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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

I've been plotting & reading Christmas novels (I know, I know, but you gotta start early, y'know), and I'm getting quite attached. But my bang-out-a-draft months are Feb, March, and April. I can't decide if I want to commit to year-round Christmas vibes or one of the other projects I've planned. 😭

how do I explain to non chronically online peeps who don't understand fanfic, the feeling I get when a rare pair tag I follow on AO3 gets updated with 4 new fics in one week (and all of them banging good) after going 6+ months with nothing????????

The garden is giving. 🤙🫴 The change in weather hasn't slowed it down at all—plenty of peppers, arbols, and tomatoes on their way. Our neighbourhood seems to exist in a year-round bubble of sunshine and warmth. Pros: veggies! Cons: every time it rains, it could be the last time it rains. 😂

Look at them go! Our other chili plant is starting to grow too---can't remember if it's an arbol or ancho plant. We added a bird feeder for the tomato plants (to encourage the birds to yoink any caterpillars). Gonna add some mulch this weekend, maybe get roma toms and red bell peppers!

If anyone needs a little scroll break, please enjoy the cats on scratchers! Yes, the layout was intentional... 🤣😂

Charlie Kirk in 2023: "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment." He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.

This is why I give all my MCs loving, happy parents 🤣🤣😂

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Every day I add more to my garden (benefits of SoCal is there's no real bad time to plant) and today's addition was an poblano/ancho chile. I now have green & yellow peppers, better bush & beefsteak tomatoes, jalapenos and arbol chiles. Now to plant some herbs to attract wasps/keep hornworms down.

Something yoinked a pepper in the night (no idea what), but I still have one green bell pepper and one jalapeno growing right now. I just want SOMETHING. I need one win to prove I can do it. 🤣😂

Yesterday was my anniversary, so no writing for me—went to the beach and had Mexican food instead! But tonight, I'll start both my next projects (both unnamed, oops). My goal is discovery writing a few scenes for both. No real word count or time goal, just vibes. I'm looking forward to this #FFYW!

FINALLY watching the Murderbot series with the husband—so far, absolutely loving it. Skarsgard was a perfect choice after all 🤩

I just---does no one else find Americans (the Terrors aside) super cringe? Bro, this is your culture? Guns and cheeseburgers and flags? Is this what you defeated the British for? To be super lame 250 years later? 🤣 At least we got the Polio vaccine outta ya---sorry you don't wanna use it anymore!

The countdown to Fight For Your Write begins! Seven days (not including today) until we begin. Who's joining us? This event is perfect for anyone who enjoyed #nanowrimo! #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky You participate here on Bluesky or on our Discord server: discord.gg/Hj9X4cc3N7

I have reached the stage of new project outlining where I need to... gasp... name my characters. 😭 #amwriting

I just wanna add to the list of people complaining about this heatwave: it's soooooo hot right now. 💦

Fight For Your Write returns! We previously hosted #FFYW in June and we'll be hosting on again this September! Details in the poster below. This event is perfect for anyone hoping to fill the hole left behind by #campnano & #nanowrimo! #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky See you soon!

I finished Summer Season last night! Draft 1 sits at 92,237 words. I'm going to be setting it aside to outline and write my next project, and then I expect draft 2 to be a lot of work. 😱😱😱

TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!!!! THE LAST SOUL ALMONG WOLVES is out!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I'm getting ready to jump on a plane for most of the day so it's a weird release day for me but AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH IT'S LOOSE IN THE WORLD AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉

HELLO #booksky. Today I'm looking for reccs for books with Weddings in them! Preferably contemporary romance (and not the main couple), but I'll take anything! I'm about to dedicate a few chapters to a wedding so I'd love to read a bunch before committing. Thanks! #writesky #currentlyreading #books

Six days left until our August Competition ends--the theme is "Resistance." The challenge is to write a short story in 1000 words or under. It's friendly--the winner gets bragging rights and chooses the next theme! If you're up for it, come join us below! #writingcommunity #amwriting #writesky

There is something genuinely eerie about being the only people person online on one of your childhood games... there's about 20 other players with accounts total... wild.

I have aged another year. 👩‍🦳 None of the cats puked this morning. What a great birthday present!

The issue seems to have resolved so I can actually write now. 😖

Google docs is refusing to play ball this afternoon. It keeps reconnecting over and over again. I've never seen this before and it doesn't seem like anyone else is having issues. 😭

This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide

Want to learn more about earthquakes like today's M8.7? Get your info straight from the experts with this spectacular list of seismologists! Assembled by the awesome @geohenning.bsky.social: go.bsky.app/ND4oS9k

The plot bunny has hit me strong. 😖 I'm taking one day to brainstorm and indulge it, then it's back to business as usual. If the idea sticks with me more than the next project I have lined up, then maybe I'll plot it out as I finish Summer Season. 😭

Well, this was a fun one! I don't really make moodboards or playlists for any particular reason, and I never really feel guilt for not writing because I don't take it *too* seriously. 🤔 Definitely had projects I started to hate though, and considered quitting more than one. #writingcommunity

July is Disability Pride Month, and we didn't want to end the month without celebrating indie authors with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Here we have FIFTY (!) SFF books for you to choose from and support! There's something for everyone. www.readindiefantasy.com/celebrating-...

Linsey Miller's That Devil, Ambition is a unique dark academia novel wrestling with debt, despair, and demonic professors; read @hawkwinglb.bsky.social's review at Reactor: reactormag.com/book-review-...

Well, looks my AOS application is finally moving along. It took... let me check... 138 days! 138 days to move my file approx. 16 miles up the road. 🤣

We are turning NINE on Discord this year, and to celebrate, we'll be hosting nine days of writing games, fun craft chats, book giveaways, and much more. 🤭 If you want to join our birthday party, you can find us at discord.gg/writingcommunity! #amwriting #writingcommunity #booksky #writesky

Every day I see 10 writers on Facebook groups claiming AI writing is the future is another day I stray closer to the (not-literal) edge. You. Are. Not. A. Writer. If. ChatGPT. Is. Doing. The. Writing. And then you have 100 people defending it in the comments. I can't. I just cannot.

I made a big chop to Summer Season today. I took out five chapters from the outline and swapped the charity auction for the LI's sibling's wedding, just to fluff up some characters and give them more agency. 🤩 Good developments! #amwriting #writingcommunity

What wasn't mentioned: the 2-3 hours I spent editing it to make sense. 🤣 It's been written over the course of a few months, each person contributing a sentence or two (usually) without reading all of the previous sentences. So much chaos! Goat chaos! Tomato chaos! Portal fantasy chaos!

I finally followed a bunch of people back after 123 business days. Sorry if I don’t—I’m somewhat fussy and don’t follow back for various reasons e.g. no alt text, rarely posts, uber political (sorry, I want one safe space!), only posts links, etc. No hard feelings. 🫂

Crocheting friends! I just discovered that the National Park Service have free crochet patterns of fish and animals!! Here's a mountain goat! www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Giveaway!!! Giveawayyyy! Who doesn't love a free book? Come join us! 😈 #booksky

The definitive climate fiction reading list. These 20 wildly imaginative books will shape the way you think about our planet’s future — and humanity’s place in it. grist.org/fix/climate-... #Fiction #Solarpunk #Climate #Environment #BookSky #Literature

QRT with your starry art. ⭐️💖 #art #oc

Remember in 2012 when the whole world thought Mitt Romney winning the election would be the end of America? 😂🥴 How did we end up here?

It's really no surprise that lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death in LA county. Fuck everyone who hires a gardener to blow dust and dirt around for an hour every week. 🥲 Seriously, what is the point? A day later, and it's blowing back in. 🤦‍♀️

Why is The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst not capitalized as such on the book cover? 'the ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE'? The picture is attached below, but I'm lowkey horrified, and I can't find any justification for this online. Mistake? Intentional? What!!! Please, never do this. Ever. Ihateit.

Birch Queen, walker of Autumn, herald of Winter. Had a lot of fun with this one!

Today is the last day to jump in on our Nonbinary Characters For #NonbinaryAwarenessWeek. Less than 5 hours until this bundle of 24 works featuring nonbinary characters goes poof! The Elysium Proposal is in there along with so many amazing adventures and stories! 📢📚 itch.io/b/3153/nonbi...

Since we're talking about AI art again, here is my periodic recommendation thread of art supplies for the adult beginner. This is my under $20 Blick pick. The brush is quite snappy and ideal for someone who has never used a brush before. The paper is cellulose but quite good.