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SFF writer, work in Clarkesworld, Augur Mag, Flash Fiction Mag, elsewhere. Codexian. She/her
aka azurewaxwing
Website cgfiction.com

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What do you mean *I* have to write the ending to this story that ties together all the emotional beats ... is it not enough that I set it all up???

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Great news! I've been waiting for a while now (not particularly patiently, due to how much I think it will be exactly the sort of book I like) for Mad Sisters to be available in Canada

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Thank you - I haven’t read any of these (and Susanna Clarke is a fave of mine too), excited to check them out! (The Book of Love was fantastic, btw! Particular shoutout to The Book of Maryanne, probably the best single chapter I’ve read in recent memory)

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Sofia Samatar and Ursula K. Le Guin, something romantic?

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I feel this - I have three kids under 8, I'm definitely can't do Clarion or anything like that, & there are no cons within the radius of travel that I could plausibly do/afford/have the time for

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Me, starting the first draft of a story: this concept/format can sustain, at most, 3500 words, before it will become tiresome to read First draft: 3900 words Second draft (just completed): 5500 words Me, to the story: 🧐 Time to chop chop chop, I guess

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Along that line, KJ Charles did a novella recently that alternates POVs - A Thief in the Night, it’s about 100 pages

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Every climate scientist I know reacted to this bill like it was Christmas and Mardi Gras rolled into one, and hardly anybody has any idea it happened at all.

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Yeah it's got that vibe where you can still go to the little corner store that's been there for decades and buy weird drinks and cheap candy, but there's also a super fancy luxury donut place just down the way, etc etc

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I slipped on the carpet on the stairs coming down from the third floor in our house about a month ago and broke my fibula, and between the incident itself and the difficulty of getting up and down in a three storey house while in a cast/on crutches, a rancher is sure looking appealing

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I've been following along with this list and finding all sorts of things that are new-to-me which look fantastic (some of which I've already acquired and am loving) - check it out!

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Lived in Van for most of my life (moved to the Island last year) and your description is pretty on-point with my experience (we lived in Mt Pleasant for 8 years and that neighbourhood & East Van/Commercial Drive are the best parts IMO)

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Lettuce or rice paper wraps, with the contents and dip of your choice (cold tofu, bean sprouts, sliced carrot and cucumber strips, peanut sauce, chili crisp etc)

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Jenny Hamilton's avatar Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social
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one of the reasons the situation in Sudan hasn't been getting as much attention is that journalists haven't, by and large, been able to GET to Sudan to cover the ongoing civil war. so it's doubly important to pay attention when we get reporting about what's going on there.

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A bunch of Iona Datt Dharma’s short fiction features legal plot points in fantasy settings (often with the law having a magical element)

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This past weekend, I had the tremendous honor of hosting the 59th annual Nebula Awards. Everyone wanted to know, ahead of time, what I would wear. Here is the full fit breakdown, plus the full text of my opening remarks, which include a new toast for your dinner table.

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Vajra Chandrasekera's avatar Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me
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We ask you to boost the Gaza Municipality's fundraiser. This is the single most important thing that you can do in this hour, with ANY spotlight that you find yourself fortunate enough to occupy. gaza-city.ensany.com/campaign/6737

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this is legitimately good news in the midst of what i assume will be a grim week. now let’s see if the FL apparatus gets back up and doesn’t fold regardless.

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Highly recommend this, a wonderful mix of the mythic and the personal with a wonderful main character! And just a note that if you (like me) have a low tolerance for horror, I found this unnerving in parts but for me it never crossed over the line into "too scary, must drop book and run" territory

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Maria Haskins's avatar Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.bsky.social
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"No voting on who gets to be people." (from THE FIFTH SEASON by N.K. Jemisin)

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Congratulations to the winner of the 2023 Nebula Award for Novel, Vajra Chandrasekera for The Saint of Bright Doors (Tordotcom)

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As a teen I was into Vanyel's whole thing (some of it seems like real teenager catnip) but I think I'd feel differently if I read those books again today - I liked Firesong's emotional journey a lot

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I knew *something* was coming and the book to that point made me confident it would be awesome when it did but it was still a huge rush of “omg yessss ahhhh” when I got to That Page

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Yes I was pleased to see many more books! (And referring back to one of your previous posts in the thread, as a 90s teen Mercedes Lackey was my first introduction to gay characters in fantasy, always loved Firesong)

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Picked this one up on your rec and really enjoying it so far - nicely done 90s fantasy is a very accurate description, it’s nice to read something with that tone/style knowing it’s queer

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I would love for you to share this, and ask that same thing - can we close this out? Small amounts are amazing. Shares are amazing. Thank you. I'll never stop being a helper. A lover. Ever. I see you and got you on that. www.gofundme.com/f/a-small-pr...

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It's always too late to do anything about it!!! I didn't have these dreams as much when I was actually in school, it's only been in the years since I've been out, which is kind of funny

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That's my recurring dream, too, although sometimes it's "haven't attended the class all year and now it's the test" rather than just not studying for it My other one is "can't get my clothes on fast enough and am going to be late for work/some important event" (usually the clothes are nylons)

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Puff the Magic Hater's avatar Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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If you are desperate for something to do right now in support of Palestine, remember this list of vetted crowdfunds to help Palestinians escape the violence of genocide.

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“Thousands of children, women and families chose this area because Israel claimed that it was a safe area.”

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Molly Shah's avatar Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social
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Just a reminder that today is a good day to pick a family or org in Gaza to help promote- Operation Olive Branch has a whole spreadsheet full of vetted fundraisers to choose from- some people want to evacuate, some people want to rebuild, some are providing aid on the ground linktr.ee/opolivebranch

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smashing that pre-order button!

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Managed a makeshift sort of shower for the first time since breaking my ankle (early morning on Tuesday) and wow what a difference it is making to my mood to feel clean!

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Whenever they have Cressida with whatever’s going on with her hair and her sleeves walking with Eloise, who just has bangs and her hair down in loose waves, I laugh

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I feel like this season has really dialled up the deliberately anachronistic wheel on costumes/hair/makeup! Which I will not complain about as it has given us Nicola Coughlan in some stunning looks

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This whole situation is grim and fascinating. I've noticed a couple of shifts in the last two years. One is a downturn in some students' ability to craft coherent, logical sentences. When I talk to those students, they tell me they use grammar checkers. Without them, their work actually improves. +

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Ha! afterwards I fluctuated between “haha imagine a horse with thumbs” and “uhhh wait a horse with thumbs 😬” and I think I’ve settled on the second one as correct

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Amazing, very excited to see you have returned to this (and with a 14k chapter???)

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Last night for child-question related reasons I Googled "what species have opposable thumbs" and under the "people also ask" tab one of the results was "Do horses have opposable thumbs" 🤔

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I've only read one of the books (the one for Colin/Penelope) and this season has already fixed at least one thing about it that I didn't like, so it's not *impossible* that the shows will also make up for her lack of queer imagination!

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"eccentric spinsters" would be very fun, I'll be rooting for that even though I sadly expect it is an unlikely outcome

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There’s a book for every Bridgerton kid, unfortunately … I hear what you are saying about Penelope and Mme Delacroix, she’s draping her with fabric, they’re already keeping secrets …

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Yeah I think the only real possibility for queer characters is people who are not part of any of the book pairings sadly …

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I’m holding out hope for Cressida and Eloise to have a thing in the second half of the season … I also started the series thinking Penelope/Eloise and I still think that would be good but I have been unexpectedly won over by Colin this season

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It will never not stupefy me that there exist people who sincerely, with some combined action of their heads & hearts, think that the number of Palestinian dead just sort of stopped at 30K for months, or who doubt even that number, who don't know how bombs or building collapse or starvation work.

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