@adrienne @ionizedgirl @swetland *bones gently crumbling to dust*

Felt like trying a William Morris Jellyfish mari tonight. Its been while.

#dnd @ursulav has weaponized a fish ladder and is using it as a salmon cannon against us.

T. Kingfisher, nom de plume of Ursula Vernon @ursulav , can take ordinary living things and make them absolutely terrifying by imperceptible degrees over the course of a novel. A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES is Southern Gothic that chills in a delicious way. Coming March 28 with a Publisher's Weekly Starred Review. #ewgc @ewgc @bookstodon #bookstodon

After reading The Hollow Places by @ursulav you never see pictures of abandoned school buses the same again...

Source: @KiKiPosting
https://mastodon.social/@KiKiPosting/109828866729299113

@DrNerdLove None of us do…

Last night I finished _Summer in Orcus_ (T. Kingfisher), which is a great kids' adventure. I know I am years late to this party! But it's really good. Whimsical, sometimes disturbing, never nasty.

It sits in a corner of YA-portal-fantasy which I remember from my childhood. Summer isn't unexpectedly a wizard or a queen or a prophecied saviour. She makes friends and gets caught up in things. I feel like this sort of story has fallen out of favor (although I'm hardly up on YA these days).

Man, my brain is REALLY not firing on all thrusters today. Got halfway to the grocery store and realized I’d left the dog in the backyard, went back, get to grocery store, discover I don’t have my wallet. Even for me, this is a day.

On this day in 2008 @ursulav took home this weird dude for what was SUPPOSED to be a one-night stand.

The best 15 years of my life (so far) started that night, and I am grateful every day for it. :)

@sigridellis Fortunately other Real Authors are stepping up to say “Nope.”

@Mimesatwork Ironically, I absolutely make my living these days on self-pub and selling way fewer copies—but I probably needed the brand recognition of traditional pub to get to that point. (Also Livejournal.)

Over on Twitter, @ursulav is giving a primer on how selling over a million books results in a basic middle-class income for about nine years.

Here's the numbers.

https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1615007736852275200

@sigridellis Now I’m just waiting for the dudebros to roll in and tell me I was doing it wrong. 😛

This is fascinating - Tapeworms eaten by Acorn #ants secrete more insulin that seems to aid in the ants #longevity. They want the ants to live as long as possible, to increase their chances of being eaten by a #woodpecker 😳.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/ants-live-10-times-longer-by-altering-their-insulin-responses-20230110/

Leonard Nimoy at a #NOW rally in 1989. His sweater reads "PRO-CHILD, PRO-FAMILY, #PROCHOICE". His sash reads "HONORED GUEST". His pin reads "HONORARY SISTER".

#LeonardNimoy was #Jewish and spoke fluent Yiddish. His parents were first-generation #Ukrainian Jewish #immigrants who fled the Soviet Union and he was born in 1931 in Boston. Jewish activists have always been at the core of support for #abortion rights.

#MayHisMemoryBeABlessing.

https://www.tumblr.com/delphinidin4/690529825685946368/his-sweatshirt-reads-pro-child-pro-family

#socialmedia #tumblr

@sigridellis yaaaay life!

My exact brand of neurospicy is open to debate, but I have learned that with enough enthusiastic questions, I can get a lot of otherwise normal people to infodump about their job or hobbies, which they often do with a sort of incredulous air that anyone wants to listen. LIKE I WOULDN’T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT MUSEUM CONSERVATION OF FABRICS!? https://toot.kif.rocks/@Drezil/109574462236467671

No one even has to guess which one I am.
https://mastodon.online/@ethicsinbricks/109579601600806379

I feel bad. It's been so cold that I ran out of bird seed for the backyard birds so I put suet out on the platform feeders and now they're out there pecking away like "Bitch this shit is frozen, where's our black oil sunflower?"

WE COME HERE FOR PEANUTS LADY

YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE THE HOUSE WITH THE FULL SIZE HERSHEY BARS.

@bug_gwen I really feel for whoever has to go through and rename all the Quaker moths.