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Emmalia H

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Writer, doll enthusiast. Codex and SFWA member, Voodoonaut's alumna '20 and '21, Reader at FIYAH and Podcastle.

BIPOC, disabled, neurodivergent, and queer as a clockwork orange. She/?

You can find me at emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrites

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People have nostalgia for that decade? I spent those years acquiring, and trying to recover from, C-PTSD. Recovery is still a work in progress.

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I'm so very unsurprised.

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Is catnip a good anesthetic in these circumstances?

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I tell a variant of this to my mom every time she complains a little too long about politics. "If you don't like it, fight back."

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Cheeseburger adjacent, this post reminds me it's been a while since I had a loco moco. May one day, after my stomach stops hating me.

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I'm sure he enjoys his fortress of solitude

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O_O From that angle, its head and neck are way too much like the Eraserhead baby.

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It me! Please read the excellent work the FIYAH staff and authors put into this issue.

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At my old job, they took me off the creative job I'd been doing for years, and gave it to another person willing to work for minimum wage. Outsourcing to janky AI seems to be the next low for corporate.

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Reminds me of when my lint was a baby

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He must be hoping for something.

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The vets keep mistaking my 20+ year old cat for being 10 years younger than she really is. I'm not surprised others got Fiasco's age wrong.

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How do they taste?

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Is there ever enough catten hairs on an object?

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Did you devour your conquest?

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But do Doritos taste good to cats?

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That one leggy doesn't like feeling cozy?

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This is a relief.

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Or change the nature of your fanbase?

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He is far from perfect but holy wow is this better than the other guy would be

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Aww, he wants to sleep while getting drunk on your scent! <3

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Not only do you look like an actress, you're showing strong auntie energy in this photo.

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Writers, post something random from your backlist. Don't think. Just do it.

What happens when I blend the film "Babette's Feast" with my writing motto "Fuck you, Black people aren't a monolith."
www.glittership.com/2019/04/18/e...

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I was talking with a friend over the phone, when she asked me if I was watching a horror movie. I wasn't, I just lived within earshot of a playground.

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While I can read some Chinese, I don't have the hubris to think I can read classical titles.

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I'm mildly jealous. All the hospital food I've had was too bland to remember.

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My Jetson too, has suffered. He hasn't eaten in so long, his fur turned grey.

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It doesn't help that a lot of those shows that call themselves "critics" are more about nitpicking than study. Those people have messed up my writing for many years. They convinced me that any recognizable story element equals BAD.

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I honestly don't remember puberty education at school. If it was there, I imagine it was very brief and period-centric. I do remember some very bad menstrual education I got from my Girl Scout leaders. I'm happy I already knew better by the time they decided to "teach."

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Those worms that live near volcanic vents and resemble tulips?

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While I've never had an agent, I've encountered some questionable ones during my time agent hunting. Like the ones who went "Only write/pitch what's trending," or the one who said the only type of relationship worth pitching is romance.

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I received so much pressure as a kid, mostly from grownups, to pluck mine into oblivion. Then got teased for not giving in once thicker eyebrows became acceptable.

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I blame the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Every book I read in the series used second person for the exact purpose of bringing the reader into the protagonist seat.

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There are not enough celebratory words to express my schadenfreude.

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It's a pizza with a bird silhouette in the center.

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I want to say The Glory, though its focus on revenge makes it skirt very close to murder anyway. The only other show I can think of is Call the Midwife.

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When I was little, adults were very keen on telling me how to behave. My peers and other grownups failed and continue to fail at basic decency. Somehow, I'm still stereotyped as the one with poor social skills. None of this makes sense.

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That kind of in depth sorting sounds like my autistic happy place.

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The trick is to meow so often, Big Friend hears you even if you're quietly eating.

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