coffee table poly (everyone lives in studio apartments)

oh hey this is one of my staff picks from when I was on the staff still

Simply Having A wonderful

I left my heart in Seattle Franerisco

>2087 >jack into the omninet to chill with your polycule >your soyfriend tells you xhe has a new gf >oh shit new metamour >she’s a puppy girl just like you >fuck yeah >she logs in >see a crackling pyramid of obsidian lightning wearing puppy ears >”a fucking clanker???” >banned for 2020s style racism

Over 30 selfie: She’s 49 y’all

What do you mean “high chaos” Dishonored 2, have you not noticed I never kill civilians??? (I do kill literally every guard) I spared Hypatia of course, and did keep the evil engineer guy alive, but only because the non-lethal option (turning his brain to mush with electricity) is actually crueler

I tried to watch the first one when I was coming down from acid once and I couldn’t get through it (when I’m coming down from acid, I’m so vulnerable to narrative that I cry from being emotionally invested in people’s TikTok videos)

I took a long walk yesterday, in part to look at everyone’s holiday decorations, and I saw many interesting things, but this was probably the most interesting It’s giving Hogfather

Well the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so delightful And since we know life is pain Let it rain Let it rain Let it rain

It numbers least among his crimes of course but I’ll never forgive The Boor for making robots uncool

I’m spending my vacation replaying Dishonored 2 The first time, years ago, I was super stealthy This time, I am solving my problems with grenades It is possible this reflects an overall change in my feelings about dealing with problems in society

long night huh

Wife was talking to her 20 year old nephew who is newly single “i suppose your on the dating apps?” “No I prefer to meet people when I’m out it’s mostly older people on dating apps” and it makes me feel like I’m someone who lived through the creation and subsequent abandonment of the great pyramids

they should make a kind of rain that only falls on the unjust

When my Microsoft Office subscription "upgraded" earlier this year with a bunch of AI shit, and wanted to charge me extra for it(!), I dug around until I found a perpetual license for Office 2024 I'm kinda stuck with Word as it's my industry's standard but I have the old, AI-less version at least

LMAO SFWA LOL OMFG

I favor bisexual over pansexual because the flag is prettier I favor many worlds over copenhagen because the science fiction is prettier I favor practical effects over digital because the blood spatter is prettier my god it’s full of vibes

I have turned in my annual "ten books I liked this year" essay to Locus and now I am done with work for the year!!!!!! (unless I decide to do some work, you know, for fun)

Essential dungeon crawl monsters: 1. Big and dumb 2. Small but there's lots 3. Tentacles don't go there 4. Evil horse 5. Fun facts about mushrooms 6. Eye 7. Punchable child 8. Dude that looks like another dude 9. Hostile architecture 10. Capitalism allegory 11. Uncomfortable implications 12. Steve

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT get hired because he was a white male, died.

hello, writerly & creative friends! i've been working on an unhinged random title generator. ^-^ features: - 55+ different title structures - 6k+ words in lists! - no gen-AI = endless possibilities for chaos 👀 I hope it inspires you! (or makes you laugh!) perchance.org/sffh-title-g...

worked on my essay; napped; woke up, rolled over, picked up laptop, added several lines to the opening paragraph; resumed napping

My response to anything over the next two weeks

Happy Holidays from Story Hour! As is our tradition, Tim Melody Pratt and Heather Shaw read us Christmas stories. These stories are both heartwarming! Watch this holiday episode now—or whenever you need a boost! @timpratt.org @sundew.bsky.social youtu.be/8yKPs3YvgAk

how much if you get the optional undercoating

Just posted bonus content at my Patreon for $5+ supporters, new poem "A Visit from Steamboat Willie" (AKA "'Twas the Night Before Public Domain Day") ‘Twas the night before Public Domain Day And all through the house Not a creature was stirring Except circa 1928 Mickey Mouse...

Another fun holiday song I like: "Text Me Merry Christmas" from Straight No Chaser (they do many great holiday songs) with Kristen Bell www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emhf...

do the whos down in whoville stand in the light of christ

I have to finish an essay but after that I am going to attempt to take time off writing through the New Year I utterly failed to take the whole month off as originally planned but I can do two weeks, right? Right?

Story hour reading went well, I donned my gay apparel

Rewatching the criminally underrated Let It Snow Imagine Love Actually but set in a small town and minus a hundred fat jokes It also has queer romance Banger soundtrack Plus Joan Cusack Based on a BOOK so writers got paid

Come now!!!!

have you heard the good news

MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok

Drinky

Great stuff!

Tonight, we read! My story made me cry when I practiced it which I think is a mark of quality

It’s the last Story Hour of the year! As has become tradition, Tim Melody Pratt and Heather Shaw return with Christmas stories. Whether poignant or sly, these tales will definitely be of the season. Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PST! @timpratt.org @sundew.bsky.social #Booksky www.storyhour2020.com

Going to fancy Thai food with @sarahday.org (to remind her of the pleasures of civilization) and got sparkly

Yesterday’s birthday bar crawl was great! Today I am… recovering

My technique is to write a pitch as if I’m slightly drunk and telling a friend about my super! cool! book! at the bar Also, just make up outline stuff, no one cares if details change as long as genre and tone don’t (In work-for-hire they care MORE if the details change but you can still tweak)

(Semi-relatedly, this is why in my outlining classes I often say "As your writing career progresses you WILL have to give people outlines on a regular basis, so get used to it") Your editor does not care if you are a pantser! Neither does the acquisitions committee! Just give them the thing!

I used to keep it real, but then they changed what real was. Now the it I’m keeping isn’t real, and what's real seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to youuuuuuu

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

(Voice beckoning from amulet) please help, I've been trapped in here by a dark sorcerer for 10,000 years! Me: why dont you just move to a city?

Here’s another holiday song I like: “Sugar and Booze” by Ana Gasteyer youtu.be/I6Pf2jOWMx4?...

There are currently 300 entries in the “story ideas” folder of my notes app I move out the ideas I’ve used already The folder only gets bigger

ICYMI! Reading 2025 fiction? Try the short story "Wend-Way-Go" by Tim Pratt @timpratt.org! You can read it here! buff.ly/Rdg2Q0U

Did some birthday tarot this morning including a big spread for what the next year holds and this was my “overall theme” card Gee, for my first full year of writing full time AND the year my kid leaves for college, wow, you don’t say!