Alexandrina Brant

What I do so love (hate) about functioning depression is that I can get on with my day job stuff and laugh at temporary jokes and things that amuse me, but underneath it, I'm just constantly hurting and apathetic to things that cerebrally I know I love.

#writerproblems
Once again, this first chapter is beating me 😭😭 helpppp
#amediting

Any other writers Google the definitions of words you know just to see which one would be more powerful in the sentence?
#amediting #writerproblems

It's sooo glacial haha

He was also very willing to engage with my open-ended thought [as a learner driver] that the road marking 'slow' has absolutely no semantic value as going slower than speed limit is a spectrum & up to opinion.
Him: Argh, I hate clever people!
Me [deadpan]: But...you are also clever?

#neurodivergent

My dad in Intense, but one of the reasons I enjoy his company is that I get to ask random questions that occur to me without being made to feel like they're stupid questions. The way I process information is by asking first non yes-no question that comes to mind, to seek more data.
#neurodivergent

Get Ready for Space Wizard Science Fantasy: 7 new queer books for Year 4, Part 2!! From Space Wizard Science Fantasy - Get Ready for Space Wizard Science Fantasy: 7 new queer books for Year 4, Part 2!!

I maybe haven't talked about it much, but I have a book coming out! Here is the first announcement and the landing page to sign up for alerts about it through my publisher, Space Wizard Fantasy!

www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Again out here petitioning for ovulation pain to be recognised as a painful time of the month

I hate to say it, but for once G*ogle's AI knows what I'm on about with a neologism
#stilldontcondoneit

“[R]acism may wear a new dress, buy a new pair of boots, but neither it nor its succubus twin fascism is new or can make anything new. It can only reproduce the environment that supports its own health: fear, denial, and an atmosphere in which its victims have lost the will to fight.”

Toni Morrison

Once again, I have some spare time to write/edit and I'm sick booo

Hey Edinburgh and Glasgow peeps, you need to get tickets for this The Needfire is beautifully brilliant

You didn't need a video of a happy armadillo playing in a sprinkler, but here you go #bluesky ... ☺️

Went to bed with a migraine, took 2 aspirin at 4am when the 2-year-old woke me, woke up for work still in nearly-unbearable pain, and only after 2 hours of work and parenting has the pain relief, cold flannel, bites of dry crackers, and the coffee kicked in.

'Bout 90% sure it's hormonal. :/

Where did this humidity suddenly come from? The rest of the week, it felt colder.
#immelting
#britishheatwave

okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there

I'm almost ready to hit the trenches again with my newest MS, though. It must be two books ago that we met? I've definitely been through another MS since then and seen the state of the trenches recently :/
What about you? Are you planning to query anything or working on other self pub stuff?

Oh it does, it does! (And yet publishing still moves at a snail's pace!)
I'm alright, thank you. I've had a lot of job stress this year and considering a career move - ironically into a more stressful field, but it's something I can contribute better to - so I haven't achieved as much writing.

Earworms of pop music: 'I heard it on the radio' has been replaced by 'I heard it via TikTok' and I don't know whether to cry or wonder at the technological evolution.

I'm delighted and deeply honoured to have been shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize. Thank you to Bloody Scotland and good luck to my fellow shortlisters!

More details on my website:

www.davidgoodman.net/a-reluctant-...

Space Wizard Science Fantasy: Year 4, part 1. Seven new queer books! We're releasing 7 new queer science fiction and fantasy books in 2025!

We are live with Space Wizard Year 4! If you want to get seven all-new QUEER science fiction and fantasy books, check out the campaign!
Backing in the first 48 hours gets you a free audiobook too!
#queerscifi #queerfantasy #lgbtqbooks #queerbooks
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Enter Here Anthology Enter Here Anthology – Submission Guidelines Follow the Kickstarter here. It officially opens April 1 to April 30! Help us reach our goal so we can pay our authors! GENRE: Speculative Science…

Submissions open for ENTER HERE anthology on June 1! Get those #SFF #horror short stories ready!

cjsubko.com/enter-here-a...

love that the diet section of "eastern gray squirrel" has this extensive image gallery

a cartoon drawing of a bee with a smiling face and wings . ALT: a cartoon drawing of a bee with a smiling face and wings .

Can't believe I missed World Bee Day the other day! My little fuzzy buzzy friends!

Happy Birthday!

Just went up to have the door slammed in my face, so there's no improvement there

Working from home with kids is just so unsustainable in the long run (and I think most of us know it).
Just me, trying to get on with my Day Job, whilst thinking about the writing I want to do later.
Almost-4-year-old from upstairs: I want Mummy!
2-year-old: No, I want Mummy!

Sigh.

The Island Festival by LillianBarry An anxious homebody falls for his non-binary music teacher.

My book is out today but I can't promote it because I have a migraine. Here it is on itch though!
lillianbarry.itch.io/the-island-f...