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Oh, I get that. D :

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Hello! I'm Alex Larkspur (they/them) and I write queer fantasy books!
If I were turned into a polar bear, I'd be in trouble because I live in Texas. I would immediately seek out a zoo and hope that they'd help me find a good environment!

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All My Colors's main character, Todd Milstead. Fuck that guy, but also, I get it. You're a white, mediocre man who thinks greatness is owed to you, and you don't do the work required to achieve it.

I am also a lazy fuck, but at least I'm not named Todd.

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Hey all, Jeremy here, writer of fantasy! If I turned into a polar bear, gosh, I probably shouldn't say eat someone. Give some kitties some very warm hugs?

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Sadly I have zero bears in my story😔

Instead I have an antagonist called Eris who was a tech billionaire in her past life and was isekai'd into the new galaxy and turned into a cutthroat pirate queen. She's modeled after Peter Thiel and encompasses the greediest parts of myself

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In my current #WIP there is a mutated bear that’s always in full on ‘Mama Bear’ mode.
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Ooo! I love that contrast/reveal Super pretty

Oh man, yeah. That sounds like a recipe for something bad

I'm very here for that!

The Word Winner of the International Rubery Book Award 2022 Winner of New Welsh Writing Award 2019   'George has that talent that all novelists wish for: the ability to keep you reading because you desperately...

Thanks for doing this!

My book doesn't have any bears in it, but it does have plenty of characters with, uh, questionable views: www.parthianbooks.com/products/the...

You expect me to remember things that I have read? Well I can only think of the second lead from Three Body Problem who calls aliens to come and invade cos she’s given up on humanity. That I can kinda understand but then decades later she still hates humanity even worse #SFFChat

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My mind immediately went to Chigurh. This character is really complex for me, and it has taken multiple watches and reads to understand him. I still don't get him fully, what he represents, what themes are at play. Though I suppose that's the point.

And I guess that makes me an old man😅

Oh, yes yes yes! That was so intense

#FaveLineFriday

This is my favourite “line” (paragraph) of the week

There’s a lot more to the situation, but keeping it to the paragraph so that I’m not giving overly much.

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Thanks for hosting, Steve!

Only new thing i have to share (you’ve already read) but i used the paragraph in my FaveLineFriday (not adding # so that it doesn’t get mixed in with the actual ones)

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Most recently, that's got to be Joscelyn from Kushiel's Dart. Annoyed the hell out of me - "But my vows!" shut up, Joscelyn - but I can see his value as a character a foil for Phedre, for sure.

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It 10000% does

I struggle with this a lot. I research n give logical reasons and bg for their views and beliefs but autistic brain always says we must be the nicest to everyone and go directly to the solution. what are emotions?? Just know it took a lot to get me characters to do the slightest wrong thing #SFFChat

"There have been droppings at the peripheries of the forest,
and we think they may be a bear’s. They are as hungry as we
are, after this lean year. I will not risk facing one with Ember
in my arms."
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I can relate to this! I have OCD and sometimes that manifests as agitation when things are messy, but also (it sounds like similar to you?) I am messy and so then I get very stressed out but feel paralyzed about fixing the situation 😅

I am nothing if not often random 😂

You're very welcome!!

I love how fluffy they are!!

Thank you once again for hosting as for something I'd liked shared... uh, how about this semi-old drawing? Because I'm still a bit embarrassed about the typo I left on a recent piece in dialog, I wrote for that drawing.

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I guess this counts as both, because I'm definitely the opposite of a neat freak

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You're very welcome!

Devi in Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora (2015).

Hyper-competent, depended upon by everyone but takes it with such strength.

She is an interesting mix of acute pessimism (re: the state of the ship in its final years of the voyage) but chronic long-term optimism.

A. LOT. I think deeply about how my POV character, how, when and why they are narrating the story and I stick rigidly to that logical framework i.e. is it as an old granny retelling their heroic youthful deeds to their young uns to inspire a generation? Are they lying for some reason? #SFFChat

Glad you enjoyed!!! And screenshots + copy/pastes are fine (but I won't stop you following your bliss when it comes to pretty graphics! I'm an addict myself)