Goblin Emperor, Palimpsest, Every Heart a Doorway, A Deadly Education

Riddle Master of Hed?

Are there particularly nice ones in Ireland?

Someone was wearing one of his sweatshirts at the gas station today. I couldn’t even.

My only attendance at Readercon was one of the staff doing something so gross at registration, I might be scarred for life. I really like Boskone, though.

Hemi came down with a really terrible upper respiratory infection. Three emergency vet visits, one overnight. One crap vet wanted us to think about his “guarded diagnosis” am thankful that we were able to pay for it and cannot imagine a world without him in it.

As someone who once received the unicorn of a Clarkesworld personal rejection on a story, and then roughly a million regular rejections of other stuff afterwards -- totally agree.

Wings of a butterfly by HIM

I’m so glad to live in a world where there are geyser nerds. I feel the same about waterfalls.

Didn’t expect to start my morning crying. My relationship with my mother was complicated in the same way. To her other family, she was the crotchety housewife. To me, who came first, she was the hurricane you love and hate in the same breath.

I'm pretty sure that the guy standing up is Jonas, Edvard's son, named after Edvard's son.

And then what? Two generations later, they were disinterred.

I did my masters thesis on just this. Reading your thread was a walk down traumatic memory lane. I’m so glad you shared this! Also, not weird at all that Edvards son was Andersen traveling companion in later life.

That was fun.