T Van Santāna
@tvs.bsky.social
Writer. Rambler. Secretist.
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This says it better than my moaning: bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3...
How AMC’s "Mayfair Witches" Oversimplifies a Rich Story
Here's hoping the second season of AMC's Mayfair Witches will stick more closely to Rice’s novels and tell a more detailed story.
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November 10, 2023 at 5:46 PM
This says it better than my moaning: bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3...
I am profoundly disappointed in the AMC adaptation of The Mayfair Witches. Why couldn't they simply stick to the story? Instead, they rewrote it. It's terrible. Such a wasted opportunity.
November 10, 2023 at 2:27 AM
I am profoundly disappointed in the AMC adaptation of The Mayfair Witches. Why couldn't they simply stick to the story? Instead, they rewrote it. It's terrible. Such a wasted opportunity.
First week of NaNo done:
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NaNoWriMo 2023: Weekly Update #1
Or NaNoWriMo 2k22: Weekly Update #5
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November 7, 2023 at 2:57 PM
First week of NaNo done:
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A new chapter. Hope to finish the main storylines this month 🤞
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Items of Lasting Value
Story path: Me & You
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November 4, 2023 at 1:36 PM
A new chapter. Hope to finish the main storylines this month 🤞
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I'm only sending out 2 chapters a week in November. The rest are available on the site.
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Were You Paying Attention?
Story path: D
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November 2, 2023 at 3:53 PM
I'm only sending out 2 chapters a week in November. The rest are available on the site.
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Out tomorrow: My NaNoWriMo origin story
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About Ten Years Ago ...
Ten Years Gone—Part 1
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October 25, 2023 at 1:56 PM
Out tomorrow: My NaNoWriMo origin story
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Out Wednesday.
Cut Outs
I’m lying on the floor of Mall’s posh office, about five hundred stories in the sky. “We have a couple of colonization problems,” she says, her bare feet up on her huge desk. “Well, yeah,”...
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October 16, 2023 at 5:45 PM
Out Wednesday.
I woke up thinking about the time I've spent trying to impress my friends & family. Not strangers so much. I appreciate the kindnesses from people I don't know, and those exchanges have widened the circle to include folks as friends thereafter. But the impetus is to 'make good' on 'my potential.'
October 16, 2023 at 2:08 PM
I woke up thinking about the time I've spent trying to impress my friends & family. Not strangers so much. I appreciate the kindnesses from people I don't know, and those exchanges have widened the circle to include folks as friends thereafter. But the impetus is to 'make good' on 'my potential.'
I found this chapter hiding in the draft bin. Apparently I wrote it in the spring and just ... never published it? Anyhow, it goes out tomorrow.
Blast Along Clean
You plead with me not to introduce Oxenberg Rassmuellengeri into this book, seeing as how we already have so many characters, and most readers can’t keep up with more than, say, three to five charac...
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October 11, 2023 at 7:25 PM
I found this chapter hiding in the draft bin. Apparently I wrote it in the spring and just ... never published it? Anyhow, it goes out tomorrow.
Coming tomahto 🍅
NaNoWriMo 2023: NaNoWriMo Harder
So most of y’all know ‘bout National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) cos you’ve either done it yourself or listened to me drone on about it year after year. But in the unlikely case you haven’...
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October 10, 2023 at 8:07 PM
Coming tomahto 🍅
So my dad in Starfield sent me a note and asked me to stop by and see him. I did, and he was not there. Just like real parents.
October 9, 2023 at 4:24 PM
So my dad in Starfield sent me a note and asked me to stop by and see him. I did, and he was not there. Just like real parents.
I've been at this one for a minute--a year in November.
So I made another first chapter for new readers:
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So I made another first chapter for new readers:
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My Mind, My Body: How They Fit Together & Come Apart
An alternate on-ramp for this novel
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October 6, 2023 at 2:42 PM
I've been at this one for a minute--a year in November.
So I made another first chapter for new readers:
tvansantana.substack.com/p/my-mind-my...
So I made another first chapter for new readers:
tvansantana.substack.com/p/my-mind-my...
I've become one of those accounts that just posts redirects to another site 😫 I'll start writing about other things here eventually. It'll happen.
Anyway, here's the thing:
Anyway, here's the thing:
Coming Soon: Ten Years Gone
In November, 2023, my first (completed) novel, Everything Fails, will be ten years old. Most writers hide their mistakes—or want to, anyway. Or, shit, I dunno. Maybe the writer doesn’t care, and i...
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October 1, 2023 at 3:48 PM
I've become one of those accounts that just posts redirects to another site 😫 I'll start writing about other things here eventually. It'll happen.
Anyway, here's the thing:
Anyway, here's the thing:
Hell yeah ✊️😎
Gainesville, Florida Is Giving Trans Punk Legend Laura Jane Grace a Key to the City
The Against Me! frontwoman said she was “stunned” by the news.
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September 28, 2023 at 10:00 PM
Hell yeah ✊️😎
Somehow I've ended up writing the old, cut chapters into my new book, serving you the kind of ouroboros nonsense you've come to expect from TVS!
The Liberation
Today we have the next chapter in a sequence of stories—what I call ‘story paths’—within my current work-in-progress novel, Teresa’s Backbone. The novel herself is part of a much bigger work...
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September 26, 2023 at 2:52 PM
Somehow I've ended up writing the old, cut chapters into my new book, serving you the kind of ouroboros nonsense you've come to expect from TVS!
New chapter in about an hour, the first on a new story path ...
In a Sense, You're Alone Here
Path: Alumna abscondita
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September 22, 2023 at 3:55 PM
New chapter in about an hour, the first on a new story path ...
Coming this weekend ...
The Painful, Long-Foretold, and Now Actual Death of Ello
A requiem for a dream, albeit a weird one
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September 20, 2023 at 2:46 PM
Coming this weekend ...
This Wednesday, on Adventures in Secrecy ...
The Whole Shebang
Hey y’all. So this one is a bit of a redux on an ish I did back in Janny called The Whole Megillah. I was gonna make that the first of a series, and man alive, am I glad I did not. Why? Well, some t...
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September 18, 2023 at 4:18 PM
This Wednesday, on Adventures in Secrecy ...
@flakphoto.bsky.social Do you do any shadow photography?
September 17, 2023 at 3:04 PM
@flakphoto.bsky.social Do you do any shadow photography?
Well, do ya?
Do You Even Analyze, Bro?
More Fun with ChatGPT Lit Analysis
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September 10, 2023 at 1:33 PM
Well, do ya?
Everything we've made will see the ground.
September 6, 2023 at 1:01 PM
Everything we've made will see the ground.
Do you? I'd like to know.
Do You Think About What You Read?
Hey y’all. T Van Santāna here. That’s ‘T’ for Teresa (or Tracy), ‘Van’ for ‘from,’ and Santāna as in ‘continuity’ (or something like that). Most people call me T, though some cal...
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September 5, 2023 at 3:28 PM
Do you? I'd like to know.
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Donations to help my fam have slowed down a lot. I know that's just how it goes, but am hoping that sending this around again will allow it to reach more people who haven't seen it yet. So much gratitude for all the sharing and donating so far. I'm bolstered by your generosity. gofund.me/098a8120
August 25, 2023 at 9:08 PM
Donations to help my fam have slowed down a lot. I know that's just how it goes, but am hoping that sending this around again will allow it to reach more people who haven't seen it yet. So much gratitude for all the sharing and donating so far. I'm bolstered by your generosity. gofund.me/098a8120
My quest for better organization
Toward a Useful Organization of Parts
Hey y’all. T Van here. So last time I asked for your opinion and some of you gave one. Thank you! Nothing sucks like tapping a mike and wondering if it’s on. Anyhoo, I’ve been reflecting on your...
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August 27, 2023 at 9:14 PM
My quest for better organization