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Discount Canadian store brand Green brother, fantasy author, lapsed bicycle scientist, Muppet biologist, waistcoat enthusiast, cosplayer, cat haver, he/him. I contain multitudes, sometimes they leak out.
@stealingfromwizards.com PinnedStealing from Wizards, the kinder, quirkier, queerer, Canadianer magic school series. Read the complete quadrilogy: Pickpocketing Burglary Kidnapping Arson Wizards, thieves, and misfits engaging in high adventure and petty crime. Stealingfromwizards.com #booksky
@stealingfromwizards.comI can, but I stitched it down to some support material. I was concerned that the smocking stitches might pop if I stretched wrong.
@stealingfromwizards.comForgive the cat hair, my dear assistant Hypatia was EXTREMELY helpful in the production of this vest.
@stealingfromwizards.comJust finished a Gideon the 9th inspired spooky season vest. What do you think (about the vest, not the fact that I look like John Green failing to fit in at a My Chemical Romance concert?)
@stealingfromwizards.comJebus cripes zoomers, you need to stop wearing track pants to interviews. What are you even thinking?
@beebrookshire.bsky.socialReposted by @stealingfromwizards.comThey’re a 10 but they can be a little…too creative.
In which i give you the dating profile of a body part, and you’re going to decide if you’re shooting your shot. With unsettling images by @stealingfromwizards.com
@stealingfromwizards.comSometimes we do our best work for extremely silly reasons. I helped produce some of these images, and I think the first might be the least distressing.
@stealingfromwizards.comNope! I put them up for free quite intentionally. I'm thinking of producing a paid version, but for now, they are a gift to the world.
@stealingfromwizards.comIndie author monthly despair pit: Online sales trackers reset, and we have the unfounded dread that nobody will ever buy our books again as we stare into the void in the middle of that zero. 😭
@stealingfromwizards.comI've always loved familiar stories, I think it started with McCaffrey's fire lizards. Mine are inspired most by recent edition D&D familiars, magical constructs.
@stealingfromwizards.comIf you want to hear me go off on ahistorical button representation... well you're probably the kind of person who would enjoy this podcast.
@stealingfromwizards.comScrew you hippie.
@stealingfromwizards.comHalf my feed was Noisy replies, and I was about to make fun of you for shirking your work to scroll bsky... then the hypocrisy hit. I'm a go back to doing my job. 😖
@stealingfromwizards.comOh! You splurged and bought the fresh fruit. I saved 10k yesterday by getting my zucchinis from the "festering rot pile" discount bin.
@stealingfromwizards.comDisambiguation post: Obtuse: too stupid to understand Abstruse: too smart to understand.
@stealingfromwizards.comSlight disagree. The bull may be capricious, but has no malice, greed, or the capacity to choose differently.
@stealingfromwizards.comAnd I think that speaks to the quality of Muir's work. The prose and characters draw you in and keep pulling you forward while drip feeding you lore and bludgeoning you with narrative shifts.
@stealingfromwizards.comOof. That's good.
@stealingfromwizards.comI'm talking specifically about Gideon, not the series. And yes, it's a mystery, but it doesn't tell you its a mystery. It's breaking so many writing rules, expertly.
@stealingfromwizards.comWhy does it work? Muir's prose is so lurid and the POV's voice so strong that you don't notice the incongruity behind the shifts. Also, the blood and gore is built into the setting. All the goth necromancer nonsense obscures the transition to horror. I am so annoyed at how good Muir is at this.
@stealingfromwizards.comEverything about the first chapters tells us that Gideon is a hero's journey space opera, then a third of the way through that gets entirely derailed into a locked house murder mystery, and then explodes into a last girl slasher. IT SHOULD NOT WORK!?!
