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Can someone please tell Nordstrom Rack that it’s not even Halloween yet and they can kindly shove their Christmas ad.

I just started moderating the romantasy subreddit and I am already doubting the wisdom of that decision.

God. Can you imagine working on that and having to tell everyone you destroyed part of the White House forever?

I feel this. Half the time I can’t get my characters to talk to each other without a fight and the other half they’re out doing things I never intended for them to do.

Have you ever seen a more comfortable looking dog in your life?

Metatextual Hellscape sounds like a great title for a spoken word album.

Who went and gave my characters *agency* on me and at what point does arguing with your own fictional characters cross into grippy sock territory?

I would have but I had to file for bankruptcy instead. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I just finished my 20th book of the month and I might have to get myself a pizza tomorrow just on principle.

If Pizza Hut ever let millennials have Book It back, even if it was just for a month, they’d be able to ride that loyalty wave until we’re all dead.

Y’all they’re bringing back Reading Rainbow with Mychal the librarian!!!!

With her fourth bucket today, A'ja moves into 4th for most playoff field goals made in league history! 🪣✨

Donald. Stupid touchscreen.

My takeaway from this is that Donal Trump had his feelings hurt personally by a set of IKEA instructions at some point.

Either that or JD has been complaining about how hard it is to find an American made couch to love on.

Every time I see “dogrates” I read it like Socrates.

Aww. My mom had to go to dentists who specialized in working with anxious patients and she’d have loved this. Good job, Annie.

Took a break from reading fantasy to give Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth a go and it’s a little unsettling how much of the Cold War setting feels awfully applicable to right now.

Ok, even my terrible gaydar would catch this one.

Aww she’s a little old lady spider. I had a male that made it to just under two years and thought that was pretty impressive, but three is incredible!

There’s no reason that this job needs to be in-person whatsoever to begin with other than some billionaire has a bug up his ass about remote work.

If you’re going to insist on it, though, you better be offering relo/housing assistance and 6 figures if you’re hitting up people who don’t live there.

I had to say no to an interview for a job I’m exceptionally well qualified for and very interested in because it would have involved coming up with enough money to move to the other side of the country into an impossibly expensive housing market.

I have a kid. I can’t do roommates.

Well this is cool as hell. Sounds like an expensive and invasive procedure, but when the alternative is as awful as Huntington’s…

Also wish I could get the discounted audiobook like Amazon does with kindle books, but without having to go through Amazon/Audible.

Currently on one of those book-a-day reading binges and it’s pretty great. I know it won’t last, so I’m just tearing through as many as I possibly can while it does.

Really good stuff to mix in with red onions.

Oh my gosh. I’ve read so many of those books! Didn’t know you were on here.

They don’t accept calls any other way, I mean. And of course there’s nothing on their website that indicates this. You have to stumble on a thread on social media somewhere that tells you that these phones at the job center are the only way to talk to someone.

I need every politician in this country to have worked in retail and been a client of the services they control.

I say this while sitting on a public phone in a job center because my state doesn’t have unemployment offices to visit in person and they aren’t accepting phone calls from the public.

Writers:

I have a character that I love and who is begging for me to turn him into a mc, but writing from a man’s perspective is turning out to be a bit hard (for me).

What’s the masc equivalent of breasting boobily down the stairs and how do I avoid it?

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