Hypatia of Alexandria (d. March 415) was a mathematician, astronomer & philosopher. First woman known to lead a major school of thought. She taught advanced math & #science & defied gender/religious barriers. There have been #WomenInSTEM for millennia.🔭📐 #WomensHistoryMonth #astronomy

Dare I say it... making apps is so much more straightforward than making games. Both demand completely different mindsets. App dev is a marathon. Game dev is a decathlon.

This is a great little sci-fi, fantasy, horror con in the fall in Georgia. Yes, I am biased. I am Co-director for the WRITE track. But, it's also a great place to start. Never been a guest at a Con before? Multiverse is VERY supportive & loves bringing in new voices. DM me if you have questions!

Caroline can taste the world🍊 7½ DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE WESTING GAME INHERITANCE GAMES A strange scavenger hunt in 1949 caused a murder, and a woman who tastes names must solve its puzzles to catch the killer 7 players 1 murderer 1 mastermind A little locked box #WSPit #Q #M #NA #In #CS #WF

#TimeTravelAuthors Joaquín can jump back to any memory he has. You might think he's lucky to have that ability. Joaquín isn't so sure.

My youngest: Yay! I'm slowly getting teared apart! Yay!

WHAT THE HECK'S A QAT, ANYWAY? What happens when you combine a housecat with a hobbit? These chubby, snack-loving creatures have a long way to travel and little legs to get them there in THE LITTLES OF BIG WILD! #UnhingedPit #MG #F #Q

#Unhingedpit #MG #F (#Q soon as I find comps that aren't old)

Happy #unhingedpit. Let's get a little unhinged, shall we? Here are the top three reasons you might not like my book: #mg #fantasy

#UnhingedPit finally allows me to comp the aspirational comps! Neurodivergent MC meets mythical creature mashup like PERCY JACKSON + empathy is the super power to save the creatures in HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON + your-closet-is-a-portal delight of THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE. #mg #f

“Unfortunately - the world is not designed for people who need to be horizontal. We live in a vertical society! Adaptation is key - and it can be a long and hard road.": buff.ly/e7o7Mgc by @Broadwaybabyto.bsky.social #dysautonomia #ChronicPain #NEisvoid #POTS #disability #ChronicIllness

Now querying THE REFINEMENT: MERCURY! Best described as: Pride & Prejudice x Jacob's Ladder x Return to Oz but with cults and bees and autistic Darcy-coded hot guys and scene-stealing morally gray antagonists and ball pits and bubbles. #UnhingedPit #amquerying #YA #F #H #Q #booksky

Here's a bonus behind-the-scenes thread for all my #UnhingedPit posts.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL and most romance novels have exactly the same plot. Now that I have your attention, let me tell you about SOFT TIME. It has minimal romance—in fact, minimal eye contact. Unhindered by linear time, the MC must protect his friends from the future. #MG #SF #ND #OV #W #UnhingedPit

You know that thing, when you’re told that it’s just anx & dep your whole life, & then at 38 you get an ADHD diagnosis & to make sense of this you write a fantasy book about a witch who’s magic is secretly bound inside her in a world where difference is deadly? Anyone else? #unhingedpit enough 4 u?

I fell in a dark hole in the ice and ended up in 1963. I thought I was drowning, but then my granddad saved me, but he is only fourteen! How weird is that? #UnhingedPit #Q #MG #CON #H #ADV #F #Canadian

Come to the John Adams Elementary 5th Grade dance! Where: Here, Friday at 6:30 pm Theme: Nothing Makes Grass Grow Like Owl Pellets Featuring unforgettable classic oldies from last month like Blush Williams. Snacks provided. Even weird girls like you are invited. #MG #SF #ND #OV #Q #UnhingedPit

REDWALL x OVER THE GARDEN WALL x FINAL FANTASY IX x THAT RELAXED, WISFTUL, BUT ALSO WEIRD FEELING YOU GET WHEN YOU EAT TOO MANY SNACKS WHILE CAMPING THE LITTLES OF BIG WILD!!! #UnhingedPit #MG #F #Q

The Titanic movie, except Jack is an adopted time traveler with Middle Eastern heritage and Rose is a heroic hologram. And there's no spice or nudity. Actually, instead of drawing her naked, Jack gives the hologram a pretty dress. TITANIC VOYAGE #UnhingedPit #P #R #Spec #TimeTravel #NA #Maybe

I wish to make a complaint. Oh yes? This picture book you've written is too funny. It is? It was supposed to be gentle #humour I hurt my funny bone! Sorry. And you broke the fourth wall. Possibly also the fifth. I like #meta books. And there were too many puns. Impossible! #unhingedpit #PB

If Angela could hear thoughts towards her: "I keep hearing this boy's voice in my head. He mostly goes on about living the same day over like a time loop, but today he wondered if he really exists." "That's so weird." "Not as bad as when he rambled about song lyrics." #MG #SF #ND #W #UnhingedPit

If Uldir and Gintris were scientists #UnhingedPit #A #F #R

Now if dragons could take selfies... Seemed rude not to resurrect this old post & give it a glow up! 🐉 8 short stories for 7+ 🐉 Fun fact pages & a quiz 🐉 Pop-out words for reluctant readers 🐉 Dragons everywhere! 😹 Zero cats #UnhingedPit #MG #F #P #CS

SENSORY: LIFE ON THE SPECTRUM x QUANTUM LEAP x THE WONDER YEARS ✌🏾 Insufferably reliable narrorator 💭 Epistolatory format, but just in his head 🤔 Dude, what if we're all just fictional characters? Extremely accurate mood board below #MG #SF #ND #OV #W #UnhingedPit

SIDEWAYS ARITHMETIC FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL x FRANZ KAFKA If you just read one book about a girl trapped in a world where people watch movies about lint, it should be this one. Who knew a slightly disguised trauma dump could be so funny? #MG #SF #ND #OV #Q #UnhingedPit

Fufulu The Happy Unicorn can genetically manipulate organisms with the power to bathe. That has nothing to do with JUST AS REAL, which is a story about a girl trapped in an alternate reality a lot more boring than that one. #MG #SF #ND #OV #Q #UnhingedPit

Fufulu The Happy Unicorn can genetically manipulate organisms with the power to bathe. That has nothing to do with JUST AS REAL, which is a story about a girl trapped in an alternate reality a lot more boring than that one. #MG #SF #ND #OV #Q #UnhingedPit

Meanwhile, in science-based countries, adults 50+ will soon have a combined flu + COVID vaccine. It'll be interesting to see how the "winter respiratory virus season" will look in older adults there, compared to the shit hole US, after that vaccine is rolled out. 👍

you wanna know why people with long COVID are insistent about masks so much so that they "annoy" you? Because there is often no real treatment/care easily accessible for many of us. Workplaces make it hard for us to earn a living. Have a little consideration, ffs.

When I admitted to her that at times it is a challenge to keep writing these, she asked if I had ever considered using AI, and in response I told her that I am trying to document the plagues of our time, not succumb to an electronic one. * Week 311: librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/02/27/p...

Absolutely amazing comps!

So, as a regular person wanting to know "Does this protect me?", what's most important is that it does NOT fully protect me. Thus I need to do more than just vaccinate to be safe, which was her point. Using prevent gives a false sense of safety from a very dangerous virus. That's highly problematic!

If all could access needed services, there'd be no reason to separate us into categories in order to get needs met for an underserved portion of us. Individual needs vary widely across the spectrum, with overlap amongst people. We shouldn't have to compete based on where we are on the spectrum.

We don't have an autism epidemic. We have better tools and understanding of neurodiversity. Recognizing something for what it is doesn't mean it's suddenly happening, but rather recognition is better. Vaccines cause survival.

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

...and now this. 😭🥰🤩 Color me deeply impressed.

Your response inspired me to make this meme! (Using this text on the bell curve meme would probably more accurate, but I thought that one might be considered insensitive/ableist/something bad.) themaritimehistorian.substack.com/p/titanics-d...

Here is the upcoming DJ workshop link: accesslovefeb.eventbrite.ca "For February, by embracing bell hooks’ Love Ethic, we will gather to reflect & write in community about how this practice can inspire our efforts for Collective Liberation, as aligned with the vital Disability Justice framework."🫂

#TimeTravelAuthors 27. The title of my WIP novel, Soft Time, is a reference to Saara Reiman (@kaiao.fi)'s essay, In Soft Time. It's the only non-pathologizing description I've read of the way that Joaquín and many other people perceive time. I hope you take some time today to read it.

I forget if I wrote this early this week or late last week, but close enough. It's an aspect of autism that you wouldn't necessarily think of. Bonus A: I don't know, but if he's played a Pokemon game I'm sure he's studied and optimized those first few actions a lot. #FavLineFriday

📖 “The Sound of Stars” by Alechia Dow

Excuse you some of us are both

I've heard a lot of misinformation and I know our healthcare fields are about 40 years outdated. However; Hearing the ACTIVE neuropsychologist tasked with deciding ND diagnoses say "if you have friends you can't be autistic" was a new low. Even for me.

... we all felt envious! (Maybe not the young men in the class, but who knows.) One of the delights of teaching the Austen course is that quite often the parents of the students get very interested, albeit from afar. Some even start reading along w/ us. But Pride and Prejudice pajamas are a first.

Seen unknowns might be reactions like "Tim stormed off when that topic came up - but why?" or facts like "We've found this brand of cigar at every crime scene…" See now how they build tension? The thing's known, but the source - or context - isn't. Readers see a shape but can't identify it. ⅖

Pipe Dream/Mania is from 1989. Bioshock is from 2007. Bioshock is now older than Pipe Dream was when Bioshock was released lol

We don't have an autism epidemic. We have better tools and understanding of neurodiversity. Recognizing something for what it is doesn't mean it's suddenly happening, but rather recognition is better. Vaccines cause survival.

Oh you sneaky rascal. Always trying to slurp up that info! 😂 Character deaths are important. Named, unnamed, everyone has to face the reaper in the end. So yes it'll happen at you if my work ever lands in front of anyone. Unexpectedly, from nothing or telegraphed. The scythe is remorseless. ⚰️😊

Pathological Digital Affection Personal Display Avoidance Public Demand Assistant #PDA #TLA