bambi situation. (Partially because Bambi's clueless and kept shooting his mouth off.)
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Does that work at scale? Probably not. But if you try to automate it, then you just get a) equally non-professional results that b) do not even reflect the book-specific expertise of the person who wrote the book. 2/2
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I don't like siding with the Mouse, but in this case I will just rationalize it based on the stopped clock argument.
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I have not heard that phrase before! It is awesome and you should absolutely jump on it.
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Tell me you have never met any women* without telling me you have not met any women.
* cis or trans