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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 17m

Empathy. I always feel steamrolled after therapy, and my time in trad pub wasn't even remotely awesome.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 41m

It's gonna bug me. Is my memory playing tricks on me, or was there a mid '90s book about carnivorous grass (or close?) in a big museum?

Anyone remember that one? I want to say it was Preston & Child. Pretty standard 'something can eat me/change me in ways I don't want' narrative feel IIRC.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 45m

Or really freaking cool. (AuDHD nerd with my own interests that give me life.)

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 49m

Gah. Your way with prose and characterizations kept me up til 4am. Worth every second. ❤️

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 51m

Mine are both teens, so we're into the more adult stuff. Kinda wish I'd started doing this when they were younger.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 56m

Why I use Ice Cream Sandwich methodology when editing.

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Alex Sauerbrunn @birdsbyalex.bsky.social · 2h

#TitmouseTuesday 🪶

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 58m

Someone tell me I don't need to write The Squirrel Mob.

My kids love the idea 😅🤣.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 1h

This was one of my favourite books of 2025!

It's really great.

Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 2h

In a world ruled by predators how far would you go to save those you love?

The Feeding - available now.
anthonyryan.net/the-feeding/

The Feeding

Details of the novel The Feeding by Anthony Ryan - a post-apocalyptic vampire novel

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Anthony Ryan @anthonyryan.bsky.social · 2h

In a world ruled by predators how far would you go to save those you love?

The Feeding - available now.
anthonyryan.net/the-feeding/

The Feeding

Details of the novel The Feeding by Anthony Ryan - a post-apocalyptic vampire novel

anthonyryan.net

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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 1h

❛ A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight...

Ursula K. Le Guin, born #OTD in 1929.

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 1h

Happy Ace week!

Most of my books and stories have ace characters (specifically grey-ace/demisexual.)

If you want to avoid the zon, you can email me directly for anything in print.

AVEN @avenofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Ace Week! Ace week runs this year from 19th to 25tb October.

This week should be about ace joy, as much as it is about awareness, education etc. but we know this week can be difficult too because with increased visibility there also comes acephobia.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 1h

It's ridiculous. Really.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 11h

I'm an author. If I sold the first 5 books at around 80k each, then tried to sell the last book in the series, the culmination of all 5 previous books, as 40k? I'd be rightfully boycotted.

If anything, subsequent and final anythings really should be at least as long if not longer than previous.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 11h

It's good to excellent for most & I really enjoyed many of the characters (most died). The actors for the core crew did amazing work.

And I just don't have any desire to invest in tv shows for reasons like 'oh surprise! Only 6 rushed episodes in the last season.'

Or 'We canceled it unfinished.'

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 11h

And yes, I did note the episodes extended from around 40ish minutes to closer to 60.

Doesn't make it work.

So much of what happened in s6 deserved more screentime, more development.

Whatever. I've had editorial issues with it since the first poorly paced death. Just add that to the pile.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 11h

fail to comprehend why people accept that.

Your dollar, your valuable time, your emotional investment. You know? You don't actually *have to* watch TV? It's a thing you can choose not to do.

No. This isn't just how it's always been. I'm 49 and I clearly remember it as different.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 11h

When did the paucity of tv show episodes even start?

I grew up for most of my early years without a tv. It doesn’t hold much interest for me in general. I'd probably watch a lot more if we had longer seasons, though.

It might feel worth the time and emotional investment.

And I legit

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 11h

My kid is going to be so disappointed.

Guess who doesn't watch much tv? Him. I guarantee it'll be less after that.

(Just cause I know him. The expectation set by the series was 10-13.)

He's not old enough yet to enjoy getting fucked by streaming services or doing without them like I usually do.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 11h

Call me a dinosaur, I don't care, my kids call me ancient all the time. (I'm a Parasaurolophus.)

Gods, I *feel* ancient saying this. 🤣

And when I was a kid? We sometimes got 50 episodes in a year. 25-30 was pretty standard.

6? You cannot actually be serious in calling that a season. SMDH.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 11h

See? This is why I hardly ever watch a show until everything is available.

Just finished s6 of The Expanse. All 6 episodes. If I'd been waiting for that season, I would've been pissed at how short in comparison to the rest it was.

And *massively* rushed.

S1 10 eps
S2 13
S3 13
S4 10
S5 10
S6 6

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 12h

It's been a while since I read about it, and I think you're right.

We used machine learning in labs in uni, and I believe it was used to decode some of the Nag Hammadi library.

And absolutely. There's absolutely nothing intelligent about what is sold and packaged as 'artificial intelligence'.

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 12h

My kids have been surprisingly receptive to older ones, too. I would never have expected that. They're not usually partial to modern movies.

Do have to admit that Alien 4 was somehow *worse* the second watch. (Younger hates to skip movies in a series 😅.)

We've still a long list to get through.

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Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 12h

I utterly adore them! Clothes or no clothes. 🤣❤️

Kaija Rayne 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 xie/xem 48676/70000 Randomly active @kaijarayne.bsky.social · 22h

Been watching older movies with the kids for a while, and yeaaaaah.

Born in '76, but movies are so very different now.

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