Tanya

Probably for the best I stopped writing YA because I love a main character with flaws that get in their way and are not fixed by the end of the story. Those are their emotional support flaws.

It's been so weird watching the progression of "This is what I am reading in the text" to "This is what the text is saying because that's how I read it" over the years. I don't know how much is changing language to cater to algorithmic popularity versus how people interact with media now.

White tabby cat lying with her belly and paws up under a table

Why must you demand belly rubs in a spot that is hard to give you belly rubs? #caturday

Yay, I've done this correctly then!

It's okay if a prologue just makes things more confusing, right?

But stability means I can make plans! It gives me so much back!

Plus I have already accepted that I'll likely never go back to the way I was again. That's okay. I'd rather be happy with what I do have than sad about what might not happen.

My symptoms are stable for the first time since I got sick and I can't share this joy with anyone because the expectation is that joy is reserved for a cure. #longcovid

White tabby cat sleeping in a shark bed.

🦈💤 #caturday

A stack of books

Once more I have a bunch of proof copies of books and no idea what to do with them. #booksky

I always write stories that have all this background information that is important and difficult to exposit, but I've really outdone myself this time. Maybe I'll let myself have a prologue this time as a treat. #authorsky

On the bright side, I do not write to market, in popular genres, or know how to market them, so the risk is low!

I am in a place where I'm nervous about my books suddenly becoming popular because if they do, I risk losing my benefits. I'd be screwed because there's no way I could maintain that bump permanently with my health how it is.

I haven't done any software development since 2018, so why am I still having nightmares about code reviews?

True Plantser on my end. I may love outlining, but I also love not following that outline so much

White tabby cat lying in a shark cat bed. Her eyes are open and she looks mildly annoyed.

I dared to sneeze. #caturday

I'll be 40 tomorrow, which feels like too high of a number. Being bed/house bound does weird things to your perception of time, I guess.

Anyway, I want the same thing for my birthday as every year. For people to read my books.
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I had a great time with this one! Happy reading!

Turns out the trick to getting Linux installed (On a partition, there's too much it can't run that I still use) is for me to just avoid reading Reddit or going near any Linux community.

The book or the non-traditional narrative project next? I keep going between the two of them and can't settle on one.

Avatar whatacartouchebag Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image.Badge image. 5d Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine. So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do: In the url bar, type in about:config It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue. One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top: browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy. The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

The energy is always weird the day after getting shots, but also worth it. A lie down day is a small price to pay.

The Louvre news is the best thing I've read all month

Have I always had this much vocal fry?

White tabby cat stretched out in the sun. Her face is pressed against the leg of a folding chair.

Enjoying the last of the sun. #caturday

I'm the first. Back when I was healthy I could get a first draft done in under 2 weeks.

Looks like it's that time again to see if there's a Linux build that is compatible with the programs I use.

Slowly editing these audio files and wow I can really hear where my energy takes a dip. I wonder if the people I talk to in my life hear these dips too and just don't want to mention it.

In another life I was a Youtuber and I thought I would never get to use any of those skills again. Turns out some of that stuff is pretty transferable.

The book that doesn't work as a book is done! And I have already turned it into a spreadsheet to figure out how to rework it into something else. #authorsky

A white tabby cat looking out from underneath a cat bed.

She is so good at beds. #caturday