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LJ Winter
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Bookworm, scientist, self-propelled outdoorsy type (run/walk/bike/climb). Occasionally writes things. Rarely short of an opinion. She/her.
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My partner refers to this sort of thing as "stress baking"...
December 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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I just finished this one! Best contemporary romance novel I've read in a while! 😃
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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OR you make it into panettone bread-and-butter pudding, which is delicious!
November 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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I think they are now? I get a little pop-up in the lower left corner when I go yo their homepage... (I'm using it at the moment if you want any feedback - hoping to be able to unsubscribe before the trial payment period is up!)
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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I mean, that seems really likely to me? Not least, the lecture was recorded *in front of 500 people*. Someone was going to notice and shout it from the rooftops, even if the lecturer didn't!
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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It even turns off Firefox's built-in spell check, my partner discovered...
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Definitely! I think quite a few writers like Ghost as a platform?
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Wish I could internalize this
brightwanderer I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned "forever" into the only acceptable definition of success. Like... if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it's a "failed" business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don't actually want to keep doing that, you're a "failed" writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it's a "failed" marriage. The only acceptable "win condition" is "you keep doing that thing forever". A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a "real" friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a "phase" - or, alternatively, a "pity" that you don't do that thing any more. A fandom is "dying" because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things. I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it's okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success... I don't think that's doing us any good at all.
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Can I just say, I *love* the analogy of forks as spoons that always work but also stab you? Pinching that to apply when my own brain guilt trips me.
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Always!
October 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM