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diamond dust (I drew for my friend!)

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Suffering through the consequences of my actions.

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This is a great 19th century novel by the Czech writer Božena Němcová and it's so good. I loved it because it reminded me of the kind of folk tales I grew up on when I was a little girl. And who doesn't like a wise and loving grandmother figure?

I found a simple minded goodness in it that I loved. It's a great book to read when your heart is heavy with grief. Not because it deals with all the big existential questions, but because it's so Simple and Good. And there is a sadness to it, that the narrative or the author doesn't try to solve. Uff. Good stuff.

As someone who only started reading well after I decided that I wanted to be writer, most of the time I have a frustrating tendency to parse 'the style' of a book. Over the years, it's become more annoying than useful. Now and then, I come across a really good book, that I wholly and uncynically devour, for reasons beyond explanation and this is one of those books.

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Hot take that needs to be said via antiwork

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how it feels knowing that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall

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I'm going to be at DRAGONCON in Atlanta next weekend. We will have crow plushies!! If you come by to say hi, I can doodle a little something in your notebook!!

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Hebden Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire (England)

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It's so weird talking to people who's view of "here's the way life is for everyone" is shattered as soon as they talk to someone with disabilities (physical, mental illness, any). Like you'll say you'll have a problem and instead of helping you they'll argue with you about how you're not actually facing that problem. Like,

Me: Hey, I'm really struggling to find a job and a part of it is my resume. I was depressed & psychotic during highschool so I didn't do anything to gain skills or achievements to put on my resume. I also don't have anyone to put as a reference. What can I do?

Them: You can add your skills, hobbies, clubs you're in, and different volunteer work you've done! You can also get your teacher as a reference.

Me: I already know what to put on a resume, my issue is that I don't have things that I can use. Also, I'm in my mid 20s so I don't know if I can put my highschool teacher as a reference.

Them: Well if you're a part of a church or an activity group, you could add that. Also, think of any projects you've worked on in the past.

Me: I already know you can put these things on a resume. I'm not looking for suggests of things I've already done, I'm looking for what I can do now if I haven't done anything.

Them: There's no way you didn't do anything during highschool?? What about some odd jobs you definitely did for extra money, like babysitting or mowing the lawn?

Me: I spent all of highschool either in modified classes or in bed doing nothing - not even hobbies, what about that do you not understand?

And then you talk to someone who's also disabled and they're like "Here's a bunch of jobs you can do from home that don't pay much but look good on a resume, here's some free online courses that also look good on a resume, here's how you can be making small amounts of money in the meantime, here's some things you can put besides a professional reference, and here are your rights if your future employer tries to take advantage of your disability - which you probably shouldn't tell them about unless you need accommodations."

And suddenly my will to continue trying returns!

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I drew a little comic for @hiveworks' Micro Comic Summer! It's a fun blend of my two webcomics, hehe! Check the #MicroComicSummer tag for stuff others have drawn too!

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i have come to believe there are tiny little imps who live inside our documents and manuscripts and rearrange words into the silliest typos known to humankind in the split second before we share our writing

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vampires as metaphors for temptation/desire is cool and all but what about vampires as a metaphor for cycles of abuse? someone who was abused and exploited a long time ago in the process of becoming a vampire and now is the abuser, someone who turns another into a vampire in desperate desire for companionship and begins to understand why the vampire who turned them did it. a never ending tragic cycle that spans centuries

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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Did you know??? My FIRST FULL LENGTH SHORT STORY COLLECTION is coming in January! You can pre-order it today! (Or do it here, or here, or here, or here.)

The cover art is by Sadia Bies. They also did the cover art for The False Sister!

Anyway, I got so excited about the release of Lupus In Fabula that I made a playlist. Listen for a glimpse into the mood, tone, and thematic content you can expect to discover within these stories!