The vax isn't available anywhere I've checked in our area (pharmacies, my actual doc). This Is Fine ™️
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The vax isn't available anywhere I've checked in our area (pharmacies, my actual doc). This Is Fine ™️
I like it but the kids can't manage it. 😅
So pretty!
I made this book and you can read it now! It's cool! It's a raucous lesbian wild west adventure comedy with mechanical men and murder mysteries! books2read.com/b/angelmaker
I vote Sentinels
Finished and immediately put a hold on the sequel. Some CW for rape/child death, but overall what a read. How a walking-pace journey through backwoods and mountain passes can be written so engagingly should be studied, hah. Also it's gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
🎉🎉🎉🎉
The beginning of an ongoing theme 😅 #WIPSnips
Introducing our new kitty! She hid for a day but finally came out to play. She's 4mo and her shelter name is Hectate, but we're looking for something that fits her rambunctious personality... and that the kids can pronounce 😅
93% chance I change my name to Kyle Floore and retire to herd sheep in the coming days -_-
If you're interested in exploring a programming proposal or even just want more info on doing so, check us out here: sirensconference.org/learn/#faculty ❤️
OUT 11/25/25 🔗⬇️
I got my flu shot this morning and halfway through the day was like "why do I feel so rundown all of a sudden?" Still better than actual flu.
Fund elevated and separated bike lanes throughout my county and throw the rest of the $$ at improving our bus system
Sirens has been around since 2009, though we've taken a few years off to read, rest, and reimagine what Sirens could be. It might be different from what you remember--or from other events that you might know. As you make a decision about whether to attend, you might find some info helpful 🤓
Absolutely loving THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott. Such sumptuous prose and a plot that is burning along at just the right pace. It's been a while since I've read a book that delighted in showing you around. Also the Haunt is a specific version of dangerous but hot that I'm here for.
Me, showing off WIP: This is cozy Friend: No, Kai, this is horror Me: This is cozy horror Friend: No, Kai, cozy does not have this many corpses. Or blood. Me, clutching WIP tighter: Cozy. Horror.
Fuuuuuuuck
Ahhhhh?!?! Ahhhhh!!!!
Stilllllll on sale! Wizard fights! Conspiracies! Assassin Guilds! Magical Automatons called Old Stone, Brass Bob, Reticulate Rex, and The Sandyman...c'mon you know you wanna learn about The Sandyman
If anyone was thinking of grabbing a pre-made eBook cover, now would be a great time, ahaha
Okay honestly yeah, it's below 72F now and feels like fall I'll take it T_T
Florida started doing this last year. -_- Kids can't even get a bandaid if the form ain't signed.
Sane, sanity, same thing #WIPSnips
Transit/walkability would make everything *so much* easier My eldest would be able to bike herself most places by now if we didn't have to worry about unsafe roads/cars. I can only fit two kids at a time on the bike. Even if I wanted a bigger car, I couldn't afford one.
Me, showing off WIP: This is cozy Friend: No, Kai, this is horror Me: This is cozy horror Friend: No, Kai, cozy does not have this many corpses. Or blood. Me, clutching WIP tighter: Cozy. Horror.
I've definitely thought about how I'd like a third kid, but there's no way we could afford it *and* it's a much bigger lift to haul 3 kids around than it is 2. Improve transit, offset some of the cost, though...
I do a 5am strength/endurance class and that's the only way right now
Yes, the youngest is 4.5. He only started sleeping through the night about a year ago and more recently will stay asleep past 6am 🙃
Omg my wife got me The Candle I can't wait to burn it
It's taken me almost 7 years, but I'm finally getting back on it.
Riiiight? Idk if I'm jealous enough to eat what i need to, though
IT'S BOOOK DAYYYYYYY (and the crowd goes wild) A long-awaited return to Rapid City and the world of Karen Memory! www.patreon.com/posts/137115...
muuuscleeesss oh wait, there's a post, too. and it's good. but also: muuusssccclessss
4yo, seeing dead, brown leaves on the ground: It's fall! Me, knowing our 90F+ future: Oh, sweetie.
I don't know why this hyperfixation persists, but humour me: writer mutuals, what are the three features that would make whatever writing app you use right now a personal game-changer for your process?
...apparently I just want fullscreen mode to be more immersive, hmm.
3. A floating design/layout/type widget for fullscreen mode, so I don't have to exit out of fullscreen to add a new page, center a line, or do anything beyond bold and italics. Being able to toggle the widget with two keys so it can stay hidden as needed would be even better.
1. A real full screen mode. Neither Word nor Scrivener do this properly, but OmmWriter gets it perfect. 2. Speaking of OmmWriter, I love that you can turn on tikky-takky keyboard sounds and have built-in background noise/music. Anything that minimizes the number of times I have to go anywhere else.
I've had to have this convo already with eldest. It's important, if hard, since it seems even the schools and libraries are still doing HP-themed events. -_-
Okay, now that August and my birfday are past, I will allow Spoopy Season / the Skeleton War to commence.
It's my birthday week! 🎂 You should check out my books (if you haven't yet) and then check out my queer sff lists! 😙🌈
Chill guys, it's called coke. I even see a Dr Pepper coke
What I mean by "it's happening" is Half-Life 3 being released T_T
It's called ✨anxiety✨
I haven't been online for a day and now everyone is preparing cake and setting up party plans?
Direct file is even easier than TurboTax, and free, which is why the current administration wants to get rid of it. If you would like to keep it, comment. At least we'll have the receipts when they try to lie and say it wasn't popular.
Honestly not surprised by the 3 years late one because it was published during the height of COVID, right after my editor was fired. So things were preeeetty chaotic.
2 were registered as expected, 1 was registered but... 3 years after pub date 😬 Better late than never?
Ohmygod RateMyProf is *brutal*. Why would you ever look.
"It's been 5 years, it couldn't possibly still hurt-- OW."
*repeating ad nauseam while rocking back and forth* reviews are not for the author, reviews are not for the author, reviews are not for the author
Made the mistake of using Goodreads to look up the ISBNs for my books to submit for that class action and phew, why. Why did I look.
Yup! And even in the intro, where they show the human souls being taken and given to Gwi-Ma... only to instantly become demons? The implications, sob
I assume morale will immediately plummet if cat pics cease, so we're baked in
It makes me cry every time. Relatable af and I had to hug my kids extra hard after.
Cat photos will continue until morale improves.
"You'll be fine, we just gotta *erase part of who you are*" is way more than mere subtext
I wonder how much it's in convo with the fact that some of us get to have those loving, accepting places to grow up in and some of really, really don't. I think that's why the writer's choice to let Jinu be happy really struck me. Queer joy was a defiant shout, but our voice is so hoarse now. :/
What part of "why couldn't you love me? ALL OF ME?" could be any more clear??
Mission accepted
Please come and ask me questions next week! I will happily chat about House of Dusk, reading, writing, publishing, worldbuilding, gaming (currently playing Blue Prince and loving it!), LARPing, tea, travel, my dog, and really anything else that makes me happy!
🥁 Achtung bitte! The movie adaptation of THE HOME (HEMMET) will be shown in Germany in September as part of the incredible Fantasy Filmfest! (And my book is also translated into German, as DAS HEIM) fantasyfilmfest.com/en/the-home-...
Tbf this is the first is been under 75F since.... May... so, I'll take it
4yo, as soon as he stepped outside this morning: It's cold! Folks, it was 70F 😅
Rumi even stopped to ask a demon if it was like Jinu, but again: no follow through.
I thought it was a weird thread to pull and leave unexamined. I hope now that they've got 2 more movies they go into it more, because so much of the unease they had around Takedown was because it was flat out wrong
Me, on the Humane Society website, looking at kittens: This one's named Mitochondria 😭 Me: but I'm not serious. My wife: uh huh
Me: I'm just kidding, hahah Me: Me: Me: ...but what if
Delicious
8yo: The new cat tree has room for so many cats. We could get another! Me: Hahah sure. 5min later Me: What if we get another cat My wife: 🤔
No details yet, just the general announcement
Damnit. Looking forward to my .005 cents 🫠
Real gym dudes take naps between sets, It Is Known
Loaf!
You look like you could use a cat pic
It’s out!!! Go listen! Request it for FREE at libraries! Get it from Libro FM (and support a local bookstore) or use your Audible credits! Or just pretend you did all that and tell me I’m pretty
Ooooooooh @devafagan.bsky.social has a post up on @scalzi.com 's blog about the 20-years-in-the-making creative saga of HOUSE OF DUSK (out today)! I was with her for most of this journey and it's so fantastic to see this book assume its badass final form!!! whatever.scalzi.com/2025/08/26/t...
"You get stronger by letting other people help you" - me trying to convince my benching partner to lift heavier this morning. #GymTherapy apparently
Also, in case it wasn't obvious, it's GAAAAAAAAAAAY
Congrats!!
Eeee! This is out TODAY It's got animated skeletons, gods that are supposed to be dead damnit, and hot* priestesses *literally
This Must-Have Monday I have EIGHTEEN new books to ft! Incl 🪄bickering wizards falling for each other from @sararaaschbooks.com 🔥fire-bending nuns vs WILDLY incorrect religion via @devafagan.bsky.social 🐍bone boxes and the apocalypse with @wickedjamison.bsky.social
My 8yo has been reciting it since kindergarten. I've been clear that she doesn't *have* to, but haven't said anything further yet.
It was taught in elementary, in that it was always part of the morning announcement. I stopped saying it in either 8th or 9th grade; it was always a part of school/sports events.
I told my coworker about this, warned him not to google screw worms, then got to watch his expression turn to horror. Anyway, don't google image search screwworm. You're welcome .
Ugh one can only hope. I have watched too many elderly relatives decline, though, and it took years from a similar starting point, so I'm not holding my breath.
*sudden flashback to trying to learn German and Russian at the same time* "da - I mean, ja, I mean... fuck."
Ugggggggggggggggh the egg snake is back
Good on Orlando. Now repaint it again the second the cops look away.
Yeah ok, Kpop Demon Hunters is definitely better on the big screen.
Can confirm that even though I neglected my starter in the fridge for a month at a time, it still bubbled to life when I woke it up
After two months break, I'm back on my B.S. (Baking Spree)
Thank you 💜
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It's my birthday week! 🎂 You should check out my books (if you haven't yet) and then check out my queer sff lists! 😙🌈
Me: Ohh, this Amtrak trip is only 5 hours, we could take the kids to visit a new city and check it out! Amtrak: Yeah but there's only one train a day and you gotta catch it at 5am if you want to go home Me: ...nevermind...
