I know doing things you're bad at and learning new skills is supposed to be character-building, but counterpoint: I have plenty of character already, surely adding more would be excessive

This is something I hadn't considered about #GLP-1 use www.menshealth.com/nutrition/a7...

Any book that results in a thread like this is a must-read

OH. WOW.

Bookish friends: we’re building an auction to support my health/recovery fund. If you can donate a critique, signed book, Zoom consult, classroom Q&A, art, swag, or anything bookish, I’d be so, so grateful. We have 11 donations so far. Please DM me if you can help.

Really looking forward to reading this!!!

Down to my literal last dollar getting Ciri checked out + fecal test. A friend told me to post my Ko-Fi so I’m posting it. ko-fi.com/A50425V

Wow, my (fairly small) library has The Foxhole Court! I discovered this by seeing it on a list of titles for kids and teens, which doesn't seem like the best fit. (High school age, sure, but I wouldn't broadly rec to anyone younger than that.)

one person in this romance novel has a dick that is both longer and thicker doesn't that break one of the laws of thermodicknamics?

oh this is GORGEOUS 🏳️‍⚧️💙

Today in utterly useless tales of successful author marketing: this post amused me so much I bought a book, just to support this wit (and to entertain future me)

The second time I read fanfiction I didn't know that was what I was reading because I wasn't familiar with it, as I was just finding my feet in fandom (The first time I read it I had never heard of fanfiction, and I doubt the person who sent it to me had, either) (1/4)

it's been one of those weeks where i listened to the black parade for like 40 hours tempted to modify the text on the rainbow molotov cocktail cross-stitch pattern to say "a light to burn all the empires"

brb, making sure i have the local wet bulb monitoring site pulled up on all my devices and planning to read some Frederick Douglass under a ceiling fan for the 4th

The novella edition of BY THIEVES-LIGHT is here! Available on and off Amazon in epub, and for the first time in paperback! I am so excited to finally have this out at last, with another of their stories now out in SHATTER THE SUN as well.

crol trying to decide how much Stanley Cup merch I want. Maybe if I left the house more it would be an excuse for more shirts?

Really really enjoyed Sorcery and Small Magics (Doocy) and I very much hope we get the rest of this planned trilogy because wow do I want a happy ending for these two (but very glad there's no cliffhanger here)

Lol four months after I declared myself done with the local party I got myself fully reinvolved again But it's entirely on my terms and making use of my strengths rather than forcing me to into a box with all of my weaknesses that then floods with anxiety, so 🤞🤞🤞

#hockey istg it looked like freddie (i think) tried to pass the cup to aho but aho told him to pass it to hall first, and i have an absolutely appropriate amount of feelings about this

omg they really fucking did it (and also i was one of the first ~250 people to follow Nik Ehlers on twitter when the Mooseheads drafted him and now he has a stanley cup) 🌀🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I am finally on track to become the tea person I always wanted to be, but was running into the challenges that 1) I don't always need 5 mugs in 3 hours 2) sometimes I need caffeine to make caffeine My newly-acquired dozen mason jars (+ refrigerator) are doing a fantastic job solving both problems

#CatTax here are 3 photos of Sasha playing with the drawstring of some joggers I left in the floor

if you can spare any good vibes for Sasha cat (and her people), please?

I am starting to think that maybe? this really could? be the year the Canes do the thing??? And having that hope is just such a good feeling

A former student of mine has been in the hospital since April and has just found out they'll need brain surgery and more procedures. They are in a hospital 3 hours away from home, and their family could use some financial relief from the hotel and travel costs. Can you help? gofund.me/24820559c

I adored both of these books and definitely rec them if they sound at all up your alley.

Today in terrible ideas: an Ilya vid that starts out with the opening of "My Immortal" (with some sort of record scratch moment and a song change to idek what) FORTUNATELY I haven't learned to vid yet so we are all spared

oh how i love a book where you get more from it the more times you read it also very much in my era of wanting stories about people who see 40 in the rear view

#hockey Ugh, former teenage mutant ninja hertl, why'd you have go and do that? (also he's 32 now, which makes my head ache more than it was)

This review is brilliant and I am looking forward to rereading all of Murderbot with it in mind 😍

Okay, did the roost thing -- am ainsley there

#hockey I have to say I'm kind of excited about the Hurricanes

lol i celebrated one of the rare times i managed to get my annual car inspection done on time with said vehicle overheating while running errands afterward (it cooled off and i'm safely at the shop, again, since it looks like I may have a leak)

Had to do a work task I did NOT want to do today but virtual WisCon was the best company 💙

I don’t want to reach the most people, I want to reach the best people* * weird sickos (complementary) who understand all my obscure TV references

Everything has been a struggle lately, but I've had several unexpected small kindnesses (most of which were not intended as such) and sometimes that makes an outsized difference 💙

Today was a series of weird events BUT I just found a bookmark I've been looking for since the 10th so clearly non-work things are going to improve from here 🎉

like, okay, sure, i have tonsillitis and a sinus infection, whatever, so it goes but a nosebleed? nope, that's too much (fortunately i wfh so the stained shirt is an old t-shirt and not work clothes that i'm stuck in for the rest of the day)

Definitely glad I read this piece, and am probably going to find myself quoting the quotation "LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth"

In other news, my hed iz pastede on yay is 22 and I still have to routinely remember that phrase only means something to a small group of people so I need to not use it in work chats

Woohoo registered for WisCon!

This article is so important. It shines a light on bookstores and communities on the front lines of the Long Covid crisis we face, what they're doing to protect people, and how we can support them. Also hell yes indies and BOOKS! (And they shout out our Covid Safety Guide, w00t!) Read and share ⬇️

This sounds fascinating and I hope they're right (or on the right track) -- PEM is terrible and ME/CFS affects so many people

I always thought being part of that argument would be the biggest thing I ever did in fandom, but I think involvement in the AO3 founding is bigger at this point.

If you have the spare $20 we all keep passing around (or part of it), perclexed is great and could use it this go-round 💙

A while back I decided to read all of Jimmy Carter's easily accessible books. The one I'm reading now is mostly very prescient (discussing the religious right) but oof the idea of waiting for the Supreme Court to decide something (and also the idea that an SC ruling would end the debate)

May the Firth be with you

Would the Valdemar books hold up well to being read for the first time now, or are they more a nostalgia thing for folks who grew up with them?

1) this is very interesting 2) it links to a book bundle featuring morally grey ace characters, which seems like it may be of interest to some of you