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We finished #RE9 and now I’m sad it’s over 🥺

Just wrote 1,000 words of my first NEW DRAFT since I started my debut in 2020. Physically wrestling my fear of imperfection to the ground until it taps out. I have more stories in me. They will be messy. I can fix that later. I have a draft to write now.

If you live in Maryland, you have power right now that THE REST OF US DO NOT. Please call your representatives. Bring Lud home.

Spoke to Donald Norcross’s office which offered more clarity than my senators. Was basically told that focus needs to be on Maryland reps and Lud’s reps specifically, because reps outside of the jurisdiction really can’t do anything on this case. #FREELUD

A lifetime of dreaming, years and years of working, and readers get to hold my debut YA novel in only 2 months. 🥹 Somebody pinch me. 😭

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‘He's my home': Maryland gamer detained, faces deportation to Cameroon A Prince George’s County man is facing deportation to Cameroon. Ludovic Mbock’s loved ones and friends say he’s been in custody for two weeks. According to Mbock’s attorney, he was detained by Immigra...

NEW ARTICLE #FREELUD

- Lud came to the US in 2002 when his mother married his stepfather
- they divorced, impacting immigration status
- Lud was allowed to stay in the US for work if he checked in w/ immigration annually
- he was detained AT THAT CHECK-IN
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/h...

Whoever your reps are, wherever you are, call your reps!

✨ BETWEEN SUN AND SHADOW ✨ is out on May 5th from Peachtree Teen. 🩷💜💙

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A staffer from Cory Booker’s office actually called me back and gave me their direct line. I spoke to them and provided all the details on Lud’s case!! They said since Lud’s reps are already aware, we probably don’t need to do anything now, but depending on how things go in court tomorrow, if they need more offices contacting ICE on his behalf, call again and they’ll see what they can do!!! YOUR CALLS DO MATTER. PLEASE CALL!

#FREELUD

I’ve been lighting up like Christmas lights when she trudges in exhausted from work—too tired to focus on TV, almost too tired to talk—and the first thing she says is, “Do you want to play more Resident Evil?”

The past 5 days have meant so much to me. Play RE9 with your person.

I don’t want to neglect practicing SF6, I have books I want to read (and write!) outside of gaming, and I obviously have a day job, but… damn, I would play every game all over again and let my backlog grow and my FGC skills slow a little bit for this.

We haven’t bonded this much over a gaming thing since THE LAST OF US season one dropped on HBO and emotionally involved her in one of my favorite gaming stories of all time. Now our two youngest rescue cats are named Joel and Ellie.

She’s a huge horror fan and campy movies fan, but she’s terrible at video games, so she’s only seen the RE films.

We are having SO MUCH FUN with me controlling the game and her directing me, advising, and reacting that I’m considering replaying all the games again with her.

I played (and loved) the remakes of RE2, RE3, and RE4, as well as RE7 and RE8… but only RE4 was after I’d met my girlfriend, and it was before we moved in together, so she barely saw any of it.

We are playing through RE9 together (almost finished!).

Bandits signed Enzo The Hokage and I’ve never seen a better FGC sponsorship decision in my life

On today’s episode of The Neurodivergent Friendship Experience:

Turns out I have plans w/ a friend tomorrow and am going to miss TNS. Are there any online tournaments running Thursday or Friday this week that I could stream?

Sorry for the last minute reschedule, but gotta prioritize offline friendships over online content! Even crowdfunding.

OI, FGC AND EVERYONE WITH A HEART STILL BEATING, WE HAVE A JOB TO DO.

This is very time sensitive, please, do not sleep on this or sit it out. Remember, 'I am just one person' cried seven billion people.

Thank you! ❤️ @quasimodox.bsky.social did all the pre-order bonus art.

One magical sapphic sci-fi romp, coming right up! 🩷💜💙

Pre-order BETWEEN SUN AND SHADOW and submit your receipt before May 5 to receive bonus artwork for free! 📖✨

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Back to streaming my TNS run tomorrow at 8 PM EST to do my part in ruining the FGC! 😉

I only have the amusing number $222 left to raise to cover my Combo Breaker expenses. Every Twitch sub goes towards that goal if you want to help without a direct donation. Pull up! 💪🏻

But please please please do not cease to care about this when Lud is home.

ICE is doing this to countless families, to countless Luds. If you weren’t eyes wide open before, the second best time to start taking action in small ways is now.

Not just when it looks “popular.”

It does not have to be something big or flashy. You can call your reps. You can donate to mutual aid. You can boost accurate reporting. You can have that hard conversation with someone close to you. You can consider reducing your spending at places that fund this.

It’s easier to ride the momentum of a collective FGC movement for one of our own right now than it is to keep going once he’s home and it’s not all over your feed.

I am begging you to be galvanized by this and continue to consider how you can resist in the long term.

If you would like to reference it, here is the script that I have been using for my senators and congressman.

You can call after hours and leave voicemails if you don’t want to talk directly to a staffer.

Every call is logged. This is your voice. Use it.

#FREELUD

If you, like me, do not live in Maryland, then your calls to Maryland reps are likely to be dismissed because you do not have the power to vote them out in the primaries.

Please consider joining me in calling your own state’s representatives to demand action against ICE.

CALL TO ACTION #FREELUD:
- Lud’s loved ones are urging us to email and/or call Maryland representatives
- A provided script for both can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Lud’s lawyer is presenting to a judge on THURSDAY MARCH 5. Action on his behalf is critical NOW.

I was querying literary agents at the time and wondering if this would ever really happen for me. 😥

LOOK AT US! WHO WOULD’VE THOUGHT? 🥹 Thank you for the thoughtful blurb, Andrea! 🩷💜💙

🎶 And another one blurbs the book. And another one blurbs, and another one blurbs… AND ANOTHER ONE BLURBS THE BOOK! 🎶

I read and loved Andrea Tang’s debut in 2020. I remember tagging her with how much I adored it (ROBOT DRAGON!!) and how badly I also wanted to write books. 📚

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Happy Purim! ✡️

Today, I’m thinking about the courage needed to choose allegiance to God over empire.

And thinking about how I am still only capable of imagining the violent Haman as a sentient onion who tried to drop a piano on the king’s head.

Hamantaschen time.