Allen Ivers
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My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
I’ve been on a hiatus from writing, a little mental and emotional reset while I figure out ‘why’ I do it still
And then I plugged in some of my old iTunes playlists and… I’m as pumped for new stories as I ever was
And then I plugged in some of my old iTunes playlists and… I’m as pumped for new stories as I ever was
July 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I’ve been on a hiatus from writing, a little mental and emotional reset while I figure out ‘why’ I do it still
And then I plugged in some of my old iTunes playlists and… I’m as pumped for new stories as I ever was
And then I plugged in some of my old iTunes playlists and… I’m as pumped for new stories as I ever was
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‘Morning…Mourning 🌺💔💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💔
July 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
‘Morning…Mourning 🌺💔💙🇺🇸🇺🇸💔
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IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
May 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
First bbq of spring cause it feels like summer up here.
Find community, everybody
Find community, everybody
May 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
First bbq of spring cause it feels like summer up here.
Find community, everybody
Find community, everybody
Updating files for 7 books and 2 omnibus on 4 different services took me an entire work day. But the books will now have a brief list of trigger warnings.
I think it’s useful for potential readers to know the…many ways I murder my characters.
I think it’s useful for potential readers to know the…many ways I murder my characters.
May 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Updating files for 7 books and 2 omnibus on 4 different services took me an entire work day. But the books will now have a brief list of trigger warnings.
I think it’s useful for potential readers to know the…many ways I murder my characters.
I think it’s useful for potential readers to know the…many ways I murder my characters.
Clair Obscura...Act One. How dare.
April 30, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Clair Obscura...Act One. How dare.
So my books and many others have no appreciable value to Zuckerberg and his stealing something worthless isn't a crime.
*Deep breath*
I like it when businesses are transparent. They tell you what's going on, they're upfront about their reasons, and understanding of their customers' concerns.(1/?)
*Deep breath*
I like it when businesses are transparent. They tell you what's going on, they're upfront about their reasons, and understanding of their customers' concerns.(1/?)
April 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
So my books and many others have no appreciable value to Zuckerberg and his stealing something worthless isn't a crime.
*Deep breath*
I like it when businesses are transparent. They tell you what's going on, they're upfront about their reasons, and understanding of their customers' concerns.(1/?)
*Deep breath*
I like it when businesses are transparent. They tell you what's going on, they're upfront about their reasons, and understanding of their customers' concerns.(1/?)
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31 years ago today, this joke first aired on TV.
March 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
31 years ago today, this joke first aired on TV.
Spent the whole morning outlining, but got more work done listening to the Arcane soundtrack while unloading the dishwasher.
March 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Spent the whole morning outlining, but got more work done listening to the Arcane soundtrack while unloading the dishwasher.
I am unable to get a proper estimate for what my surgery might cost. But don't worry, for-profit insurance is the best medical system in the world!
#JustKillMeAlready
#JustKillMeAlready
March 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I am unable to get a proper estimate for what my surgery might cost. But don't worry, for-profit insurance is the best medical system in the world!
#JustKillMeAlready
#JustKillMeAlready
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Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.
March 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.
Goddamn if that wasn’t prescient
oof if Nabokov didn't anticipate this
(from an essay by John Griswold, which I found because Griswold used "A Democracy of Ghosts" for the title of his novel)
commonreader.wustl.edu/are-we-allow...
(from an essay by John Griswold, which I found because Griswold used "A Democracy of Ghosts" for the title of his novel)
commonreader.wustl.edu/are-we-allow...
![Nabokov does not go so far as someone I have forgotten—Gass, maybe, or Primo Levi—who talks about genteel Germans listening to Wagner as the ashes from the crematoria drift down. But he does say that “generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.” This heap is “a collection of stock ideas but also the use of set phrases, clichés, banalities expressed in faded words. A true philistine has nothing but these trivial ideas of which he entirely consists.” He implies there are connections among vapidity, bad taste, vulgarity, and something much worse.
“The character I have in view when I say ‘smug vulgarian’ is,” Nabokov says, “the complete universal product of triteness and mediocrity. He is the conformist, the man who conforms to his group, and he is also typified by something else: he is a pseudo-idealist, he is pseudo-compassionate, he is pseudo-wise. The fraud is the closest ally of the true philistine. All such great words as ‘Beauty,’ ‘Love,’ ‘Nature,’ ‘Truth,’ and so on become masks and dupes when the smug vulgarian employs them. […] The philistine likes to impress and he likes to be impressed, in consequence of which a world of deception, of mutual cheating, is formed by and around him.”
Nabokov says Russians have a name for it: poshlust. “Poshlism is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely clever, the falsely attractive.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gpzumzyrdogumlixcztwtaxq/bafkreigwf2spbmasbi6k2dy3v7kj7j276b3vn4stewcpwxf5l4apojppza@jpeg)
March 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Goddamn if that wasn’t prescient
They’re coming for Habitat for Humanity? The charity that builds houses?
Was children’s cancer research not craven enough?
Was children’s cancer research not craven enough?
March 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
They’re coming for Habitat for Humanity? The charity that builds houses?
Was children’s cancer research not craven enough?
Was children’s cancer research not craven enough?
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Funny....All of a sudden, no one's performing arbitrary sex-change operations on unexpecting grade-schoolers anymore.
March 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Funny....All of a sudden, no one's performing arbitrary sex-change operations on unexpecting grade-schoolers anymore.
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I’ve had a game of D&D fall out— but I loved the character so much, I’m considering drafting a horror fantasy trilogy to finish the story.
I don’t want to be done with him!
I don’t want to be done with him!
March 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I’ve had a game of D&D fall out— but I loved the character so much, I’m considering drafting a horror fantasy trilogy to finish the story.
I don’t want to be done with him!
I don’t want to be done with him!
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The most remarkable thing about Clotworthy Skeffington is that he went ahead and named is first son Clotworthy Skeffington.
March 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The most remarkable thing about Clotworthy Skeffington is that he went ahead and named is first son Clotworthy Skeffington.
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February 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me
mashable.com/article/how-...
mashable.com/article/how-...
How to download your Kindle books while Amazon still allows it
After Feb. 26, Amazon is doing away with its Kindle "download and transfer via USB" option.
mashable.com
February 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me
mashable.com/article/how-...
mashable.com/article/how-...
Do you hear the people sing?
February 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Do you hear the people sing?
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This is fucking fire but also, amazingly, the judge is doing her damned best to establishing on the record that they don’t have a rational basis for their actions.
Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:
February 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is fucking fire but also, amazingly, the judge is doing her damned best to establishing on the record that they don’t have a rational basis for their actions.
It’s extremely validating to have a diagnostic procedure find the stopper obvious problem, like a blown head gasket—yup! There’s your problem!
#aintgotnogasinit
#aintgotnogasinit
February 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It’s extremely validating to have a diagnostic procedure find the stopper obvious problem, like a blown head gasket—yup! There’s your problem!
#aintgotnogasinit
#aintgotnogasinit
Cowriting a romance novel with your spouse on Valentine’s Day sounds like fun times, until you have write the ‘reasons they break up scene.’
February 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Cowriting a romance novel with your spouse on Valentine’s Day sounds like fun times, until you have write the ‘reasons they break up scene.’
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a little necronomicon in my life
a little eldritch horror by my side
a little bit of ichor's all I need
a little bit of foul Cthulhu's seed
a little bit of chanting in the dark
a little bit of spilled blood for the spark
a little invocation: be here now
a little bit of you keeping your vow
a little eldritch horror by my side
a little bit of ichor's all I need
a little bit of foul Cthulhu's seed
a little bit of chanting in the dark
a little bit of spilled blood for the spark
a little invocation: be here now
a little bit of you keeping your vow
February 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
a little necronomicon in my life
a little eldritch horror by my side
a little bit of ichor's all I need
a little bit of foul Cthulhu's seed
a little bit of chanting in the dark
a little bit of spilled blood for the spark
a little invocation: be here now
a little bit of you keeping your vow
a little eldritch horror by my side
a little bit of ichor's all I need
a little bit of foul Cthulhu's seed
a little bit of chanting in the dark
a little bit of spilled blood for the spark
a little invocation: be here now
a little bit of you keeping your vow