i want to read every book and speak every language and play every instrument. i want to travel all over the world and i want to learn how to swordfight and sail and cook elaborate food and make clothing. i want to write and draw and spend every day outside looking at trees. but i have to work

the northwoods baseball sleep radio podcast is very important to me

this is the first summer i’m allowed to have my top surgery scars out in the sun and you best believe i’ll be taking full advantage

Interesting opening paragraph for an announcement that the BC NDP is cancelling plans for an overdose prevention site news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

this is so disrespectful to the intellectual capacity and curiosity of children. unreal

i sure wish that jg keely was still posting fantasy novel reviews. whatever happened to him

cowboy music sounds so good live

A timely letter from CAG 938 President Eddy Pedreira re: AI Data Centres -

"I would like to believe that this ends somewhere, that this age of extracting every last drop of profit out of a beautiful thing they’ve already bled dry will run its course..." www.typebarmagazine.com/the-fandom-s...

i've been unsatisfied with the word "worldbuilding" to describe what fantasy writers do for a long time, and just today i encountered michele root-bernstein's concept of "worldplay" which links the practice of making imaginary worlds to childhood pretend play (!!)

Stories of Elf World - part 1 of 2

marie-philip poulin… that’s all

If funky teeth have no fans I AM DEAD

Various Types of Women

“Without additional funding to implement Bill 28, libraries may be forced to reduce, or potentially eliminate, library services." Attacking the commons via culture-war legislation is a feature, not a bug. #abpoli #cdnpoli 📚

hi, writer expert here! world building is not cute behavior, writers only do that when they’re in extreme distress.

Cave Wizards of Fire and Fertility!

everyone knows bc just doesn’t have enough shortsighted expensive controversial environmentally destructive infrastructure projects

i don't want to work anymore

i detest all the freemium mobile game ads on youtube that are just a solid minute of gunshot noises. i don’t want to hear that

You can't write *proper* fantasy without being a pervert 😌

Gael Baudino, GOSSAMER AXE (ROC, 1990), with cover art by Dawn Wilson.

u have to really enjoy cutting things out to be a children’s librarian

Good morning, I didn’t see you come in. Oh, this? Ah, yes, I’m just reading The Book That Proves You’re Good. You haven’t heard of it? Oh my. Well.. hm

everybody get gormin'

Ancestor commission by me and Matt Sheean.

girl help i'm feeling the itch to play old school runescape

my socks are wet.

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

i'm entering my emo phase at 29 y/o if u have any recommendations

installed a gàidhlig keyboard. the pros? gu h-obann, tha e glè fhurasta sgrìobhadh anns a' ghàidhlig. the cons? my " and @ inputs are swapped. why

i've been sick at home for 3 days :( i miss people :(

Sketch of Dame as Landsknecht [ #oc | #art ]

lrp one day that will be me posting a magnificent photo of a train taken from the militant mothers of raymur overpass

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

bhruidhinn mi gàidhlig ann am bruadar a-rithist. an turas seo, thuirt mi “tha dìreach dà chànan agam, a sheanair”

i hope everyone on this bus is intoxicated by the aroma of my freshly baked molasses bread

🌕🦭 Harbour Seal (2022) #telekitneticart #formline #indigenousart

On this day in 1885, Canada hanged eight Indigenous men for resisting colonialism in what's now the province of Saskatchewan.

hey. this sucks ass

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

my kingdom for another kai ashante wilson book

i can’t interest my cat in anything but the under-cap seals from my milk cartons. he likes to grab the pull ring in his teeth and run around. freak

chaidh mo charaid as fheàrr à Alba agus fhuair i A' Hobat dhomh :')

'Northern Spring' (1969) Brent Wong

i need to be funnier, cooler, more intellectual, study romantic literature, appreciate beautiful prose, make better and more creative dick jokes,

air fryer brussel sprouts. that’s all