Arilin Thorferra

With "Big Trouble" now out, I have four books—noir mystery, period romance, modern magical school lesbian/trans romance, and epic modern fantasy with sharp-edged politics! Descriptions and ordering links: giants-club.net/books/

Holy cow, just binged through the first 4 chapters for the “Game of Life” audiobook from by @doppelfoxxpublishing.com, and I’m already feeling trippy after listening to the amazing story & narration. 😍🤩📚

Me: I have a problem with the Halloween stories. Muse: which is Me: Every new story seems to create another character I want to write about. Muse: and the problem is what

On this editing pass I'm realizing I need to *slightly* tone down the primary antagonist's nastiness in her intro scene. You still won't feel too sorry for her when [REDACTED].

You should be reading this not just if you're a fan of furry giants and/or monsters, but if you're a fan of queer 1970s noir.

I would eat this man for you all but I'm pretty sure he's toxic

I am probably only having two drinks tonight, but I believe this second one, while a surprisingly smooth sipper with rye and POG, contains approximately all the rum

Musing on how this Halloween story (a) needs trigger warnings more than usual and (b) none of them relate to the demons. Hopefully the villain will be a better person in their next life, because they could hardly be worse in this one. (It's not a spoiler to say they don't survive, right? C'mon.)

"Farewell for now. And remember, using your powers for good is boring."

Well, this story is taking too long, but it's going to be over 10,000 words when it's done so that's something?

Okay, about 800 words written and I think I'm finally closing in on the ending of the Halloween story. This is cutting it closer than I expected, but the muse works—or fails to work—in mysterious ways, I guess.

I kind of mixed the first and fourth ones, in that I got lucky with an office job that paid well enough that I'm okay for a while now that I'm technically unemployed. (Also, have I mentioned my Patreon lately.)

I thought I was ordering an Abita Purple Haze for the first time, but my first sip tells me "oh, you've had this before and you don't particularly like it." Should have gone with the Founder's Shandy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The sheer gulf between the Bluesky audience and the people who run the place deserves to be studied.

Ok, I have potentially lost my mind and ordered a "BYOK", which basically turns any Bluetooth keyboard into a digital typewriter.

Little weird to see somebody on Bluesky say "Absolutely loathe the tech praising energy that emanates from Mastodon", when, like, Bluesky is the one whose staffers love vibe-coding and Mastodon's project lead is actively anti-generative AI. But Mastodon fans have Linux cooties, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is Izzy, who has been with us nearly a week, but will be moving to a wildlife rehab center later today. I am a little attached to her, but she is outgrowing where we can keep her, and she's still a month or so away from release.

It's #FurryBookMonth and coincidentally, I write furry books! You can use the code FBM2026 at either furplanet.com (print) or baddogbooks.com (ebook) for a 10% or 15% discount, respectively!

Have you read 'Far Flung' or 'Tethers Torn'? You may be interested to hear the draft of the third and final book of the trilogy is done, and I hope to have it out early next year! The first two are available at my website mapakuvillage.com, and this month they're 10% off with code FBM10. :)

Ah, my 100% out-of-pocket health insurance will be rising from "wow that's a lot" to "oh, come ON" next year. Sure glad we don't have socialized medicine here

this is something I do worry about, not because I think the GOP are even doing this necessarily--but because I think that on the left we are uniquely vulnerable to giving up in disillusionment if our wildest dreams don't come 100% true.

The weather here is finally shifting for the better, and I am sitting in a coffee shop ready to write and am…completely flatlining. I need to get better at the "write whether you feel like it or not" part of writing again. 😬

"I had a bad experience on Mastodon four years ago and will never give it another chance, but if I leave Bluesky, the platform I joined after Twitter turned to a Nazi-infested anti-queer hellscape four years ago, I will return to Twitter because I'm sure it's just fine now."

Nothing. He said nothing. He said it *tactfully,* to be sure, but "everybody's welcome to come in and have a great chicken sandwich" is not an "official position on equal rights".

I'm not really even into TTRPGs anymore and this still seems like another reason to eventually move to the Seattle area

I have just crumbled to dust, it was nice knowing you all

"The sunflowers swallow you whole, but the roses will eat you in bites."

Keep writing. You didn’t create all these fictional people and ruin their lives just to abandon them halfway through.

Always fascinating when the recruiter is the one who fails to show up for your virtual meeting

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then vibe-coded in rust.

I should have been working on the Halloween story, but spent the whole day writing a post on my tech blog because someone was wrong on the internet again

New post: “Review: The Magician” An origin story for a Korps supervillain that’s simultaneously wildly magical and deeply emotional. https://giants-club.net/articles/review-the-magician/

I never kill characters to "raise the stakes". If I kill a character I want to either make you pump your fist and yell "yeah!" or to leave you so emotionally devastated you swear blood vengeance against me

Having what amounts to my own custom content management system for my web site is damn dorky, but I still love it.

Editor me: probably this scene in "Hurricane" shouldn't have shrinking as a device, it's too stereotypically macrophile. Editor me, after rereading: but it kind of works really well in context, so argh.

Serrano destroys the Marvel Universe

Caught up on the most recent "Avengers: Doomsday" trailer and my low expectations were not met. It is so much nothing I find myself vaguely angry

I occasionally come across posts like "I'm 53 and make $250K/yr and my family has a net worth of $8.5M. Could I safely retire early?" and I'm like "you could give half of it away and still retire to a mansion in France, how did you get where you are without basic math skills"

Subtle is relative, if you're a demon.

My demon stories are kind of silly, but they let me write lines like "She and Audrey had met for burgers and a shared side order of mortals."

Couldn't remember the name. Thanks, DuckDuckGo!

Mom: I went to a web site — Me: Oh, don't do that

Have to start thinking about obtaining cover-style art by someone good with taurs, for, you know, reasons~ (Please, no randos popping up with "I can do it!"; recommendations are ok, though.)

For some reason, while I am feeling behind on one big project, I am thinking "hey, now would be a perfect time to edit a Mensura(ish) novel that hasn't been published anywhere but FA". 🧐

It has been raining here since late afternoon yesterday. Like, constantly. Sometimes heavily, sometimes a very light drizzle. But it's now 24 hours straight.

It's #FurryBookMonth and coincidentally, I write furry books! You can use the code FBM2026 at either furplanet.com (print) or baddogbooks.com (ebook) for a 10% or 15% discount, respectively!