The difficult ones I always have to let marinate for a bit when I’m done. I have a hard time knowing if it’s finished
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The difficult ones I always have to let marinate for a bit when I’m done. I have a hard time knowing if it’s finished
"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"
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It’s always so fascinating to me when this happens. (Not during, of course. During is painful. I mean in retrospect)
They both want to be birthed but some of them insist on being difficult.
The way I think we should build a fence together.
I don’t know how to build a fence. It will be a disaster. But let’s do it
Oh yes, and he was a cocker spaniel. He wasn’t especially jowly from the outside, but his mouth was like a TARDIS on the inside
I had a dog that used to try to sneak rocks onto the house this way. 😂
I don’t want to be my best self. I want to be a little gremlin that has pockets full of trinkets for strangers.
I’m introducing some female friends who don’t read much horror to a broader range of the horror genre via short stories.
They think they don’t like horror stories. I think they may just not like like slashers.
If you want to follow along, I’m starting them with this:
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Darlings! Shannon is one of my favorite artists. Plus he’s an excellent human!
Did I mention he’s open to commissions? Because he is!
Congrats! This feels so dreamy and magical
I don’t want to work. i want to go to AWP and be mysterious and aloof so everyone thinks i’m a big deal.
(I am incapable of both things and also I dislike attention. But i still would like to go to AWP sometime..)
If you have female dogs, a fun and accurate thing to say/sing/rap at them is 🎶move bitch, get out the way🎶 when those bitches, are once again, in your way.
It doesn’t even hurt their feelings. It’s like their favorite game
How much of it spilling? I’ve found that copying tables will sometimes allow a row to split across pages even I’ve not allowed that in the original
Nope.
I also don’t submit to pubs with shitty contracts and places that have a reputation for being shitty to authors and artists.
Why would I give you something valuable to me if you don’t value it or me?
Nope, absolutely not.
I will submit to places that have accidentally published AI-assisted work provided they remove it.
Because men 🤷🏼♀️
Got an urgent request to write a tech report for a process. They gave me a document to reference in case I needed help
Reader, I wrote that reference document.
And that particular process doesn’t apply to them. It would be like asking for sunscreen when you’re in a cave.
My college roommate modeled when she was 19 or 20. Her reasoning was she was never going to look as good in the future as she looked in that moment (time comes for us all)…so she might as well romanticize her life & be a hot muse to some artists
Sketch with watercolor pencils and ink. Three pink Labubu monsters walking in front of flames. One is missing an ear. One is holding their eyes in their hands, like the Pan’s Labyrinth monster. The third has a stitched shut mouth. You can see parts of the words: HEAR, SEE, and SPEAK poking out from behind them
Labubu. Pazuzu.
Plucked a perfectly white (platinum blonde??) hair from a mole on my chin, thus further confirming that I am transforming into a witch.
Good.
I’ve got more - but knowing the baseline of what you’re looking for will help narrow down the suggestions :)
How do you feel about Halara? Most of their tops are polyester. There are specific care tips on their site, but honestly, the only one I’ve ever followed is to wash it in cold water.
The other stuff is nice to follow, but that direction is only there to keep you from melting the fabric.
Sure, but those are poop hands. And i’m talking about a nicer restaurant than Golden Corral letting you try stuff
Do you think Vance knows his Catechism? The last sentence of paragraph 1756, specifically?
“One may not do evil so that good may result from it.”
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Are you saying you want dressier stuff that’s easy to take care of? Because if so, i have some ideas.
I know a lot of authors say ideas are the “easy” part, but I really wanted to submit to The Shining anthology & I can’t. It’s just this…
Brain: remember the dead woman in the bathtub?
Me: yep.
Brain: so dead.
Me: any other thoughts?
Brain: nope. dead. DEAD
Me: great. That’s very helpful
There’s loads of microorganisms to be scared of - enteric bacteria in raw milk, for instance. Or like a brain-eating amoeba. Or that one that makes you allergic to meat.
But snot is pretty safe.
Just don’t inject it…
Sounds like the sneeze guard was working as intended to protect the food.
While it is disgusting to eat a stranger’s snot, Streptococcus rarely causes food poisoning. And good thing too, because it’s ubiquitous in the environment. It just really thrives in noses.
Oh, my actual job heavily involves applied microbiology. I’m aware of the risks more than most.
But a restaurant that follows safe food practices? It’s fine.
