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This week's Saturday snippet is from Wooing the Witch Queen, in which sweet, nerdy Felix is in disguise as a dark wizard and being introduced to the rest of Queen Saskia's staff. Snap it up now in ebook, paper, or audiobook: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen #romancelandia
After the nasty YouTube AI took down my son's fan-channel, he's been steadily putting his edits back up again. This one's #DoctorWho, made for the 60th anniversary. Please go give #WeareroftheCheese a cheeky follow! youtu.be/IgxwD2F9zKo?...
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I've been playing #ClashofClans and I just got booted from Irish group Clan #MamaBear for not attacking in a war I didn't sign up for and wasn't party to. I'd been a diligent clan member for about a year... no warnings, nothing. So #Lee, if you're out there? You're a dick. #Speirgorm
lol *really*?
I love the idea of hanging the rest of the six nations flags. That's inspired.
(I've also been using it any time my kid comes home from school with a hint of a cold and I've avoided most of the colds that the men in my family, who won't use the nasal spray, have gotten.)
ah no 😬 I don't want to be Helpy, but if you've got access to a pharmacy where you can get some kind of nasal spray with carrageenan extract (it's a seaweed) it's proven to help inhibit both the severity of covid & the chances of catching it if used regularly during infection/exposure.
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Hopefully I'll get better with practice, yes. I've never heard of sketchup, I'll have to look
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One of those, I tried something like that with, not successfully. :)
An honourable and mature decision from my candidate.
Yeah, breaking it down into familiar shapes is what I was TRYING to do, see... 🫤
I thought it was the minimum but that's also information half picked out of the firehouse of shit about this. But I thought it was 150k bc the minimum legal amount would bankrupt them, which 150k per stolen work would.
I would be cautiously interested in suggestions. :) Honestly I really just couldn't figure out what to do with it. I felt like I should be able to Perspective It but couldn't figure it out.
Ah Jesus I'm sorry
Well fuck. My husband just got laid off because of DOGE's cuts to tech for HHS and now we're BOTH unemployed. Accepting any help anyone can give to save our house. gofund.me/e3012be90
Half the reviews of story driven RPGs are from people who skip past all the text and then complain that things 'felt thin' or whatever. YES, ANYTHING FEELS THIN IF YOU SKIP HALF OF IT. For your next trick, strain all the chunks out of your stew and then complain it's thin and you're still hungry.
My hair did cool things here. #Pose #PoseRef
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Also, y'know, minimum payment for copyright violation is supposed to be like $150K. I'm not proud, I would take $150K for each title they've stolen.
That's my second one, yeah, though I haven't actually seen it since it came out :D
the last one turned out okayish. :)
oh come on surely everybody is going to say The Long Kiss Goodnight
mosquitoes can feast on us!
As a friend said, this won't be the only lawsuit, so we should register them now.
we all need a bog to live in at this point
they took 60+ things of mine, much of which doesn't fall under the copyright strictures they claimed, which makes me really, really mad bc copyright is actually very clear about "this is in fact copyrighted even if you don't register it".
NAP COMIX! #314 So serious... Please sign up for the Nap Comix Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/flimsykitten/nap-comix
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what i learned today is i cannot draw a fucking chair #CatieDraws
When I decided to do this scene for the cover to Joan Vinge's evocative follow-up to CATSPAW, I had to figure out a way to depict a falling iridescent rain of sentient psychic energy. There's no class for that in art school! 2/3
"The result is something rather extraordinary: a novel where you really are in charge, where you really will solve the murder — providing you’ve followed the clues correctly" Great review of Can You Solve the Murder?: www.gamespew.com/2025/09/can-...
60-65k
ok, did them. 2500 words for the day, 52k on the book
oh yeah no nobody wants to give him one, we just want to direct his seething need for one in a useful direction :)
Boosting the idea that Trump should be told that he might get the Nobel for his Operation Warp Speed in 2020 and that he should heavily invest in mRNA R&D to make sure he sticks the landing.
i bet i would have gotten the 650 i was after if i hadn't decied to write another blog post instead
up to 1850, gonna give myself another 30-60 minutes before knocking off
the shapes thing is SO HARD
887 so far. halfway there, whoa, etc
I have now done all the blogging I possibly can as avoidance work, and now I'm going to have to get my 1748 words. :p
That wasc the perfect response 😍
One of my sisters once had a patient refuse care from her because of how she looked so she told the ER manager (whatever they’re called idk) and this woman just sent in progressively darker skinned nurses until the patient eventually stormed outta there without treatment
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My impression at the moment is that trad publishers want things they can sell as queer romance but also prefer not to have very much actual queer romance in it, UNLESS it's a breakout book, which they claim to have no control over but totally do. So, y'know: do your thing & worry about it later :D
It’s true. You can preorder the next Sworn Soldier and Snake-Eater (both this year) the Nine Goblins print edition, Wolf Worm, and Daggerbound next year. I’m sorry. I know it’s a lot.
"It’s not as a result of a strategic process — creative destruction to establish something better. It’s the result of incompetence, stupidity, arrogance, racism, a fragile ego and a wilful disregard to learn anything about life beyond America’s borders."
In addition to designing and illustrating covers, creating spot art, and title and publication design, I was also privileged to be the Graphic Design Chair of the most recent National Barbie Doll Collectors Convention held in Louisville Kentucky. The entire experience was incredibly joyful.
Hooray! My new tea & vampires novella (set at a most unusual inn in the Black Forest) is out NOW on my Patreon: patreon.com/stephanieburgis Subscribe at the Dragon Ruler level to grab it now, or preorder it for $2.99/£2.49 to get it on Sept 29th: books2read.com/stephanieburgis #romancelandia
Well, yeah, tbf I did mean good on the surface. He could smarm and charm. But the moral centre would absolutely be entirely absent. Yeah.
Eddie's next book - THE HEIST OF HOLLOW LONDON - was EXTREMELY COOL and a REALLY FASCINATING read. Recommended!
RIGHT? the reality is he would've won in a landslide, but.... maaaaan, I'm glad he's not running. The other reality is actually I think he'd be good at the job. He's a charming mofo. But...it would be like, man, talk about not putting our best foot forward...
i do not want to work right now. i want to natter on endlessly about my #CatieDraws project instead.
Concept and narrative aren't the same, yeah. He had incredible concept stuff, and an astonishing ability to realize those, but they're quite separate skill sets...
Yeah. I mean. I can hope. But yeah.
That looks incredibly cool.
WOOT! Wordle 1,539 2/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 But here's the incredibly unlikely thing: according to Facebook memories, one year ago today I *also* got Wordle in two:
thank you 😊🥹
don't open the damn temu app. and i'll close my computer and go to sleep too.😭
Oh thanks! 😲😍🥰
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I'm actually pretty happy with the third one. I kind of want to actually finish it, although probably not right now - I'm *supposed* to do (more) finished drawings after a few more of those basic shapes ones that I'm not content to leave them at, so maybe I'll come back and finish the parrot then.
The first boxy sketch is what I'm SUPPOSED to be doing for my current #CatieDraws lessons. The second was to see how close I was to the right proportions. The outside feathers were too long at first (the lighter sketched ones) & ended up too short. They're much closer to right in the third one.
... Is she the person who turned to the last season of Killing Eve into such a clusterfuck?
GRUMPYE TEENAGE SHAKESPEARE: "Thys ys just a stage, son." "ALL THE WORLDE YS A STAGE, DAD!!!! UGH!'
ok, despite it all I got up to 2k today
One of my favorites was opening the door to trick-or-treaters, who included 2 kids, (the same) mama moose, and her baby, the latter two of whom were eating the jackolanterns we had out. Us: uh, you better come in for a few minutes Kids: why? Us: look behind you Kids: *look, TELEPORT INSIDE*
*DOOD*!!!!
That was not any of the derailments, never fear. <3
DOOD
Probably the time the mama moose put her head in my bedroom window to have a look around. :)
up to 1250, need another 500
derailment 1 was followed by derailment 2 and i have still done NO WORK today. blocking the entire internet now, bc jesus.
new blog post: Recent Reads: A HONEYMOON OF GRAVE CONSEQUENCE by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social (not @stephenaryan.bsky.social who i tagged first!) mizkit.com/recent-reads...
...excuse me while I repost, lol, I clearly wasn't paying enough attention to my tags! thanks!
update: i have caught 80 of them so far 👀
Alas my son (now 30) is one of the folks posting “BALTO DID NOT DO THE SERUM RUN FOR YOU TO REFUSE VACCINES”
of course, I got badly derailed by something and have so far done zero of those words so now i'm stressed, yay
oh man i like mars, on my way
I 100% mean this: YAY GOOD JOB!!!!
I dare, I dare!
I moved my deadline up bc if I don't have this done by the end of next week I have to stop working on it and do something else, so today's minimum wordcount is 1789.
Perfect use of platform.
OH NO LOOK WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU SEARCH ON A POKEMON TODAY
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*will take care
Oh well @byharryconnolly.bsky.social here this week take care of that brief sentiment we both shared
But also if you were gonna, this would be why. Yeah. Exactly my sentiment.
Boy, that's...a lot.
"Russian propaganda entertains, confuses and overwhelms the audience. [...] It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency." [...] "Put simply, our first suggestion is don't expect to counter the firehose of falsehood with the squirt gun of truth."
Eejit?
oh, dammit, that IS amazing
My weird impossible thing I want is that I think the fox from Disney’s Robin Hood should be in more movies. Like not the voice actor (though he was awesome) or the character of Robin himself, but the nonexistent imaginary cartoon fox actor who PLAYED Robin, because that guy is the best
What do we mean by "that"? Focus on the working class? Enthusiasm? Winning?
Hi, can someone please identify the three plants I just impulse bought.
