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Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi
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Opening today, two great opportunities!
Applications for the Novel Writing Workshop with Samit Basu are now open through December 15. This workshop is virtual and will run March 10-November 17, 2025. We're looking forward to meeting our first cohort!
Also! The Clarion West Crowdfunding Campaign has launched — find some amazing perks! Support year-round writing programs! Help support scholarships! Learn more and find a great perk today.
CW was my origin story. They are champions of story, community, bravely facing the future, learning & growing.
For this year's crowdfund, they asked me to donate a perk and I said "put me down for a consultation" -- so you can book me if you want!
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Anonymous asked:
just so you know, you have some followers who enjoy/write fanfiction. not saying their urls rn bc i don’t wanna air out dirty laundry in public but if you want them so you can block and report, just say the word and i’ll dm you a list
BRO?
Reblog if you're self indulgent and perverted lmao
fellas is it perverted to think happy thoughts
Reblog if you *checks notes* are not a miserable fuck.
Lol. LMAO, even.
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Best go vote add I’ve seen, maybe ever
I remember posting this back in 2020, not even intending the message to be “go vote”. The last photo was chosen among many others simply because it was a nice visual conclusion to the preceding chaos. The post was made many months before the election, and I had intended more to speak to the overall terrifying political climate of 2020 and all the small things we were doing to fight back and make changes that year.
But upon posting this, I received over 400 asks (I stopped counting) from different people demanding that I take the post down, telling me how dare I suggest that people vote in this political climate, and even several dozen anonymous asks threatening to attack/kill me for “spreading nationalistic propaganda”
It’s hard to remember, but that was the general sentiment around the election online in 2020: Rampant disinformation. Large-scale campaigns dissuading people from voting. Hundreds of negative comments on any post that even MENTIONED voting. You couldn’t get away.
But this election? It’s night and day. While I’m sure there’s still some people whining in a sad dark corner somewhere that moral purity is dead and they’re the last chosen saints of leftism, etc etc, the vast, VAST majority of people have zero tolerance for that bullshit this time around.
We are voting. We are talking to our friends and family about voting. We are reading the actual news and trying to cut through BS online quick-takes. We are getting people to the polls and donating to Harris and standing in line with others waiting to vote.
I’ve voted in every primary and election since I turned 18, but I have never seen young people voting on this level before. It’s truly mind-boggling just how much the younger voting block has mobilized in this election. This is the kind of thing that can change a nation if we let it.
Honestly, regardless of how the election turns out tomorrow, everybody should be so proud of what we tried to accomplish here. Keep up the good fight.
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Behold, one of my best friend's Halloween costumes, recorded and uploaded by a complete stranger with over a million views on tiktok! (I'm so proud!!)
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Hi! I’m absolutely in love with your books, and I just heard about winter’s orbit 1.5 which sounds like literally all my dreams come true. Unfortunately, I missed the preorder, is there any other way I can get the book? Thanks in advance!
Hello! I’m guessing this is about A Short Holiday, which is an epistolary short story I wrote about Kiem and Jainan on holiday! The publisher has a waiting period for that kind of preorder stuff which actually expires in a few weeks, so at that point I’ll release it for free (probably via a newsletter? I need to make a newsletter anyway). I’ll announce here and on Instagram/Twitter when it’s available, and on @everina-maxwell-updates as well. Kiem is super normal about holidays. Looking forward to sending it out!
Just got a note on this which reminded me: for anyone who missed it, this short story and the OE epilogue are both available via my free newsletter at https://everinamaxwell.com/newsletter
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PSA: Winterfox/Requires Hate/Benjanun Sriduangkaew/Maria Ying
I'm starting to see recs for Benjanun Sriduangkaew crop up in fandom again, so here's your reminder that Benjanun Sriduangkaew, aka Maria Ying, is actually Winterfox/Requires_Hate, a well-known serial harasser, blackmailer and abuser who decided that the best thing to do with her multimillionaire heiress time and money is to do real and lasting harm to many communities and many writers (especially writers of color) that she saw as rivals.
with how fast things move online right now, I imagine she's banking on people just forgetting everything she pulled: please don't! But even if you won't deny her your attention, at least keep yourself safe and remember that her modus operandi used to be either love bombing people until they let slip something she then blackmailed them with, or literally decades of unhinged harassment.
feel free to share.
original sources:
Mixon report: https://feralsapient.com/?p=889
The letter to Apex editors: https://web.archive.org/web/20170216003240/http://awitin.likhain.net/2017/02/a-letter-to-apex-editors-re-the-intersectional-sff-roundtable/
Zen Cho's report (start here of you never heard of any of this): https://web.archive.org/web/20200808225250/https://zencho.org/being-an-itemised-list-of-disagreements/
*she had once upon a time deleted her blog, hence the Wayback link; but now it's re-uploaded by her here, as she explicitly still stands by her words: https://zencho.org/articles/being-an-itemised-list-of-disagreements/
Rachel Manija Brown's report: https://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/1288081.html
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right now it feels like Orbit won’t continue the 10th anniversary reissues with Ancillary Sword and Ancillary Mercy? since this anniversary year is almost over
I’m dreading another mismatched series on my bookshelf
Is there anything you can say or … hint at?
I have heard nothing at all about anniversary versions of Sword or Mercy.
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“Boy, I can’t wait to read more about the Presger, I have so many questions!”
100 pages into Translation State: ✋ I have additional questions
I LOLed
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Ursula K. Le Guin
from the forward of The Left Hand of Darkness, I believe.
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I have a story out today, tumblr. It's called The V*mpire and I wrote it for us.
Please mind the warnings.
Empathy: I feel you
Sympathy: I feel for you
Lycanthropy: I feel awoo
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Special Edition: Imperial Radch as SONGS in my phone
Starting with Breq, because I have the most for her:
"The Astronomer" by Dave Malloy
"If I Had a Hammer"" by The Weavers (I just love the Peter Paul & Mary version tho)
"Big Houses" by Squalloscope
"Ship in a Bottle" by fin
"The Villain I Appear to Be" by Connor Spiotto
"I'll Sing Your Song" by Louie Zong (C'mon, she's a singing ai, how could I NOT have a Miku song?)
Seivarden:
"Are You Satisfied?" by MARINA
"Do What You Want" by Fitz and the Tantrums
"Sweet Hibiscus Tea" by Penelope Scott
"Love Like You" by Rebecca Sugar
"Heart of Gold" by Foreign Figures
Some characters I only have a few songs for:
Tisarwat:
"Starchild" by Dave Malloy
"The Record Player Song" by Daisy the Great
Mercy of Kalr:
"Birdhouse in your Soul" by They Might be Giants (yes it's about a night-light, but I need you to see the vision okay)
Sphene:
"Sirens" by Bear Ghost
Annander Mianaai:
"Kiss Me, Son of God" by They Might be Giants
"Over & Over" by Rio Romeo
Bonus Presger Translator songs:
Reet and Qven:
"Under My Skin" by Jukebox the Ghost
"The Calculation" by Regina Spektor
"Grow as We Go" by Ben Platt
OK, I am enjoying these posts, but this one tickled me particularly because of "If I Had A Hammer."
It's not unusual for Mr Leckie to be doing a Project during which he needs me to fetch a tool or two. He has been known to ask if I would hand him, or if I have, a hammer.
Because I am Like That, I generally start singing.
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Shrinkflation
So, I found out a fun fact this last weekend!
Every state has a Department of Weights and Measures. One of their jobs is to make sure that companies are actually selling you the quantities they claim they're selling. For example, this is the department which tests gas pumps and makes sure they're really pumping out a gallon of gas when they charge you for a gallon of gas.
So....
If you happen to, just as an example, notice that your 1lb (16 ounce) box of San Giorgio spaghetti actually only has 10oz of noodles, and you weigh your other boxes of spaghetti to discover they run from 10 to 14 ounces but never the full pound they're supposed to have, and that's why you never seem to have enough pasta for leftovers the next day, then you can report that to the Department of Weights and Measures.
They will want to know where you bought the item, and then will investigate whether the store or the manufacturer is routinely shorting customers. If they do, they will issue a fine to the offending party, you will be eligible for a refund, and under some circumstances lawsuits may follow.
Now, I don't know the outcome of the complaint I just initiated, but they did not want to know specific receipts or times of purchase. Which is good for me as I didn't keep any of those things, at the time I just said "Wow, fuck San Giorgio" and switched brands. But this is still enough to get an inspector out.
Tumblr may not be the best at advertising but it is KING of the anti-advertisement. Not buying that shit!
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GUYS I JUST SAW THIS ON TWITTER AND I AM DYING
the-fabulous-goat
Add the author’s reply, cowards!
I scrolled through the notes on this post and my favorite has to be one mockingly accusing Madeline Miller (a Latin and Greek teacher with a Masters in Classics) of needing to do research and she wasn’t a real writer like them.
Anyway when I read that line I immediately understood what she was trying to say.
Articles mentioned (I think, anyway…)
Honestly, the first time I saw this tweet, I laughed my tits straight into the ocean.
I know what ‘olive skinned’ (and thus variations on it) means, but the author taking the time to have a little laugh, acknowledge that it’s at least a bit funny, and drop some knowledge is appreciated.
And a double thanks to the person I reblogged from for linking the articles.
The thread is perfect as it is, but just in case
Left: traditional extraction using a capacho basket, right modern extraction using a cold press. One is greenish brown and the other is green.
In case you want to see what the author meant about that not beeing what she saw.