I’ve been asked at least a good dozen times either how to select a sewing machine, or what machine I’d recommend, and it’s not as simple as “buy the Sewmatic 7000 with the extra coffee unit” (though if any machine EVER has a coffee unit, consider it!).
From a tumblr post asking about if a trans protagonist was coming
While I never say “never,” the likelihood of a transgendered lead character is so slim as to be invisible.Here is why. I support myself with my writing; I do not have the luxury of writing books for special-interest audiences. In my limited experience, so much of a transgendered person’s life and thought is tied up in their gender difficulties, the ordinary reader would swiftly become bored with such a character; even Vanyel’s whinging grates on some peoples’ nerves. A wider audience wants to see a character with problems that are solvable; in a modern or sf context, a transgendered person could solve the situation with surgery, genetic modification, body-swap, or whatever. Those options are not available to a fantasy author.[a tumblr user that I can ID, but choose not to because they already got dog-piled for this daft take in 2021, and perhaps amended some of their notions.]
Rescued from a short twitter thread in 2021
This is the post (obscured) that started me off.
From a tumblr post asking about if a trans protagonist was coming
While I never say “never,” the likelihood of a transgendered lead character is so slim as to be invisible.Here is why. I support myself with my writing; I do not have the luxury of writing books for special-interest audiences. In my limited experience, so much of a transgendered person’s life and thought is tied up in their gender difficulties, the ordinary reader would swiftly become bored with such a character; even Vanyel’s whinging grates on some peoples’ nerves. A wider audience wants to see a character with problems that are solvable; in a modern or sf context, a transgendered person could solve the situation with surgery, genetic modification, body-swap, or whatever. Those options are not available to a fantasy author.[a tumblr user that I can ID, but choose not to because they already got dog-piled for this daft take in 2021, and perhaps amended some of their notions.]
From a 2021 twitter thread
Summer reminder, since many are heading out into the national parks and federal lands:
Be VERY careful with anything that looks like a sprinkler head or trash in the ground – it could easily be an M44 cyanide device. It can kill humans and dogs.
Our tax dollars pay for this poison.
From a Twitter thread from 2020. Everything old is new again.
Bloc for everyone! 🧵
Or how I misspent my late teens & 20s.
Caveat: I learned bloc tactics from East Coast and West Coast activists, who learned from European environmental and anti-racist activists. And I learned a long time ago, as these things go.
BLOC EVOLVES.
Recreating a dead recipe from a long-lost local fast food vendor. With a vegan variant!
When I first moved to Boulder in 2000, we had a great fast food restaurant called Wok n Roll that served teriyaki and yakitori, mostly chicken. It was definitely a sodiYUM experience but still healthier than burgers or anything fried.
A rescued thread from Twitter, originally posted in March, 2022
An interesting observation from a session today: Cruelty evolves from fear, because if one cannot name a fear, all unknowns become a threat. And selfishness evolves from anxiety, because anxiety’s universalized unnamed fears limit the ability to use theory of mind skills.
I blended this after looking at several commercial mixes that weren’t giving me what I needed, or were using massively excessive packaging, or both, or were using ingredients I cannot tolerate. No stevia for me, please, I’m allergic to ragweeds and stevia is cross reactive.
I have no idea how this specific version ended up being the best fried rice I’ve ever made. It’s literally just cleaning out the bits and bobs of vegetables I collect in my freezer.
I wrote it down because I might be lucky again and get it right, but if you choose to make this, my estimates of liquids especially could be wildly off. Adjust to your taste. I have cute little bottles for cooking oils and squeeze bottles for liquid seasonings, and I just make squiggles in the pan so it looks attractive to me for the two seconds it exists before meeting other food.
