Absolutely devoured this book. It has so many of my favorite things. And the imagery is lovely. www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

I have a definite *thing* for "powerful magical person with dark past who transforms into an eager creepy puppydog toward the first person who treats them with a crumb of kindness". Read the first chapter of "The Traitor and the Wretch" today during lunch and I can't wait to finish work. #BookSky

I'm just saying, we could settle this with swords, instead of 30+ emails. 🤺 #artWIP

🐺𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 Make sure to properly bathe your werewolf partners specially if they're out in the forest chasing criminals, finding lost folks or getting into tussles with other supernatural beings! Zanesha belongs to @orkidebelladona.bsky.social

6yo: I love reading now, Mommy! I know all kinds of words and how to spell them, all because of reading! And the things I learn at school make it so much easier to read! I LOVE READING! LOOK AT ALL THESE WORDS! She's telling me all about her book and why Hannah is a thunder dragon. #parenting

In my published series, Shane is a deeply traumatized necromancer haunted both figuratively and literally by his past mistakes. He wants to atone, and has decided that raising the son of his last victim as his own is the best way to do that. (Yes, he coparents with her ghost). #WeeknightWriters

I write too slow. I have all these notes on where they're going and how they'll get there and I want to see them get there and share that journey with others, but my writing time can't keep up with the ideas. #WeeknightWriters

When I'm still getting to know a character I'll often write side story shorts about them interacting with each other to get a feel for their dynamics. I don't always finish the stories. That's less important. (Sometimes my newsletter gets them, though.) #WeeknightWriters

I didn't realize it until some writing friends pointed it out to me, but character motivation is my favorite part. What do they want? Why? And what *won't* they do to get it? It gives me a lot to play with. #WeeknightWriters

My characters tell me what to write. You seriously think I have any control over them? #FirstDraftFall

Hi! I'm Morgan, and I write queer space fantasy. Currently have two WIPS: - edits on book 3 of my published series about found family, redemption, and (book 3) taking over a criminal org so they can properly resurrect their dead allies - a toxic lesbian romance standalone #FirstDraftFall

@victoriamharris.bsky.social (1 of 2) As someone familiar with the space, but not interested in manuscripts like mine, I feel it's safe to ask you: I reread my manuscript and found about 1k words of bloat in the opening that slowed it down. I razored and reseeded the info. It was recommended to me

I don't have battery in any of my current WIPs, so I hope an excerpt from a book 1 of #MordenaDawn is okay. #WritingCommunity #WIPSnips #Vazdimet

Someone wants dinner. #CatsOfBluesky

6yo: Mommy, you need your phone. Me: I thought you were reading to me. 6yo: I need thunder effects. 6yo (reading): "How does she make it thunder all the time?" 6yo: See! I need THUNDER sounds! #parenting

Listening to a soundscape called Medieval Library and it has a mechanical clock ticking away. I thought there's no way that's historically accurate. "The earliest mechanical clocks appeared in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries." So, yes. It's historically accurate, and I learned something new.

One again, no writing this weekend. Got a lot of reading in, though! But I really want to get out of this slump.

How many times do I need to disable PayPal's auto-login option for it to stop periodically re-enabling it? I never said this was a trusted device. I turned off the master setting that claims it disables all auto-login. Every few months it still sends me this email. THIS IS NOT GOOD CYBERSECURITY.

Peaches likes being read to. (She looks slightly alarmed, but she's fine. 6yo and I were having a mild argument about how to pronounce the word "kept".) #parenting

There's a thunderstorm in this chapter, so I'm playing one of the thunderstorms from mynoise.net while she reads and she's absolutely thrilled.

aaand I'm back on Swordtember progress :D it was really lovely taking a good pause from it while my family came out to visit 🥰 jumping back in with "clock" felt appropriate to get things moving again #PixelArt #Aseprite #Swordtember #Swordtember2025

Was looking up Cinzel last night for Book Cover Purposes (no, I'm not using Cinzel, I had Other Good Reasons). Anyway, now I'm wondering how long Google Fonts has been using the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights as their sample text. fonts.google.com/specimen/Cin...

6yo: It would be cool if we could move our teeth around in our mouth. So when you want to smile you can make them curve up, or curve down when you want to frown, and flossing would be WAY EASIER. #parenting

Love #CatsOfBluesky

Merriam-Webster is celebrating my birthday this year. (Yes, I just added it to my wishlist. 🎁)

The downside of teaching the kids to have confidence in themselves is they call me out for my lack of it. 6yo: You're the best Mommy ever! Me: I try. 6yo (hands on hips): Why do you keep saying that? You're not trying, you're already DOING it! #parenting

This is the first day that NPR and public media will function without federal funding in fifty years.

All that reading to the kids before bed has paid off. Now they read ME a bedtime story most nights. Here's 6yo's pick, a chapter a night. Some of the words are a little challenging (musician, excitement, huge) but she's sounding them out and cheers when she gets them right. #parenting

Beloved librarian @mychal3ts.bsky.social will take the helm as host of the reboot of 'Reading Rainbow' when it returns this Saturday, October 4! 🤩🌈 Read more: https://bit.ly/3WelbAT

Partner was snoring in the living room, and I was half asleep, so rather than get up I called him on his cell phone to tell him to come to bed. Not *my* fault his ringtone is the Imperial March. 🤣

The joys of getting out of bed to check the (closed!) fridge at 2am because brain has decided it hears the door alarm beep.

At the vet for Peaches' shot. She's all the way in the back room and I can hear her growling from here. She's all bluster, she only brings the claws out for climbing. But she will absolutely REGISTER HER COMPLAINTS with this establishment.

This is so sweet. 💕

I'm in this, too! Lots of great books here. Take a look: itch.io/b/3254/new-w...

Continuing to poke my in-universe course catalog, just to keep the creative juices flowing. Asked 6yo what class she would invent if she could teach anything. Here's where our collaboration led us:

My first attempt at K-Pop Demon Hunter pumpkin carving stencils! They need some adjustments to be easier to carve but planning on selling printable versions soon. #kpopdemonhunters

I finally got some writing time tonight! My brain's too fried to work on the things I'm supposed to be doing, so I'm overhauling the Mordena's course catalog. Only 2 people are ever going to read it, but it's fun and I need fun right now. I mean, look at this ridiculousness.

6yo: Daddy! 8yo's being mean! 8yo: She's been terrorizing me by threatening not to play with me anymore. 6yo: But that's in the past. We don't need to worry about that now, we need to worry about what just happened, which is you being mean! Partner: That's not how this works, 6yo. #parenting

Or you can hire Inky to create some art for you. I promise that you won't regret it.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

I have had worse mornings than this morning but not for a long time. But. The kids are finally at school, my shirt should hopefully dry before I get to the office, and there's a chance I used up today's allotment of bad luck already. Here's hoping.

The kids always make me cry, especially the LGBTQ ones. This isn’t the world I wanted to leave them. Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6ohGPwQ/

Told her she could use one of my weights if she let me brush her teeth. She's doing 20 reps each arm, and wants the leg weights next. #parenting

6yo here doing chin ups on the sofa in her Elsa dress. She's running me through her gym fitness routine from school and she's going hard. I taught her a new exercise for her ankles and she's thrilled. Did ten of them. Me: Toothbrush time! 6yo: I'm not done my workout yet! #parenting

I stayed up way too late reading Welcome to Dorley Hall last night. It was what I expected, but also so much more. This is the sort of book that will sit with me for a while. I can absolutely understand why it's received the attention it has.

Finally reading Welcome to Dorley Hall and... "If it’s bad opsec to list your crimes on a coffee mug, it’s worse to be caught drinking out of it." I snorted. 😂 🌈📚 #BookSky

Peaches loves these because I sit still the whole time. #CatsOfBluesky

I'll be live on @worldanvil.com's Twitch in ~10 minutes, alongside the talented @luridity.com and CB Ash, reading story excerpts for Short Story September. twitch.tv/worldanvil/

I dunno, guys. I love that I’m not treated as “the trans cartoonist.” It never comes up if I don’t bring it up. But at a historical moment like this, I feel like, as a trans woman with a bit of visibility, I can’t not say something.