rubyjones.bsky.social
I write weird fiction. Sexy weird fiction.
SF/F/H erotic romance
🤖 Robots 🤯 Mind control 🐙 Tentacles 🔞
NB with ME/CFS.
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Thanks - I'm OK, really. I do think all the doctor's visits I've been having lately will result in a (slight) improvement in the long run, it's just that every little thing takes it out of me right now.
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💕Thank you.
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I've just sent an email to Seattle Worldcon about all this, but I wanted to highlight this for everyone else:
Their own Privacy Policy does NOT give them permission to share your personal data (even "just" your name) with genAI seattlein2025.org/about/privac...
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I would push myself up out of the water like she does in that bit when she's on the rock and the waves rise around her. You know what I mean.
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Oh, same. So bad.
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Thanks 💕
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It's just life as normal, all fucked up 🤷♀️
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>than listening to a podcast or audio book.
And there's the fact that both Audible and BBC Sounds have been fucked since I transferred to the knew phone. I know I had the same problem with the old phone and I fixed it somehow. But brain fog. And so it goes.
Anyway. Sorry to be a bummer. I'm OK.
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'Why are you listening to Radio 4, then, Ruby?'
Well, Radio 4 has got me through some tough times. The comedy programmes are still mostly alright and I love Gardeners' Question Time. It's also the easiest way to set up some audio when I'm in the kitchen or yard, and it makes me feel more connected>
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And then, of course, there are the Horrors 😅
Obvs I have had to write to my MP about the transphobia stuff and the disability stuff. (If you haven't done that and you're in the UK, please do.) That shit takes it out of you.
Radio 4 is pretty-much non-stop transphobia this week and it's... not nice
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> a million craft projects. Gardening. And all the day-to-day stuff for me and the small beast. Obviously Small Beast stuff gets prioritised. And I love her, but she is far and away the most demanding cat I have ever known. Incredibly affectionate, but also very high maintenance.
It's just...a lot.
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I'll be honest, there's quite a bit of the mental illness going on too. Cannot express how difficult it is to sit down and do pretty much anything when everything has to be done in little tiny increments and it feels like nothing ever gets finished.
Books I want to read. Art I want to make.>
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A homeless person's greatest enemy - more than addiction, more than physical or mental illness - is hopelessness. #HousingFirst does the best job of alleviating that.
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No, not THAT kind of hard, the sucky kind.
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Word. I am DISabled. I lack certain abilities and I need that recognised and accommodated, not minimised and dismissed.
I am LESS ABLE than I used to be, and nobody granted me special DIFFERENT abilities to make up for it. Is was a concrete LOSS.
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> and I can make obscure, fragmented references to my favourite books and poetry on that subject matter if I want to.
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>a soft noise like a whisper, like the wind through a mountain pass or forgotten halls.
Yes, there are metaphors in my porn you wouldn't have any reason to think are there, but these are archaeologists exploring the ruins of a lost civilization while they also deal with their buried trauma>
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If you liked my mini-essay on t s eliot's influence on Stephen King, you might enjoy my novella about two dudes doing it in an ancient enchanted sex dungeon, in the ruins under Mt Sussuran.
The name of the mountain is even a reference to Madame Sesostris, which in part evokes 'sesura' >
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>All of that - all of that packed into this short little phrase, and you *don't need* to know the context of the dread that sparked it to feel it reverberate in you. Which is the whole damn point.
Yeah, I, uh, have written several papers on this subject in another life.
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>and how that can be terrifying, but also beautiful. And the fear of irradiation - the potential annihilation of the atom bomb - is an underlying current in King's exploration of his own subconscious through these novels that mirrors the modernist fear of annihilation that came from the Great War.>
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>In the King novel, you might literally fear the irradiated dust of the Waste Lands, but he's also using it to evoke the same subject matter as Eliot's poem: the fragmentation of culture, where references become so divorced from their context that they lose all meaning, >
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>Anyway, when I first read this it seemed to vibrate some central chord inside me, but I didn't know why. I love what Eliot (and King) do with metaphors that mean they can have an effect on you without knowing the reference that's supposed to generate meaning.>
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The corollary of this for receiving (solicited) critique: the reader may very well be mistaken about what needs fixing, but it's useful to know that *something* tripped them up.