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Correction: warm country Catholics are sexy, cold country Catholics are sad because the long northern winters give them more time to brood on their sins.

Some converts need to stop reading Anne Catherine Emmerich and start reading Julian of Norwich stat.

Yeah little known fact but as an asexual Catholic, I'm here to tell you that Catholic guilt has nothing to do with sex.

I almost wish "the pope gets AOC elected president" was a viable scenario in any universe besides Peter Thiel's fevered imagination.

I have no idea why reactionaries want so badly to tug at the strings of the parachute that is secular democracy.

Sorry Poles, I'm sure you're hot too.

The overlap between pickup artists and converts to traditional forms of Christianity not known for their sex positivity is also deeply odd.

No video games in the monastery

Anyways, I was reading again about exvangelical converts to Orthodoxy and Catholicism, and it occurred to me that many of them are trying to win at Christianity, not realizing that winning isn't the point (from the Catholic and I think Orthodox perspectives).

Also, how culty are the Cullens? Like, "large family that keeps to themselves" screams high-control environment to me but I never read the books.

"Why weren't the Cullens homeschooled when that would have solved so many logistical problems with raising immortal vampire offspring" is now my Big Question. I mean these are Mormon vampires for fuck's sake.

Also how come the other people in Forks didn't figure out that the Cullens never aged?

I actually have Ciarán & co. eat in the first chapter. I briefly describe the food, but it's pretty simple fare and doesn't warrant any purple prose.

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As someone who never read a Twilight it was a trip to learn that the Cullen "siblings" are all dating.

Most drivers are fine but Road Rage Georg needs to be a little less of a thing

Oh is it the day of the big party thing

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Sadly it's that easy.

The only two emotions worth writing about are existential angst and loving your friends. That's why lord of the rings is a good book.

It do be like that sometimes

I have not done all my writing this week but holy shit I'm so tired.

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I did not have to build him a cake, because some of his friends brought him delicious things to eat including a pumpkin and a salad. Happy birthday, Jeremy!

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

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When you’ve had enough of people and decide to live on top of a pillar for 36 years…

Dusting is so stupid. Nothing has touched the top of my bookshelf in months, what do you mean it's covered in a fine layer of crud.

Slightly diminish a book: The Guy and the Plastic Ring He Got From the Grocery Store Gumball Machine

I dusted my shelves, tables, and various surfaces. Please clap.

Traveling back in time to tell a medieval peasant that dragons aren't real but dinosaurs are, or were, except they died, and they're a totally different thing actually.

Despite its modern setting and science fiction trappings, the Jurassic Park franchise is best understood as an example of the immram (voyage) genre of medieval literature. In this essay I will

Well! Yesterday was mostly a wash due to brain fog.

Also Violet is in gremlin mode and won't let me write.

I gotta finish this newsletter but I'm getting to the part where I have to explain what a syllogism is and I don't wanna.

I'm increasingly coming to realize that Monk WIP is about, well, brotherhood.

My goal in Monk WIP is to bait both queer and straight readers. True compromise is when no one's happy.

Whomst among us hasn’t contemplated the sins that caused us to be trapped on this island (Earth)

all will be revealed during the velocirapture

Do dinosaurs have souls? Can they be baptized?

I mean in the story, Ciarán makes friends with a miniature demon named Furunculus, does that count? #SFFChat

Because Ciarán is a medieval monk he would be freaked out by all these dragons, leviathans, and behemoths but not surprised by their existence. He would probably recite prayers and psalms for his safety and contemplate the sins that caused him to be stranded on this island. #SFFChat

The sacred grove of Inis Ibair is guarded by humanoid creatures with the heads of wild boars, who act as a goon squad for Lord Ibar, the spirit inhabiting the yew tree at the heart of the grove. The people of Inis Ibair don't like them but mostly try to avoid them. #SFFChat

Most of my story takes place in Ireland, so all the plants and animals found in medieval Ireland also exist in my story. For the chapter that takes place in hell, I have vague notes about demonic birds, carnivorous plants, and a tree that gives you self-awareness when you eat its fruit. #SFFChat

Hi I'm Abby, I write historic fantasy, and for my last meal, I would like ice cream and apple pie. #SFFChat

the correct answer for literally almost everyone alive now: die

Terrible news my browser updated and I lost all my tabs.

What led to this post was looking up smth to do w/ self-pub, and finding this substack by an author who was like, "I used to dream of writing someone's favorite book! But I realized that wasn't going to happen. Now I've written X no. of books under Y no. of pen names!" and my heart broke for them.