I have no boughs and I must deck

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I’m alive, I was just reading Les Mis

friendly reminder from your family first christian streamer

#writers #queerwriters how do you deal with rejection? I know I’m not supposed to take it personally but it’s hard not to. they say there’s all sorts of factors involved but at the end of the day if the story was actually good it wouldn’t matter. how do I not feel so worthless?

holy fucking shit DBT works

Probably "Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament” by Clive Barker but I love almost everything in the first 3 Books of Blood volumes

Generally just never know what to post on here but I finished a story and have been working on a couple other ones, not sure if they’re actually good ideas though One is a little experimental and hard to pin down genre wise, the other is just a magical girl riff

I haven’t talked about my reading or really anything on here lately, in part because I’ve just been reading a lot of mid stuff aside from some nonfiction, but I did just start John Langan’s Sefira and Other Betrayals which is exciting

OH and I finished all of the Cyteen books finally they were a lot of fun, hoping to check out more Cherryh relatively soon

so now I’m going to start Them by Joyce Carol Oates, who I’ve never read before (though I’ve seen Sweet Talk, based on 1 of her short stories). I basically chose this at random but I’m excited to see what’s up

I just finished Naomi Novik’s Spinning Silver, which was very beautiful. Very “being told a story as you drift off to sleep warm and safe” vibe, which was nice for a change

another writing rejection, another sakedon (I am growing increasingly discouraged)

straining hard not to be annoying by replying "they do not want to" after every post i see wondering why the democrats are not scoring this or that obvious open goal, but yes the answer is that they do not want to

finished Anna Karenina in like 11 days so basically I’m god

if i text you this just know you’re cooked

one of my stories got moved to “in progress” on submittable I’m absolutely shitting myself

rejection received, cheese plate imminent lfg

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on day 2 of my Anna Karenina grindset, I greatly dislike this Vronsky fellow

How can you expect air travel to be done safely what with the Last Jedi and dragon age gay romance option and things of that nature?

finished reading Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain for my book club. I liked it a lot to start, but then it kinda lost me when it became about the trials and tribulations of home ownership. gonna be interesting talking about this in a room full of people my age lol

every time I play marvel rivals there’s always one character that annoys the hell out of me every match that day. usually squirrel girl, tonight it was the punisher.

I have this rule now that if I get a writing rejection I buy myself dinner I have four things currently submitted, so that’s potentially four dinners!

behind on my yearly reading goal bc I’m listening to Cyteen by CJ Cherryh, which is a 36 hour audiobook. I’m about 15 hours in and I like it a lot so far: great POV work and a pretty fascinating nature/nurture discussion.

well my feed is all cats now, I’m not complaining it’s just all cats

Despite everything, I write stuff sometimes and am looking for more community and support when it comes to publishing. I’m really not built for this shit but here I am!