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The minute she gets back from the groomer 😑

New arrival

CHOTINER: They call you Vlad the Impaler. DRACULA: It is a folk legend among the peasants. They are simple people. CHOTINER: Simple people, many of whom you had impaled. DRACULA: I don't think any of the people I have had impaled are accusing me of anything. CHOTINER: That's certainly true.

CHOTINER: But you’ve had romantic entanglements in the past. For instance, Lucy Westenra? DRACULA: Tragic case. The poor girl. CHOTINER: Died of acute blood loss, I believe? DRACULA: Attacked by a wolf, I think. CHOTINER: You can turn into a wolf, right? DRACULA: That’s right. CHOTINER: Thank you.

I'd like to think it won't be as bad as the mortgage crisis. It feels very late 90s Dot Com Bubble. But the money amounts with this one are just breathtaking.

Been trying to explain why economy increasingly feels like it's running wholly on rich people passing each other same bag of money - innovation is stalled, unemployment is rising, but stock tickers are still somehow going up. This example captures the current state of our economy perfectly.

The most important commentary on current events you'll hear this week.

Starvation was an intentional tactic for clearing land across Europe. Greece was especially horrifying. They simply requisitioned all the food for themselves and gave out rations of 800 cals a day and just waited.

This was extraordinary. The kind of prose novelist I aspire to be. Low bar, right??? 😆

The Pyrenees especially do love a dirt pit! (Sprocket is half Pyrenees 😆)

No one is happier than this dog in his dirt pit

Your daily flock party

Joan Jett is still laying her eggs where she likes, like a rebel

This dog

Today's muted word is "rapture." (My proudest and smartest one is still "NYT" 😆)

I think people are hungry for it. But the algorithms don't reward it. So people don't do it.

What's funny is that I met a lot of the writers I am on good terms with today after I blogged about their books. 😆 It's different internet now. One line out of context attached to 50 short headlines stating "Kameron Hurley trashes author Y," suddenly author Y is asking me at bar why I hate them 🙃

Feeling more and more like I have a lot of things to say but they need to be said in a long form piece that I share but then never, ever, ever read any of the discourse. I used to welcome actual discourse. Seeing how quickly the camps take up sides and arms tho, I'm less inclined to participate.

An incredible love letter to Romancing the Stone

Hablar de @kameronhurley.com es hablar de una de las voces femeninas más combativas y que llaman más la atención del género fantástico. En nuestro número 5 pudimos charlar en profundidad con ella. Puedes ver más del N5 y hacerte con él aquí: buff.ly/2PbGzVu

It's easier to dramatize a scene of a person talking to a computer than a person typing on a keyboard, so Star Trek and every other sci-fi show has used the conceit for years, so that became "the future" to a lot of people.

Yeah they've changed the guidance significantly now that they know more. In US they ask you to stop it the week before a surgery. Which is fine because you only take it once a week anyway, so can just schedule surgery day before your usual shot.

I dunno. Shit can turn fast these days. I'm not ruling it out. It's a world of wild fucking swings.

Oh, the indignity of daily foot soaks for bumblefoot.

Tell me you're on a GLP-1 without telling me you're on a GLP-1...

Finished this one yesterday and it was a bucket of fun (for Hurley definitions of "fun" 😆)

I mean.... that WOULD sell a LOT of books

Choose. Your. Fighter.

Came up with a banger title for the #wip that's so deep fantasy I found it embarassing, but it's a title that will sell a lot of books, and is much more memorable than the current working title 😂

Couple hundred words on #wip and lot of note compilation across my sources. Trying to get everything into cheatsheet so I don't have to pause as much and search for things while writing. Came up w/second magic system and hesitated to toss it in, then was like eh fuck it. Just go wild. Life is short

When the girls go wild

This took me years of being a published writer to understand: To the people who only know you by your work, you are like the blank screen at the front of a movie theater. You have your own physical reality, but they only see what's projected. They are talking and reacting to the light and shadow.

Large tomato party

The chickens got the pool filthy this time by scratching wood chips into it but the ducks don't mind. They do love filth.

Trying to think of "this vs that" pitches for new book and realizing the fractured media landscape has made it increasingly difficult for me to find common popular touchstones that get across the vibe of the book that aren't 20+ years old.

Obvious Plant

I tried the bags this year because the ones I planted in the ground a few years back were EVEN WORSE 😆

FINALLY, some news.

Planted 4 and got 12. Which is... I mean. I don't know how humanity survived 😆. Of course.... generally, we didn't.

My take on what 12 MONKEYS (1995) teaches us: archive.is/0YE8K

This is delightful so far. I wasn't sure I could take another lonely, listless, quarter-life crisis protagonist (whomst among us! But not really my jam these days)... But then the plant shows up. And it gets delicious.

Happy sausage

Caught Sprocket being bullied by his older brother 😆

Goth band

Will I finish this new book before I'm paid for the book I turned in in January??? My experience with publishing says....

One more day of Too Many Meetings, and then Friday.

Today was one of those work days where the GenX part of me was like DOESN'T ANYONE WANT TO WORK ANYMORE??? And the Millennial part of me was like IT'S A WONDER ANYONE EVER SHOWS UP YOU KNOW???

My fav bit of esoteric American history knowledge is that in first attempt at forming a government, person who got most votes became president and one with second most votes became vice president. The reasoning being that the person coming in second would be second best for job. Bless their hearts 😆