And every time you bitch about it we add another one

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I wrote a poem in a dream last night: Title: TFW you used to be a piranha but now you're just some other damn fish Poem: Man, this river blows. Ding, ding. Dinner bell.

Best day of blog traffic since the itch.io news broke, and this time it's on something that's actually good :))

At Tuscon52 in Tucson (both of those are spelled correctly) feeling weird about going to an SFF con after like 6 years, knowing probably noone. Ugh. Social anxiety.

Congratulations to NYC. Unfortunately, all the bajillionaires who threatened to leave if he won will probably not do so, but then again, you could get lucky.

The Thomas english muffins company has made the incredible decision to advertise their breadly delights with a dignified english pantry twink.

FYI this recipe is good www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking... But also for me it serves like 20 instead of 12 bc if I ate a piece that size i would die

Finn got some pumpkin puree for Halloween.

Wordle 1,594 2/6 🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

"haha this is funny music" "I use AI to make the songs and modify them after" *sigh* *throws into trash*

Spend 4+ hrs drawing 2 30x30 dungeon maps for a 6-8 hr module. Players in 2 hours beeline directly to the bbeg's bedroom through the most boring passageways and without doing any investigation immediately find the portal directly to the end battle.

nope, i don't have time for more than a driveby on the Discourse because a) some people say "triggered" and they mean triggered but b) other people say "triggered" and they mean that they just kinda didn't like it and wanted a slightly different ending but mostly the d&d session I planned is Big

The Surrey International Writers Conference has been my favorite conference for over a decade. This year, it's not happening, because the hotel is in a labor disputed. SiWC had already purchased plane tickets, etc, for all the presenters. Can you help ensure its future? gofund.me/19c353dac

None lies detected

We all have different tastes, but I sideeye people who utterly flip out if a book FOR ADULTS, NO LESS! has "sex" in it. Honey, grow the fuck up and skim the bits you don't want to read. I both understand and respect the fanfic community in general, but the one thing it did incubate in some people

Logical rebuttals don't work on book banners, so I'll try using their own language against them.

Like sure the NRA is only really committed to defending one really specific trans right, the right to own as many firearms as we can fit into our living spaces the same as cis people, but that's one more right than the Dems are committed to defending so here we are.

It really says something about the current political moment that the NRA is more committed to defending trans rights than Democrats are.

One of James Cagney's little acting quirks was that after 1932's Taxi! he flat-out refused to be shot at with actual bullets.

So, uh... I just had to drop $1200 on vet bills for this goober, because he's literally full of shit. He may have pancreatitis or it may be an obstruction. He needs a second x-ray in the AM & maybe surgery. So... uh. Help? Buy some art? Some writing? Just give me cash?

i think you need a baby sea otter swimming with mom right about now...

"well it's your fault that you're suffering from AWS being down because you're giving amazon money" the problem is that shopping amazon dot com doesn't matter to their bottom line because a vast amount of the internet uses AWS services to run their websites.

the special kind of salty when an artist has saguaro on their show poster but is not playing anywhere near the sonora desert ;_;

youtu.be/yHrhb5Q0ufI?... Start at 22:15 and watch 25 seconds.

Preemptively feeling sportsball sadness and like how dare you get my hopes up again when I've been just minding my own business for the past 24 years.

The first season of the original care bears is on youtube and they are 100% a cult. "We're celebrating care-a-lot, when they started the care bears family, it's like a birthday for everyone" The leaders are off on a care mission. O-O'

Though I suppose the worst part of DMing is when you prep like crazy and end up with the table nobody wants to be at. I feel simultaneously friendless and bad at everything.

The further we go, the more I think maybe storm king's thunder was not the best "first full adventure" for me to run, mostly because it is very "sure wander around" which I don't mind, but I'm relatively inexperienced so I'm doing a lot of ??? and supplementing.

Skyrim is just riding in a wagon with a guy with a lot of makeup on his face and Oblivion is just walking in a dungeon with Patrick Stewart.

Every time I open the fridge.

"Fartle" when a dog farts and the sound of their own fart startles them.

kinda sad

Of note 🧪🔭 Thanks for sharing, @chanda.blacksky.app , and for your years of service.

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

My friends and I call it submissions Tetris

It's always a little fun/odd when someone is melting down about how they don't have the privilege they're used to having, and they're claiming this is a symptom of the world being against them specifically, and like, their state of being "oppressed" is still so wildly privileged that it boggles.

*sweats in "I'm from washington state and my team is in the lead and now i am waiting to hear they blew it and this is the only unhinged anxiety that is blowing past my meds"*

as I've said many times, Columbus was such a monster that even his contemporary settler colonialist genocidal monsters were like "dude what the FUCK"

Now they're destroying my university. I note that once upon a time, the University was noted for standing up against this kind of crap. Breaks my heart to see it.

the reasoning for removing the 8 books off this is super vague and needs clarity. let's help these kids get answers.

Please share the news about these students working to get transparency on why books were removed from a statewide reading bowl (including a book ON book banning!!) bookriot.com/helen-ruffin... And then sign their petition here: www.change.org/p/ensure-tra...

On Saturday I was DMing and I expanded my DM philosophy to include that I don't care what the book or module says, if the players see griffons and immediately want to go pet griffons, we are going to the aerie and they are petting the griffons.

seriously fuck this guy

Shol did!

In my game bags of holding canonically now have smiley faces instead of smiling faces.

He stay shaking the table.

Semi-regular reminder that I am a developmental editor, not an acquiring editor. This means that I can work with you to make your book better, but even if it is the best book ever, I cannot buy it and publish it. Also, if you are trying to sell your book, you should find an agent (also not me).