Tim Melody Pratt

The author with long pink hair hanging down across half her face

She’s giving Veronica Lake but trans and with completely different personality disorders

@timpratt.org
Finished Era of The Eclipse now. I won't spoil it for anyone who may see this but I can say this has become my favorite book of yours.

It may be recency bias but for now it is the top dog.

Yeah I love this one, read it for the first time this summer

Kelly Link and George Saunders too though doing novels eventually probably raised their profiles

I am often on the other side of him, and same! *fist bump*

Cover of Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

Finally finished reading this. It took months because I kept bawling and putting it aside for a while

A queer avoidant/anxious romance about a road trip to fulfill the last wishes of a beloved dying mentor figure

Made in a lab to make me cry

There's only one film that should be screened in the Las Vegas Sphere. The single most appropriate movie. You know the one. A late 90s scifi thriller with horror elements. I'm of course talking about Cube (1997)

My original outline had my cast split up a lot more but it’s so fun to have them playing off each other. I will have to separate them soon for story reasons but I’m letting them banter and trade barbs a while longer first

2500 words on the book today and my outline has gone off the rails at this point but this version is better anyway

god this book I'm writing is just COOKING, I am having so much fun

(The Jewel and the Comet, sequel to The Knife and the Serpent. Now EVEN MORE kinky and genderqueer)

So many billions spent on the build out of infrastructure for a product that hardly anyone is willing to pay to use.

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Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!

If your stance is that maybe people like me don't deserve an equal place in modern society, if your stance is oh hey maybe angry idiots who think people like me are subhuman have a valid point of view -- not only am I not voting for you, but you can get seven shades of fucked

And the catalyst comet arc, the Stakes miniseries, Islands, even Finn’s dad. I have zero patience for daddy issue stories at this point EXCEPT THAT ONE

A print of young Marcy and young(er) Simon from Adventure Time

Yes! Over my desk:

Ah, that show was not for me. People kept saying “watch three more episodes and it gets great” and it DID get okay

If we’re talking live action, The Shield, a rare show with a perfect ending

Adventure Time

Timothy Dalton as supermarket owner Simon Skinner in HOT FUZZ smiling in front of a framed picture of himself wearing the exact same smile

this is the gold standard for visual jokes

Just finished reading and highly recommend it! Fight fascists! Do handstands!

I've known a lot of the latter and I read Labyrinths of Reason at a formative age

“Come and trip it, as ye go / On the light, fantastic toe.”

More from the common root of Milton, but it's not an association that bothers me :)

Notes app on my phone for ideas and little scene fragments, often using voice to text

Word for actual drafting. Word is dreadful in various ways but I have to use it for my day job anyway so whatever

One of my favorite bits in the Axiom books was having characters centuries in the future quoting the Douglas Adams “space is big” line and having characters be like “as Shakespeare said. Or was it Chaucer”

I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space

That was one of the things I liked about writing for them!

I didn’t even have to work to make a Starfinder book have an expansive approach to gender, it’s baked right into the setting, it’s great

It's nice they let me do the odd little reference!

Thank you so much! They’re a blast to write