me: Chuck Tingle's Living Object books are cute but IDK if I totally get it.
also me: Trebuchets are so much sexier than catapults. In this essay I will
also me: Trebuchets are so much sexier than catapults. In this essay I will
July 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
me: Chuck Tingle's Living Object books are cute but IDK if I totally get it.
also me: Trebuchets are so much sexier than catapults. In this essay I will
also me: Trebuchets are so much sexier than catapults. In this essay I will
Beanie looks so serious when she's guarding me! She's waited outside (or inside!) the bathroom nearly every time I go in there since the 2020 tornado.
June 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Beanie looks so serious when she's guarding me! She's waited outside (or inside!) the bathroom nearly every time I go in there since the 2020 tornado.
I love to watch dudes react to the original HTTYD because they start off a little skeptical like "Is this really as amazing as everyone says?" and 20 minutes later they're like "I would literally die for Toothless."
June 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I love to watch dudes react to the original HTTYD because they start off a little skeptical like "Is this really as amazing as everyone says?" and 20 minutes later they're like "I would literally die for Toothless."
I have no maternal instinct, but I do have the inborn primal urge to make a joke so comprehensively terrible that my teenage niece and nephew, who can't agree that the sky is blue, are temporarily united in belief that I am The Worst.
May 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I have no maternal instinct, but I do have the inborn primal urge to make a joke so comprehensively terrible that my teenage niece and nephew, who can't agree that the sky is blue, are temporarily united in belief that I am The Worst.
I tried to describe the three WIPs I'm choosing amongst and got this:
1. Gays fight to save the Earth from aliens
2. Magic lesbians decide the fate of a lost desert city
3. Magic beat cop gets accidentally soulbonded to her top suspect in a murder, and it's also about colonialism I GUESS?????
1. Gays fight to save the Earth from aliens
2. Magic lesbians decide the fate of a lost desert city
3. Magic beat cop gets accidentally soulbonded to her top suspect in a murder, and it's also about colonialism I GUESS?????
May 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I tried to describe the three WIPs I'm choosing amongst and got this:
1. Gays fight to save the Earth from aliens
2. Magic lesbians decide the fate of a lost desert city
3. Magic beat cop gets accidentally soulbonded to her top suspect in a murder, and it's also about colonialism I GUESS?????
1. Gays fight to save the Earth from aliens
2. Magic lesbians decide the fate of a lost desert city
3. Magic beat cop gets accidentally soulbonded to her top suspect in a murder, and it's also about colonialism I GUESS?????
I feel a little bad for the people whose job it is to design beautiful boxes for skin care products 'cause I always just rip into them like a crazed raccoon trying to break into a cybertruck.
May 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I feel a little bad for the people whose job it is to design beautiful boxes for skin care products 'cause I always just rip into them like a crazed raccoon trying to break into a cybertruck.
Why did I wake up at 7:15 this morning? It's like my circadian rhythm decided to betray everything I am!
May 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Why did I wake up at 7:15 this morning? It's like my circadian rhythm decided to betray everything I am!
This is how your email finds me
April 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This is how your email finds me
Dude, it's a little soon to be bothering me to return the copyedit of a file you only sent TWELVE HOURS AGO, seven of which I was asleep for.
April 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Dude, it's a little soon to be bothering me to return the copyedit of a file you only sent TWELVE HOURS AGO, seven of which I was asleep for.
Reposted by EK Wallace
Truly do not know how we are expected to still just be doing normal things right now. I'm like breathless with rage over 12 things at any given moment and have to let it out in little yelps throughout the day or I might explode
April 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Truly do not know how we are expected to still just be doing normal things right now. I'm like breathless with rage over 12 things at any given moment and have to let it out in little yelps throughout the day or I might explode
I've had enough of living in genteel poverty. Can I at least give living in tacky wealth a try?
April 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I've had enough of living in genteel poverty. Can I at least give living in tacky wealth a try?
I realized I never linked my self-indulgent Mononoke fic over here! archiveofourown.org/works/60492043. #mononoke2007 #fanfic #kusuriurikayo
All My Forevers - ellief - モノノ怪 | Mononoke (Anime & Manga) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
March 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I realized I never linked my self-indulgent Mononoke fic over here! archiveofourown.org/works/60492043. #mononoke2007 #fanfic #kusuriurikayo
If my also-autistic nephew and I ever have the same special interest, it's gonna be LIT. No one will be able to come within ten feet of us without involuntarily learning something like 17 interesting differences between a barquentine and a schooner.
March 28, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If my also-autistic nephew and I ever have the same special interest, it's gonna be LIT. No one will be able to come within ten feet of us without involuntarily learning something like 17 interesting differences between a barquentine and a schooner.
Reminded again of when, as an editor in my *30s*, I first encountered "National Institute of Mental Health" and "NIMH" actually written side by side and yelled "NIMH IS *REAL*?!"
February 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Reminded again of when, as an editor in my *30s*, I first encountered "National Institute of Mental Health" and "NIMH" actually written side by side and yelled "NIMH IS *REAL*?!"
I'd like to think my most on-brand tweet was something witty or insightful but lbr it was probably the one that went "I have never yet been so drunk that i can't type 'Kusuriuri' right on the first try."
February 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I'd like to think my most on-brand tweet was something witty or insightful but lbr it was probably the one that went "I have never yet been so drunk that i can't type 'Kusuriuri' right on the first try."
I'm an editor and can't count the number of times I've been clued in that someone used AI to cheat at writing a chapter or book because it thinks something like "arbitrary wooded area" is a perfectly good algorithm name. (It's "random forest." "Unified Realm" for "United Kingdom" was another doozy.)
And no, genuinely top-tier copy editing can't be done by "AI," because, like with translation, there are subtle bits an LLM isn't going to pick up on, because it's not actually intelligent. There's more to copy editing than just grammar. A good copy edit can make a story better. Brains are required.
February 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I'm an editor and can't count the number of times I've been clued in that someone used AI to cheat at writing a chapter or book because it thinks something like "arbitrary wooded area" is a perfectly good algorithm name. (It's "random forest." "Unified Realm" for "United Kingdom" was another doozy.)
Happy anniversary to this tweet (streak still ongoing btw).
February 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Happy anniversary to this tweet (streak still ongoing btw).
Other Gen Xers who have the relevant step in their skincare routine have to say "ESSENCE! VITAL ESSENCE!" every time, right? It's not just me?
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Other Gen Xers who have the relevant step in their skincare routine have to say "ESSENCE! VITAL ESSENCE!" every time, right? It's not just me?
I didn't want to put images in a quote post, so here are the two images that are the beginning of my current WIP. Art by the amazing Zee Coshow!
February 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I didn't want to put images in a quote post, so here are the two images that are the beginning of my current WIP. Art by the amazing Zee Coshow!
The first line in my current WIP is a Wanted poster with this text:
WANTED
Ophelie Estlin
Rebel Council magician. 32 years old, 160 cm, brown hair, gray eyes, Vertoz East ancestry. Affinity: fire. Strength: 7, Council New Scale.
WANTED
Ophelie Estlin
Rebel Council magician. 32 years old, 160 cm, brown hair, gray eyes, Vertoz East ancestry. Affinity: fire. Strength: 7, Council New Scale.
Authors, if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.
“I had just taken poison when the king arrived to inform me that he had killed his wife.”
- Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher, coming in…August? I think?
“I had just taken poison when the king arrived to inform me that he had killed his wife.”
- Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher, coming in…August? I think?
Authors if you see this, it’s a sign to post the first line of your book.
"Dying is easy. Grieving is hard."
-Ghost Money
"Dying is easy. Grieving is hard."
-Ghost Money
February 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The first line in my current WIP is a Wanted poster with this text:
WANTED
Ophelie Estlin
Rebel Council magician. 32 years old, 160 cm, brown hair, gray eyes, Vertoz East ancestry. Affinity: fire. Strength: 7, Council New Scale.
WANTED
Ophelie Estlin
Rebel Council magician. 32 years old, 160 cm, brown hair, gray eyes, Vertoz East ancestry. Affinity: fire. Strength: 7, Council New Scale.
A nice thing about having cats as an anxious person is that when I hear a weird sound at night now, my first instinct isn't to be scared, it's to yell "NINA!" and go back to sleep.
January 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A nice thing about having cats as an anxious person is that when I hear a weird sound at night now, my first instinct isn't to be scared, it's to yell "NINA!" and go back to sleep.
Reposted by EK Wallace
Just donated to Trans Lifeline to help our friends and family being persecuted by this new regime. IF you have some $ to spare, please consider doing likewise? Even a few bucks helps. But if not, some real LOUD support from the cis community would also be great. ❤️
link: translifeline.org/donate/
link: translifeline.org/donate/
January 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Just donated to Trans Lifeline to help our friends and family being persecuted by this new regime. IF you have some $ to spare, please consider doing likewise? Even a few bucks helps. But if not, some real LOUD support from the cis community would also be great. ❤️
link: translifeline.org/donate/
link: translifeline.org/donate/
Word to the wise: flaked-off bits of black nail polish can look enough like mouse poops to fool the anxious or unwary.
January 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Word to the wise: flaked-off bits of black nail polish can look enough like mouse poops to fool the anxious or unwary.
Neither Publix nor Bed Bath & Beyond has scrubbed its DEI info from its website. Sadly low bar to clear, but at least they cleared it! BBB also made Juneteenth a company holiday in 2023, so I guess those two places will get the business I used to give to Target, which caved to the fascists.
January 29, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Neither Publix nor Bed Bath & Beyond has scrubbed its DEI info from its website. Sadly low bar to clear, but at least they cleared it! BBB also made Juneteenth a company holiday in 2023, so I guess those two places will get the business I used to give to Target, which caved to the fascists.