Just...respect your readers' intelligence. I am begging you. 6/6

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/

"Do my dark romance readers care about facts about actual serial killers?" YES, SOME OF US LIKE HISTORY. AND BODY COUNTS. 4/

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/

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/

How are the marlins using the hope chests? With their flippers?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Part of me wonders if this was a vigilante action by someone in the DoJ

I want a signed contract.

Because glowing blue pee trails will make folks easier to track in the coming...unpleasantness.