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Kristen Stieffel
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Author • Editor • Instructor | Stories for Readers and Lessons for Writers at http://Patreon.com/KristenStieffel
Holy hell, Kat. Is it possible that Susan’s “forgetting” Narnia is a trauma response? Like she repressed those memories because remembering what she lost was too painful.
December 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Aww I just watched Ladyhawke the other day. Still one of my all-time favorites.
December 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Looking forward to the gigaChads coming to Orlando to bus tables in restaurants and change sheets in hotel rooms.
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A Google Images swipe is harder to detect; unless there’s a watermark on the image, the viewer doesn’t know whether the presenter properly licensed the image or not.

But yeah, using a photo with the licensor’s watermark still on it is a red flag.
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Yes, and also many of us have reached the age where we don’t need one more thing we have to dust.
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I’m thankful for my Rep, @maxwellfrost.bsky.social, who always fights the good fight.

Also the folks at @orlando50501.bsky.social who organize our local protests.
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Pterofidya, the winged serpent that inhabits mountainous coastal regions. She lays her eggs in cliffside caverns, so if the hatchlings fail to fly when they leave the nest, they fall into the sea and can swim to safety.
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If 47 and his SecDef had just kept quiet, then when justice comes they could say “We believed our orders to be legal.” But by protesting too much, they’ve shown they know they are not.
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just be careful not to stay too long should she take you with her to the Cat Kingdom.
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I recommend Mary Robinette Kowal’s Glamourist Historíes series. It’s like Jane Austen with magic.
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Okay, I jumped ahead to that chapter and laugh-snorted my coffee at this part:
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Yeah, but that’s not a high bar, is it? 🤣
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Finishing up “Pimp my Airship” by Maurice Broaddus

Re-reading “Stolen Focus” by Johann Hari

On deck:

“Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries” by Heather Fawcett

“Uncultured” by Daniella Mestyanek Young
November 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM