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
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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
Gluten still sucks, but it seems that small updatey posts are a Thing I Can Manage, so yay? Here we go? Anyway, I finished the latest book on the weekend, so that’s exciting, especially since writing is vey hit-and-miss this year. This one started out as a probable short story, but I was writing without
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Peanut ponies this week. I didn’t meant for them to be peanut ponies necessarily when I started, but then I kind of settled on a style and remembered this book I had as a kid that had templates for drawing what were called ‘peanut ponies’ because of the shape of their face. I can’t find
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6 weeks into this gluten-consumption rubbish and the anxiety is whirling. On the one hand, boo hiss this totally sucks. On the other hand, at least it’s concrete evidence that gluten is responsible, and suggests that managing anxiety will be much easier in the future once I’m allowed to go back off gluten? (2 weeks+
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This is literally how I do maths. I tried explaining it to my Year 5 or 6 teacher (I forget which but I think it was Year 6) and he nearly died at me. What’s 26 – 18? Well, you need 2 more to get from 18 to 20, and 2 + 6 is 8,
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