I was lucky enough to chat with @tkingfisher.com for @publisherswkly.bsky.social about “Snake-Eater,” the strangeness of the southwest, and how roadrunners are actually pseudo-velociraptors: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I hate every single part leading up to this whole, but the idea that AI is decimating vital resources to steal from fan communities and sex workers so that terminally online dudebros can get halfway into a plagiarized story only to discover it's not misogynistic enough is very funny actually.

Pandora's Tale Chapter 6 Cover The next three chapters are probably my favorite run of the series so far. Lots of emotions and lore!

Hey cool! I have 4 with plans for at least two more, and I know many of you have them too

You know when a dream isn't a nightmare, isn't a hideous screaming thing, it's just your subconscious pricking you with a scalpel and leaving a tiny bleed three inches down? ...yeah

Poor #baby has hit sleep regression and her tired little brain is so fucking confused by this nonsense. She's EXHAUSTED but still taking ten minute cat naps and then waking up to stare at the middle distance for half an hour. It's hard to be a baby!

So I slept ZERO last night, thanks campaign 3 of Critical Role! Just like five high tension, can't put it down episodes ending in cliffhangers in a fucking ROW did you not hear about how sometimes a person's soul needs to fucking REST

Tag urself I want to be maker of sand views but suspect I'm merely colourist of artificial fish

Pandora's Tale Chapter 5 Cover This is a fun chapter. Also check out Pandora's extremely lesbian outfit

Pandora's Tale Chapter 4 Cover Here we go with chapter 4~

Okay so I have a confession to make... I've owned a copy of Magica Riot by @magicariot.com for months but I'm only just now getting around to it (actually the audiobook version). And it's SO MUCH FUN. Like, I'm only a quarter of the way in but wow, this book was written for me

Officially embarking on NEW (to me) October Daye -- I stopped reading them as they came out when I developed a passionate attachment to my LBS and started buying hardcovers instead of ebooks, bc I never remember to carry books with me. Be The Serpent is FUCKING TERRIFYING, y'all

Pandora's Tale Chapter 3 Cover Time for chapter three! This is a fun cover. "Cops Can't Read" is the name of a song by the Salt Lake band Fists in the Wind. The fancy R is the symbol of the resistance, and it's based on 🜇, the alchemical symbol for aqua regia, an acid mixture that dissolves gold.

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My brain is so tired today that it can't pick a background noise or a thing to read. Not tired enough not to NEED background noise/book, just tired enough that it can't focus on what I *was* reading and listening to (it's new, it requires active attention) or make a choice of backup familiar options

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

if by normal you mean i know how to filter my porn by ship/rating/length/kink and promptly download everything to my kindle named after a character in said porn, then absolutely yes

why does the library have books 1, 2, and 4 of this series is it to hurt me personally

Pandora's Tale Chapter 2 Cover Let's go with chapter two!

Spent all weekend hiding in either warm water or a heated weighted blanket nest. Thankfully the worst of it finally wore off about 3 a.m. but if I didn't have to work I would probably still be huddled.

I haven't had this bad or this lasting a flare in a WHILE and I am *NOT HAPPY*

My day was supposed to be Eaten by obligations and instead it's been Eaten by chronic pain flare and I prefer the obligations, if it's all the same to you, uncaring universe

We deserve this

Pandora's Tale Chapter 1 Cover GUESS I'M DOING THIS Actually pretty fond of this cover. The blue liquid full of blue boys and the blue cables going into her back, while she herself is pink. Could this be in some way symbolic? By the way this isn't how Helpers are actually made

Girldick? How about

... Contender for grossest subhead ever published!?!?

Took the full dose of migraine preventative last night --which I don't always manage, I have to be going to bed on time bc it makes me sleep heavily -- and have woken up with a migraine anyway, which seems unfair

Rereading October Daye and watching Critical Role simultaneously is giving me some fun ideas about casting.

good time to call your democratic reps and describe to them what having a spine might look like

Calling the festival When We Were Young feels just a LITTLE on the nose...

Been rereading the October Daye series while baby naps -- partly bc there's a new one soon, and partly because @seananmcguire.bsky.social asked which one was our favorite, and I wanted a fresh opinion I'm now up to #6, and I think this may be it, at least so far.

"They want to have transgender for everybody" In truth, the rising number of agender people has led to a market flooded with excess gender. A gender surplus, causing hyper gender inflation. Google hyper gender inflation to learn more

I was meant to have all morning to Adult Productively and instead I have had all morning of Tire Crisis Adulting, which involves mass amounts of stress, standing around waiting, and getting fucking nothing else done. Also being deeply thankful for spending ONLY $100 I don't have.

I just had a dream involving strippers and, eventually, an orgy. I, an asexual woman, spent the entire dream trying to find a shirt so I could replace the one I had spilled on, and trying to get to my car so I could go feed a dog. Dear Dream King: what address did you mix up with mine, good grief

A streaming service is trying to tell me Leverage is "chilling suspense TV" ...I... ...I just... ...I can't even... ...for billionaires, maybe??!?!???

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HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN THIS COVER BEFORE

This was lovely 💕

i'm being snide but actually i'm real proud of everyone who hassled them into this. like, we lost! the board voted yes on SROs! but--if we'd given up--it would have been four officers with a million dollars and no rules. there's real, actual value in not knowing when to quit!!

our local police department--which was previously planning to ask for an extra $800k to police our kids--has magically discovered that actually they have enough money internally. wow! really makes you feel like these numbers are very real and not made up at all!

L'shanah Tovah to all those out there beginning their year -- I hope this year contains many little sweetnesses to help you remember why we keep going and keep fighting

I mean personally I'd much rather hang out with an autistic child doing their own thing than with an allistic adult trying to convince me that that kid being different makes them a trial to be endured. If anyone is doing a survey.

As an educator and as an autistic person who had to self-dx and do all the research for the kind of support and kindness and accommodations she needed in her late 20s, I'm profoundly thankful for parents like these. Also as an educator and autistic person, Fuck This Administration So Fucking Hard

early screening got us and our kid so much help, so many lovely people who have come into his life and seen him. But this admin seems determined to simply stop measuring data it doesn't like

And if you believe this i absolutely have some oceanfront property in AZ to sell you.

I'm so incredibly exhausted for no real reason Baby naps best when being held but this chair is not a recliner and I keep almost napping with her 😭😭😭

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There are 118 known genders, comprising: 6 alkali metal genders 6 alkaline earth genders 14 lanthanide genders 14 actinide genders 40 transition metal genders 8 post-transition metal genders 6 metalloid genders 11 nonmetal genders 6 halogen genders and the 7 noble genders

and of course the way he clearly thinks "hostility" is purely ideological or conversational, rather than, you know, violent. baby our disagreement is that i want them to have healthcare and they want to hunt my friends for sport

The GFs finally got me into Critical Role (they let me drag my feet for years, they were respecting my boundaries, I was a FOOL) by starting me "small" with the Crown Keepers (OPAL IS MY BABY, I WILL KILL FOR HER) and then I rolled right into Campaign 3.