@rebeccawilcox.bsky.social
SFFH illustrator/writer, SAHP. Coffee, cats, & fountain pens. Brown Ajah. RevPit 2020, HiveMentor 2022. SLF Diverse Writers/Worlds finalist 2024. She/her. Hard of hearing. Not straight. No AI, ever. Never ever. https://linktr.ee/rebeccawilcox
good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.
good night, sewers, everywhere.
You may need a thing about now that isn’t awful. Here. Have a porcupine in a tree that I spotted near the St Lawrence River. I talked to them for a while and told them they were cool. I hope they got the vibe.
We need reparations for ICE victims.
Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.
Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,
Thank you for reaching out.
After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
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🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky
Elder daughter's 13th birthday is today, so I will be avoiding the news headlines as much as possible.
It was hilarious the first few times, but a full month of it had me wanting to scream at every stop light. 😅
Choose your songs wisely! When my oldest was four, she taught her 18-month old sister to sing “Let it go,” but they didn’t know half the words and meowed them instead.
So please, if you can, I’d love to have this thread list pro-Trans everything. Creators, craftspeople, writers, artists, activists…if you or someone you know deserves some celebrating, bring it the fuck on, okay?
Post links if you can.
Buy stuff if you can.
They hate when people stand up.
It is March already. 😱 It is unseasonably warm out. 😱 My first short story collection comes out April 21. 😱😱
Rabbit Test and Other Stories contains all my favorite experiments in scifi and fantasy. I'm very proud of it. :)
Preorder links at samtasticbooks.com/collections
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
Later, the (required!) social justice class I took at my Catholic high school highlighted the difference between what a lot of Church leaders said and what Jesus said, not to mention introducing me to what the world was actually like.
My Catholic school taught Greek mythology in my eighth grade lit class, and studying those myths at the same time as we studied Genesis in my religion class made a stark "Oh, it's all mythology!" connection in my brain.
I got Man of Dale and was tempted to do the exact same thing. 😂
Me: *trying to sleep*
Me: *still trying*
Me: *desperately wants to sleep*
My brain: *starts playing the entire Record of Lodoss War opening on repeat*
Me: FFS
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
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What’s one book you’ve read that really really really has stuck with you, no matter how many years went by since you’ve read it?
For me it’s Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe!
I can’t pick just one, but I can narrow it down to the first ones that stuck. Seaward, by Susan Cooper. I read that thing when I was ten, and I still think about it all the time. Also, a couple by Peter Beagle: The Last Unicorn and A Fine and Private Place. Oh, and Butler’s Wild Seed.
CHILDREN OF OWL HAS A COVER!!!! With art by Abigail Rajunov, who also illustrated 25 pages of comics in the book. It was an honor to work with her; I couldn’t be happier!! 🥹💕
repost to save a life
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
In traditional Cherokee society, women were the heads of households, and Cherokee clans were matrilineal—
All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"
arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...
(Maybe don’t write on your phone when you’re cooking, though. RIP, caramelized onions.)
It helped me so much! I can write on my desktop, phone, and iPad, and the only limit is making sure I have an internet connection of some kind.
(As always, your mileage will definitely vary, and writing on your phone instead of doomscrolling is not the answer for everyone. But it helped me a ton.)
There are still days when the story gods are kind, and my brain dumps 10k+ words in a few wonderful hours, but I don’t need those days. I don’t have to try and force them. I can just be happy that they happened.
