Jaci Menard | Deep Spark Editing

Ooh that’s a great mnemonic!

So it's always a good idea to double-check that you're using the right one in the right context!

How do you remember which "effect" or "affect" is right?

But it's not quite that simple: “Effect” can be a verb, but it means to achieve or put into operation (The legislators effect laws for the town.) and “affect” can be a noun when referring to a physical manifestation of emotion. (His facial affect confused me.)

Affect vs effect: How do you know which one to use?

This is a classic mix-up. The easiest way to remember is that “affect” is a generally a verb (This cold is affecting me) and “effect” is usually a noun (the effect of the cold).

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I am going offline as much as I can today. Existing while trans right now is exhausting. I hurt so much.

Please consider checking out my books/stickers/etc. I love my writing and want to do more of it.

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Trans Continental Pipeline-Donate to help queer relocation! At TCP, our mission is to help Queer and 2SLGBTQIA+ people move from unsafe environments to Colorado and provide connections and resources through our relocation program.Every Cent you donate will go ...

So if you (like me) are incredibly sad / mad / furious about Kansas stripping trans people of rights with no notice, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline.

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a screenshot of zoom with an arrow pointing to "settings"

a screenshot of zoom settings with "my account" highlighted and a circle around "view advanced features"

zoom on a web browser, with an arrow pointing to "AI Companion" and the first 3 of many AI features listed

PSA to my fellow Zoom users -- it's automatically turned on a bunch of A.I. features without asking you✌️

to turn all 32 of them off, go to "Settings" --> "My Account" --> "View advanced features"

it'll open up your browser and list a SHITTON of A.I. features, many of which will be on (scroll!)

I self published my short story "To Be Merciful; or, Light After Darkness" on my Patreon in 2025, and it is free to read now and I hope people will read (and maybe nominate?) it

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So cute! I love your use of colors!

Chunky black cat surrounded by avocado and rainbow swirls. Commissioned!

Sister cats I believe, one gray one dark blue, in a lottle frame of flowers and fish, cool greens and blues and ribbons scattered

Two cats playing. Uninterested dark cat with a sjort tail, and a playful blonde creme cat. Surrounded with purple and violet hearts and flowers on a harlequin background

Cat Portrait Commissions of late :)

Cover of issue 12 of WEIRD HORROR showing a witchy figure floating above the ground and gliding right to left as their hair and robe traisl behind. Chloe N. Clark, Roy Graham, Rick Kennett, Annika Barranti Klein, Rajiv Moté, Russell Nichols, Rory Say, R.L. Summerling, D. Matthew Urban, and Aliya Whiteley.

Weird Horror #12 is alive! Another fab ToC! Thank you to everyone who preordered. I will get your copy out soon. You can grab a copy direct from us (or elsewhere). Our friends @weightlessbooks.bsky.social have the official digital subscription.

Thx!

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Useful public domain image database!

❕HEADS UP❕
A cancellation has made a single copy of NESS 1 available in softcover.

For now, you can grab a complete run of NESS #1-10 directly at this link: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

You can get an ebook for $0.99, you can download for free, you can even get a signed copy in a box with goodies!

A shamlessly spicy, queer, polyamorous book should have something for everyone, right?

Have any other grammar basics that could use a refresh? Let me know and I can cover them in the future!

English has quite a bit of flexibility in its sentence structure, which allows other parts of speech to sneak in between the subject and verb and make them harder to pick out. Knowing your nouns, pronouns, etc. and then looking for the “action” of that noun is the best way to find them.

The subject of all these examples is “I,” and the verb is “try”:

🔵I try.

🔵When running a marathon, I try to beat my personal best.

🔵I very graciously with much effort try to give back the gift.

The subject is the noun that the sentence revolves around, and verb is the action, emotion, or state of being of the subject. Knowing where these elements are in your sentences can help with rewording and altering sentence structure and knowing what punctuation to use and where.

Everyone needs a grammar refresh now and again right? Let’s start with a basic: Subject/verb, the building blocks of a sentence!
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Sleeping wizards funding now ob kickstarter

YOU GUYS WE’RE ALMOST 25% FUNDED!! 🎉

Go back SLEEPING WIZARDS! It’s a high-octane dungeon crawler fantasy comic, with SO many awesome add-ons and perks, including CHARACTER COMMISSIONS BY ME!! 👀

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Craft Supplies for Park Slope Women's Shelter The Park Slope Women's Shelter serves unhoused women with mental health and/or substance-use disorder diagnoses in NYC. Due to an incident this past year, the shelter is attempting to rebuild and re...

HELLO, FRIENDS!

The women's shelter where I volunteer lost almost all of their art and craft supplies last year. I can't fix everything, but I have a big network here, and so do a lot of you, and I'm pretty sure that together, we can fix this.

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Bumping this up!

Hailey was one of the first transfeminine ppl to run for political office in Brazil. She's the founder of a transfeminist community and an incredible writer/translator/teacher.

Cancer sucks.

Please please help if you can! Even a little bit is really appreciated.

You know the weather's been rough when I'm looking forward to near-freezing temps. ⛄

*crawls out of my winter burrow* wow it's so warm today, a whole 30°F!

A reminder if you have spotify premium and want to read Cancer Eats the Heart, you can listen to me narrate the audiobook for freeeeeee

disabled, dying, and chronically ill turn to vampirism for a cure, only to be hunted by twisted vampire hunters who steal their bones for dark spells

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Tell Your Members of Congress to rein in ICE NOW On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...

Congress is scrambling to pass a DHS funding bill by Friday, and we need to make it loud and clear that our senators and representatives must oppose any bill that hands ICE and Border Patrol more funding or fails to include strict safeguards to protect our communities.

“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

All of the poems Kaleidotrope published in 2025, as it happens, are free to read here:

kaleidotrope.net/archives/kal...

Just saying. 😁

I'm publishing a queer fantasy story on the first of every month this year, alternating between reprints and exclusive new releases with the goal to build up my readership over here. February is this one, March is gay isekai ✨

The Wonder of Small Things: House, Body, Bird Cover Reveal - PSYCHOPOMP.COM So now we come to the end of the road, wrote Babyface, Reid, and Simmons in the 90s, and so it is true here, that Psychopomp arrives at the end of a

oh you lucky, lucky readers

what a treat we have for you today!

it is

the HOUSE, BODY, BIRD cover reveal

AND ALSO

short interview with @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social

BEHOLD the amazing cover

CONSUME the wonderful interview

PREORDER your copy today to support small presses AND read good things...