lyric
@lyricwritesprose.bsky.social
Hi, I'm lyric and I write stuff. I have two kids, two cats, one husband, and one dog. My life is not especially adventurous but the things in my head make up for it.
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…I am intrigued.
Hail, Dorian.
May 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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So like, here's the thing. I have not ever watched the BBC's treatment of Ghormenghast from 2000. I don't know if it's any good or if it even remotely resembles the tone of the books. I do know that a properly done Ghormenghast will outbrood any other broody castles around. So you could try it?
It just has to be pretty, brooding shit. With like, neat costuming. The acting can be wretched as long as it’s set in, like, Decaying Gothistan.
Any genre is fine, but again, NOT MODERN.
Snow White & the Huntsman, yes! The Craft, no!
THIS IS THE END OF THE THREAD
Any genre is fine, but again, NOT MODERN.
Snow White & the Huntsman, yes! The Craft, no!
THIS IS THE END OF THE THREAD
May 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
So like, here's the thing. I have not ever watched the BBC's treatment of Ghormenghast from 2000. I don't know if it's any good or if it even remotely resembles the tone of the books. I do know that a properly done Ghormenghast will outbrood any other broody castles around. So you could try it?
Am currently reading Watership Down to my kids with the promise of seeing an adaptation later. They are almost DISTURBINGLY into it. Kids can have a little gruesome violence and terror sometimes. As a treat
This is true and I say this as someone who LOVED the animated Watership Down.
"What movie traumatized you as a child" All of them. It was 1985, there were no non-traumatic movies to watch as a child
May 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Am currently reading Watership Down to my kids with the promise of seeing an adaptation later. They are almost DISTURBINGLY into it. Kids can have a little gruesome violence and terror sometimes. As a treat
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Yes, I've seen the account that alleges to be from someone at a literary agency, making fun of queries that come through the door. If real, it's shitty, unethical behavior, also, I just wrote a best-selling book about the moon turning to cheese, so fuck anyone shaming writers for "out there" ideas.
April 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Yes, I've seen the account that alleges to be from someone at a literary agency, making fun of queries that come through the door. If real, it's shitty, unethical behavior, also, I just wrote a best-selling book about the moon turning to cheese, so fuck anyone shaming writers for "out there" ideas.
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This is the same thing that happened to me. I'm not on Facebook either.
I was alerted this morning to this profile
www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
This person, claiming to be "Katherine Addison," is DMing people offering to "connect" with them to "promote" their books.
1. This is NOT me. I do not use Facebook.
2. Please repost & spread the word as widely as you can.
www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
This person, claiming to be "Katherine Addison," is DMing people offering to "connect" with them to "promote" their books.
1. This is NOT me. I do not use Facebook.
2. Please repost & spread the word as widely as you can.
Facebook
www.facebook.com
April 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is the same thing that happened to me. I'm not on Facebook either.
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A few more photos, hopefully to brighten a sucktastic day. Some were taken by me and some by @troyce.bsky.social #murderbot Descriptions in the alt text.
April 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A few more photos, hopefully to brighten a sucktastic day. Some were taken by me and some by @troyce.bsky.social #murderbot Descriptions in the alt text.
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In film: From Texas to Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey, the film reveals how librarians across the country have become victims of a crisis manufactured by national organizations bent on infiltrating and disrupting local school boards.
These Librarians Won’t Let America’s Fever Hit Fahrenheit 451
A new documentary shows us our local guardians of intellectual freedom in battle.
www.texasobserver.org
April 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
In film: From Texas to Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey, the film reveals how librarians across the country have become victims of a crisis manufactured by national organizations bent on infiltrating and disrupting local school boards.
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The Caribbean reef squid out on quite the show today. Wait for the dramatic 180 color change reverse off stage! 🦑🔄👻💨 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #squid #chromatophores #colorchange #poof #cephalopod #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity
April 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Caribbean reef squid out on quite the show today. Wait for the dramatic 180 color change reverse off stage! 🦑🔄👻💨 #caribbeanreefsquid #reefsquid #squid #chromatophores #colorchange #poof #cephalopod #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #bfi #noaa #aoml #coralcity
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The tariff saga and its impact on disabled people cannot be separated from the administration’s brutal cuts to Medicaid.
“It’s really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable…who need technologies to live.”
“It’s really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable…who need technologies to live.”
Tariffs are about to hit lifesaving medical equipment
"It's really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable...who need technologies to live."
www.motherjones.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The tariff saga and its impact on disabled people cannot be separated from the administration’s brutal cuts to Medicaid.
“It’s really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable…who need technologies to live.”
“It’s really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable…who need technologies to live.”
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I read them as an adult but I loved Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch trilogy. Also Diane Duane's Young Wizards series.
Instead of vague posting about the bad books, I want to hear what GOOD fantasy series you read and stuck to growing up?
What kid and young adult fantasy lit have you read recently that isn't created by a dumpster fire funding regressive laws?
Boost it!
What kid and young adult fantasy lit have you read recently that isn't created by a dumpster fire funding regressive laws?
Boost it!
April 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I read them as an adult but I loved Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch trilogy. Also Diane Duane's Young Wizards series.
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Another image from this incredible foggy morning at the iconic Mont Saint Michel last week…
#photography #art #landscape #history #myregion
#photography #art #landscape #history #myregion
April 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Another image from this incredible foggy morning at the iconic Mont Saint Michel last week…
#photography #art #landscape #history #myregion
#photography #art #landscape #history #myregion
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Don't get excited. But maybe you can get a little excited about the possibility of getting excited.
(Also, this is exactly the sort of stuff the current administration is planning to defund. Fuck those dudes.)
Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
(Also, this is exactly the sort of stuff the current administration is planning to defund. Fuck those dudes.)
Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Don't get excited. But maybe you can get a little excited about the possibility of getting excited.
(Also, this is exactly the sort of stuff the current administration is planning to defund. Fuck those dudes.)
Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
(Also, this is exactly the sort of stuff the current administration is planning to defund. Fuck those dudes.)
Gift article.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
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Today I'm finding out which people believe that if you're part of a population that is a small overall percentage of humans on the planet, it's okay to strip you of rights.
I wonder if they have considered how easy it would be to classify *them* into a small overall percentage, and do it to them.
I wonder if they have considered how easy it would be to classify *them* into a small overall percentage, and do it to them.
April 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Today I'm finding out which people believe that if you're part of a population that is a small overall percentage of humans on the planet, it's okay to strip you of rights.
I wonder if they have considered how easy it would be to classify *them* into a small overall percentage, and do it to them.
I wonder if they have considered how easy it would be to classify *them* into a small overall percentage, and do it to them.
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One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
April 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
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The personalities of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are assigned to the wrong renaissance artists. IRL Leonardo was the machine nerd, Raphael was the partyboy slut, Donatello was the only guy with organization/leadership skills and Michelangelo was the one that would fistfight God for a corn chip
April 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The personalities of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are assigned to the wrong renaissance artists. IRL Leonardo was the machine nerd, Raphael was the partyboy slut, Donatello was the only guy with organization/leadership skills and Michelangelo was the one that would fistfight God for a corn chip
The existence of the Doctor and the Master implies the existence of a third Time Lord, the Bachelor, who mostly travels the universe complaining that they can't find a job in their specialty and worrying about student loans
April 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The existence of the Doctor and the Master implies the existence of a third Time Lord, the Bachelor, who mostly travels the universe complaining that they can't find a job in their specialty and worrying about student loans
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Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.
A crow's math skills include geometry
Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.
www.npr.org
April 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Crows in a lab were able to distinguish shapes that exhibited right angles, parallel lines, and symmetry, suggesting that, like humans, they have a special ability to perceive geometric regularity.
Questions you ask as a pet owner:
Who's a good girl?
Is it you? It is you, isn't it?
What's in your mouth?
Why are you damp?
WHY DO YOU SMELL?
How about a B-A-T-H?
Where are you going?
Why am *I* wet and covered with suds now?
Who's my bestest girl?
Who's a good girl?
Is it you? It is you, isn't it?
What's in your mouth?
Why are you damp?
WHY DO YOU SMELL?
How about a B-A-T-H?
Where are you going?
Why am *I* wet and covered with suds now?
Who's my bestest girl?
April 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Questions you ask as a pet owner:
Who's a good girl?
Is it you? It is you, isn't it?
What's in your mouth?
Why are you damp?
WHY DO YOU SMELL?
How about a B-A-T-H?
Where are you going?
Why am *I* wet and covered with suds now?
Who's my bestest girl?
Who's a good girl?
Is it you? It is you, isn't it?
What's in your mouth?
Why are you damp?
WHY DO YOU SMELL?
How about a B-A-T-H?
Where are you going?
Why am *I* wet and covered with suds now?
Who's my bestest girl?
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Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2
April 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2
I just had a horrible thought, which is: do cybertruck owners buy shiny metallic dodecahedrons to use as truck nuts?
April 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I just had a horrible thought, which is: do cybertruck owners buy shiny metallic dodecahedrons to use as truck nuts?
Challenged my son to write the WORST essay he could manage in order to help with fear of failing. He delivered. Man, did he deliver. I looked at it and heard the words, "This would do numbers on Tumblr," come out of my mouth
April 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Challenged my son to write the WORST essay he could manage in order to help with fear of failing. He delivered. Man, did he deliver. I looked at it and heard the words, "This would do numbers on Tumblr," come out of my mouth