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Cass Morris
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Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · Dec 8
An actual pinned introduction thread!

Hi! I'm Cass, & you've probably found me because of one of these things:

-Books & writing
-The Worldbuilding for Masochists podcast
-Shakespeare & education
-Halcy-Con & other conventions/conferences
-Immersive experience work & enthusiasm
-General geekery
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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The photos crossed our radar first and we genuinely thought they were faked but nope! The Pope hates Illinois Nazis! www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Tales of Pope Leo, the Blues Brothers fan ‘on a mission from God’
Friends and family of the young Robert Prevost share tales of his Chicago antics before he became head of the Catholic church
www.thetimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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So Wolff could have tanked Trump’s 2016 campaign and didn’t because Epstein said nah?
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: A week before Donald Trump surged past Hillary Clinton to win the presidency, author Michael Wolff approached Jeffrey Epstein with a proposal to "finish" Trump's candidacy.

"Interested?" Wolff wrote.

Epstein, apparently, declined.

w/ @eorden.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Mercury retrograde is conjunct Mars in Sagittarius, and my pen is hovering over the "list of politicians' sex crimes released" square on my 2025 bingo card.
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Today on Patreon: A behind-the-page look at the Scrivener binder for my WIP, with an accompany explanation of why that's the reason I've been a bit delinquent with my Patreon lately. 😅
Behind-the-Page: Shattered Souls Drafting Process & Scrivener Binder | Cass Morris
Get more from Cass Morris on Patreon
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November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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A 14th century aristocrat has entered the chat.
askaubry.com AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 23h
This sounds like a miserable life
2h ago I don't love my husband or expect him to love me. That's just not how the real world works. When you're older, you'll understand. Getting married is complicated, it's about far more than just surface feelings. If my husband said he loved me, I would get a divorce. That's gay and I'm not marrying a gay man. I'm a Christian. I'm not some lezzo either. I don't get all lovey with anybody. Just living my life. Someday, long down the line, you'll see what I mean. You grow up, you get married, and you have kids. That's just life. It's not about any notion of Hollywood romance. You marry for support, to share assets and fulfil your role as a man or woman. I cook, he works. I clean, he mows the lawn. God made us this way, a husband and wife have a role. Nowhere in the Bible does it say you should love your spouse. It says marriage is a union of persons under God himself. Ο Reply Award Share
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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WIFE: "Just read that an average person has 15 books in their home. Do they mean 'in reach'?"

#books
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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HEADCANON ACCEPTED
matthewdowsmith.bsky.social Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 20h
NO TIME TO DIE Post-Credits Scene:

Close on Bond's hand. It begins to glow. An explosion of regeneration energy. Craig's face disappears in blinding light. When the light fades, Emma Thompson stares straight into the camera and smiles.

"It's about time," Bond says.
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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#WIPSnips Nov 12: "Shirt" is, in the history of garments, such a wildly inspecific term. I ended up using tunic more frequently, even though what I really want to use for Lycus's clothing is kamision, a Byzantine term.
“Do you want—” Maera started, then discovered she had to clear her throat. “I could conjure up some brighter witchlights.” “No. There’s no reason for you to over-exert yourself for that reason.” Pride prickling, Maera said, “Witchlights will hardly over—” “You just got that shirt clean,” he said, as he tucked the loose papers inside one of the journals and closed it with a decisive snap. “I’d prefer not to risk you bleeding all over another one quite so soon. And…” Alestir rose from the table, his gaze falling on her. The intensity of his attention in no way dimmed, but redirected from the cipher to her, a regard so focused that it made her pulse leap. “I suspect we’re not going anywhere for a while, so I’ve plenty of time.”
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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shaunduke.net
This is a brilliant paragraph.
writeups.org Writeups.org @writeups.org · 1d
With alt text.
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Well this is a fucking horrifying thing I never knew before.

S'pose I've got a new drum to beat when it comes to education reform, as though I wasn't already in possession of most of a marching band.
November 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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::grumbles:: I *never* get to see the Lights.
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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And yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger
The Aurora Borealis shines pink above trees and a building against a night sky. A few stars shine through.
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
Prologue 686 ab urbe condita The Palatine Hill, City of Aven Lucius Quinctilius was not, by nature, a reflective man, so perhaps it was just as well that the Dictator's men gave him little time to contemplate his fate.
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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I am so. fucking. tired. of TechBros.
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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For me it's coffee shops, Bold Rock Cidery, and Hazy Mountain Winery. I have written a ridiculous number of words in those locations.
mikeheadley.bsky.social Mike Headley (He/Him) @mikeheadley.bsky.social · 1d
My local coffee shops are directly responsible for fueling tens of thousands of words of every one of my books.
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Dear all Congressional Democrats and aligned PACs sending me fundraising emails right now:

READ THE FUCKING ROOM
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I am eight times thrust through the doublet
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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🔥🔥🔥
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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did you know that most independent booksellers do not get healthcare through their jobs and navigate insurance markets on their own? do you know most independent booksellers don't make a lot of money?

anyway for no particular reason here's a reminder to donate to BINC: bincfoundation.org
Home - Binc Foundation
The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation and Macmillan Publishers are proud to announce that applications are open for the Macmillan Booksellers
bincfoundation.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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thou misshapen Dick
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Heck yeah
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d
You ever drunk dial your senator?
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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GOOD.

Now get your junior senator tf in line!!
ddayen.bsky.social David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d
Surprisingly Sen. Warner (D-VA) is a no, splitting with Kaine after the Cave Caucus dangled the RIF prohibition.
Warner said he can't support the deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM