I have to be real, I started indie publishing because I was frustrated by the lack of control and autonomy in trad. The idea that indies "have to use AI to compete" is genuinely insulting because the whole highlight of indie is that you can do it all yourself & hire cool people to help you.

The first time @totallydonna.kitrocha.com & I met in person, Chris Evans was running back and forth past us in an airport. Neither of us knew who Chris Evans was, so it wasn't very exciting in 2001 but it is retroactively an amazing story.

I wanted to call 911 like 5 lines into this. Has anyone done a wellness check on this woman?!?

the last couple years ran me over so hard there were a few tasks I was just desperately late on, like things where people had been incredibly patience but my ADHD trauma had me stuck in both avoidance & meltdown anxiety. but I overcame that today and I want to go cry. I'm almost caught up!!!

I am actually really good at GeoGuessr but this is not how I want to use that skill, it is supposed to be a useless skill 😭

Thanks to FedEx once again FedExing, I'm currently on Google Street View trying to figure out where this fucking Bigfoot Quality shot of some random porch is, because they left $150 worth of filament there.

Oh, you mean THIS masterpiece of a series? 😍📚❤️

Man I'm still rewatching WoT S3 and I'm so thrilled I got my Battle Faile Knife Wife. She was everything I wanted her to be, she was the Faile her defense squad already loved. Perrin/Faile 4evah

An Extraordinary Union deserves to blow the fuck up, and yes I'm biased but also I'm still right

Who doesn't love a dinosaur? Who doesn't love a rainbow? Who couldn't love RAINBOW DINOSAURS! We have four adorable little guys just looking for a home. http://thebrokencirc...

I can't see whatever Emily has quote tweeted because they blocked it or I blocked them, either way seems great news for me. But the extent to which not understanding menstruation is destroying lives and ACTUALLY SOMETIMES KILLING PEOPLE is pretty wild and we should talk about it more!

Any epub folks wanna feel OLD? Here is the moment Kindle became a THING. (I used to do graphs each year of which vendors our ebook sales came from.)

Our power came back on at like 4:30 am and I had to get up and check the freeze dryer and all the 3D printers, so I am going to go back to bed because no one can tell me not to. LOL

DO NOT FALL FOR IT. MTG peeling off the right to continue their internal backstabbing party? Go to it, lady. The left handing it to the Jewish Space Laser Lady? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Thank you so much to everyone who has chipped in. 💓 We have $2400 now which means I won't have to pay the entire month on my own, which I am extra grateful for. This amazing woman was trying so hard not to bother anyone, I'm so happy we're going to be able to take this weight off her shoulders!

Which is why places like @scarleteen.com matter SO much. This year WAWC provided a $25k grant so they can continue helping those in states like Alabama where there is no other option. You can help, too… www.classy.org/give/566676/...

Well the cold front came in and gave us like 7 minutes of scary rain and that was apparently enough to take out the power

I had to block them a while ago because they would follow me, quote post me with something that always was cheerfully offensive at best and incoherent at worst, and then unfollow me until next time.

remembering to switch from AC to heat before I go to bed like a smart person. 🤣 happy december 29th, I guess?

Jon Stewart has been so freaking WEIRD about Covid. Like just consistently out there WEIRD. Weird to the point that I don't want to listen to him on any other topic. John Oliver has been running laps around him for a long time now.

I like to use up the tiny mismatched ends of filament rolls by making tiny dragons and turtles and these might be my favorite tiny turtles yet.

Thank you so much, folks, we are half way there!!!

I think the math on this is that every American including babies are going to have to lose 300+ pounds and while I am obviously a huge fan of GLP-1s (saved my life! resolved my autoimmune issues!) I'm not sure I recommend everyone losing 300+ pounds by the midterms?

AID REQUEST: a local friend left an abusive marriage to protect her non-binary child from an unsafe situation. They were doing their best but got side-swiped & are now 3 months behind on rent. Their rent is only $900/mo. I'm going to pay 1. Can you help with the other 2? ko-fi.com/kitrocha/goa...

the only feed I look at on here is the Gift Links/Gift Articles one. I don't even know how to find Popular With Friends or Discover, I removed them that one time I figured out how. LOL

Got to write my disaster boys 😭😭😭 (Out February 4th, preorder now!)

Man, The Road to the Spear is still one of the best episodes of television I have ever seen. I don't know if I would feel that way if they hadn't so deftly adapted a part of these books I would have sworn was literally unadaptable, but Rosamund Pike and Josha Stradowski remain legendary.

I have used the same nail supplier since I opened Dragonsworn in 2016. A gallon of nail polish base, April 2016-November 2024: $82.95 A gallon of nail polish base, today: $126.95

It's going to be 74F today and 25F tomorrow and I would like a refund on existing in a body sensitive to dramatic weather shifts.

Anyway here is the most successful promo I've ever done for a book. YOU DO NOT NEED AI.

I was so annoyed I texted Courtney. 🤣

(Paul is just posting this, not responsible for it, don't attack him.) I am actually 100% open to having conversations about AI, but unfortunately the conversations often start from the premise "the tools that are being found to fail ~90% of the time in actual use are inevitable" And I disagree. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I get what you were going for, guys, but I'm not sure this is the header I would have used for this table

Also, no way in hell would I explain or admit on a public forum 1) which gears, 2) which sand, and 3) the figurative distance to some very real cliffs and the chasms below. Things are happening. Don't lose hope, joy, spite, or the knowledge on how to fuck shit up completely legally.

be the sand darth vader doesn't want to see in the world

the Zip Code Based Empathy block list is getting a workout tonight. lol

Listen, if I didn't know a single person in this country who fought back against this administration in multiple ways large and small, I'm not sure I'd be getting on the internet and bragging about my weird choice in friends.

this is the only news I want in 2025

lol anyone want to see how old we are in self-pub years?

following for antarctica content

yeah this might be it. like I'm braced for evil, and cruelty, and all sorts of other shit. but how can you be braced for multiple of the most powerful men on the planet being this fragile and pathetic???

This is me, I am that person. 😂 I did this to @robertjduperre.bsky.social last night

Honestly? Living in Alabama. When you live between Selma and Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, it is fairly impossible to fall into the "this is the worst it has ever been and it can't get better" pit. It was way worse for people here, in living memory, and they didn't shrug & give up. So I can't either.

This is what building resilience looks like - it's creating networks and pathways as well as creating art and it's also what I'm up to at the library

Getting involved with local organizing and meeting HUNDREDS of neighbors who are standing up EVERY DAMN DAY. Find your organizing home, friends. It's waiting for you and it makes everything better.

I am not going to educate myself deeply on today's discourse except to say that I have had to spend more time thinking about not doing election crimes than anyone who is neither a lawyer nor running for office SHOULD EVER BE FORCED TO DO, and I still find every screencap I'm seeing exhausting.

I've had a few people say to me (on the heels of watching Heated Rivalry) that they wished there were sapphic hockey romances, and folks... let me tell you the good news about @kellyfarmerauthor.bsky.social! www.kellyfarmerauthor.com/books

I am so relieved that me and the 2 year old are now besties, because I have never had a baby not love me before and it was sincerely damaging my self-image. THE FEUD IS OVER. CUPCAKES WON

We're currently doing our post Friendsmas tradition of writing down the things we want to leave behind in 2025 and burning them in the fire pit and mine was "my final fuck"

I made banana cupcakes with caramel frosting for a lovely little girl's second birthday, but when Mr. Bree put candles on it she was like "are y'all nuts that thing is ON FIRE" and now she will not touch the cupcakes even tho the candles are gone. 😂