Lila prefers casual clothing to dressing up, but The Magpie teaches her to appreciate the value of a good disguise. #AwesomeCharacters

Damn right. LLMs serve no purpose in the arts except to undermine everything that makes art what it is. Support human creativity.

Lila lives by the adage that a messenger of peace shouldn't carry a sword. Denala would counter that just because you bring a message of peace doesn't mean you don't need to protect yourself. #AwesomeCharacters

If you see this, QTP with a female anime character you love.

Lila would be a fox. Foxes are commonly depicted as clever tricksters, but some folklore also depicts them as noble and benevolent. Lila embodies both aspects. #AwesomeCharacters

If Damien from #TheBrightSessions had his own song, this would be it. This describes him to a tee.

K.A. Applegate. I devoured Animorphs and Everworld as a kid.

Depends on the story, but generally my stories stick to a core cast of about two to three major characters. I'm not really sure why. #AwesomeCharacters

Highlights Magazine. My local community center always had the newest issues. #Bookvember 4

I intended to adapt a public domain character as part of my supporting cast, but then I found out that Archie Comics had a similar character with the same name. So I changed her name from "Penny" to "Angie" and gave her a line about how her father, Archie, won the name debate. #Novmemeber 4

"Now if it's real or just a dream, one mystery remains, for it is said on moonless nights, they may still haunt this place." #AlanWake

Lila would tell stories about the mysteries she's solved while her sister Lisa gave color commentary. Denala would talk about the fundamentals of magic. Amber would tell her story about her stay in Ashmere. Lila would be skeptical, but Denala would point out that magic exists. #AwesomeCharacters

Just scored myself some Havoc Wreaker merch from @atypicalartists.co. If you haven't listened to Two Thousand and Late yet, get to it. Lauren Shippen is brilliant as always.

R.L. Stine and K.A. Applegate. I was a lonely kid who didn't really fit in at school, so the common trope of "friends teaming up against evil" that both writers liked to use appealed to me. #Bookvember 3

#Writevember Day 2 word count: 2119.

In some ways, it could be said that I'm always thinking of them. Their stories are my stories, in essence, if not in fact. They're always with me. Maybe they always have been, in their own way. #AwesomeCharacters

#Bookvember 2 "The Haunted Mask" by R.L. Stine. The use of horror as metaphor (whether Stine is aware of it or not) was the first time I encountered that as a literary device. It stuck with me.

And I'm about to start another run, too.

#Writevember Day 1 end of day word count: 1257

Lila has The Magpie, the phantom thief to her amateur sleuth. Despite being on opposite sides of the law, they both have the same goal: Justice. The Magpie often forces Lila to reconsider what the right thing really is. ##AwesomeCharacters

Happy #Writevember! I'm Arthur, my WIP is called "Story of a Changeling." It's an allegorical horror story about an autistic teen whose mother becomes convinced that she's a changeling. I'm aiming for a goal of 30,000 words.

I'm Arthur, and I've been reading ever since I was old enough. My first books were Animorphs and Goosebumps in elementary school. They got me to love reading and I never stopped. I started writing in high school as a fanfic author. I wrote my first original work in 2010. #Bookvember 1

I'm kind of amazed I got as high as B-rank on this, considering I didn't do that well in this fight. #NoStraightRoads

Denala and Clariss are both haunted by the destruction of Bont for different reasons. It was Denala's hometown, and Clariss led the army that destroyed it. #AwesomeCharacters

Yeah, @bsky.app, this doesn't need to be a thing. It arguably shouldn't be a thing.

PlotTober was super helpful! Thanks!

Lila is more likely to catch kids pulling pranks, but she'd look the other way as long as no one got hurt.

I don't care if these guys are law enforcement. This is straight-up kidnapping. If it were a detention and/or arrest, then they'd have identified themselves and explained why they wanted her to come with them. As it is in this footage, these are just random dudes snatching someone up for no reason.

First animated crush without saying your age I did have a crush before this, but she was live-action.

Lila would give out full-sized candy bars. She has the money, and she would consider it uncool to cheap out on Halloween. ##AwesomeCharacters

Today in "Strange quirks of the English language": "Each other" is apparently a singular noun, despite describing more than one person. ##WriterSky

"Diamonds" by Echosmith. A song about embracing what makes you exceptional, or as the song puts it "a diamond in a sea of pearls." There's a reason this is Lila's favorite. #PlotTober 29

My characters are not usually that threatening, so people don't really fear them. Except the Ashmere entity. That thing lives to terrify people. Literally. #AwesomeCharacters

None of my characters have ever met a library they didn't like. Lila even arranges a secret meeting in one. #AwesomeCharacters

You know shit is getting real when even Havoc is feeling the bad vibes. #TwoThousandAndLate

Ah, I see Harper has entered the "my actions have unintended consequences" phase of revolution. With Havoc around, she might want to get used to that. #TwoThousandAndLate

One of the themes of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is the inevitability of death. And no part of the game makes me think of that more than the Stone Wave Cliffs on a replay. "Tomorrow comes", right?

Lila: Mysteries. Amber: Anything that's not horror. Denala: "What's a movie?" #AwesomeCharacters

Lila's favorite song is "Diamonds" by Echosmith. She uses it when she needs to pump herself up. I have a scene planned for the end of the book where she is pleasantly surprised to find that her sister convinced her cheer squad to use it for a championship routine.

Mixed. I plot the big picture, but improvise as I go along.

Amber has her best friend, Julie. Lila has her sister Lisa, as well as Lisa's cheer squadmates, in the first book, and her new roommate Ayesha in the second. Denala has her best friend Senmani and a priestess named Clariss (who isn't being entirely honest with her). #PlotTober 26

Does it matter that THERE IS NO EMERGENCY that justifies Trump’s occupation of cities. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

I've got the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle and how it should function in fiction on the brain. If a character travels back in time in a system where the principle applies, does that mean they were always destined to travel back in time? Do they even have free will? #BookSky

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Lila is at "can operate the average smartphone, laptop, or television" levels. Denala is an above-average wizard despite lacking the ability to say incantations. She was, after all, trained by the best #AwesomeCharacters

Wizards of Waverly Place. More recently, I also like Electric Bloom, but I watch that on Disney Plus.

Clariss turned away from the dark side during a time skip and has been helping people as a priestess ever since, patiently enduring their scorn with grace and compassion. But now she has to do the hard part: Making amends to the people she's wronged the most.

"Lonely Generation" - Echosmith "Riot on Sunset" - James Durbin "Grateful" - Better Than Ezra

baseball is bad for your blood pressure

God damn it! ##MajorLeagueBaseball