Wicker Man Studios

Wicker Man Studios

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Wicker Man Studios is Barb Lien-Cooper and Park Cooper. (She's she/her, Park's he/him.) www.wickermanstudios.com We write things, like prose novels and graphic novels and ttrpg stuff. https://sleek.bio/wickerman

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Repost this if you're tired. I don't just mean that you feel tired and could use a nap. I mean tired of (gestures at state of things) ...You people outside the United States, I'm not referring to you. I hope you're having a nice day. #tired #UnitedStates #weary #repost #NoNapBigEnough

A long day, but a good one. Emailed people about reviews, napped, read #Conan (middle of "The Hour of the Dragon"), listened to a YouTube person read Conan (start of "The Phoenix on the Sword"), worked on writing my current #TTRPG, worked on writing my #LitRPG ...in that order, as a matter of fact.

Okay so let's see. My wife and I have written: --an action-adventure graphic novel with a lesbian heroine fighting monsters --a badass spooky samurai graphic novel based on Lafcadio Hearn --a spooky romantic prose series about a haunted almost-made-it rock-and-roller

--a supernatural psychiatry prose series that eventually turns into a romance --and a YA version of that Lafcadio Hearn spooky samurai thing but with an all-new teen protagonist and an almost 100% different plot www.wickermanstudios.com/books #books #graphicnovels #spooky #writing #publishing

Sometimes Gen X kids leave a light on in a room even though they don't need it because they remember when the government started blaming families for the energy crisis instead of corporations and they're tired of the dark

If it would do a lot of environmental damage to burn them all down then I'm sorry, but we'll just have to start disassembling them the hard way. Too slow, I know, but we need to be respectful of the environment

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These are green keel-bellied lizards (Gastropholis prasina) enjoying a sprinkling in their enclosure. These particular lizards are described as "Tiffany Blue", the result of an "axanthic" mutation that blocks their normal yellow pigment, revealing the underlying blue pigment. Also: MLEM.

BARB SAYS: "Don't have characters that are Chosen Ones. Maybe they're very special, but don't make it where they're destined to do something, no matter what. My opinion is that no one is chosen for anything; we choose things for ourselves." #advice #book #author #writer #WriterAdvice

Realized this morning that I am active on Facebook and Instagram... and, to a lesser extent, Bluesky... BUT... my/our TARGET AUDIENCE is on Bluesky. If my/Our Target Audience is on Facebook at all, it's just to keep in touch with their family members that they don't talk to much these days.

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It's hard, though, because I like long posts, and Insta is designed for quite short posts (not even leaving much room for hashtags). Also, when I post on Insta, it cross-posts (not here). So... Bah. But this is where my/our Target Audience is, so I'm realizing I need to make it more of a priority.

Realized this morning that I am active on Facebook and Instagram... and, to a lesser extent, Bluesky... BUT... my/our TARGET AUDIENCE is on Bluesky. If my/Our Target Audience is on Facebook at all, it's just to keep in touch with their family members that they don't talk to much these days.

Wicker Man Studios' tagline is WICKER MAN STUDIOS: DRAMATIC RELATIONSHIPS IN SPOOKY WORLDS. Would you like reading about one or more Dramatic Relationships? How about Spooky Worlds? My/Our Target Audience will super love both. And my problem, again, is that I bet those people are on Bluesky.

Honestly? Facebook and Insta are easier to use than Bluesky. (Let's not even get started about how people living in the Blue parts of Texas have to figure out some sort of workaround just to use Bluesky now.) But... even though I think more people are on the others... Bluesky has our Target Audence.

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i posted an epiphany i had about why i hate AI so much on fedi and i wanna post it here but it won't fit and i don't wanna cut it down to size so fuckit i'm just posting a screenshot

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TIL The New York Times Best Seller list uses a dagger (†) to indicate that a book's entry in the list may be due to bulk purchases.

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"Not dying at 0 hp" is probably the most common house rule used for people who otherwise are judicious adherents to B/X or OSE. What if every class had its own mini table of house rules of things that happened at 0 hp, though? What if you used MANY house rules for death?

So I got a shirt as a birthday gift from a relative. But it still has the don't-steal-it device that the store forgot to remove. So I'm messin' with it with a screwdriver when my eyes light on the words "This has ALARMING INK so don't mess with it because it could injure you." So I stopped. Advice?

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I made this design in 2019, and it’s been ripped off by countless creepy little Temu shops, as well as by Shein. Seeing it in an AI ad is ruining my day, ngl. If you like it, buy one from me - link in bio. I actually give money to queer mutual aid and medical care groups.

Me: "'Having a dinner party this weekend, gonna need a lot of your best pipeweed'" Wife: (continues to silently shake from laughter) Me: (starts singing like Leonard Nimoy) "Bifido! Bifido! Bifidobacterium Longum!" Wife: (Resumes cackling loudly) #hobbit #hobbits #health #shire #Bifido

Many people have passed away, and yes, that's sad. But it occurs to me that there's still time for Michael Stivic to meet and have a very nice later-in-life romance with Maude's daughter Carol. I think they'd get along well and make a nice couple. #AllInTheFamily #Maude #RobReiner #AdrienneBarbeau

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This money was not authorized by Congress to be used in this way. People need to go to jail for this when the GOP is out of power.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com

The NIH Director confirms they are giving away biomedical research money used to develop treatments and cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens, to the Department of Defense. Outrageous.

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I keep thinking, they can't be this cartoonishly evil, can they? And then

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeAD... SONG IN MY HEAD! Thanks, Fallout... (I haven't even played Fallout for months!) #fallout #DorisDay #Soundtrack #earworm #mindworm

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I never read Robert Adams' HORSECLANS series. I idly glance at the Amazon info: Guy's immortal, the prophesied one who will lead the Horseclans back to their homeland, he's got horses and tiger-things he mindspeaks with... meh. Then I hit: "The story is set in the twenty-seventh century A.D.,"

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I never read Robert Adams' HORSECLANS series. I idly glance at the Amazon info: Guy's immortal, the prophesied one who will lead the Horseclans back to their homeland, he's got horses and tiger-things he mindspeaks with... meh. Then I hit: "The story is set in the twenty-seventh century A.D.,"