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hi! do you want to read a romantasy about a queen who is also a dairy priest who cares for a herd of holy cows trying to re-establish social welfare through cheese distribution while her country is plagued by weird fairy magic and ancient betrayals?

"does romance want to eat horror's lunch" and other puzzling questions I am noodling today

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

During college, a friend told me she realized she mostly thought mean thoughts about strangers. So she began sitting in a common area between buildings and practiced thinking one nice thing for as many people as she could. "It was hard until it wasn't and then it was like a light switch flipped"

I found a nest of transphobes who need to hear this and now will not because I am on a blocking spree but I'm going to say it for any I miss: If someone's physical body disgusts you, that is a problem with YOU.

learning about medieval guild structure in paris to make sure my regency cheese romance doesn't dishonor the dairy ancestors

since the year I was born (1975): rescues/no kill shelters, foster networks, spay/neuter programs, and a general shift in cultural attitudes about pet ownership have reduced the number of cats and dogs euthanized in shelters by 90% pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

hey boston friends, this newsletter has some cool boston history in it!

See this scientific diagram for more details:

I don't even like debating the utility of LLMs any more because you get trapped there without talking about the consequences. The consequences fucking suck.

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Brìghde Chaimbeul! Tiny! Desk! Concert! let's fucking gooooo (warning: may not be suitable if you have tinnitus, there is a LOT of drone in this.)

it is POSSIBLE that I may be breaking my reading slump

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. . . taking a quick breton to relisten to Troñ Doue, a 1979 record by An Triskell, which I bought because it looked like Breton music and IT IS fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskel...

At least two of my co-workers were "omg!! I want that sweater too!" as I was stalking the product page yesterday so if you want a MetroCard sweater if your own: Adult: www.nytransitmuseumstore.com/adult-ugly-s... Kids: www.nytransitmuseumstore.com/kids-ugly-sw...

I published a book earlier this year, the fourth and concluding book in the Goblins & Cheese sequence, THE KING IN THE FOREST.

hey! everyone I know is grieving someone or something! maybe you would like to read a column about grief regarding pets!

I got to do content pulls for this book and it was an absolute DELIGHT! I love it when fantasy is FUN and silly and a little bit sexy.

for other authors: if you’re easily overwhelmed by marketing (hullo, waving) going through your book and pulling out interesting bits with these highlights is a service @chel-c-cam.bsky.social offers!