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Fantasy author. Editor @atthisarts.com. Writer. Vegan. Mama. Queer. Michigander. Mentally disabled. Blue Ajah. Hasty Ent. Quests in heal spec. Shkode Kwe. Aήττητη. she/her or e/em. Emily or E. 🧄. Speak plainly and stand together.
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Up a little later than I should be, but it's been raining all evening, perfect temperatures, and I'm just grateful to have my little tent in the backyard. Going to close the computer and just absorb it for a bit. Then bed. See you tomorrow.

Ah, just getting tomorrow's guest post staged and you are not ready for this awesomeness. "...a place where we don't have to explain our existence, only expand it."

I’m tired of hearing about the worst people when they are clear about who they are How is what you’re doing protecting the people who need protection

Please talk about hand-drawn, hand-written, hand-edited, hand-assembled, human art from an indie neuroqueer chosen family press. It means a lot to all of us! And, we think, to the world.

Look. Please know that it's not that I haven't seen who people are. I believed they could be better. Whatever their choice turned out to be, I don't regret that. And I thank all the people who have seen better in me. I'll keep working on it.

New update on my breast cancer treatment. Mostly good news! Details at the link. Kindly boost and share so that all the wonderful people who shared my journey can share in the good news too. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...

Would you like to a peek at the 10+ minute behind the scenes art video? This video, four printable coloring sheets, the full story with select illustrations in an e-pub mini-book, plus other surprises - exclusive to this campaign, all for $1, and only for 11 more days! youtu.be/Iq5jxZ6DHrE #Art

Strange Horizons’ annual fund-drive is now live: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str... We are entirely community-funded, and this is our main source of income. Help us enter our 26th year?

Supposedly I touched arms with Robin Wright for like an hour. But probably most minor is Wallace Shawn and I nearly walking into each other, and me giving a friendly Michigan "hey" and walking past before I processed this wasn't actually someone who knew me.

Remember: All dino emojis are trans rights activists. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 🦖 All sparkle emojis celebrate human creativity and critical thought. ⭐ ✨ 🌟 Dangerously. Like, don't f with them.

There is no catch to this $1 bundle. This is going to be a *beautifully* printed book, and we know that's cost prohibitive for many. We want you to join us, you deserve this story and its comfort. If you can pay it forward, we appreciate it, but $1 is completely and totally fine. Please join us. 💜

I had a joke about the patriarchy but it turns out it was unprofessional. ... is this how we do this ...

Please talk about hand-drawn, hand-written, hand-edited, hand-assembled, human art from an indie neuroqueer chosen family press. It means a lot to all of us! And, we think, to the world.

They also think because it's not affecting them, and BIPOC aren't telling them directly, that they are good to pretend it's not true. BIPOC do not have to spend one breath on people who are that aggressively uninterested in the truth. Asking BIPOC to do the work when wp won't? Is also RACIST.

LRT: JOYCE IS EXACTLY RIGHT. My situation? Reminding that NONE, ZERO, NOT A ONE of the people who are mad at me have even *allowed* me to tell them how their "displeasure" at me stemmed from the rotten core of racists in genre. They're pretending those racists are not still in power. THEY ARE.

Protip: If we remain silent when there are racists in the industry, we are complicit. If we cut out people who call these racists out, but worry if we offend the racists - we might be the problem. I am looking at you, sff.

Anyway, repeated grief hits different. Like scraping a scar, the horror is in the familiarity of the pain and the dullness of long hope flippantly extinguished. But I believe in more than one thing, and I have so many friends, and I will sleep and rise again. Really, really, appreciate you all. 💜

12 days to go

It's bundle time! 9 of my games for $25. 👀

Ok not going to make it weird but today: 1) I re-reached the number of followers before the mass unfollow. 2) I found another place I think I can really do good. 3) I lost something profound. Again. The river flows on.

A howl to the world. www.atthisarts.com/product/wolf...

Yes, it's complete, at last. 🌈⚔️💖

Telling politicians what you think is important. But politicians run on numbers. Until wp have the conversations with the people around them, stand with those who are, and are willing to take some pretty hard emotions on the isolation, the numbers aren't enough. The other way forward is messier.

My Alyssia books are part of the add-ons as a bundle! US cost for Ulla's gorgeous top-quality-printing art book plus my three signed hardcovers is $127 including shipping, if that's something you could swing. I love my stories. 💜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/att...

Hey cis white men? The good guys? The number one thing cis white men say to me is "no one has told me that" because apparently a woman is no one and they think marginalized people are going to take on their hostility. Things are getting ugly. Need some more hands on deck. No joke being told here.

I agree with @zzclaybourne.bsky.social and am grateful he is talking about financial support to art. I'd like to add to the conversation. I'm talking to my fellow creators and pubpros specifically but everyone is welcome to respond or boost. I made myself pick three points. 😄 🧵

I think if we could create a world where most of us are able to accept complexity/nuance, the rest of it would take care of itself. I used to think compassion was the first thing, but black/white thinking limits the number of people to whom others are willing to extend compassion, making it feeble.

Day 3 of our KS and 78% base goal funded: "Mmeory”, a multi genre anthology of memory manipulation stories, is live at www.kickstarter.com/projects/526.... Will you be one of the 40 or so backers we need to fund? Hope you’ll come join us. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

We should all treat one another the way some people treat me, knowing I don't have long left. Giving benefit of doubt, letting irritations go, finding ways to be kind unexpectedly, remembering to name the things we love about each other. None of us have forever, and you really do never know when.

You counter evil with real life.