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Rebecca von Groote
@beccavongroote.bsky.social
Writer, Reader, Wife, Cat Mom, HIED Nerd, 🏳️‍🌈🦄, Chronically Ill.
Just...respect your readers' intelligence. I am begging you. 6/6
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
None of these things were hard fact checks. Like, five minutes on Wikipedia for the one, and ten minutes making a quick timeline of your side character you ascribed a bunch of historical events to for the other would have caught this. 5/
October 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"Do my dark romance readers care about facts about actual serial killers?" YES, SOME OF US LIKE HISTORY. AND BODY COUNTS. 4/
a cartoon monkey wearing a pirate hat is playing drums in a band
ALT: a cartoon monkey wearing a pirate hat is playing drums in a band
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October 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
And look, I get that people may think they get a pass if they aren't writing historical fiction. "Do my horror readers really care about the historical accuracy of my timeline?" YES. SOME OF US LIKE HISTORY AND BODY COUNTS. 3/
October 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
And I understand this falls under "tell me you are likely on the ASD spectrum but undiagnosed without telling me", but fucking hell, can I get paid by publishing houses to fix this shit so other neurodivergent folks can read in peace? 2/
October 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
How are the marlins using the hope chests? With their flippers?
a dolphin is jumping out of the water .
Alt: A marlin, a type of large sea fish with a long spikey nose, jumping from the water.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
They're doing a tour in the US this summer, and since we aren't comfortable getting to them at the moment, this let us check a bucket list thing for us.

My partner got the heraldic arms of Jerusalem (he's a heraldry nerd). I got a Coptic design symbolizing love and family.
August 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
They specialize in pilgrim and Coptic tattoos at their shop in Jerusalem and have handcrafted olivewood stencils stamps going back hundreds of years. They also do designs for other faiths and secular art by request.
August 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I wasn't treated like a customer worthy of respect and customer service in my own right until I moved to the Seattle area in my late 30s.
August 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I was a big fan of "ignore female customers in nerdy spaces"... I literally walked into probably 10-15 games shops/comic shops in my younger years only to be ignored completely by the staff or asked if I was shopping for my brother/boyfriend.
August 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
You might be a tired ex- attorney if you were confused why people thoughtvLLM degrees didn't work.

What makes this stupider is my second career is as an academic advisor working with CompSci students. I know what Large Language Models are...
April 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Part of me wonders if this was a vigilante action by someone in the DoJ
April 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I want a signed contract.
April 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Because glowing blue pee trails will make folks easier to track in the coming...unpleasantness.
April 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM