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🖋️Author 🐈Cat Mom 🎶Music💕 📚Parallels series: music, magic, sci-fi, strong LGBTQ characters 🏳️‍🌈 🎤👑 unapologetic Madonna fan She/Her My website: https://www.shelschneider.gay/ The Indie Authors' Blog: https://blog.shelschneider.gay/ 🚫Gen AI 🚫DMs 🚫HP or JKR
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Can music and graffiti save the world? Scarlet, Cassandra, and Mary believe it can. Forgotten Parallels comes out on Friday the 13th. Don't be scared. books2read.com/Forgotten-Pa...

Wild that Trump chose the wealthiest state in the union with the largest international pull to soft launch a civil war. Can’t wait to see how this plays out for him.

Trump will try to provoke violence. Keep protests peaceful. Look out for instigators.

This country is burning. Some are ignorantly cheering it on, others are trying to ignore it all, and the rest of us are watching in horror as all the things that made this country great are being violently stripped away at the hands of a sociopathic, racist, wanna be dictator and his evil henchmen.

Joni was right: we’re all going to die.

If you are tired and need motivation to get out and protest on Saturday, I have an ebook coming out on Friday (on Amazon) that is filled with examples of peaceful protests — and hope for the future. It's a quick read. It will be available on Kobo+ on Saturday. See below to preorder ⬇️

Forgotten Parallels is available to preorder now. The official release date it Friday the 13th. a.co/d/eQU71lk

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Huge thank you to the person who purchased both Broken Parallels and Parallel Tales today. I got so used to seeing zeros on my report page. I hope you enjoy them.

This is how my mornings go a lot these days. Me: *puts on cat tv and feeds cat before making my coffee* Cat: *eats and stares at tv* Me: *walks towards the window* Cat: "I'm bored." *blocks my path* Me: "I'm want to open the blinds." Cat: "K" *she moves* I swear she says "K" rather than "okay."

People in Indiana, Kentucky, and southern Ohio, you need to get inside into a safe place. This weather looks bad. Kentucky already had a Tornado Emergency which is way worse than a tornado warning. I'm hunkered down in the bathroom with my cat. I don't know if I will get any sleep tonight.

Wait, I can’t read what it—oh. I get it now.

Have people seen the email from Mozilla asking for voice donations? While they're not stealing, I don't think this is as cút and dried as they make it seem. See screenshots in comments.

If you're playing Sapphic Book Bingo, you can use me for the New Author square. jae-fiction.com/new-sapphic-...

Reading the comments online, it’s AMAZING to me just HOW FUCKING STUPID so many Americans are when it comes to BASIC SHIT like the rules of supply and demand. Amazon and Target will have empty shelves? Shop somewhere else they say! YOU IGNORANT FUCKS!!

What was left of him should have been fish shit in the Atlantic seabed four years ago.... this is an obscenity for good people to be put thru this again...

-- 39,335 words (including dedication, about the author, etc) -- 28 chapters Now I need to send off to my trusted second set of eyes before final edits and formatting. But Forgotten Parallels is finished.

I just wrote a scene so huge that I don't know how I will be able to top it in subsequent stories. It's full of so much magic and music and the largest rainbow ever. There is absolutely no way the rainbow could be bigger. I need time to recover from that scene.

Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.

Also arrived today: New camera, a Coolpix 1100 (purchased in advance and avoidance of tariffs). Inaugurated it with, of course, a photo of a cat.

Holy shit. Video posted by President Bukele’s team on X shows the moments before his press conference with Trump in which Trump tells him: “We want to do homegrown criminals next. You gotta build about five more places.” (h/t @titonka.bsky.social @michelekelemen.bsky.social)

This is it people. This is the moment of the camps.

We're in The Bad Place, folks. The existence of an overseas gulag to which you - yes, you personally - can be sent with no recourse marks the end of a whole period of American history. There's no going back after this. Even if these guys are defeated, the new order will have to look much different.

So basically they're gonna claim *anyone they don't like is an antifa domestic terrorist, arrest them w/o charges, ship them off to a concentration camp in El Salvador, and then shrug if/when SCOTUS tells them to stop and bring them back. *this includes **US citizens **this includes white people

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A message to the President of El Salvador: You may be following Trump’s lead—but no one gets left behind. If you choose to disrespect our country, our judges, and our Supreme Court, then it’s time for a boycott.

So proud to have been one of the MILLIONS of us marching yesterday to tell Trump & Elon #HandsOff!! ✊🏼

I posted an edited snippet from my WIP on my Substack because it's too long to post here. substack.com/@shelschneid...

I wish I could share what I just wrote for my WIP because it gave me chills. It's so much tied into events from yesterday. However, it would spoil the ending if I shared. Why does it have to be so tempting to share?

Also, asking people to publicly announce all their activism is, um, dangerous? I dunno if people have been paying attention but [gestures at everything].

Huge crowd of protesters forming at the Hands Off! protest in Boston, Massachusetts! Let's go!

Portland, ME showed up. #HandsOff

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top. #HandsOff2025

1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media. 2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media. 3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media. 4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.

Virtual event today for those who can't physically go out. 2pm to 4pm PDT www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...