Laura VanArendonk Baugh

No criminal history, no deportation orders, no mercy from ICE Sara has legal status in the US, but that didn't stop ICE from putting her and her mother in a private prison and seeking to deport them

If you're not following @mikalatos.com here or on Substack, you really should be. For months now, he's been sharing the stories of immigrants unconstitutionally arrested by I.C.E. Today's is yet another horror story. #protest #ICEisgestapo thesestories.substack.com/p/no-crimina...

Me? Plenty. This specific anthology should be available today. 🙂

Want stories with girls exercising prowess in science, math, and engineering while also supporting girls in science, math, and engineering? The Brave New Girls anthologies support scholarships in STEM. Get it! books2read.com/bravenewgirls9

#amwriting #writingcommunity #writing #writesky #writersky

I'll be at the Realm Makers Expo with book, comic, game, animation, and film/TV creators! Join for fun panels, interactive sessions, and loads of cool stuff to take home.
www.realmmakers.com/realm-m...

#RealmMakers #RealmMakers2025 #GrandRapidsMI #FantasyWriters #SciFiWriters #WritingCommunity

The midterm elections are in 580 days.

Democracy doesn’t run on vibes. Do something that matters.

☎️ Call your reps. 5calls.org
📱 Text your reps. resist.bot
✅ Get election ready. turbovote.org

Join me on April 5th

On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/9qkDNYDX

They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere.

Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.

It's been a week since I visited the offices of Sen Young, Sen Banks, and Rep Shreve (none here) to personally deliver letters with my concerns. In each I requested a response to acknowledge they saw it. None has bothered to even look at a hand-delivered letter, any more than to answer their phones.

We're so close!! Please take a look to help us get 100%

(and also, please check out my yōkai-rousel pins at www.backerkit.com/c/projects/l... if you have not already :D )

Colorado Springs is far from the tiniest airport I've used, but it's kinda cute that it lists the ubiquitous Hudson as "dining." 😂

Stock Your TBR (Epic/High Fantasy Series Starters) Searching for your next favorite story? Look no further! These bestselling authors have teamed up to offer a delightful selection of new books. Available for a limited time.

Want to start an epic new fantasy series for free? Browse here and pick out some cool new reads.

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It's NATIONAL HOT CHOCOLATE DAY! How great is that?

And y'know, I'm <$13 short of this month's sales goal, so let's do this: use FAIRTRADE to get 10% off any regularly priced ebook on my website store, today. Now excuse me, I'm off to make a mug of cocoa.

LauraVAB.com

Happy Spring Festival and Multi-Asiatic and Beyond Lunisolar New Year! 😂 Huzzah, Sneks!

Newest anthology is out sleighing! 😉This collection of dark fantasy and gothic winter stories has been drawing good industry reviews (we could use a few more on Amazon, please!), and my story was called out as a "delightful yarn" so there's that. Please check it out!

go.lauravab.com/hoarfrost

It's time! Our #Pintopia project has launched!

www.backerkit.com/c/project...

#enamelpins #pincollector #yokai #japan #carousel

It's time! Our #Pintopia project has launched!

www.backerkit.com/c/project...

#enamelpins #pincollector #yokai #japan #carousel

"I have my form completed, everything ready to go. I just need a title for this short story, and then I can be done. But I don't have a title yet, so I came down to get some peanut butter M&Ms for it."

"Does that work?"

"Not always. But if I don't get a title, at least I have peanut butter M&Ms."

⚠️ PSA to anyone posting to YouTube ⚠️
Definitely go in and turn this off!! I don’t think it even needs explaining at this point!!
Please let everyone know

Ooooh ooooh ooooh! I was sad to leave Twitter back then because I knew I'd miss 2 accounts in particular - but today I found @moviessilently.bsky.social here!

(look, I'm slow and I'm relatively new here, sorry)

Gandalf the White saying, "Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth"

me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:

Got asked to try / promote a company using genAI to "automate the cumbersome parts of playing TTRPGs" and first of all, fuck you, second of all fuck this idea that any part of *playing a game* needs to be outsourced to a plagiarism machine that sets the world on fire

I was not kind in my response.

It's coming! Check out our gorgeous yōkai carousel enamel pins, plus stickers, prints, books and comics, and more.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/laura-vanarendonk-baugh/yokai-rousel-pins-japanese-yokai-in-classic-carousel-form/launch_party

#pintopia #enamelpins #pins #yokai

The Doberman wants to know why I'd leave a perfectly decent warm bed to go out in 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

It's a reasonable question.

(Uploaded this morning but failed to post somehow.)

If you recycled it, it's almost like saving it for reuse.

It’s fun because if there’s an author who got AI exactly right, it’s Adams with the various Sirius Cybernetics Corporation devices. In his books AI is invariably a useless annoyance that is painful to interact with and everyone tries their best to avoid.

“I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” Why Ann Telnaes quit her editorial cartoonist job at the Washington Post and why she’s my newest hero anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

I'm in Pintopia 2025 with some very cool enamel pins (coming soon!).

and you can see more pins and plushes with our Pintopia starter pack! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Just toasted Tolkien with a bottle of water because that's all I had.

The Professor!

New Year's Resolution: Block any "AI" accounts anywhere, you don't even have to feel bad about it, it's not like there is someone on the other end

Seriously yall!!!

When we tell ya don't engage with shit this is why. Even if it's hate watching, mocking it or "doing it for the memes" it doesn't fucking matter becuase all that registers is engagement & time

This is why bullshit keeps going on. Just fucking ignore if for fucks sake I'm so tired