Athena Minerva Devine

🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 If they ask you to pay money it's a scam 👏👏
🎵 that is not your favorite author or a stunning book club offer
🎵 They are asking you for money=it's a scam 👏👏

"There's nothing special about any of us. We are just people who said 'Hey, I think somebody needs something, I wonder if I can get it to them.' And then we ask 'What do you need? Can I give it to you?' and then we give it to them. I think a lot of people think they need permission to do that, or you need to be a trained organizer, and honestly it is the easiest thing in the world to just say 'Hey, do you need anything?'"

I want to leave you with this, from @mostlybree.kitrocha.com:

This. (And thanks, Chuck. She’s stealing my stuff too.) :/

a drawing of a cat peeking out of a keyboard Alt: bongo cat gif speed typing

taking sarra cannon's publish and thrive course this month because my writing life is a clusterfuck due to IRL being a clusterfuck and I have already learned a few things. (like that cover is *hella wrong* in this day and age, and I should fix that if I'm gonna leave it up)

Text overlaid on a sunny scene of wildflowers and a trail of bright orange and yellow butterflies. #BluePit - A Storytelling Hype/Pitch Event What It Is: An event designed to uplift storytellers of any media. All works are welcome, regardless of the stage (e.g., Drafting, Editing, Querying, On Submission, or Published). When: July 13th, 2025 and will run the full 24 hours! #BluePit Rules: Limit 3 posts per WIP; multiple works allowed. Include correct emojis to appear in media specific feeds Use appropriate tags (see Tag list) All images must include ALT text. No AI. Everyone is encouraged to like and repost Use the #BluePit feeds to find and support others. Agents, editors, and publishers are welcome to participate and can also use #BluePit feeds without a BlueSky account #Emojis for custom media feeds: Writing (e.g. “#bluepit 📖”) Game Dev (e.g. “#bluepit 🎮”) Comics (e.g. “#bluepit 💥”) TTRPGS (e.g. “#bluepit 🎲”) Questions: BluePit.Carrd.Co @BluePit.Bsky.Social @ZProspero.bsky.social

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Woman in long dress is looking out the window.

A photo of cat sitting in some Venetian blinds they have just destroyed with the text JOY DIVISION at the top and UNKNOWN PLEASURES at the bottom

This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far

I was COMPLETELY ASTONISHED by how many early-career or unpublished writers I spoke to at the library last year who said they 'didn't read' fiction because they were 'worried' about writing too much like the author they were reading.

This is on me, I thought it was a bit people were doing online. 😩

Please stop using ChatGPT in general, but also, please, please stop using it and then taking what it says to you as fact. It's usually wrong! It doesn't fact check itself. It just creates approximations of information based on other text! It's basically magnetic poetry that sets the world ablaze.

this, on top of *everything* else that's going on IRL for me right now.

I just wish things would stop going wrong.

called my mom today to wish her happy birthday.

she let me know she'd had bloodwork done to see why her sodium was staying low, and that she'd gotten the results this morning.

cancer flags. *two* types. She's going to be undergoing further testing to see if they're just pre-cancerous or actual.

This shit remains terrifying. Also I really hope 2025 isn't the year they decide to start enforcing Alabama's anti-obscenity law because I've never been 100% sure how much of a crime the Beyond series is. 😬

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later

Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

Would be great if the reporters who turned Joe Biden's dog biting a USSS agent into the crime of the century could be bothered to report on an unelected billionaire's employees basically taking over the HR function for 3 million federal workers.

What Donna didn't say is that because of our lost employment/insurance situation, not only can I no longer try to help her but she's been trying to help us.

Having your insurance tied to employment remains a scam.

Thanks everyone who has helped or who has shopped: thebrokencircle.etsy.com

Donate to Help Avert Donna's Deductible Disaster, organized by Kit Rocha Hello from the Bree Half of Kit Rocha! First, the TL;DR: After a series of schedu… Kit Rocha needs your support for Help Avert Donna's Deductible Disaster

I've updated this campaign, but here's the tl;dr: everything is frozen, insurance companies are not my friends, and new meds are spendy.

Also, my cat is cute.

gofund.me/6bd3f24a

CELESTIAL BLOOM 🩷💜🩵
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#beadwork #indigenousart #nativebling #firstnations

Okay, we need to have a conversation.

A great read. The book and the writeup!

I feel very, very seen.

Oh, because my brain will quite literally not shut up until I make the thing. Yes, it did take me 38 years to understand that I have ADHD why do you ask 😂

Discord outage appears to be over?

intermittent outages in discord right now, for my discord friendos: discordstatus.com

I hate that “don’t leave home without your papers” is the shit I have to say right now, but.

A curated list of COVID-19 distractions in the form of animal livecams, updated for 2024 A curated list of COVID-19 distractions in the form of animal livecams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAmFZj1y_a0 (Okaukuejo waterhole in Etosha National Park, Namibia) https://www.beardsleyzoo.or...

Someone recently posted a link to a livecam of a watering hole in a park in Namibia and it reminded me that when I could only see my students on zoom during COVID, I made them a long list of animal livecams to help their brains. This seems like a good time to re-share it! Enjoy, I hope it helps.

Okay, this is exciting.

ATTENTION

If you have a task that can be completed start to finish in 15 minutes or less, go do it right now and report back.

stacks of both US and UK editions of The Teller of Small Fortunes in front of a vase of sunflowers

It's official: The Teller of Small Fortunes is now out in the US & the UK! From a blank Google doc 2+ years ago, to a real life physical book (and ebook, and audiobook!) available on bookstore shelves near you -- it's been one heck of a ride.

SURPRISE!!!
The amazing folk at The Broken Binding have been very busy making my #SPFBO finalist some beautiful hardcovers!!

You can grab them NOW from

thebrokenbindingsub.com/products/the...

Sets are limited.

Demi Winters has her trad pubbed version of Road of Bones releasing today. (Viking inspired fantasy!!) And Emily McIntyre has Hexed out today. (Little Mermaid reimagining!!) Two authors who are VERY good at their craft and worth supporting!!