Rachel Hartman
@rachelhartmanbooks.com
Dragon, writer, thinker, friend
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Hey, friends: if you enjoy my work, why not check out Fake Folktales here in the new year? Original stories set in the world of Seraphina, Tess, and Charl, plus the shenanigans of the Folkloric Arts Research Team, two monks and a dragon who walked into a bar.
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My husband had whooping cough as a teen (despite being vaccinated, which made the doctors refuse to believe that's what it was) and now every time he so much as gets a cold, he's coughing for a month.
February 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
My husband had whooping cough as a teen (despite being vaccinated, which made the doctors refuse to believe that's what it was) and now every time he so much as gets a cold, he's coughing for a month.
Well, that and the family story of my great grandfather, who died of tetanus--or "lockjaw" as my family called it. People need to pass these stories down!
February 10, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Well, that and the family story of my great grandfather, who died of tetanus--or "lockjaw" as my family called it. People need to pass these stories down!
Honestly, it was my mother's descriptions of her childhood bout with mumps that ensured that I would get my own child vaccinated no matter what. I really think my mother should hire herself out as an inspirational speaker. SHE COULDN'T SWALLOW HER OWN SPIT. HER NECK WAS WIDER THAN HER HEAD.
If you are in Baltimore, and you haven't had an adult MMR booster or recent titers, now is the time to get that booster! Mumps immunity is more susceptible to waning than measles and it needs a single adult booster after age 18 or so for maximum efficacy!
New email from Hopkins Chief Medical Officer:
"Mumps in Baltimore
What is happening: There is an increase in mumps cases in the community"
health.maryland.gov/phpa/IDEHASh...
health.maryland.gov/phpa/IDEHASh...
OMFG, @standupforscience.bsky.social ... this is so literally preventable
"Mumps in Baltimore
What is happening: There is an increase in mumps cases in the community"
health.maryland.gov/phpa/IDEHASh...
health.maryland.gov/phpa/IDEHASh...
OMFG, @standupforscience.bsky.social ... this is so literally preventable
February 10, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Honestly, it was my mother's descriptions of her childhood bout with mumps that ensured that I would get my own child vaccinated no matter what. I really think my mother should hire herself out as an inspirational speaker. SHE COULDN'T SWALLOW HER OWN SPIT. HER NECK WAS WIDER THAN HER HEAD.
Me on the phone, trying to get a grip on my mother's dietary restrictions: Ok, so what do you have for breakfast?
My husband, from the other room: THE SOULS OF THE DAMNED
My husband, from the other room: THE SOULS OF THE DAMNED
February 10, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Me on the phone, trying to get a grip on my mother's dietary restrictions: Ok, so what do you have for breakfast?
My husband, from the other room: THE SOULS OF THE DAMNED
My husband, from the other room: THE SOULS OF THE DAMNED
To clarify, he is not still three, and he's always loved all things electrical. In fact, back when he WAS three, the way I would get him to walk all the way to preschool was he'd pretend he was an electron and the sidewalk was a wire. He'd stop at the corners until I caught up and threw the switch.
February 10, 2026 at 4:39 PM
To clarify, he is not still three, and he's always loved all things electrical. In fact, back when he WAS three, the way I would get him to walk all the way to preschool was he'd pretend he was an electron and the sidewalk was a wire. He'd stop at the corners until I caught up and threw the switch.
My three-y.o. asked me how transformers work and I was like, "Megatron?" and he was like, "no, the ones on the power lines, and also Megatron is a Decepticon," anyway now he's getting a degree in electrical engineering so he can explain transformers to ME
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 4:36 PM
My three-y.o. asked me how transformers work and I was like, "Megatron?" and he was like, "no, the ones on the power lines, and also Megatron is a Decepticon," anyway now he's getting a degree in electrical engineering so he can explain transformers to ME
As is fitting and proper!
February 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
As is fitting and proper!
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WAKE UP, HOSERS
NEW PETITION JUST DROPPED
Petition e-7148 calls to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance to ensure they are fully informed of threats to Canada’s national security and able to act decisively to protect Canadians and our democracy.
NEW PETITION JUST DROPPED
Petition e-7148 calls to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance to ensure they are fully informed of threats to Canada’s national security and able to act decisively to protect Canadians and our democracy.
Petition e-7148 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
February 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
WAKE UP, HOSERS
NEW PETITION JUST DROPPED
Petition e-7148 calls to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance to ensure they are fully informed of threats to Canada’s national security and able to act decisively to protect Canadians and our democracy.
NEW PETITION JUST DROPPED
Petition e-7148 calls to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance to ensure they are fully informed of threats to Canada’s national security and able to act decisively to protect Canadians and our democracy.
Make 'em dodge curling stones!
February 8, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Make 'em dodge curling stones!
And going back to that original thread: AI COULD NEVER.
February 7, 2026 at 5:02 PM
And going back to that original thread: AI COULD NEVER.
I love how she's made high drama out of static trees, how the red is starkly unreal, and yet also feels as natural as a blanket of snow. I love the murky mystery of the background forest and the shadowed figure. My mother has an interpretation, but we don't actually need it to feel what we feel.
February 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I love how she's made high drama out of static trees, how the red is starkly unreal, and yet also feels as natural as a blanket of snow. I love the murky mystery of the background forest and the shadowed figure. My mother has an interpretation, but we don't actually need it to feel what we feel.
It wouldn't let me to ALT text for the website thumbnail, so let me just say it is a painting of birch trees, fading into a dark forest in the background, but in the foreground, the earth is a flat red-orange colour. Hidden in the background trees is a solitary figure.
February 7, 2026 at 4:43 PM
It wouldn't let me to ALT text for the website thumbnail, so let me just say it is a painting of birch trees, fading into a dark forest in the background, but in the foreground, the earth is a flat red-orange colour. Hidden in the background trees is a solitary figure.
Is she a good painter? I think she's very good. Did this career earn her any money? Not really! But you can enjoy some of her paintings online (this particular one is MINE, however)
www.artworkarchive.com/profile/gale...
www.artworkarchive.com/profile/gale...
Rachel's Birches by Gale Hartman
Belongs to Rachel Hartman
www.artworkarchive.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Is she a good painter? I think she's very good. Did this career earn her any money? Not really! But you can enjoy some of her paintings online (this particular one is MINE, however)
www.artworkarchive.com/profile/gale...
www.artworkarchive.com/profile/gale...
And of course there were always art supplies everywhere. On snow days we'd have Mama Hartman's Art School and do collages and drawings. We'd sew doll clothes, make doll furniture, any little thing we showed half an interest in she made sure we were supplied, and she was ready to try it with us.
February 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
And of course there were always art supplies everywhere. On snow days we'd have Mama Hartman's Art School and do collages and drawings. We'd sew doll clothes, make doll furniture, any little thing we showed half an interest in she made sure we were supplied, and she was ready to try it with us.
This whole thread is great (you don't need AI!) but yes to this in particular, for me. My mom was a painter. When I decided I wanted to write, about 6th grade, any time I was writing, that was SACRED and she cleared the decks for me, holding my sisters at bay, nobody bother me, I'm WORKING
Is there a genetic component to creativity/artistic aptitude? I don't know. Some studies say yes, some studies say no. Is it likely that people who are artistic raise their kids with space to be artistic so they get more practice at a young age and therefore get a head start? Yes, often.
February 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
This whole thread is great (you don't need AI!) but yes to this in particular, for me. My mom was a painter. When I decided I wanted to write, about 6th grade, any time I was writing, that was SACRED and she cleared the decks for me, holding my sisters at bay, nobody bother me, I'm WORKING
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Once again, Canada doing what the Americans lack the courage to do:
Airing the actual booing for Vance. Apparently NBC muted the response.
Airing the actual booing for Vance. Apparently NBC muted the response.
NEW: Huge cheers earlier for the Ukrainian athletes at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
Then huge BOOS as JD Vance comes on the big screen in the stadium.
Even the commentators can’t hide it…
Then huge BOOS as JD Vance comes on the big screen in the stadium.
Even the commentators can’t hide it…
February 6, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Once again, Canada doing what the Americans lack the courage to do:
Airing the actual booing for Vance. Apparently NBC muted the response.
Airing the actual booing for Vance. Apparently NBC muted the response.
Also, to get the correct vowel sound, like mopping vs moping, what do they teach kids these days
February 6, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Also, to get the correct vowel sound, like mopping vs moping, what do they teach kids these days
Beauty, eh?
Canada scores FIVE in the first end of the mixed doubles curling match against Italy
February 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Beauty, eh?
If you can make it out there, go to the Dingle Peninsula and see the beehive huts and the Gallarus Oratory! Have a beer in the Gaeltacht, and listen to folks speaking Irish!
February 5, 2026 at 7:26 PM
If you can make it out there, go to the Dingle Peninsula and see the beehive huts and the Gallarus Oratory! Have a beer in the Gaeltacht, and listen to folks speaking Irish!
Small, but (depending where you're going) it can take longer to drive between two points than it would take over here, because a) roads are also small, and b) signage is sometimes also small. Of course, we were there before GPS, so maybe that second one isn't a problem anymore.
February 5, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Small, but (depending where you're going) it can take longer to drive between two points than it would take over here, because a) roads are also small, and b) signage is sometimes also small. Of course, we were there before GPS, so maybe that second one isn't a problem anymore.
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His job was to make sense of the world, and there were times when he wished that the world would meet him halfway.
- Terry Pratchett, Snuff
- Terry Pratchett, Snuff
February 4, 2026 at 12:52 PM
His job was to make sense of the world, and there were times when he wished that the world would meet him halfway.
- Terry Pratchett, Snuff
- Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa, groundbreaking 16thC composer who wrote some of the most modern-sounding, heart-rending chromatic work of the Renaissance, killed his wife and her lover and mutilated the bodies.
Western classical musicians have been struggling with this for (literally) centuries. Beethoven? Drove his nephew to suicide. Wagner? There is nothing vile that wasn't true of the man. Richard Strauss? Avid Nazi. You want it? We got it, and we gotta live with it.
February 3, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa, groundbreaking 16thC composer who wrote some of the most modern-sounding, heart-rending chromatic work of the Renaissance, killed his wife and her lover and mutilated the bodies.
I know, I know. I'll banish myself...
February 3, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I know, I know. I'll banish myself...
You should have made your intentions clear before you TIED THE KNOT
(Sorry. No, really, I am)
(Sorry. No, really, I am)
February 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
You should have made your intentions clear before you TIED THE KNOT
(Sorry. No, really, I am)
(Sorry. No, really, I am)
Well, and that's not an incunabulum on the table in the picture, so... ok
February 3, 2026 at 1:18 AM
Well, and that's not an incunabulum on the table in the picture, so... ok