Elle S. Hodge, Author

Also, they've got probably twenty years on me 🤣

It's 10.15 on a random Saturday, and the neighbours have loud music playing.

I'm way too much of an old lady to have neighbours. I mean good for them, they sound like they're having a great time, but ergh.

It's big scary.
Goose doesn't get cute when there's a storm, he just gets a shorter fuse. His pat-tolerance decreases.

Poor Dandi. 😥

Gross.
Unfortunately, books with any literary value are on the decline.

Nobody swings around a butane-powered lantern like a mother who's feeling defensive.

Yeah. I am unhappy.

On the plus side, I still have one shoulder, one knee, one thumb, and nine toes that DO work!

Please remember that "understandably" is a perfectly valid modifier to your being upset. Empathy is not a sin. It is real. It is everywhere: afraid and uncertain, yes, but weirdly hard to kill.

And it is the *only* thing that is going to get us through this.

"In an open world economy, it is almost always cheaper to trade for a particular natural resource or industrial product than to take it by force. But with foreign markets locked away behind insurmountable tariff walls, conquest once again became thinkable and even profitable."

Not yet..

"What's your book about?"
"It's an exploration of the shifting nature of political divides, set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, as experienced through the eyes of a deeply unwell woman with a misguided hero complex."
"...Oh."

Follow me for more tips on how to avoid follow-up questions.

"Where wealth accumulates, and men decay."

Yeah apples are not great.

I'm sorry your guts are unhappy

Maybe he's off watching the planet he got right, because earth/humanity was just the first pancake.

Well.
I think that's enough depression for one day.

#NewIllustrationOfTheDay by Katherine Child, debut author-illustrator of The Notted Island, a fantasy novel about an island in black-and-white which is waiting to be coloured, and about a deity who is in charge of the night sky. Skilled and lovely work. Flying Eye 9 Oct. @flyingeyebooks.bsky.social

Breathing a little sigh of relief!

The Nobel Peace Prize winner is María Corina Machado Parisca, an opponent of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.

Dirge-like, her weeping echoed.

#7SyllableSentence #Dirge

Black ink drawing of a crow's head with an arrow piercing through its bill. The crow is fading into feathers that are falling away.

Ouch

#Repostober #BandW #Ink #Art

Oh yeah, links! Well, the book is available on tons of sites. For this new one, be sure to get the Rose cover. Otherwise, you'll have an older version of the book.

On ko-fi and itch.io for next to nothing. As in, zero dollars.

#Booksky #Poetry #Writingcommunity #IndieAuthor

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You are free to post AI videos and I am free to hate you for wasting my time with such worthless useless horribly low quality fictional trash. Your videos are terrible and so are you.

Yeeeesss. Thank you! AI is a scourge.

"The only correct interpretation of the bible is the one that lets me do whatever I already wanted to do and reinforces my biases"
—Assholes 3:16

Yes. Yes you absolutely should.

*That's* a reoccurring dream for you??

I wonder how many of them thought, "If I stand up now, will others in this room join me?"

But it doesn't matter.

Because not one of them did.

They just sat there as an alcoholic and a cholesterol timebomb called them fat.

And told them to be ready to make war on their own people.

Wow.

THE WHITE HOUSE USING DEEPFAKE & AI TO MISREPRESENT POLITICIANS AS OFFICIAL VIDEO RECORD SHOULD HAVE ALL OF US VERY VERY VERY VERY FUCKING WORRIED.

AND YES I AM SHOUTING WITH MY THUMBS BECAUSE I AM VERY VERY VERY FUCKING WORRIED.

DO NOT LET THEM NORMALISE THIS. DO NOT ACCEPT IT AS REALITY. RESIST.

"Fuck your cognitive dissonance."