Frabjous has such amazing colors. That purple is awesome, and I'm in love with their greens.

100% that thing was taped up to keep POTUS from getting lost.

Yes

I am basically scar from the collarbones to the hips (there was a gallbladder situation), and totally unreconstructed. it has been a hell of an education.

All of us are beautiful.

There are plenty of people in the world who can deal with scars.

There was a communal chemo room where I was treated, but there were a lot of available curtains.

I love the part where you can tell someone is running down a checklist of ways they are different to reassure themselves.

I was diagnosed at 36. People really don't want to believe it was just bad luck, but that's all it was.

Hazelwood writes explicitly consensual sex between people dedicated to their scientific careers. Teens are likely to come away thinking they need a PhD first.

It seemed like such a great Get Out of Jail Free card! Bond a gold dragon and you too could have hot, uninhibited, guilt-free sex with an extremely handsome guy who was equally helpless to keep his pants on!

I got shit on the internet this year for saying teenagers reading Ali Hazelwood was fine.

Covid is an entire political minefield, where the range of opinion is completely bewildering.

One thing I'm VERY aware of is that people have opinions about illnesses that are basically political. Breast cancer gets a ton of sympathy, lung cancer, not so much. A cancer diagnosis unlocks all kinds of help that isn't available for other diseases, even when those diseases are more disabling.

As a survivor, I have immensely complicated feelings about cancer in fiction. In particular, many writers do not have current information on cancer treatment and its impacts on patients.

As someone who lost a family member to aggressive cancer, I also hate inaccurate portrayals of terminal illness.

If we missed *Flowers in the Attic*, it was probably because of *Dragonriders of Pern*.

I'm excited and very likely to read it. I may be hoping that Vixen gets to kick Vanyel a few times, and it's the kind of book where I want to warn people that the original series goes from pretty ponies fantasy to horrible torture very fast.

Vanyel would never pass muster today because (a) he seriously deserved to be kicked down some stairs, and (b) he is the most killed gay gut in the entire history of kill your gays.

Alec and Richard of Kushner's *Swordspoint*, with a similar publication date, got to survive and be fabulous.

You could spot those series clear across the library! They promised what the books delivered, in glorious overwrought symbolism.

What's with the snake necklace? Who decided that enhanced the ensemble?

Mothering. Later, mothering . com (spacing to avoid auto-linkage). There were - and for all I know, still are - entire universes if horror over there.

I don't absolutely require reporters to call him out (it would be good, and I believe there would be complications), but I sincerely wish that once, just once, someone would ask him, on camera, what year it is.