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Writer of novels and screenplays. Author of The Book of Vengeance series. Can be bribed with tea. Neutral Evil. Cats. ADHD. #Fantasy and #Horror. 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦
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Trauma, justice, true love. And queer happiness, wicked battles, and magic. There's always cats. Always tea.

Writer/director of a movie of Stephen King's From a Buick 8. Or Augustus Roth's Last Man Standing. Or showrunner/writer for a multi-season arc for Gregory Ashe's Hazard and Somerset novels. And/or his Borealis Investigations novels.

"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

I don’t care if you hate porn. Please for the love of god don’t get stuck there cognitively. Anti-porn legislation + how trans and NB people (even cis drag queens/kings) are being consistently described as sexually deviant = the groundwork is being laid for all queer expression to be made illegal.

Nicely stated. I would have found this incredibly helpful when I was starting out years ago.

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We still have many people to thank, but we want you all to have time to browse, so while our auction fundraiser doesn’t begin until April 22nd, we’d like to open the doors! (1/2) Auction.iknowwhyshestayed.org

Enforcing a G rating on the entire internet is fascist and if you're clutching pearls directly at strangers instead of cultivating your own space you're part of the problem.

Huh, weird

I don’t usually cry over my beer, but I had to make an exception for this ad. 🇨🇦

Seeing very crappy hateful men writers furious that women are so successful in the fantasy genre makes me proud to be a published fantasy author ahahaha

Who are the five authors who made you? Weis and Hickman Wendy and Richard Pini Tad Williams Michael Moorcock Robin Hobb I look at that and see exactly what I write: old-school dark, heroic, epic fantasy with a touch of romance. Aka nobledark fantasy.

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]

I'm auditing a program in which we have to write a premise a day for a year. Ideas ARE NOT the problem. Learning writing craft solves the problem of 'no ideas' and not knowing how to implement them once you get them. Learn craft, and you have no need for AI.

did you enjoy creating it? did you have fun? does it make you happy thinking about it and sharing it? then that's it. you did it. you found the secret sauce. "was that a waste of time?" of course not, fuckface. expressing yourself creatively is always worthwhile. you're doing great

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

If you made a 51st state joke or told a Canadian they were irrational, sorry but you're now contractually obligated to buy a book by a Canadian author according to a rule I just made up. CA friends, shoutout your books today. (Reply, quote, start your own thread--whatever, just talk about your art)

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I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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Invading Canada would spark guerrilla fight lasting decades, expert says. “a military invasion of Canada would trigger a decades-long violent resistance, which would ultimately destroy the United States.” #CdnPoli

they are talking this way about gamers because they know that without modern gaming online culture, starting out with gamergate, the current cultural rightwing movement wouldn’t be what it is. without gamergate there wouldn’t be paid ads for adolf hitler on twitter

The desexualisation of media (everyone is beautiful, and no one is horny) combined with an increasing hysteria around the 'pointlessness' of sex scenes is a key part of the fascistization of western culture and if we're going to fight back we're going to need to make it normal to be horny again.

We are Canadian youtu.be/1LzhCLzfJFg?...

Writing erotica, and erotic stories, for pay, is a kind of sex work. Anybody who says it's not are just plain ignorant on the matter, or are using a specific connotation for what they think a 'sex worker' is. It's not the same as other types of sex work, but there are a lot of different kinds.

Justin Trudeau gave the exact kind of press conference today that we have been waiting for from our Democratic leaders. Watch it and learn from it. No gimmicks, no stunts, no script, no platitudes, no slogans, no games. Just straight talk, honesty, sincerity and facts.

This is for anyone who likes the confluence of mythology and music history. A lovely, evocative podcast about the 60's Love Revolution, mythology, and the Beatles. Compelling and thoughtful. www.beatlesabbey.com/p/beautiful-...

Again: They're trying to frame anything having to do with literally just existing as an LGBTQIA+ person as "pornographic" or "obscene" in a way that would never ever be used against cis-het people, even when they're talking in actually explicit terms about their sex lives. This is hate and prejudice

Sen. Mike Lee has introduced the SCREEN ACT, a bill that applies the "harmful to minors" standard used to ban LGBTQ+ books and resources in schools and libraries... and apply it nationally—to the internet. Under the guise of protecting kids from "pornography" www.lee.senate.gov/2025/2/senat...

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way.

It's actually good if a book is 'pretentious', self-indulgent, or includes things 'that don't serve the plot'

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

Modern, mainstream SFF isn't horny enough. No one writes good SciFi unless they're at least a little bit of a pervert, and the corporate sanitization of the genre has drained the life from it.

They really want to force young white women out of the workforce. And it is wild to watch conservative white women stump for their own subjugation. Because when they are not longer useful they will find out the cage isn't even gilded

If you've done much research into the "art" of the query letter, you may have noticed many (often conflicting) recommendations. However, if you look at some successful query samples, you’ll find many of them break a “rule” or two. A thread 🧵🪓 #writingcommunity #amquerying