Me in a nutshell: 👦 Mother: Single mom, now married to a Brit. 🎮 Gamer: Since the Atari days—MMOs and RPGs on Linux 🕰 MA in History: studied juvenile legal history 🏫 Teacher: SpEd, 🦄 working with children in crisis 📚 Writer: Indie Author SFF, Cozy Horror 💙 Progressive Liberal 🌈 2SLGBTQIA+ Ally 🚫 AI

Game of Life is one of my favourite kinds of books: both so detailed in its worlds and characters it rewards close reading, and also so engaging and fun to read it pulls you in. (And also: furry!) I'm only a day in and I'm hooked.

I feel deep, deep gratitude toward every single person who takes a couple hours out of their busy lives to be a part of this movement to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All.

Interesting

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Keep writing. You didn’t create all these fictional people and ruin their lives just to abandon them halfway through.

23 days until we vote to end this nightmare.

I read them all aloud. If the voice I use to say the line of dialogue isn't who I originally assigned the line to, then I change either who says it or what's being said. I've redone entire scenes and casts of characters after realizing I had two voices that were too similar.

If I were to bait Darius' trap it would have new goth outfit, keys to a nice boat, and a songbird.

Yes! She would love these things.

She would love that.

I've lost track of the number of famous people who have loved my work and wanted to tell me [insert lame AI slop here.]

Fabulous!