We’ve been getting off and on flurries but zero accumulation now so there is no excuse!!!
Oh come on it isn’t even sticking now!!! It’s all melting off!!!
And if you'd like to know why I'm throwing my hat in the ring for art, this thread breaks it down:
Once again nudging my work out onto the ice floe:
yesterday I had not one, not two, but THREE eggs with double yolks, which I will take as an ultra good sign of SOMETHING. famously eggs cannot lie
wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it
I am watching people whine about the millionaire’s tax in Seattle on LinkedIn. It is 9.9% on earnings in excess of $1M. So if you made $1.2M next year, you would pay approx $20k to support Seattle infrastructure. People are saying eg Schultz fleeing will leave Seattle in ruins. So just leaving this:
one of those hitmen is RFK's medical advice and the other is the inexorable progress of time
oh I bet souper cubes would RULE with this too
One of the greatest things that happened this weekend at ECCC for me was a teen bringing their profoundly annotated copy of Painted Devils and telling me how they've catalogued their favorite parts and spotted new things when rereading, and y'all it is such a joy to meet the people you write for
Thank you!! The shift in Fie's voice was one of those things I knew about ten people max would clock, but it's always a delight when y'all do!!
it's all about intent baby!! in this case the narrator is a con artist and identity thief trying to figure out how to tell her own story, so having her sneak up and snatch the reins at the last second was a deliberate stylistic choice!!
my most popular book switches from third to a surprise first at the end of the *prologue*, do what your heart tells you
he had it for 20 years and he bragged and asked people if they wanted to see “my totenkopf”
just say you love Nazis. the apologism is boring.
A secretarial appointment is temporary, but Mar-a-lago face is forever
Oh thank christ
buddy you are not gonna believe what I tell you about JD Vance
we meet the love interest sobbing on the narrator’s front porch with a half-empty bottle of malört!! no one will come out of the first chapter wanting this man to survive the night!!
Thank you for being part of the Pathetic Mess Defense Squad 🥹
anyone remember back in 2017 when there was a well-intentioned but shortsighted effort to signal being a "safe" person by wearing a safety pin, which waned when it was correctly pointed out that neonazis can also wear a safety pin
just thinking of that for no reason
FAMOUS LAST WORDS!!!
they will still fall in love!! it'll be upsetting!! nobody will like it!!
plenty of authors can give you perfectly unobjectionable and charming characters falling in love, I, however, will give you two pathetic messes whose greatest contribution to society would be getting shoved in front of a bus
would like to attach this to the manuscript when my romcom eventually goes on sub
you know you can do what you want, but i would recommend never using any of these fucking chatbots and absolutely keeping them away from the people you love, especially your children
Folks flying in for ECCC: If you *can* take the light rail from SeaTac, I strongly recommend you do. The main route into Seattle, I-5, is operating at reduced capacity while undergoing repairs, so traffic is gnarly and heavy delays are likely going by car.
TIME WILL TELL 😬
ADORABLE
This I knew from the time I got over a thousand ladybugs, not realizing how many that would be in proportion to my balcony garden
There was rustling. The clerk mentioned pigeons getting rowdy. I awkwardly assumed it was a bit, because we were on a busy city street, then THE COOING CRESCENDOED. And that was when I saw:
