Rebecca von Groote

An image of the pineapple dump cake with cherries and whipped cream.

Pineapple Rum Dump Cake (with scratch cake mix), Luxardo Maraschino Cherries and syrup and Whipped Cream.

I can't explain how good this is.

I have Long Covid and it has completely altered my life.

Before, I was regularly writing fiction, actively present in office for my job, and contemplating possibly getting my doctorate.

Now, I have ADA accommodations to WFH because of synptoms, brain fog has killed my writing, and forget a EdD.

a stuffed toy is playing a game with the words wow this is the worst birthday ever ALT: a stuffed toy is playing a game with the words wow this is the worst birthday ever

The artist formerly known as HRH Prince Andrew getting arrested on his own birthday is just chef's kiss.

Now, can someone in America please make consequences happen for people in the files?

Woot! Looking forward to seeing you! I'm doing some cosplats from your works!

Bummed not to see @seananmcguire.bsky.social on the ECCC lineup. I always enjoy your panels.

A store specializing in heirloom varietals and hard to find antique strains call Maslow's Hierarcy of Seeds.

Ugh, rude.

Accurate, but still rude.

*Dusts off WIP and tries to find my motivation to even right now*

ICE Out - Fundraising Nail Polish **Shipping Update** Shipping will continue once more ingredients have arrived for this polish. Orders should go out in about 2 weeks. Ice Out is a blurple based polish with a blue/aqua shift and pink ...

If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund

I'm just a girl, spending time and money, to make a cosplay of a book character I am 90% sure only the author will recognize.

And I don't give a fuck. Because this thing is going to slap.

#CountDownToECCC #SmallJoys #BookNerd #Cosplay #ECCC2026

1000/10, no notes.

Also, Law Enforcement has been straight up murdering citizens for YEARS. Just because they were usually black and brown doesn't change that. White friends, we were warned this was coming. Just because it's ICE instead of the NYPD or the Atlanta PD or the Minneapolis PD or .....

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Probably an evergreen thought these days, but a very hearty Fuck You to ANYONE who said people were over reacting in 2016.

Anyways, Alexa, play "Eve of Destruction".

Hilary is good people and makes beautiful jewelry. Help her and her very good doggone out if you can.

It has a red light if I want low light, or it has like three settings of white light if I need that.

And that's the thing, it's making my nights when I am up because of pain or insomnia or GI symptoms easier.

But it's being seen, the way eased. That makes such a difference. 4/4

Both because I was trying not to work my Murderbot, and because it was handy...Ish. it's not like I sleep in a headlamp.

But this little thing clips onto a Hoodie pocket or the front of my PJs, and with a tap, I have a hands free light to see by. 3/

You may be asking, Bec, what does that have to do with caregiving?

Well, due to my #LongCovid, I frequently get up at night. I go to the bathroom. I go get water. I get a snack.

And before, I would use my phone screen to light the way. 2/

Round clip on light in a nice forest green shade.

A+ Caregiving, holiday addition.

My partner, who I jokingly call Murderbot, got me this handy little light as a stocking stuffer for Christmas. 1/

Final Takeaway from 2025:

Meatsuit gonna meatsuit.

#DeepThoughts #HappyNewYear #OrWhatever

Me, half awake this morning: Man, I am exhausted. Can we contact the hosts of today's holiday party and cancel?

My Spouse: Babe, YOU are the host.

Me: Right. Fuck.

Anyways, Bright Solstice and Happy Holidays, y'all...

My brother is Cripes, we are in a crowded airport waiting area.

USE YOUR GODSDAMNED HEADPHONES!!!!

#RageFromTheTravelSide

ChatGPT told one of my student (I do HIED academic advising) that Subsidized loans are the ones you don't have to pay back.

That isn't remotely true.

Please don't used ChatGPT for your financial aid advice.

Just...respect your readers' intelligence. I am begging you. 6/6

None of these things were hard fact checks. Like, five minutes on Wikipedia for the one, and ten minutes making a quick timeline of your side character you ascribed a bunch of historical events to for the other would have caught this. 5/

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"Do my dark romance readers care about facts about actual serial killers?" YES, SOME OF US LIKE HISTORY. AND BODY COUNTS. 4/

And look, I get that people may think they get a pass if they aren't writing historical fiction. "Do my horror readers really care about the historical accuracy of my timeline?" YES. SOME OF US LIKE HISTORY AND BODY COUNTS. 3/

And I understand this falls under "tell me you are likely on the ASD spectrum but undiagnosed without telling me", but fucking hell, can I get paid by publishing houses to fix this shit so other neurodivergent folks can read in peace? 2/

Man, I am two for two this week on authors dropping either a throw away line or something non- central to the plot that either is factually incorrect or is so incredibly historically implausible that it might as well be factually incorrect and has yanked me right out of the the narrative. 1/

Man, the boys aren't making this a feckin nail-biter or anything. #Mariners #MightAsWell

a dolphin is jumping out of the water . Alt: A marlin, a type of large sea fish with a long spikey nose, jumping from the water.

How are the marlins using the hope chests? With their flippers?

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Dear @seananmcguire.bsky.social- I adore you. I also misread merlin as marlin every single time and have this experience...