Any trans folks in the US want a chance to win an assuredly awesome book? (I am not in the US so am not entering <3)

#WIPSnips "Swift" from Fight or Flight Newcomers in the boiler room - and I'm not sure I trust their intentions…

$2 per month? Sign me up. Hell, $5. If I can get a "Premium CanPo Subscription" for $14.99 monthly that comes with 5 free letters/month and half price on all package services I'll do that in a heartbeat and subsidize 6 other citizens' contributions in the process. It's not a profit machine, fuck.

#WritingTips Fake Friday If the thought ever occurs too you "huh, I don't actually know about [X], but I'm sure I can fake it," here's a piece of advice: Don't. Research, or ask around - other authors, readers, or random people on social! Get some info, because fakes always tarnish in time. <3

Trump: "What if…we just released the records of somebody else whose name starts with 'E'?" Intern, visibly shaking: "G-g-gr-great idea Mr. President." Trump, putting down pen and squinting: "You didn't say it in allcaps." Intern: "B-but that's imposs-" Trump: "I TOLD you to SAY it in ALLCAPS!"

Well don't I feel stupid

#WIPSnips "Mire" from FotF book 5, Seen or Unseen (working title) Well, quagmire, but I think it counts XD AL ends up in a foreign nation and forms a friendship with the Innkeeper, Stefan. *Technically* AL is in hiding and lying about who they are, and determining whether Stefan is trustworthy XD

#WritingTips Thrift Thursday Take note of random ideas. Character quirks, a fun twist on a scene, a choice turn of phrase. Then, when you're writing, you can go shopping through those notes like it's a thrift store. Sure, some things need some adjustment or cleaning up - but that's thrifting! <3

Sometimes you see a fun joke in the wild. "The world is turning into such…"

As I walked my daughter home lastnight, we watched the ISS pass us over. It was a really clear night & it reminded me that earlier this year I'd captured it's transit over my garden on a mega clear night! I did this with my Canon 70D & stitched the exposures together 🛰🪐📡🌠💙 - #iss #astrophotography

Wait a second, we were supposed to get funding?

I have done zero pricing of anything here because I don't like licenses so I just make my own shit *BUT* I will say that these look like they would make some dope book covers!

Not me typing "sour cabbage mould" into search to see whether the two sour cabbages I forgot on the back porch for 9 months are still good to eat

I should be talking about this more in the lead up to release, but between the state of the world and my brain... However, if you enjoy talking animal stories but wish the animals were undead, mutilated zombies, do I have good news for you! 25 original illustrations included at no extra charge!

#WIPSnips "Absorb" from Flight of the Fates book #2, Sink or Swim (working title) Molly has just finished "demonstrating" that Faekyn magic cannot control someone's behaviour, in order to get someone out of execution. She "demonstrates" this by getting punched viciously in the face. XD

Fizzy drink that tastes of beans on toast. I'm calling it "Britpop".

#WritingTips Werewithal Wednesday Writing takes dedication. You're not going to just write one thing and then everything will happen; it requires consistent effort, not just in writing but in networking, in sending out your writing, submitting, revising, and much more. Werewithal required! <3

Updates! I have a website now! There's some free writing there, and other things! Rants! Raves! Reviews! Free stories! jaredgoring.com I have some stuff on itch now! (Only one for now but hey) jrade.itch.io

I am developing levels of weaponized autism that you cannot comprehend.

#WIPSnips "Leave" from Fight or Flight AL's first commentary on Molly - oh, how times will change XD

Bonk

You may be having a bad day. …probably not this bad, though! Silver linings? XD

Never ceases to amaze

Oh wait was the Rapture today? How'd it go? Did y'all make the cut?

Me: "Yes! It's running! Idle is a bit rough but it's running, haha! One more motorcycle brought back to life!" Me, two minutes later, shouting upstairs: "PLEASE COME HELP THERE IS SO MUCH GASOLINE LEAKING OUT PLEASE PLEASE AHHH"

Many - chief amongst them are probably run-on sentences: panting, flagging, shouting victory in the fading second before their inevitable death leviathans of run-on sentences; grammar used not as blueprint or plumb-bob but as mortar gluing my creation together as I gaze grinning at the horror. That.

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

True story

That's the plan: outlive the bastards and laugh as many times a day as possible.

I use so many exclamation points in my posts because I don't want people to think I'm austere - I want them to know what an excitable nerd I am! Then I write something with a full-stop and it just looks so terribly stern! Like this.

This is an incredibly well-done and agonizing piece, so know that going in, but I think it's an important read. An excellent one, and one with some very good points.

#WIPSnips "Skill" from Fight or Flight AL's trying to distract Molly a bit from something painful. However, AL is starting to suspect something about theirself may not be normal… (I had a friend yell at me over this plotline - she liked it in the end, but still had to yell at me XD)

Okay everyone needs to look at this because this is so adorable. Bought this piece from @ovaettr.gay and it's *so fucking cute* and they put in a bunch of stickers and this note and I just aaaahhhhh I am going to spend. Hours. Grinning at my wall. Everyone get some art from them, so worth it! <3

I have an explanation, but it only works for round fascists in a vacuum.

I have officially been accepted into the SFINCS competition this year with my dystopian noir novella "Until It's Done", and I'm both excited and terrified! Congrats to everyone else who got in - and huge thanks to and appreciation for the runners, moderators, and judges, who are doing this.

#WIPSnips "Flurry" from Flight of the Fates, book 6 (currently untitled) I had three main contenders here, one kinda horny and light-hearted, one pretty heavily traumatic, and one *super* spoiler-y from book 2. I went for horny and light-hearted. XD Molly experiences…big emotions

the energy that radicalized me

Capitalism is actually the enemy of progress; growth must be sustainable, capitalism is not. It's not growth, it's swelling, it's cancer, it's a false- [I continue in a similar vein for 93 minutes XD] -and now you can't even buy what you want anymore! Ugh! Capitalism sucks! <3

Nushsona upgrade draft [ #art #artsky #oc #illustration ]

I write responses as if I'm either ChatGPT, or a 50-year-old FBI agent pretending to be a 15-year-old girl in order to entrap pedos, and I promise I am neither. Especially not the second one, teehee! <3<3

Beautiful! A really cool idea, too; haven't seen a wreath of succulents before but I love it!

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

Time to start sharing and drawing NSFW works! If my NSFW peers can't post here than it's not a space for artists. Fuck #bskycensorship!

#WIPSnips "Disagree" from Fight or Flight …and when all crystals are special, none of them will be…

#WritingTips Sly Saturday Not everything needs to be fully announced to readers. Some things can be slipped in more subtly. Finding the line between the two is tough, but comes down to necessity: do they need to know, or is it good but extraneous info? If the latter, maybe try being sly! <3

#WIPSnips "Obvious" from Fight or Flight There are a lot of things that suck about our current world, but some genuinely have improved, as the treatment (and just existence) of child labourers during the Industrial Revolution makes quite clear… Things get better! I *promise* things get better! <3

Okay the Bsky hardly exists but you know her - if anyone's ever thinking of seeing @taylortomlinsonn.bsky.social live? Absolutely, one hundred percent do it. She's hilarious, fabulous and it's delightful when she makes a joke and then says "that's just for you. Netflix doesn't get that one." <3

Lots of questions being asked at this elevator door that are answered by the lit-up arrows on the elevator door…

#WritingTips Frayed Friday! Plot threads are like real threads - the more they're pulled at, the more they'll fray and, eventually, break. Don't let one single thread do all the heavy lifting for too long, or too frequently. Supplement, support, or at least let it rest! <3