So I had the fun experience the other day of going in for a routine check of my thyroid (which was irradiated back in 2014, woot radioactive girl!*) and getting the results, which were, essentially, “Hey, your thyroid’s GREAT but LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE IS BROKEEEEENNNNN”. *eyeroll*. * So after the radiation therapy, I had to […]
Dying Of The Death (And Lack Of Oxygen) Read More »
Wooohoo! Dreaming of Forests is up for ebook release! (Release date: July 9.) Remember, you can get this story EARLY for only $1 by signing up to my Patreon – it’s scheduled as the June story. Otherwise, you can also grab it at all ebook retailers here (will automatically update as other stores become available),
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Behold, readers, a perfect combination of some of my favourite things in the world: Talented people Doing talented things Together, as a team While having a blast… …Oh, and it’s the song This Is Me from The Greatest Showman, which helps a lot :’D ENJOY. What are your favourite talented-people-doing-talented-things-with-gleeful-abandon moments? Do share! :3 <3
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In sharp contrast to our man Draco of the last two days, I present to you one of the many, many reasons that Snape is a jerk: See, unlike Draco, Snape is now what we call a ‘legal adult’. Wait, there’s a quote from the queen herself about this… Yes, Draco is approaching maturity in
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Literally nothing I said yesterday is mutually exclusive with this, just saying. Yes. He does crappy things because he wants to make his parents proud. Agreed. See: yesterday. Hmm. (Also, noting that he is redeemable, or that he COULD have been nice if things had been different, is a long way from claiming that he
The fan attraction to Draco isn’t “white boys always get forgiven”. It’s the slightly gut-chilling recognition that “there, but for the grace of God, walk I”; the knowledge that, with the wrong parents, in the wrong time, in the wrong place, many of us could BE that person. It’s the recognition that our start in
It’s Not That Draco’s A White Boy: Theories On Why The Fandom Persists In Liking Draco Read More »
So, I’m kind of claiming this one even though I only kind of made it, but I SUPERVISED, DARN IT, SO HA. Kid 1 had to make an alpaca for school. I remembered this the day *after* the recycling had been collected, and we had nothing in the house… Except fabric scraps! So I taught
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OMG this woman is amazing, and she can SING. So, she and some friends had the idea to run famous works of literature and also song lyrics through several layers of Google Translate. The results are about as accurate (and sometimes hilarious) as you’d imagine, but it gets even better, because this incredible human then
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I don’t have a blurb for it yet, so expect that out next week, but in the meantime, here’s the cover for the new forest book, Dreaming of Forests! It’s been drawn to my attention that ‘pleasant’ is morphing away from its traditional dictionary definition in US English, so I’ll probably tweak the tagline a
Wow! Inklet #10 came out today! I can’t believe this ridiculous little pet project of mine is hitting double digits 😀 Issue 10 is another one of mine, a romance/contemporary fantasy story called Answer The Question. This story has the strangest origin – which you can find out all about in the Making Of section
