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📝sci-fi/fantasy writer V.M. Ayala (she/they) 🎮streamer, indie games, TTRPGs ✨anxiety/ADHD, chronic pain 🏳️‍🌈queer biracial Mexican American 🪐🗡️co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🌈 https://www.spacevalkyries.com/ 💌 [email protected]
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if you, like me, struggle with titles? go read this thread because it's great. guan is the one who taught me how to come up with like 90% of my best titles and helped me come up with several (and will likely continue to do so when I flail at him like heeeeeelp because he's great like that).

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"money can't buy happiness" that's cool i'm not trying to buy happiness i'm trying to buy groceries without having a panic attack

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convention season is here please wear a mask

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hit 35k on my third draft yesterday and am determined to make it to 40k by the end of the weekend 😤 (this speed brought to you by largely revising existing material and only tweaking some existing scenes and editing as I copy paste haha)

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One last shoutout to the folks at @patchmagazine.bsky.social who put together an incredible special July issue celebrating Wholesome Direct 2025. It also features a MakeRoom sticker sheet so you can design your very own room! Subscribe by June 24th to receive this issue.

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Happy JUNETEENTH y'all!!! Support Black creators. Here's a great place to start: go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p

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this might seem like a silly thing to be happy about but I got bloodwork done and a) veins cooperated b) didn’t have the worst blood pressure spike from the panic and c) didn’t panic as badly as usual. finallyyy the blood pressure meds seem to be workiiing—and got a tasty lunch treat as a reward 💜

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writing a novel is fun but also difficult and you agonize over every sentence and if you're conveying the information in a fun and interesting way and then you panic. but then it really can be fun and delightful, especially (at least for me) when I focus in on a scene and it plays out in my mind 💜

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Nature + Fiddle

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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me: for my own sanity, not checking the news. the news: lol well… my brain: hey so I’m spewing out this super angry anime tournament style locked tomb-y giant novel sized trans and gender fucky concept. weird! wonder what caused that 🙃 I WONDER!! ANYWAY MAYBE NEXT NOVEL ANGRY NONBINARY ENERGY

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the secret to writing is writing, follow for more tips

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stream ended, very reluctantly because this game is hilarious and amazing and funny and I have to keep playing on Friday lmfao. also might do a separate let's play of it just because there's SO MUCH. anyway Date Everything! is a delight 10/10

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today we are playing Date Everything! because who wouldn't want to smooch a D20? or a door? or—well, everything in your house. also the voice acting is amazing??? list of voice actors incredible??? so this'll be great 🏡 🌈 www.twitch.tv/spacevalkyries 🌈

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We're only about £500 away from smashing our audiobook stretch goal! Every Wrath Month story brought to you by a fully queer voice cast! And fun fact: as long as you've pledged at least £30 to our campaign, you'll get it for FREE! You know what to do: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bon...

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LOUD YELLING LOOK AT ALL THE NEW THIIIINGS. brb time to abandon all my obligations for today and play this update omg honestly cannot wait for the 1.0 release (whenever that is take your time Supergiant y'all are cookiiiing) 👀

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Flailing a lot at thiiiis! So excited to get to be in the Mappa Mundi game with some seriously amazing folks. This is such an awesome event overall for a great org so please go support and donate 💜 Catch me in Game 13: The Garus Tragedy on June 29 @ 8:30am Eastern Time ✨

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

hit 31k! things are starting to get dramatic for my main character, and she's about to meet her dragon properly 👀 have I mentioned this is the farthest in the novel process I've ever gotten (lots of half-finished and abandoned ones up until now) and I'm emotional about how real it all feels? 😭💜

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the weekend long migraine is finally clearing up, I'll do a little Steam Next Fest compilation of demos I played and recommend tomorrow. todayyy I wish to get to 30k on this novel draft. (also forgive me matt bell for I have given up retyping 100% and am now copy pasting paragraphs and fiddling.)

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

New story day! New story day! So excited to have this little tale of community, love, and resistance out in the world.

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