Losing an election for, like, 15 months straight has got to be some kind of record.

You know, sometimes I feel like FanEx just wants me to be sad.

SKY ON FIRE is a Locus Top Ten! 🚀🌌💜

With one or two exceptions, the migraine pressure rating has been seven or above since April 2. We had a string of days in March as well. This year has been better in that I've only been incapacitated twice, but at the same time: uggggggh.

I deeply love the roundabout ways characters in Dragon Age are correct. Like...Corypheus being right about the dragon thrall or the Haven cultists being correct about Andraste being a dragon*.

Word and paper notebooks. I am extremely boring.

Doug Ford is shutting down safe consumption sites while being very keen to open more prisons. If you do not see how all these things are connected, then congrats. You're the exact voter the Liberals are courting.

You should volunteer at the best con*. *for purposes of clarification, dragon°con is also the best con im allowed to have two

This is my favourite post that everyone makes after starting ER when they run out of The Pitt.

The AI really makes me mad, because @mark-carney.bsky.social is cutting *so many* culture and arts (and library!) things at the same time.

If you're not done crying over space travel, I just reread my favourite SG-1 fic, and, God, I love Sam Carter.

Something I find delightful is when Veilguard fanfic uses the Fast Travel beacons. I read one the other day where they even did a party switch!

Today in Kate Finds Creative Ways To Fuck Up In Dragon Age, I accidentally put the smuggled lyrium in my storage chest at Soldier's Peak, and now I can't give it to Godwin. Sorry, my dude! Kudos on the extortion ring, though.

I'm trying to install Microsoft Office Home 2024 on my laptop (because apparently buying it, accepting it, and cashing in the token doesn't fucking install it), and it needs me to update. Will having macOS Tahoe 26.4.1 ruin my life?

okay, so the dinosaur documentary on netflix made me slightly less sad the second time, possibly because my expectations had been corrected, but I am ABSOLUTELY going straight to "Life On Our Planet", because apparently a series of extinction events makes me happy

...i need to go to sleep because when i wake up i have to finish my taxes, write fanfic, come up with another ai awareness article for the local newsletter, do my laundry, and finish the fucking deep roads (affectionate)

Keeping in mind that all of the Veilguard voice actors are awesome, I can only picture Nick Boraine giving his lines on a grand stage, not in a booth.

...literally* a Sackville-Baggins *just roll with it

I know this feels like a conspiracy theory, but the government does know how much you owe in taxes and this annual torture is completely unnecessary.

Thrilled to see The Third Period Comeback here! 🏒🇨🇦💀

A thing about publishing is that we never define marketing terms, we just pretend they're genres or an agreed upon metric, and then use them as a blunt weapon to make categories that don't actually exist.

I am sure the astronauts are all VERY GOOD SPORTS and are more than happy to do whatever is asked of them for the sake of science but COME ON 😭

Shale has SO MUCH quest dialogue. I love her.

The Clair Obscur OST was not a bad choice! (Starting in Visages.)

SPLASH! That was so exciting and moving to see. Took me right back to my childhood. Welcome home, Jeremy Hansen. We’re back to the future.

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The #Artemis II livestream continues to be the best thing on the internet. 😍 The return-to-Earth live coverage begins at 6:30pm Eastern (in about 90 minutes) with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for 8:07pm Eastern. www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

This is doing extremely...something to books right now (thread is about The Pitt). It's a very strange time to be a storyteller and a very unpleasant time to be a readily accessible one.

Ducky.

My whole team. *coughs*

I fully had a nervous breakdown and rewired my brain.

Today in Small Town Drama I'm Not Actually Going To Stir Up, the "needlework" category for our local fair has 4 wool appliqué entries, and then 1 entry each for embroidery and counted cross stitch, which means only a wool appliqué entrant can win "most points in category".

For today's adventure, the town power went out while I was entering our secondary intersection. So I checked the lights, maintained my speed, and when I looked again as I crossed the crosswalk, they were out.

Me, grumbling: Fine, I'll read T-rated fanfic, but they'd better make out. (for legal reasons, this is a joke. i appreciate all fanfic. i just...you know.)

🎶Once upon a time I was falling in love🎶 🎶Now I'm only falling apart🎶

Migraine pressure has gone down to 3 after a week straight above 7. Here's to functioning tomorrow.

It says a lot about Loghain that "freeing" the Circle doesn't count as a point in his favour. (Arguably, he's just getting rid of the Circle, not helping anyone, and tying up the Templars as a bonus.)

I think Mike is the eighth person to read The Third Period Comeback. So. I'm being very normal about it.

Until you see Karl Urban's hair, it's not always easy to separate them, and even then there are problems. Like, you'd this the below picture is fantasy, but I'm told it's sci-fi. (For legal reasons, this is a joke. Mostly.)

Well, I mean, no. But they did tell me I couldn't put him in the book, so I stopped asking questions.

You should definitely read The Story of Owen, then, which is *about* fire and oil change. Sort of. 🤣

Now I'm at the car dealership for a tire and oil change, ask me anything.

There has been talk about "clean YA" for longer than I've been publishing books, and it's always bullshit (though sometimes funny because my books *sound* clean, and then Certain People get mad that I've tricked them), but the dichotomy is getting more damaging to books, to readers, and to careers.

Random Travel Article: Here is a random country no one really thinks about visiting! Me: *immediately dives down a rabbit hole about why their border is Like That* Travel Article: ... Me: LOOK, THEY SHOULD HAVE A COASTLINE AND THEY DON'T.

Surprising no one, if you go through the website for Blink, it's clearly targeting, guess what, not teens but adult buyers. Nothing in this marketing is for teens. If anything, most teens I know would recoil from the patronizing, condescending tone. www.harpercollinsfocus.com/blinkyabooks/

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Unrelatedly -- I love that Christina Koch put this up on her social media and I'm like "That is a BANGER short story title and/or first line of a poem (or last line of a poem)" What's the most ominous thing you've ever loved?

"Fandom does not need to remain in the margins to deserve respect. But if journalists are going to cover this subject, and we should, we have to be willing to approach these spaces with the same care, ethics, and nuance we would bring to any other community." THIS THIS THIS

He just looks so happy every time he talks to A Canadian Who Is Doing Things. Like, he genuinely realizes this is a perk, but he's going to give it 100%.

I had two of these recently, and even though I replied asking for literally any other file, I never heard back. I very much prefer digital ARCs, but Delilah is correct about physical ones being more reliable. My editor has even sent out bound manuscripts.