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Aspiring Fantasy Novelist. American Trans Women.
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Keep your head up, kid. You’ll go far if you point your nose where you wanna go— It knows the way, so you just need to trust it. You got this. You always did.

every time I cook healthy food by the time I finish, I’m not hungry anymore, and I don’t eat it.

It’s got dragons too. Just sayin.

I’ve been think about posting the first few chapters of A Sea of Light here for potential #betas and #editors to read via google drive. Thoughts? #indiebook #betareaders #booksky

Question from the 8 year old: Did Thanos have a 50% chance of snapping himself?

If we’re living in a coup, Does that make us all chickens? I’ll shush, lol.

I'm feeling nostalgic for competence.

Beads are so freaking cool. Could be used as currency, or for magic, religious or status in the past. I’m going to create a magic system based on this, nobody steal my completely 100% original idea, ty. /s www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...

Imagine if Obama said this.

Why u gotta do my boy Pluto dirty like this Hank. 🪦 I also watched your video on the Galileo moons and I honestly was floored that I actually learned some new stuff lol. I love space maaan. So freaking much

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.

Falling asleep to the sounds of grumbling thunder, waves of rain washing against shingles, and the trickling of water spilling off the roof is just so comforting. I’m going to miss it here one day swhen I am forced to leave due to Id laws. I should set up a recording one day lol.

This 1000%

Reptar is my favorite dinosaur. Please laugh.

Them: Plenty of fish in the sea The fish:

Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as Director of National Intelligence. A Putin asset is now in place overseeing our intelligence community. Mitch McConnell was the only Republican vote against her.

Do I hate writing, am I just depressed, Or am I eternally cursed to stare a a blinking cursor.

I'm sad to share that the trans vet that took her life outside the VA last week was apparently Elisa Rae Shupe. She's someone many of us know - she was responsible for the mass email leak that let us know how the ADF, Heritage, etc planned to enact trans eradication we see today. RIP Elisa.

I’d like to turn the difficulty down on life at the moment, please. No need for nightmare. Story mode is fine.

To flashback all at once or broken up to go back and forth, that is the question. #writers #drafting #fantasy #writing #indieauthors

Me 99% of days when I don’t hit my daily word count. #writing #authors #indieauthors youtu.be/FZUcpVmEHuk?...

Every day before I start writing and I look at the 0 out of 1666 on the word counter.

Act 1 and Act 2 of A Sea of Light are complete. Now the only part left is the climax. that’s the easiest part, right? #writing #indienovel

I’ve really been struggling with creating alien feeling domiciles or structures for my book. I keep going back to think about materials and designs of structures and they all actually end up looking pretty humanish. there’s only so many ways to easily raise a building. #worldbuilding

I never did give my writing metrics for January. I’m at 146k for A Sea of Light Which puts me at ~171 for V1. I haven’t written since last Monday, so not sure how much I’ll get done this month. I reeeeeealy wanted to be done this month, but I’ve been saying that every month for the last year.

Hold on, let me delete some posts. lol. I’m a such a child. Thanks for the follows ❤️ now nobody else follow me and ruin it lmao.

Just egg is too expensive. I’m going to try to make it from scratch and see how that goes. I’ve heard you can make it for like .11-.20 an “egg” and that’s kinda cray. I would like to eat more omelettes. I don’t eat any omelettes now. Omelettes, in this economy? #eggs #eggprices #justegg

Do I need motivation or a break. Both and a hammock.

I want to share this video regarding the current admin’s attitude towards HoH and the Deaf as well. Well, this movement may have started with trans. People be assured that it won’t end with trans people. youtu.be/MHVtIxlPhMU?...

This is how genocide starts. With the silence of positive media and forums along with the walkback of rights for a specific group. What are trans people suppose to do here? When the majority of people either agree or don’t care. We’re sleepwalking into a new American Holocaust. Wake up please

Make no mistake. The reason why they signed the executive order yesterday was not because of some real issue with trans people in sports. This is obvious because the order doesn’t miss transmen at all. The purpose of this order is to continue to exclude trans poeple from ordinary life. #lgbt #trans

Sometimes I struggle with scope of what I’ve written, so I like to put it in terms of time. For example, I can rewrite fiction at a pace of about 1k an hour. If I wanted to rewrite an entire 150k book, and I wrote for 4 hours every day, it would take me around 37 days to finish.

We are in a golden age of music. it’s hard to imagine a world where music isn’t as widespread as it is now. Yet there are still countries that basically ban it. Shit’s a crime against humanity.

I’ve been working on this book for so long I don’t even want to talk about it until it’s finished. That and I really want to move on to other projects. It does worry me that if I’m struggling with something of this scope, I may have equal trouble with something half as long.

I’m scared I won’t know when to leave. Especially when I don’t have the means to. I feel like an irl crab who is slowly being boiled alive but everyone is gaslighting me into saying it’s fine. Like what, homeboy it’s getting hot in here.

How much flashback is too much flashback? If your flashback has a flashback, I’d say you’re there.

I’m not surprised by the response by the current admin to the crash, this is straight out of the playbook of fascism to blame a scapegoat. DEI is now the scapegoat. This may be the standard response to every negative thing that happens over the next 4 years. They will blame it on DEI.

I know every bit counts, but it’s still hard to pick up the pieces and build them back better.

Friendly reminder that impossible, beyond and Whole Foods have #vegan chicken nuggets that taste like the real thing that also have a 0% chance of give you or your family #birdflu You can make them from scratch, but we all know nobody got time for that.

How much alliteration is to much? A little never hurt nobody, right?

Act 1 35k Act 2 45k Act 3 65k I’ve got more to go, oh no. Send motivation #writers and fans of #fantasy I need it.

Reposting for reference.

I’m a big fan of the word sonder for the realization that everyone is also living their own lives, with their own emotions and experiences. But what about a word that includes animals, insects and microbes or alien life? I kinda like supersonder or ultrasonder. #philosophy #showerthoughts

Wyr: you’re never hungry but you never feel full no matter how much you eat. Or You’re always kinda craving something to eat, but you never can quite figure out what it is.

Did my 1k today #writing on the last chapter of a Sea of Light. Hilarious that there might be three or four epilogues unless someone convinces me otherwise. Oops. 😅