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Interesting that Iran is another oil producing country.

An easy way to stop encouraging this is to buy an EV next time you replace your car. They also cut local air pollution and are a dream to drive. Used ones in the UK start at £3k/€3.5k.

Fingers crossed March is productive for us both!

😬 & 🤮

But also, I feel like 'please' is becoming rare in speech between adults these days, at least in the part of Australia I live in. The 'please' tends to be in the tone and eyes. Its 'thank yous' I hear a far lot more of.

No, but there was a table selling candles in the fantasy section of the bookfair I tabled at last weekend and they were quite happy with their sales.

A Very Queer March! by Niranjan and 43 others A Very Queer March!: 63 items for $60.00

This March, check out this bundle of queer books!

A whole host of identities and sexualities!

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#booksky #readersky #readers #books #booksonbluesky #queersky #readingcommunity #writingcommunity

itch.io/b/3545/a-ver...

Yeah its too soon! Though good motivation to start the editing I'd hoped to do in Feb 😅

I love working on 2nd books in a series. There's no need introduce a new world, or show who an unknown MC is. You just write a fun re-intro to the main characters scene, then send them to confront monsters attacking a town for reasons above their pay grade.

(I'm editing book 2 of my SciFi-Fantasy😄)

Elise Carlson, Fantasy Author Elise is a restless adventurer and passionate educator, with an endless list of 'what if?' questions to explore in epic fantasy and SciFi-Fantasy. They write neurodiverse, queer-led adventures for tho...

Thanks for letting me know! This one should be ok.

Ah yes, intros, after I did an out of context, in character post that may or may not make sense (more fun that way 😉).

Hi #LatenightWrite! Chronically ill author trying emerge from fatigue to edit book 2 of my SciFi-Fantasy, Sythe Series here. Though I won't name the character I just posted as...

Having set up an illegal monster smuggling network that almighty Sythe dare not disrupt, I did wonder what it would be like to oppose Sythe directly. And my new business partner had just such a use for my brilliance and daring. An operation to undertake within Sythe, & against a city
#LateNightWrite

Waterfall view from the top, showing two pools and a range of eucalyptus trees and understorey plants

Duffer Falls in Washpool National Park and World Heritage Area.

Or just simply; attacked

If you’re bored giving ChatGPT a one star rating in the App Store doesn’t take long!

Yeah, publishers choosing to feed their author's books to gen ai, when I see no data disclosures about whether the books are training gen ai, and Booksellers being the ones who initiated this, is still major ick.

Oh FFS. Deleting my repost now 🙃

My lovelies, if you sell things (books, art, quilts, ect) include a link in posts where you share your work so people can buy your work.

I know the world is grim right now. Art it a light in the dark. Shine brightly.

#LianaEdits #PubTip #AmWriting #Publishing #Art

The line in my head now is from LOTR; "But there were some; who resisted."
Tolkien gave us so much. And Helms Deep influenced a scene in my own Manipulator's War. Its an odd contradiction, having battle tactics influenced by Alexander the Great, & the book being anti-war. But there you are.

Itch.io War March Bundle. 9 Stories of battle and conflict. Only $9 February 28th-April 1st. 9 book covers: Durga, Crimson Knight, War of the Space Dragons, Just Press Play, Jarek, Manipulator's War, Batte of Tibberphal, Song of the Wolf, The Eflae Champoion.

Its a WILD time for this bundle. But now feels the hour for stories of people taking a stand, risking all for everyone & thing they love. To read of those who fought back -with magic, arms or tech. To be empowered by fiction, and characters who give their all.

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As someone who does a lot of intersectional posts across a range of topics, I'm quite happy for mine to turn up on multiple feeds.

Back at ya.

I wonder how much that will backfire on him in this climate. I'm not scared; I'm angry, at him and his gutlessness on the world stage.

And some good news to balance out bad.

This is why Bsky has feeds, and the good ones pick up posts by relevant keywords, and filter out similar topically irrelevant words. Granted, keeping politics out of not-politics feeds is hard (My writing feed blocks so many politics words!), but its doable.

I just compared the two in my post. And given the most dangerous rogue state in the region is Israel, and the most dangerous rogue state in the world is the US, and both are heavily armed; its like he thinks we're delusional, if he expects us to buy this.

Albanese says Australia supports US action against Iran and stands with the Iranian people’s ‘struggle against oppression’ Department of foreign affairs warns travellers of risk of reprisal attacks, further escalation and flight cancellations in Middle East

Sure Albo, the invasion is for the Iranians. Just like Iraq was about freeing Iraqis from Saddam Hussein. No lies told. It was never oil, imperialism, CIA coups, Israeli expansionism or

Yes, we stand with a pedo, deranged, wannabe emperor & the world capital of genocide. Fuck Labour & fuck LNP!

*please re-assemble and then return it.

He should have said, "The Australian Zionist faction supports this war." I hate it when politicians lie on our behalf.

That's more eloquent than the post I didn't post.

Yep, unsurprising.

A good reason for periodic, "What do I own and do I still need to own it?" checks.
Mind you, I find moving house at least every 3 years solves that one 😆