• A Defense of Libraries
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    A Defense of Libraries

    Nobody goes to libraries anymore. Close the public ones and put the books in schools. https://t.co/Cimy1V81n5 โ€” Andre Walker (@andrejpwalker) October 22, 2017 So this happened yesterday on Twitter. The original poster has since “surrendered” and admitted he was wrong, but he’s likely not the only person operating under the assumption that libraries are unused…

  • NaNoWriMo Prep for the WriMo Virgin
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    NaNoWriMo Prep for the WriMo Virgin

    It’s October, which means all of my artist friends are filling my social media feeds with beautiful pictures every day and I am insanely jealous of their talent because the best I can manage is a wonky looking paint-a-long picture done to the (brilliant, lovely) Art Sherpa‘s instructions. But for writers, the month of October…

  • Beautiful Ridiculousness in the Parasol Protectorate
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    Beautiful Ridiculousness in the Parasol Protectorate

    [amazon_link asins=’B007BGQFTQ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’meadhbh-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’adf4e678-adc5-11e7-8d15-05f48f49baf6′]Things are still crazy in my life, though I did finally get one weekend with no catastrophes happening and am feeling better because of it. But when things are nuts, you need something light and fluffy to read. My go-to author for fluffy fun, for a while now, has been…

  • Star Trek belongs on TV, but Not This Way.
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    Star Trek belongs on TV, but Not This Way.

    Without spoilers, I can say that the first episode ofย Star Trek: Discovery is a great start to the show. Diverse cast, an enemy that is just a touch too real and current considering the current political climate, and undeniably and absolutely everything that I have come to expect from the Star Trek I have been…

  • A Month of Terrible Weekends
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    A Month of Terrible Weekends

    On Labor Day, a close friend of mine died of pulmonary embolism. They were often the first person I interacted with every morning, a person I shared a lot of the same mental health issues with and that I could talk with.ย I’m managing, but it always seems to hit me in the mornings when I…

  • Sometimes Heroes don’t know that they are.

    Monday Morning I lost a close friend. Alex was an amazing person, prone to random acts of generosity. They gave much of themselves and rarely asked for anything in return. They dealt, as so many of us do, with depression and a poor self-image, and often I wished that they could have seen themselves as…

  • The Uneasy Balance between Staying Informed and Staying Sane

    The news cycle these days is enough to give you whiplash. It’s like being under siege, like one of those horrible missions on any given RTS game where you have to survive for a period of time while the game throws waves upon waves of enemies in your direction. Winning isn’t an option, survival is…

  • I Finally Have A Current Gaming Console Wheee
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    I Finally Have A Current Gaming Console Wheee

    Thanks to Prime Day, I now have a PS4. I can now play current generation games that I’ve been sitting on the sidelines watching others play while I stuck to my Xbox 360 library and what few low-end games my little laptop can actually run. The bundle came with a digital download ofย [amazon_textlink asin=’B00JK00S0S’ text=’The…

  • I’ve created a Patreon

    I’ve created a Patreon

    Patreon may be one of the best things to have come out for creators in the recent crowd-sourced age of the internet. ย It has enabled so many content creators to live independently, making the things they love and serving those things directly to the people who want to buy them. ย It’s a game changer. But…

  • Amazon Prime Day 2017

    While, as a writer, I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Amazon, it is as ubiquitous and impossible to avoid as Wal-Mart, especially for someone like me, who lives in a rural location with little other ways to access certain products. And as a person with limited income, well, the deals are occasionally…

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