Andy Brokaw

I know its tempting for many of you to scoff at people caring about sports, especially with everything going on these days, but my mental health NEEDED hockey back.

Go Kraken!

#SeaKraken #hockey

Authors, in the interest of helping readers spot gen ai 'authored' books, how many novels do you publish a year?

I publish one 80-100k+ word (epic fantasy) novel, and I can only do that because I drafted 8 novels before I started publishing any. 📚💙

I put out four <100k word YA novels in six years.

Eight years after that, I released a 140k adult romantasy that I rewrote continuously that whole time. I'm hoping to get its followup out a year after it, but that feels a bit optimistic right now.

I finished Of Monsters and Mainframes. It is small press and wound up being more queer than anticipated, so not off brand for me at all.

I LOVED it and think anyone who enjoys both SciFi and classic monsters should go read it.

Full review pending.

#books #reading #scfi #monsters

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

More he didn't think it was fair he had to exercise so much while the cats were curled up on their cat tree. But the cats weren't the ones driving everyone nuts acting out due to having too much energy.

Wife called pharmacies for me while I went to fetch a free bookcase. Looks like there's none of my dosage of Adderall within an hour of us.

Weeps in I Need This To Function.

#ADHD

My pharmacy reports there's another Adderal shortage.

My options right this second are make a bunch of probably futile phone calls despite my phone phobia or come to terms now with not being able to think next week.

No worries. Thinking is optional in US society. Discouraged even.

#ADHD

And, yeah, I'm still having to deal with the comments that trigger that. BUT the people following me don't. So if someone ever does respond with something harmful to my followers, I'll be able to protect them even if I don't see the post immediately.

By auto-mod zealousness, I'm referencing the number of times the system has pinged me for 'you say people can follow you, but did you mean people like THIS?' and 'Not sure you want this comment? approve/deny' So far the answer's only been no once, but it was the type of bot I get here regularly.

LGBTQIA.Space This is a cute server for all LGBTQIA ppl out there that want a caring and safe environment. If you are part of the LGBTQIA community you are very cordially invited to join this server.

If you're overwhelmed by a new thing and already stumbling at Step 1: Pick an instance, I recommend lgbtqia.space. The auto-moderation on it is zealous and I'm confident the actual human mods care about protecting the users.

Not to dwell too much on this, but... The last two posts on Mastodon actually contained a decent description of my book and allowed me to correct the typo on the dog photo...

As I've admitted, there's no quoting yet and I wish there was. But otherwise I kinda prefer it over there.

A German Shepherd dog stands on a grass coveref ski slope with the chair lift rising over him

To make up for advertising at everyone today, here's a pic of Ritter!

He's miff I made him walk up a BIG HILL and then take the long way home.

#dogs #GermanShepherd

The Harmony of Falling Snow: A Polyamorous Romantasy A Polyamorous Romantasy

Psst... My sweet MMF polyamorous romantasy The Harmony of Falling Snow is one of the many books you can buy print copies of with free shipping during bookshop.org's anti-Prime sale.

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

#books #PolyamorousBooks #Romantasy #TriadRomance #Fantasy #QueerBooks #QueerWriters

But in terms of who I'm LIKELY to give Bk 3 to... I dunno. They need to not just be interesting and ready for something Big Romance to happen but interact well with what the series plot will be doing.

Kiyli the foxkin journalist / ski instructor wants the promotion to lead. She may get it.

Um... So Bex was secondary cast in Book 1 but takes lead in Bk 2. Her co-leads were triciary in the first book.

The current secondaries most itching to take over a book would be Yves's kids. They would be great if I wanted to jump back to YA.

#AwesomeCharacters

A sparkly, queer AF mastodon rides an asteroid through space.

And there's no ability to quote posts yet. But that IS coming.

Although with 10000 characters on this server, you should be able to just copy-paste the original with your comments.

Plus, the logo for lgtbqia.space is ADORABLE.

You can request an account at lgbtqia.space/auth/sign_up

Mastodon isn't perfect. Mastodon.social has plenty of asshats it should mod better but is such a popular instance that most don't feel they can block the entire thing. (But blocking poorly moderated or hostile instances IS a thing that happens.)

And blocking individuals works like here.

Andy is Frazzled (ze/they/she) (@andy_the_frazzled@lgbtqia.space) 10 Posts, 266 Following, 30 Followers · Agender asexual panromantic writer of queer polyamorous romantasy, teacher of skiing, and resident kook of the Cascade Mountains. Random diagnoses: ADHD, anxie...

I set up a new Mastodon account on a cute LGBTQIA+ themed server that's open for registration if you're interested. (I found 95% of what held me back from Mastodon originally was not knowing which instance to join.)

Advantages include a 10000 char limit and no CEOs

lgbtqia.space/@andy_the_fr...

Me whining again:

It's sunny and 60F on my mountain. I was forced to leave my house despite the crap weather and am now very grumpy.

Where are the clouds meant to protect me from the horrid brightness? And when are all these plants trying to keep me from breathing going to die already?

A shorter list would be "What might the kind of people who try to ban books LIKE about your story?"

1. It's in English.
2. It has cute animals in it.
3. Sometimes people drink tea? Except they do it in a business that exists in part due to socialism. So maybe there is no third thing.

#QueerPrompts

Describing deportation as BAD and carried out by thugs, characters who declare their pronouns, polyamory, pansexuals, nonbinary people, swearing, alochol, drugs, making pro-democracy protesters GOOD, the bit where Yuri calls someone childish for complaining his workplace is "too woke"

#QueerPrompts

Like my characters, I have never heard anyone called a cinnamon roll before.

But if you want a breakfast pastry, Vil would be happy to make you one.

Meanwhile, Kiyli suggests if you want something round and sweet tasting, you should give her a call.

(SPOILER) So when Barnie's fearscape had his grandmother animated as speaking but silent, I heard MY grandmother attacking. And when Barnie explained it wasn't so much being afraid of his grandmother's toxicity but of his parents never having his back enough to intervene, I lost it.

Cause, yeah...

Techinically, my grandmother never said abusive things about me being agender. I never told her I was. But the constant stream of, "Why can't you be the sweet, pretty little girl you used to be?" was neverending. The theme of me being horrible for defying her expectations only ended when she died.

Ep 3 explores 1 lead's autism flavored anxiety and continues an ongoing exploration of the other's relationship with his verbally abusive, transphobic grandmother. I was both of these kids. Could probably have handled one of these things being laid out, but both? Kept crying well after the episode.

Musk says to boycott Netflix over a show. I take this as an endoresement of said show and start watching it.

Dead End: Paranormal Park is a cute horror themed cartoon. That had me sobbing 3 episodes in over how accurately it bared core parts of me.

So thanks for the recommendation, Elon! #DeadEnd

Based on the fact I just joined up, I'm guessing that number is steadily rising today...

I hadn't heard of this, but between the aurora, the trees, and the founding principal of being safe for the queer community, I'm certainly interested...

It wasn't very subtle, but I enjoyed it as well.